Tears, vertigo and natural disasters ... another May alert!

Another wonderful energy alert from Karen Bishop ... who always manages to hit the nail right on the head with me!!!! Happy reading ...

Greetings!

As more and more is becoming aligned to the higher frequencies we are now being embraced within, much movement is occurring which is creating a barrage of varied manifestations on the planet, within and without.

At the end of March, just after the equinox, openings arrived and we were able to move forward with much opening up and many miracles abounding. We had most certainly touched a higher place, reached a new shore of a new reality, come to the end of the birth canal, and it felt much like heaven indeed. Then, almost as abruptly as it all began, things suddenly went into a chaotic state, as energies were attempting to re-align themselves with their higher purpose, or best fit for how they were now vibrating.

This is a very common pattern of the ascension process. We reach a higher state of being, or dimension, it feels awesome in the beginning, and then everything must align itself to this new residency in the higher realms. Thus, all is always in divine and perfect order, even though most of the time many of us may feel that we are in constant transition, a continual state of purging and releasing, and may wonder if we will ever arrive in the heaven on Earth we have always known would arrive one day.

But the ascension process has several steps which are repeated again and again, and once we become familiar with them, no one would probably ever need to read these energy alerts, as it would be evident what was occurring! These steps are all listed and explained in the book The Ascension Primer, but I will continue providing many of them to you in the book excerpts those of you on the e-mail list receive along with each announcement that a new energy alert has been posted on this web site.

With the advent of the cross-quarter, the mid-way point between the equinox and solstice on May 5, we once again reached a pivotal point, experienced a shift, and moved forward one more notch.

This created more room to expand, to move ahead, to open up, and to reach even further into our new land of heaven on Earth. We had reached a place as a critical mass where we could again move ahead, and the cross-quarter served as the vehicle to assist with this next step ahead.

May 5th marked a point where more alignments were finally manifesting, and much was embraced and taken along with this wave. The presidential election process here in the US has been manifesting itself in accordance with these re-alignments. This is why Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been neck and neck for so long. A manifestation was not yet ready to occur, as the new alignments were not yet intact. The old was still in the process of leaving and the new was arriving. And then with the advent of the cross-quarter…..boom! The shift occurred and things began to take their places.

On May 11th, more new alignments occurred as well. The 11th is many times indicative of an opportunity to move through an opening to a higher vibrating reality. The portal of an 11 is usually an exciting event indeed, depending upon where we currently are and what has been transpiring.

If you were one who went through this latest portal, you may have experienced vertigo, spinning, or an extreme loss of balance. This is a common occurrence of ascension as well. When we connect more fully with our Merkabah, or light body, we then utilize it to catapult us into the higher realms.

Merkabah is defined as: “The divine light vehicle allegedly used by ascended masters to connect with and reach those in tune with the higher realms. "Mer" means Light. "Ka" means Spirit. "Ba" means Body. Mer-Ka-Ba means the spirit/body surrounded by counter-rotating fields of light, (wheels within wheels), spirals of energy as in DNA, which transports spirit/body from one dimension to another.”

Thus, it is common to experience spinning, vertigo, and a loss of balance when we are arriving more fully in the higher realms. The first time I had this experience, I began to panic, as I experienced panic attacks when I first began the intense part of the ascension process back in 2001. Feeling as if I was walking a foot or two above the earth, almost floating, used to freak me out as well. But as we become used to these experiences, and know what they are about, it can actually become a fun ride. Late on Saturday evening and into Sunday, when I was barely able to walk a straight line, I could only say “Wheeee! Here we go again!” Now many of these experiences are great fun as I know they are only indicative of a great move forward and I am truly grateful for them.

Natural disasters are becoming an epidemic now. Floods, typhoons, earthquakes, droughts, tornadoes, and fires are arriving in epidemic proportions. The earth must now align with the higher realms, and this is creating much movement within and without. Areas which need the biggest adjustments are experiencing great movement in an attempt to align themselves with a higher vibrating energy.

During the past several weeks, some of you may have had an experience of great weeping, feeling like you could cry a river, and perhaps wondering why tears seemed to want to appear like a tidal wave or tsunami within you. For no apparent reason, it just seemed like a good cry could not be stopped.

This phenomenon generally occurs when there is great loss at hand. It generally occurs when a massive planetary purging is due to arrive. At our highest levels, we feel the imminent loss and a great sadness accompanies it. Then, sure enough, a substantial natural disaster arrives and we know the reason for our earlier experience of great weeping.

For the first few months of 2008, many of us became disillusioned and impatient for our new beginnings and the new world to arrive. During this time, we may have felt stuck with no forward movement and not much going on. I reported many times that we were “waiting” for as many to get on board as possible. Even though some did not want to wait, this was a very necessary part of the process. Yes, it can be hard to wait at times, especially when we ourselves are very ready.

At our highest soul levels, we wanted to give as much time as possible for everyone and everything to make the necessary changes and adjustments needed, and to more importantly make the choice whether to be on board or not. This was a long process but very necessary, as at our highest levels, we dearly love all our brothers and sisters on the planet and wanted them to be with us and most certainly with all those entering the higher realms.

And now the time is here. The natural disasters have arrived as a manifestation of the earth aligning with the higher frequencies, the energies have built, the pressure is releasing the old, and a by-product of this greatly moving energy is the creation of a vehicle for those who chose to depart to do just that.

There is no judgment here. A sufficient amount of time was intentionally given so that as many as possible could be prepared and could make their choices. There will be other stops at the train station. There will be other opportunities. For those who still are not willing to awaken just yet, they will experience a bigger “thumping” or nudging, and they can then choose again. If the leap can be made, those will stay. Those who feel the leap is too far and not a possibility will now depart. These choices were made at the highest levels of each soul. And some will chose to depart for other reasons as well. They may very simply be done here.

This phenomenon of choice and differing times of moving forward into the higher realms has created many partings. But it has also created new and much better fitting alignments as well. This is why Phil and I had to part, and why someone new is soon to arrive for me. When we are willing to let go of what is no longer in alignment or what no longer fits us, and if we can know and trust that a new beginning will arrive very soon, this in turn allows us to arrive in the higher realms. And Phil will experience what he is in alignment with as well, all in a beautiful and perfect way.

Letting go, trusting, dis-connecting from what does not feel right anymore, and re-aligning with our higher selves or souls will support us in phenomenal ways in arriving in our heaven on earth.

These losses, especially relating to the natural disasters, can be overwhelming at times. We may feel shaky and afraid. We may feel traumatized ourselves if we are highly sensitive. It may seem as though we never know what will happen next. But this is the beauty of choice. And there is more to this particular story as well.

Several weeks ago we experienced a new alignment which related to letting go of over-helping others. It involved taking a very important stance of not going down into a lower vibrating reality where others were residing in order to help them. It involved not being where others were and identifying with them. It involved not pulling others up to where we were without their willingness and true desire to let go and be there. It involved allowing others to make their own choices while allowing ourselves to move ahead into what we were now in alignment with.

It also involved not having great compassion for others, as this emotion takes us to where others are as we identify with them too much in order to be there with them and understand where they are. According to the dictionary, compassion involves pity and a willingness to commiserate with another. These states of being bring our energy down. Compassion is a word which existed in the old 3D reality. It was born there. It came from an old 3D mind.

In the higher realms we utilize love instead. When we do visit the lower vibrating reality of suffering in order to assist and serve, we go with the vibration of love….not with compassion. Love serves as our protection from lower vibrating realities. It vibrates extremely high and gives its recipients the best possible outcome. Compassion does not exist in the higher realms as there is no suffering. So then, we utilize love, as that is what we come to know about and to be in the higher realms. And as we begin to evolve into the human angels we will eventually be, we will vibrate love more and more. We need not intentionally send love to another, as this is much to deliberate and contrived. We will naturally be love in itself, as the ascension process produces this state all on its own.

So then, this stage we experienced involving leaving those behind who pulled us into their reality of suffering was intended to prepare us for what is ahead. This stage of evolutionary progress we experienced a few weeks ago was intended to prepare us for these natural disasters which are now occurring so that we could assist if we chose to, without experiencing the pain of others. We would then be wired to assist and truly make a difference without being affected ourselves, but for brief periods of time as we would then need to return to the higher realms of which we came. And leaving others behind broke a cord that was binding us to the old world, thus enabling us to arrive in the higher realms.

And here in these higher realms, we are re-connecting more and more to the reality of our dreams. As the alignments arrive for us more frequently now, we will then experience more and more of our heaven on Earth. As the frequencies of this new world vibrate higher and higher, we naturally experience on the outside more rapidly now, precisely what we are about or vibrating on the inside. The mirror effect is extremely pronounced. Each and every manifestation occurs because of who we are and what we believe and perceive.

We have been so very anxious to have the energies rev up and to reside in the higher realms, but if we had arrived here any sooner, we would have experienced extremely uncomfortable manifestations for ourselves, as our outside reality would have been indicative of what was inside of us. The uncomfortable purging and releasing we have gone through for the past several years was so very necessary to prepare us for these times. Otherwise, we would have experienced more of a hell on Earth than a heaven on Earth.

The more we choose to let go of, the more we will experience a higher realms reality. And the more we allow ourselves to be in alignment with our souls or true and authentic selves, while letting go of what no longer feels good to us, the more we will experience heaven on Earth and the easier it will be to arrive in the higher realms as well.

As we let go of old patterns, mis-perceptions and beliefs, situations and perhaps even others in our lives, we will surely find ourselves in heaven on Earth. And the mirror effect will allow us to make continual changes as we evolve into the angels on Earth that we intended to be.

Wishing you heaven in your heart, starlight in your soul, and miracles in your life in these miraculous times...

(c) Karen Bishop, Whats Up On Planet Earth









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Early May energy update

Greetings!

Although an energy alert was just posted on May 1, because we experienced a shift yesterday on May 5, I felt it important to post this much needed information today.

May 5, we experienced a much needed shift in the energies. Yesterday was the cross-quarter between the equinox and the solstice, or the half way point of the meeting of masculine and feminine…a good breaking point marking a move from one energetic space into another.

A few weeks ago, I was putting my bed and frame together, and ended up pinned under my queen size box spring. What a heavy load it was, and what a difficult time I had trying to get out from under it! “OK,” I told myself. “I realize this is symbolic of the current energies, but can I get out now?” And this is what the energies have been doing up until yesterday, the 5th.

We have been under a huge amount of pressure, not being able to catch up, seemingly not being able to get out from under a barrage of things piling up on us, and feeling an immense burden of responsibilities, have to’s, and perhaps even feeling trapped in a merry-go-round of nothing being resolved, with no solution in sight.

Just when we thought we could take no more, something else would land on our plate or in our space, and we would have to deal with that. Around and around the energies would go, with just too much to do while seemingly getting nowhere with anything. Having to do things over, and still with no resolution, was a common manifestation. Many of us could simply not get on top of anything. We were buried beneath a big box spring of who knows what with no end in sight!

Exhaustion, fatigue, short fuses, tightness, and just feeling plain worn out were common symptoms. No time for anything enjoyable, no time to relax, and even if we made the time, the tightness was there and it could be difficult to relax even when intending to relax!

It could also be difficult getting comfortable with much of anything. Not much of anything would feel right. No good movies, nothing good to read, our creative endeavors might have felt off and not right, and many may have felt that nothing was fitting….nowhere to go that felt remotely good or right. Being out in nature may even have felt “off” for some unknown reason.

Also during this time, we were detoxing. This can manifest as body and muscle pain, sinus headaches, nausea, and a general feeling of toxins within our system. Insomnia was prevalent as well, as the energies were building and had nowhere to go as of yet. Restless sleep, even when exhausted, and waking up at dawn were common occurrences for many.

In one fell swoop, things finally culminated, and the shift occurred. For me, I felt nauseas, completely flattened for about an hour, and as if I had been run over by a truck. Then it was over.

And as the energies built, the weather was affected as well. Violent occurrences of tornadoes, typhoons, high winds, vast variances in the temperature from one day to the next, and the like. Much movement in many arenas!

Up until yesterday, the energies were jammed, so to speak. This was because we had reached a new plateau, or higher dimension at the end of March, and were not yet in alignment with much. And the new energies were pushing against the old, piling on top of each other because the new alignments were not yet completed. Although this pattern will continue with much of the world, the May 5th break will help to alleviate much that we have been feeling within us.

The US is rapidly experiencing its breakdown now. It is experiencing a transition from old power into new. Thus, the “super power” is no longer that. It is transmuting into another kind of “super power” now, and this will take several years to complete. Being the forerunner for so long, the US will still be the forerunner, as it is evolving into something very new. And this is why we are being guided to form our own small communities….supportive environments to sustain us and protect us while the transition is occurring for the next four years.

So then, up until yesterday, we had not caught up with ourselves, or rather the energies were mismatched and jamming together the old and new. This created too much on our plates or on our shoulders and we could not catch up. It was planned that May 5th would be the turning point, as our celestial events always serve to support our evolutionary growth. But one never really knows what will actually occur on these dates. Several weeks ago, I was able to see the May 5th turning point, but at times I hesitate to report these things as we always have free will and choice, and this free will can create different timelines, so one never knows for sure.

If one scenario or timeline does not complete a particular stage, then another will be utilized until we arrive at our desired destination as a whole. I always hesitate to report definite dates, as there can be much disappointment if things are delayed and at times a loss of faith as well. Ugh! But this time, we were able to complete this phase at the first desired breaking point and did not need then, to carry things further onto another breaking point.

Our mis-alignments were what were creating this jamming up of energies. The new energies had nowhere to go as of yet, as the alignments were not yet complete. As of yesterday then, we will have much more room to breathe. Things will begin to flow more easily. We can exhale and relax. The tightness will be gone.

We can catch the train that the cross-quarter brought in. We can now ride the coattails of this new energy shift. We have aligned enough now, that we can move forward a bit. Some new doors have opened. The jam up is disbursing. And hopefully, many of us can get some restful sleep!

Wishing you heaven in your heart, starlight in your soul, and miracles in your life in these miraculous times...
www.whatsuponplanetearth.com











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May energies

Holding Open the Door for Earth's Healing and Balancing through the Golden Flame of Enlightened and Compassionate Love

Beloved Lightworkers.

May will be an extraordinary month in an extraordinary year. You will experience, on the 20th of May, the second "Buddha" Full Moon, when the Sun will be in Taurus and the Moon in Scorpio. So, in this Lunar Cycle between the "Buddha" moons, Earth will be flooded with the Golden Flame of Compassionate Love that is held in the Buddha field that embraces Earth at this time. And so, the opportunities for raising consciousness very rapidly and effecting major transformations both on the personal and planetary levels is greatly amplified.

It is, beloved ones, as though Heaven is holding open a door so that this Golden Light might pour over the Earth and be integrated into the Light Bodies of all who are ready to ascend to this new Consciousness of Love. For, this is a moment when Compassionate and Radiant Love is the most intense and beautiful. You will feel the "pressure" of this Light as a need to change your life, change the way you live your life, and a deep desire for a life that is more in alignment with your I AM presence and your Higher Being. And this may cause discomfort initially, for you haev lived with distortions of your being for many lifetimes, and you have veiled off these distortions with repressions. But, now the veils are being lifted and you are seeing truth and feeling the pain as these distortions heal and are brought back into alignment with your pure self.

Beloved ones, you were designed to be Human Angels and to live on Earth in Joy and Balance in perfect health. The Earth was designed to be your Paradise home. But, you evolved away from this original plan and you integrated into your DNA patterns of distortion and disease and suffering. And now, in the Golden Light of Radiant Love from Source, you are healing and returning to your original power and clarity as Human Angels.

And so, as you have activated the Grail Codes and accepted once again the Balance of Heaven and Earth, and Masculine and Feminine, you are ready to create miracles of Love on the awakening Earth. Beloved Lightworkers, you are given the gift of working with the Golden Flame to create Abundance and Love.

And so, we will explain to you the simplicity of this process for Human Angels. The Divine Light of Source flows from the Galactic Center or Great Central Sun and is received by you through your Crown Chakra and the Pineal Gland, and is then transmitted into the Heart Chakra. From the Heart, it is "transmuted" and woven into physical manifestation through your Dreams and Desires. So, the "River of Life" flows through you and is transformed into physical blessings of Abundance through the Creative Weaving of the Heart. Is this not a magnificent creative gift from Source.

We understand that many of you still struggle to manifest abundance in your lives at this time, as you learn to reactivate this gift given to the "Shining Ones", or those who carry the Golden Flame in their auric field. Beloved Ones, in order to carry the Golden Flame you need to release all illusions and attachments and allow your Heart to be the place where Heaven meets Earth and Masculine energy blends with Feminine energy in Perfect Harmony and Love. And, we know, that those of you who have chosen the path of Higher Consciousness, are embracing this process and allowing all the old distortions and illusions to be finally cleared and released.

And so, at this time, as this doorway of light stands open, you have the opportunity to receive this River of Light into your Hearts and to Weave your dreams without distortion or inteference. For, the purity and the clarity of your Heart will determine the clarity of your manifestations. The most abundant and joyful creations are those created without self-interest and gain, but for the highest good of all. If you can weave the Golden Light with this intention and send it out to Earth, it will manifest your dreams of Love and Peace. And, beloved Lightworkers, if you do this together, you will create a Field of Peace and Love and Balance that will hold the energy to manifest Miracles of Love on the Planet.

Beloved Lightworkers, we say too, that although this Radiant Light is called the "Buddha" field, it is also a manifestation of the Balanced Flame of Source. The Golden Light is always transmitted from Source to carry both the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine codes, and it is the Divine Feminine that carries the code of Balance. The Great Cosmic Goddess and Mother of Balance is called Ma'at, and her energy creates the Field of Light that supports Balance for Peace and Truth and Love. So, at this time of healing and balancing, the Light Codes of Ma'at will awaken the Field of Peace and these Codes will be transmitted into manifestation through the element of water. The water in your blood and your cells will transmit the codes to your body, and the water in the Oceans and water bodies of the Earth will transmit the codes to Earth herself and into her grids of crystalline light. And the Earth will celebrate the return of Ma'at or Cosmic Balance, as her Codes of Light are once again received so that the balance might be created and the Earth return to her place in the Cosmic Balance Field of Love.

And so it is, Beloved Ones, that you are now healing your relationships with your body, with the Earth, with the Source and with each other. You will find a powerful force of love in the next month that will guide you to heal and release all illusions and to begin weaving in absolute truth.

As you heal your relationship with your Body, and accept who you are, you will realize that your body is the perfect vehicle for your soul in its journey on the Earth. You will learn to honor your body and to trust its ability to Heal and Balance. You will no longer fear disease and suffering, for you will no longer need to weave such distorted creations fron your DNA. You will weave in Love according to the template of Health and Vitality.

AS you heal your relationship with the Earth, you will learn once again how the Earth supports you and loves you and provides for your every need. You will weave from Joy and you will weave experiences of Joy. You will no longer recreate distorted experiences of pain and suffering, for a balanced heart creates balanced experiences of love.

You will heal you relationship with Source, for you will no longer see God as a distant Father figure, but you will perecive the Light of Source within yourself and within all Creation. You will see that "God" is both Masculine and Feminine and Child-like, and you will laugh at the wonder of the energy of a God perceived without distortion or fear.

And you will heal your relationships with each other. You will feel, at this time, a need to balance and heal relationships with others. As you align with your own inner truth, or Ma'at, you will clearly see this in others, and your truth will align with theirs. You will also clearly be able to see where truth becomes distortion, and to heal that distortion with the Light of Love and Peace.

Beloved Ones, as you embrace the Golden Light, you have become a Golden Chalice of Light, you have become the Grail. You have become the magical instrument of Abundance and Love. That potential rests within your DNA records and is now activated by the Grail Codes. It was the work of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to lay down a genetic template and a geometry of light that would be activated within the physical and in the realms of Soul Light on the Planet at this time, and so it is! You are once again awakening and filling your Chalice of Light with the radiant Light of Source.

And so, Beloved Ones, in this magical window of light, remember the Compassion of the Buddha and the Love of Kwan Yin. Remember the Passion of Jesus and his beloved Magdalene. Remember, those who have worked to bring Heaven to Earth, and know that now is the time and this is the moment when you can step into that choice and live its reality.

But know, Beloved Ones, that this is a radical healing, so allow yourself time and be gentle with yourself. You may experience intense feelings and energies as the balance returns and you are allowed to experience the full potential of Who You Are as a Human Angel.

The Energies for May 2008

The New Moon is on the 5th of May, and falls in Taurus. Taurus is ruled by Venus, and is and Earth sign associated with beauty, artistic expression and comfort. The planet Venus itself is also in Taurus this month, creating a powerful connection between the Sun and Venus in the house of the Goddess of Love. Love will be a prominent feature or theme of life in this month. This is a good time to work with healing and balancing your relationship with the Earth and with your Body.

The Full Moon, on the 20th, is the second Buddha Moon. At this time, the powerful Light Codes of Ma'at will be fully integrated into the Earth's field, allowing for Balance, Peace and Prosperity on the Earth. This is a powerful time for all who desire to create Balance on the Earth to join in creating a Field of Peace and Love so that the Earth and her Peoples may feel this Joyous moment of Harmony and Balance.

Archangel Michael

(c) Celia Fenn: Starchild




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The full moons for the next two months fall on April 20 and May 20. You can find the precise time of the moon becoming full in your own time zone by checking a local paper, a diary with moon dates and times or an almanac. The moment of full moon is considered the most magical time of the month. Of course you can use the energies around that time for magic or meditation.

The time of the full moon is calculated as the second of the full moon by purists and after that it is said to begin to wane. However in practice, its energies remain powerful for 24 hours before the full moon time and during the week after the full moon though these decrease the further from the full moon you move and the waning pull kicks in.

In cultures such as the Celts and Native North Americans each full moon was named according to the weather, the natural growth of wild plants and planted crops or the migration and breeding habits of the birds and animals and the names vary greatly among the Native North American nations according to their geographical location.

Therefore I suggest that you start naming each full moon starting in April with a significant event in your life or region, for example if in April you get out your boat or caravan for the summer or you notice certain birds suddenly appear in the garden. Sometimes a month can have a second moon, called a blue moon at the end of the month if the first full moon occurred near the beginning of that month.

When you look up at a particular full moon in the sky, notice how it makes you feel and in time you will be able to tell the subtle difference in energies between even two moons following each other. Keep a separate diary or a computer folder marked with your moon or goddess months, the distance between two full moons, as your inner or spiritual calendar as an additional measure to your conventional calendar. There will be thirteen lunar months in the calendar year and you can name them differently from year to year accordingly as to what is actually happening in nature and your life. However you will see a pattern emerging over for example five years and realise that a particular moon seems to bring a strong desire to travel or learn something new, even if its appearance varies by a week or two.

Try to spend some time out under each full moon and use the powerful changing energies, caused by the sun and moon being astrologically in opposition to make those changes you want but have been afraid to try.

Working with full moon energies

Use the full moon energies to focus on

• Fulfilling an immediate need

• Boosting power or courage immediately

• Actually changing career or location

• Protecting yourself psychically or emotionally from malice

• Healing acute medical conditions

• Raising a large sum of money needed urgently

• Consummating love/conceiving a child

• Making a permanent love commitment

• Good luck

• Make or break talks in a relationship that is looking shaky (risky but maybe better than uncertainty)

• Initiating action for justice, whether through the legal system or putting right an injustice in your life that bugs you

• Taking a major step towards fulfilling an ambition or dream

• Asking for promotion or major job interviews

Full Moon Activities

• Because the time around the full moon can cause restlessness, it is important to channel your natural desire for change and action to avoid irritability tipping over into bad temper or change for change’s sake. If you do discuss relationship issues set boundaries and avoid recriminations.

• Do something decisive and positive. Send off your novel, propose to the guy or girl of your dreams, audition for a starring part on the local drama production, ask your boss for more money or suggest how your talents might be better used.

• Use the surge of power to carry you to the crest of wave and if there is something you want to get rid of then you can use the days after the full moon that are still very potent to carry you on the tide of change

• Go all out to clear insurmountable obstacles while the energies are unstable

• If you want to move, put your house on the market just before the full moon. The waning moon in the days after will diminish the pull that holds the home psychologically strongly to you, that can be reflected in your unconsciously not inspiring viewers to buy it

• If your home is already on the market use the day before and the day of the full moon for some personal advertising initiative or some personal empowerments such as the house is sold and we are on the move spoken outside your home in the full moonlight

• Apply for necessary and realistic financial assistance on the full moon when boundaries are less rigid or to speculate or gamble. But only take chances on the day of the full moon before the good luck energies start to wane.

• Take a chance to apply for a course or job you think is beyond you as you have a powerful cosmic tide to increase your confidence and charisma

• Make healing moon water on the night of the full moon.

• On the night of the full moon (it rises around sunset) set a silver coloured or clear crystal bowl outdoors where the moonlight can shine on it.

• Half fill it with sparkling mineral water or substitute bubbling tap water.

• Surround the bowl with pure white flowers or blossoms or small moonstones.

• Stir the water nine times with a silver coloured paper knife in both directions to stir the energies. Ask the moon to bless the water and those who use it.

• Leave the bowl outdoors covered with fine mesh overnight.

• In the morning use a glass jug and filter to pour the water into small blue or frosted glass bottles that you can keep in your fridge or a cool place until the next full moon night.

• Any that you have not used during the month pour into the ground before the moon rise on the full moon night.

• Drink a few drops daily for a month starting on the morning after the full moon to bring men as well as women in touch with their own bodily rhythms and cycle of energy ebbs and flows.

• Moon water helps a woman who wishes to conceive a child by helping her to get in tune with her natural cycles. It may help her body to become more receptive in cases where anxiety is blocking or making a physical problem worse (even for IVF or Artificial Insemination). Anoint your breasts and womb with the water before lovemaking which should be as spontaneous as possible for a month or two if you are following an ovulation plan or before any fertility treatment (if this is allowed under the treatment).

• Add a few drops to a bath to attract love or a particular lover before going out on a date or on line to talk to possible partners

• Use moon water in a soothing hot drink at night to relieve insomnia

• Sprinkle round the bed of a child or adult who suffers bad dreams.

• Sprinkle a little round plants that are neglected or abused, for example in a reception area of an office.

• Add to the water of sick or pregnant animals and birds or any from a rescue centre you have adopted

Beltane or Beltaine, from 30 April to 2nd May, the beginning of the Celtic summer in the northern hemisphere or strictly 15 degrees of Taurus in the Northern Hemisphere or 15 degrees of Scorpio in the Southern hemisphere(the latter at the beginning of November).

If you live in the Southern hemisphere you will be celebrating Samhain the beginning of the Celtic winter and New Year. However you can take from Beltaine the sister festival directly across the wheel the enthusiasm and a reminder that creativity and fertility energies can be called into your life any time of the year when the need is there. Each sister festival, such as Beltaine and Samhain, carries the seeds of the other. Especially if your climate is warm in the Southern climes you can add flowers to your more solemn Samhain, Festival of the Ancestors. This forms a reminder life goes on even in winter and that the baby Sun King will be born not so many weeks ahead.

Focus of Beltaine or Beltane: Fertility whether for conceiving a child (even stronger energies than the Spring Equinox), for improvement in career, business or financial matters, for increasing commitment in love, for passion and the consummation of love, for creative inspiration, for improving health and increasing energy, for optimism and self-confidence: for abundance in every way and for generosity; good for people in their twenties and thirties and for speaking your mind honestly but with tact.

Keywords: Passion, fertility

Emphasis of festival: Fire / flowers

Energies of the season: Rising

Symbols: Fresh greenery and blossoms, especially hawthorn (indoors only on May 1), also ribbons, staffs or staves decorated with flowers and ribbons, bells, all flowers

Tree: Hawthorn\elder

Incenses, flowers and herbs: Almond, angelica, ash, cowslip, frankincense, hawthorn, lilac, bluebells, marigolds and roses for love; also any floral fragrance.

Candle colours: Dark green, scarlet and silver

Crystals: Clear crystal quartz, red tiger’s eye, Herkimer diamond, golden tiger’s eye, amber and topaz.

Festival Foods: Any roasted meat, traditional oatmeal cake cut into thirteen portions (or one piece for each person present). The person drawing a piece marked beforehand with a cross traditionally has to pay a forfeit or entertain those present with a song; also egg custard dishes, mead (fermented honey drink), any miniature delicacies said to be left by the fairies whose festival it is, elderflower and berry jams

Angel of the festival: Camael or Chamuel, Archangel of Courage, Divine Love and Justice who wears a deep red tunic with dark green armour, a halo of dark ruby flames and with rich green wings.

God and Goddess of the festival: The Green man, God of vegetation who as Jack’ of the Green, a kind of Robin Hood figure, married the Flower Goddess whom he crowned as the May Queen with garlands of flowers; also the Anglo Saxon Goddess Walpurga of spring who was Christianised as St Walpurga

The Place on the Wheel

Beltaine or Beltane is named after the Irish god of light, in whose honour fires were kindled at this time by rubbing wood together.

Sundown on May Eve heralded the signal for the Celtic Druids to kindle the great Bel-fires from nine different kinds of wood. At this time cattle were released from the winter barns and driven between twin fires to cleanse them and to invoke fertility as they were released into the fields.

Winter was finally dead as at midnight on May Eve Caillieach Bhuer, the old hag of winter, cast her staff under a holly bush and turned to stone until six months later on Halloween.

A time of great fairy activity, especially around standing stones and stone circles.

Sacred wells are very potent on May 1 both for healing and fertility.

Ways of Marking the Festival in the Modern World

• Light your own Bel bonfire burning as many different kinds of wood as you can find. When the fire is burned though, scatter a few of the ashes to the four winds from a hilltop or open space, sending your wishes for the future with them. Bury the rest.

• Alternatively light a huge scarlet candle embedded in sand or earth and drop dried rosemary, lavender or rose petals into the flame, asking the cosmos to send what you most need which may be different from what you think you want .

• Trade plants with friends and save any fragrant flowers or herbs you pick or are given over the coming weeks to dry and make into pot pourri or home made incense to burn on charcoal or outdoor fires

• Make a garland on a circle of wire or fill a vase with nine different flowers or different coloured flowers. Bloddeuwedd the Welsh maiden goddess was made on May 1 from nine different flowers to be the bride of Llew the young Welsh god of light.

• For each flower make a wish, some that will need all your power and optimism to fulfil.

• Rise at dawn on May morning and wash your face by adding a few drops of the morning dew (you can collect it with an eye dropper) to a bowl of water. May morning dawn is said to make you radiant and bring health and fertility.

• Fill small baskets with garden flowers or greenery and leave them on the doorsteps of anyone who is sick or lonely to spread the abundance of the season.

• Visit a sacred well or a small lake or pool in accordance with tradition just before sunrise and walk round it three times sunwise (clockwise), asking for healing for yourself or loved ones. Tie a ribbon to a nearby tree as a way of saying thank you to Mother Nature.

• Run, cycle, dance, swim, roller blade or jump and stir up the energies as a way of building up your inner power. Go up hill and then freewheel down.

• If possible go along to one of the traditional May morning celebrations in your area or invite a group of friends for a flower party and ask them all to bring along a few flowers or plants to exchange.

• Decorate a tree or a branch from a tree with flowers, ribbons and bells and your May time symbols and spiral round it, allowing your feet to trace and amplify the energies of the earth, as if you were Maypole dancing.

(c) Cassandra Eason

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Let's celebrate in May - Happy Buddha Day!

Global Spiritual Astrology in April-May 2008 - It's the Full Moon of Taurus-Scorpio, also known as The Wesak Festival!

by Robert Wilkinson

We are taught that a Full Moon represents a potentially enlightened state, where the Moon, which represents form, perfectly reflects the greater light of the Sun. It marks a time when the seed state of the New Moon begins to become fully actualized. The Full Moon of Sun in Taurus and Moon in Scorpio is special in a major way, since for millennia it has been celebrated as emblematic of the birth and enlightenment Moon of the Buddha, said to be the first human to fully transcend suffering attaining full enlightenment, then return to the world to teach the truths he found.

The Wesak is said to be the 2nd of the "Three High Moons" of Spring, anchoring the outpouring of life into forms of awareness that can help us transcend suffering as well. This year is special, in that we have 2 Full Moons in Taurus/Scorpio.

The first one falls this Sunday at 1 degree of Taurus/Scorpio and occurs on Passover (to mix metaphors), April 20, at 3:25 am PDT, which is 6:25 am EDT, 11:25 am Greenwich Daylight Time, and assuming daylight time is observed, 1:25 pm in Istanbul, 4:55 pm in India, and 9:25 pm in Melbourne Australia.

The second Full Moon of Taurus/Scorpio falls at 30 degrees on Victoria Day, May 19, at 7:11 pm PDT, which is 10:11 pm EDT, 3:11 am May 20 Greenwich Daylight Time, with the same time differentials mentioned in the previous paragraph. Some groups around the world are celebrating on April 20, while others are celebrating in May. I plan to celebrate both days as extraordinarily special, since these two Full Moons in Taurus/Scorpio won't happen again until 2027.

An explanation of this celebration follows. Each year the Wesak Festival is celebrated at the Full Moon of Taurus-Scorpio in May. This global festival celebrates the birth, enlightenment, and teachings of the Buddha, said to be the most enlightened human ever to walk this planet. He taught the doctrine of compassion and the ways to end suffering around 500 BC, and his teachings have spread through the entire world since then. This is the largest spiritual celebration in the world, and has nothing to do with religion, since the Buddha was focused on how to live, not what to believe.

It is said that the Wesak Festival (usually the Full Moon of May, but this year is different due to the doubled influence) is when the Gautama Siddhartha, known to history as the Buddha, “opens the treasure chest” and sends out a new global energy of compassion to end suffering every year. Supposedly when He left the Earth plane, his blessing for all time was a thought-form of “Buddha Nature,” which would renew the loving-compassion on the Earth whenever it was sent forth. This is the time when it renews itself for another year.

As a friend of the site offered in a previous discussion, on a deeper, more spiritual level it is said that every Wesak the Buddha actually briefly descends from the Heavens to return to that secret valley in the Himalayas known as Shamballa. There, surrounded by the Adepts, Disciples and others, he pours out an annual blessing for all sentient beings on this planet.

He taught the 4 Noble Truths about life on Earth, and the 8 Fold Path as a way to live to end suffering for ourselves and others. While this is not the forum for an exhaustive discussion of the 4 Noble Truths and the 8-fold Path, if you haven't already seen it, (and even if you have!), please get a copy of "Little Buddha" to know more about the life of this most amazing man for the ages.His life and teachings were dedicated to shine a light on the Way beyond suffering.

Though there are many ways his teachings have been stated and interpreted, anyone who actually practices the techniques will in fact find they are lessening suffering in their lives, and finding peace in a higher way of doing their Being. To quote HH Dalai Lama, “There is one thing we can all agree on. More suffering is bad. Less suffering is good.” This is the time of the renewal of energies that can lead all of us to less suffering in our life, and maybe be of service in lessening the suffering of others we know.

I was asked to comment about the "Three High Moons" of which the Wesak Full Moon is the 2nd of the 3. The so-called "Three High Moons" of Spring relate to the teachings of the Tibetan Master D.K. Briefly, they are the three Full Moons of Spring each year when the life force reawakens, is poured out, and refined into a higher vision and understanding by the World Teacher.

The Full Moon of Aries-Libra is the awakening of Nature Herself, with life blooming everywhere there is a living process occurring. The Full Moon of Taurus-Scorpio is the Wesak, the anchoring of the awakened life force in a form of compassion that will lessen suffering for all Earth's creatures for the next year. The Full Moon of Gemini-Sagittarius is said to be the "Christfest" where the World Teacher takes the new outpouring and through multiplication and distribution, spreads the teaching in infinitely varied ways according to local conditions.

So these next days meditate, open, feel the global compassion becoming stronger and more evident, and purify your life and consciousness however you need to in order to open to the timeless truths offered long ago by the one who set the pattern for the Ages. A Happy Buddha Birthday to you all, and may you all find a form of Buddha nature which increases your wisdom and compassion throughout the next year!

For more information on the April celebrations, you can check out Lucis Trust, which is doing it globally on April 20, as are Souldout and some other organizations.

For more information on the May celebrations at Mt. Shasta and in Germany, you can go to the websites for the Mt. Shasta gathering or to Wesak Festival Deutschland.

There are other organizations celebrating one or the other, of course, so by all means celebrate whichever one that calls, or both. It's all good. Aum Mani Padme Hum!!

© Copyright 2008 Robert Wilkinson

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