“I know in my heart of hearts that I cannot help but do the best reading possible. I know in my soul that I cannot live without giving someone the gift of my love. I cannot survive a life without a spirited desire to share my heart.”
Leadership
“Being in charge means making decisions, no matter how unpleasant. If it’s broke, fix it . . . you cannot let the mission suffer, or make the majority pay to spare the feelings of an individual.”
-Colin L. Powell, My American Journey
Predicting the Future
“Predicting the Future? When people consult me, it’s not that I’m
reading the future; I am guessing at the
future. The future belongs to [a Higher
Being], and it is only he who reveals it,
under extraordinary circumstances.
How do I guess at the future? Based on
the omens of the present. The secret is
here in the present. If you pay attention to
the present, you can improve upon it.
And if you improve on the present,
what comes later will also be better.”
~ The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Cathy Pagano’s Take, FM July 2018
from CathyPagano.com
“The cosmic waves of change keep rolling in…
“Don’t forget to go out and look at the Full Moon, even if you can’t see the eclipse.
“The sight of the Full Moon and brilliant Mars shining nearby will imprint on your psyche in a magical way.
“Eclipses are magical moments where something slips through an energy portal to both destroy and create. It’s a path opener.
“Eclipses are known to bring things to a head; something is released, especially at a total lunar eclipse. It’s time to bring things sleeping into the light.
“The energies during the past few months have been intense and chaotic, and it feels like things are getting more intense, very much like the stage in labor called transition – the contractions keep coming without stop. It’s an intense time, but it presages birth…
(YES, SINCE APRIL – in my experience, anyway. Really as far back as February for me.)
“It’s during this most intense stage of labor that mothers have to try to stay focused on our task – to birth new life…
“So during this powerful Blood Full Moon lunar eclipse, when the light of the Moon is veiled, we have to stay focused, to see and understand what lives deep within us, those parts of ourselves we’ve locked away from our awareness that need to be seen and acknowledged.
“These parts might be gifts we developed in other lifetimes, old behavior patterns shaped by beliefs that no longer serve us, or lies we’ve told ourselves about who and what we are…
(Yes, and yes.)
“When outer planets are involved in an eclipse pattern, it signals a change in the collective energies as well as in our personal energies.
“…It’s time to figure things out – to see the root cause of our trauma and heal it through the trine to Chiron in Aries – through a new understanding of who we really are.
“We can ground in the meaning and purpose of our life experience when we see ourselves clearly.
“The healing is for masculine energy in men, woman and the world…
“The Divine Feminine has been awake in the world since the 70s.
“It’s time for the divine Masculine to be birthed anew…
“Warrior, father, lover and magician: these are the archetypal energies that need to be embraced and developed as the New Masculine.
“Will men rise to the occasion? Some of you have. Hopefully, you will help others who are ready.
“This means women have to do things differently as well, since we also have patterns of how we use our masculine energies that have been shaped by patriarchy.
“It’s time for women to find our own way of doing things. And many of us already have.
“Deep change is upon us and we have a chance to work consciously with it…
“These cosmic alignments focus on what questions we need to be asking ourselves.
“How does masculine spirit want to be renewed and incarnated now?
“…How do we deal with Mars’ shadow of aggression, anger and competition? What is bravery?
“How do we change our way of doing things? How can we shape something different by how we act in the world?
“Are we living our dharma? How are we contributing our knowledge and wisdom to the world?
“…Mars retrograde with South Node in Aquarius will find us walking away from collective expectations of what we should do and how to do it.
“Just as Aquarius rules the round table of collaboration, it also rules mob mentality.
“South Node in Aquarius demands that we look at how we betray our beliefs when we don’t have the integrity to act on them.
“When it comes to dealing with Mars – the masculine spirit, left brain rationality and men – how have we been betrayed by them?
“…With the collective nature of Mars retrograde on the South Node in Aquarius at this lunar eclipse, it’s time to recognize that our world’s fate is in our hands.
“When we engage in community on whatever level, we are participating in our world and bringing our unique gifts to the collective.
“Look at what you’ve been hiding from and bring it into the light of day where you can create something new out of it.
“With 6 of our 10 planets in fixed signs during this eclipse, there are possibilities of big personal breakthroughs on issues that have been stuck for a while.
“…We’re all being tested. Trust your inner spirit. Don’t fear the changes. We don’t have to go through anything alone. Where’s your tribe?
“Don’t be afraid to ask for help… we don’t have to go through things alone now. That’s a new way to solve old problems – help each other.”
© Copyright 2018 ~CATHY PAGANO All Rights Reserved
Excerpt from “A Summer Evening’s Meditation” by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
photo credit: “Orion on the rise!”: Bob King
Lines 14 – 60
(spaces mine)
The shadows spread apace; while meeken’d Eve
Her cheek yet warm with blushes, slow retires
Thro’ the Hesperian gardens of the west,
And shuts the gates of day. ‘Tis now the hour
When Contemplation, from her sunless haunts,
The cool damp grotto, or the lonely depth
Of unpierc’d woods, where wrapt in solid shade
She mused away the gaudy hours of noon,
And fed on thoughts unripen’d by the sun,
Moves forward; and with radiant finger points
To yon blue concave swell’d by breath divine,
Where, one by one, the living eyes of heaven
Awake, quick kindling o’er the face of ether
One boundless blaze; ten thousand trembling fires,
And dancing lustres, where th’ unsteady eye,
Restless, and dazzled wanders unconfin’d
O’er all this field of glories: spacious field;
And worthy of the Master: he, whose hand
With hieroglyphics elder than the Nile,
Inscribed the mystic tablet; hung on high
To public gaze, and said, adore, O man!
The finger of thy GOD. From what pure wells
Of milky light, what soft o’erflowing urn,
Are all these lamps so fill’d? these friendly lamps,
For ever streaming o’er the azure deep
To point our path, and light us to our home.
How soft they slide along their lucid spheres!
And silent as the foot of time, fulfil
Their destin’d courses: Nature’s self is hush’d,
And, but a scatter’d leaf, which rustles thro’
The thick-wove foliage, not a sound is heard
To break the midnight air; tho’ the rais’d ear,
Intensely listening, drinks in every breath.
How deep the silence yet how loud the praise!
But are they silent all? or is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise; nor wooes in vain:
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo GOD; a spark of fire divine,
Which must burn on for ages, when the sun,
(Fair transitory creature of a day!)
Has clos’d his golden eye, and wrap’d in shades
Forgets his wonted journey thro’ the east.
-copied from: www.digital.library.upenn.edu.
Interesting exploration of “A Summer Evening’s Meditation” : Anetta Newcamp, Examining Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s poem, “A Summer Evening’s Meditation”
Great short video on “Stars: The Art and Science“
April 2018 Full Moon
“Keep your physical body well grounded to better process the frequencies that are bombarding you and keep you out of mental spin…”
“We learn with each turning of the Moon to hold our lives as a choice.
“Which will it be here? Crisis or Opportunity?”
© Copyright 2018 ~PAT LILES All Rights Reserved
3 Days Quote Challenge – Day 3
From the movie Laura. Great movie! 
Thank you again, SyncWithDeep !!!!!!!!!!!!! For giving me this awesome fun game to play with you guys!
My quote:
The character of Waldo Lydecker at one point says:
“Let’s not be psychiatric.”
And I just got such a kick out of it. I added it to my facebook favorite quotes along with my original Yeats quote and my Catherine Aird quote that you can find on my front menus of both my blogs, Kaleidoscope and Spinsta.
I love this quote because I am learning every day to integrate, heal, balance, live with, PTSD which causes in turn, some issues with depression and anxiety. This quote cracks me up lol.
I’m nominating these last three bloggers to carry on the Quotage:
Ricardo Sexton , O at the Edges, and the resident hottie, Texas.
Here are the rules:
- Thank the person who nominated you.
(you may mail chocolate to…..)
- Post a quote for three consecutive days (1 quote for each day).
- Share why this quote appeals so much to you.
- Nominate 3 different bloggers for each day.
3 Days Quote Challenge – Day 2
“The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and
all that I think and all that I write. . . .
I have always considered myself a voice of
what I believe to be a greater renaissance –
the revolt of the soul against the intellect.”
I was looking for the Yeats quote that I used to have in my Facebook, which is this one: “Literature must take the responsibility of its power . . . and keep all its freedom.”
But in looking online for it, I stumbled over the one above which I like even better.
The quote I picked is part of a longer bit of conversation, in which he explains that “Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me “weak” or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life…If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.”
Now I can’t agree with that in its entirety, as I have written and created before and after magic entered my life, but what I can agree with is that my “mystical life” – my soul fire – is at the heart “of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.” And that is visible in some of the poetry I have posted here.
My Three Nominations are:
and
* My quote on Day #1
Fiery K. Tarot 