Insights – Melannie Thomas

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In the Tarot the Wheel of Fortune represents universal cycles; an appropriate symbol for this time of reflection and renewal.   Solstice and Equinox are revered times in human belief systems; ancient and modern.  Methods and means of acknowledging and celebrating these universal cycles are as varied as the vast cultural diversity that exists on Mother Earth.

This year’s Vernal Equinox occurs on Friday March 20.  I invite you to spend some time reflecting on the natural cycles and seasons of your life.  Examine how you are rolling with the punches.  They seem to be coming at warp speed as we move closer to the birth of a New Age.   Now is a good time to plant seeds for an abundant celebration of the Fall Equinox.  Tie up loose ends.  Look for opportunities in the middle of chaos.

Take a mindful stroll in the natural world; the one outside and the one within.

“I feel within me that future life.  I am like a forest that has been razed;  the new shoots are stronger and brighter.  The nearer my approach to the end, the plainer is the sound of the immortal symphonies of worlds which invite me.  For half a century I have been translating my thoughts into prose and verse: history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song; all of these I have tried.  But I feel I haven’t given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me.  When I go to the grave I can say, as others have said, ‘My days work is done.’  But I cannot say, ‘My life is done.’  My work will recommence the next morning.  The tomb is not a blind alley, it is a thoroughfare.  It closes upon the twilight, but opens upon the dawn.”

~Victor Hugo

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”

~Aldous Huxley

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

~Albert Einstein

“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.  Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”

~Abraham Lincoln

I invite you to enjoy your liberty on this special day of honoring our Presidencies.

“Vulnerability is the essence of romance.  It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'”

~Ashton Kutcher

Happy Valentine’s Day to all!

“Everyone has inside him a piece of good news.  The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be!  How much you can love!  What you can accomplish!  And what your potential is!”

~Anne Frank

Parade magazine’s  feature article Sunday was ‘FEARS 2015’.  It  put how we react to media hype in perspective.  How our brains and our bodies deal with fear and chronic stress.  It is well done.  To read the entire article go to www.parade.com.   The following is from a box insert within the body content:

Some food for thought.

” I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.  I am free, no matter what rules surround me.  If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them;  if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.  I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

~Robert A. Heinlein

A good week to appreciate and relish our freedoms.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.  Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.  And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

~Steve Jobs