FOLLOWING THE FLOW - HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE!

Summer Solstice! The longest day of the year! Yahoo!!! (Well, in the Northern Hemisphere anyway!)

This morning I took the two dogs that I'm sitting with for a hike up the mountain behind the house I'm staying. (read more) It has a trail that leads to the big white cross that is lit up will lights all night.

The trail is quite steep and rocky in places. It brought me back to my Yuba River hiking days, and how I wouldn't look too far ahead when the trail was steep. I'd place my focus directly in front of me and eventually I'd make it to my destination, whether it be the end of the trail or out of a canyon.

I was going to write that sometimes goals aren't the answer, sometimes, you just need to let things flow, which went along with a recent astrology blog I read by Simone Butler. (read more)

But I realized that I did have a goal. It was to reach the end or the top of the trail. However, my focus was on what was directly in front of me and not the end result.

Usually, I'm watching and feeling for the flow of energy. That's what I'm doing for this week. If you remember, I put down all the have to's, and went to In and Out Hamburgers. Feeling a bit better than yesterday, I'm now ready to enjoy the week doing whatever/wherever the energetic flow takes me.  (Today, Dana Point!) 

Welcome to the Aquarius Full Moon! Aug 1, 2012

I don't know about anyone else, but the last few weeks have been less than blissful in my life! I'm told by my astrologer friends that August is the break! Hallelujah! I try to spare most of my friends my tales of :(, but it sometimes is hard to keep a secret. Anyway, the good news is we have a reprieve! This is an intense year energetically for personal growth and learning to live consciously. Here is a blurp from Simone's Blog. You can read it all if you're interested. For me, I'm looking forward to a bit of lightness in my life! http://astroalchemy.com/kindness-on-the-upswing-aug-1-2012/

Aquarius is the sign of kindness, community and friendship.  Now we tap into the Greater Mind in which we are all one, and celebrate our diversity. Today is also Lammas, the first cross-quarter festival of the waning year, in which our ancestors gave thanks for summer’s abundance now that the season is halfway over, and celebrated the year’s first harvest.

It hasn’t been an easy year so far for many of us, with endless retrogrades and the chaotic Uranus-Pluto square (set ablaze by Mars just prior to the Batman shooting). Yet we have to remember that humanity is in the midst of a major shift in consciousness as we birth the Aquarian Age.

Birth, like death, can be messy and painful. As we feel others’ anguish, our hearts expand. And we take a step closer to unity in this seemingly random world we live in.

As the Moon in intelligent Aquarius balances with the Sun in heart-centered Leo, today’s Full Moon (Aug. 1, 8:27 p.m. PDT) hooks up beautifully with open-minded Uranus and optimistic Jupiter. Enjoy a respite from recent worries. Be kind to a stranger. Take a deep breath and know that all is well.

Meet me at the moon this eve...I'll be the one dancing!!