Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Homage to Ceres

On Friday March 6th the Spacecraft Dawn will visit Ceres the dwarf planet ruler of motherhood, fertility, and the harvest.  As we approach the last Uranus-Pluto square it's interesting to note that Ceres too had a run in with Pluto, who with Jupiter’s approval kidnapped her beloved daughter Proserpina and married her.
Long story short, as a result Ceres was so sad nothing grew on Earth and Jupiter sent Mercury the messenger God to go and get Proserpina from Pluto and return her to her mother.  Pluto did, but tricked Proserpina into eating a Pomegranate sacred to the underworld.  In the fall and winter the world grows cold and nothing grows because Proserpina is in the underworld with Pluto and her mother Ceres is sad. In the spring and summer Proserpina comes back to Ceres and Ceres makes the world warm and happy and all the flowers grow.

Spacecraft Dawn Approaching Ceres NASA

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Valentine's Day Kahlil Gibran on Love

Kahlil Gibran on Love

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the season less world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Friday, February 6, 2015

Selena Gomez and DJ Zedd a Valentine Do or Don't

It's almost valentine's Day! So when @perezhilton PerezHilton.com​ celebrity in the know blogger asked me is this romance between @Justinbieber 's ex  Selena Gomez@selenagomez and  DJ Zedd @Zedd  a Valentine Do or a Valentine Don't?  here's what I said ...http://goo.gl/yZ6m0x