See with your heart

from Deidre Raven

Watching flowers bloom all around us

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

-Ram Dass

from Paulett Marsh's photos

Get ourselves in the present moment.

"The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life."

-Thich Nhat Hanh

photo: Deidre Raven.

The arising of the new consciousness is why we are here.

"The arising of the new consciousness is why we are here."

- Eckhart Toole

credit: Eckhart teachings.

The bravest thing you will ever do is love again.

The bravest thing you will ever do is love again.

credit: Gaby Harless.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business

"Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival."

- Dalai Lama XIV

the photo from Dalai Lama in Australia.

Compassion brings peace of mind.

"Compassion brings peace of mind. It brings a smile to the face.
Education needs not only to develop our intelligence, but also to support the basic human values of warm-heartedness and compassion. These are not qualities confined to the religious, because we all want peace of mind. And if we remember that others too are human beings like us. we can extend a sense of kindness even towards those we think of as enemies."

- Dalai Lama XIV

Happy Diwali 2017

Diwali is meant a "row of lamps" and is a major holiday in India. The festival is five days in length.

Diwali of light is known as Yama Panchak (five days of lord of death).

October 19th, 2017 is the beginning of Diwali festival and also of personal, financial, and spiritual. This is an important day that you have to focus on the spiritual need and work on the higher self. 

Hope the light enlightening your mind body and soul and bring peace, harmony to you and your family.

 from
 https://hotstarappdownloads.com/happy-diwali-2016-whatsapp-status-images/

Rich smiles in sad hearts

"Let my soul smile through my heart
And my heart smile through my eyes
That I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts"

- Paramahansa Yogananda

the photo from Deidre Raven

Love is infinite.

"When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never dies."
- Solange nicole

photo: Daniel B. Holeman.

The more boundless your vision, the more real you are.

"The more boundless your vision, the more real you are."

- Deepak Chopra

from Paulette Marsh's photos.

Impressed by the way someone treats other human beings.

credit: Gaby Harless.

When your mind changes, the world changes.

When your mind changes, the world changes. And when we respond differently to the world, the world responds differently to us.

-David Loy, "Rethinking Karma".

from Christina Richa Devi's photos.

A Moon inside every human being.

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.

-Rumi

from Paulette Marsh's photos.

Stop negotiating with yourself.

from Christina Richa Devi.

Rahu Ketu ingressing in Karkata and Makara

There are two calculations (True and Mean) for Rahu and Ketu. True node is reflecting the real position in the sky and mean nodes always moves backward.

Rahu and Ketu stays in Karkata (Cancer) and Makara (Capricorn) from August 17th to March 6th, 2019 by mean node.
Rahu and Ketu stays in Karkata (Cancer) and Makara (Capricorn) from September 8th to March 23th, 2019 by mean node.

Rahu is in gantanta from August 2nd to September 2nd, 2017.
During Rahu Ketu in Karkata and Makara,
Rahu will meet Sun on August 16th, 2017, July 28th, 2018;
Rahu will meet Moon on August 21th, 2017 (Total Solar Eclipse), September 17th, 2017, ...;
Rahu will meet Mars on August 26th, 2017;
Rahu will meet Mercury on July 3rd, 2018;
Rahu will meet Venus on September 13th, 2017, June 20th, 2018;
Ketu will meet Sun on February 3rd, 2018, January 16th, 2019;
Ketu will meet Moon on October 1st, 2017;
Ketu will meet Mars on June 13th, 2018, Rx Mars on July 18th, 2018, September 22nd, 2018;
Ketu will meet Mercury on February 9th, 2018, January 21st, 2019;
Ketu will meet Venus on January 30th, 2018, February 24th, 2019.

We will have unsettle emotion and we will feel struggle and conflict. We will not feel happiness and we will seek for love. We will not follow the rules or the discipline.

Death rate may be raising. The war tendency will be watched. The depression and mental illness shall be watched. The issue of discrimination shall be watched.

The natural calamities (magma from volcano, fire, earthquake, seismic activity, storm, flood, tsunami, etc.), natural/human made explosions, trending of war, and accident of the transportation (airplane, vehicle, etc. ) we shall keep a watchful eye on.

We shall not only consider ourselves and we shall have self-discipline. Haste makes waste. Think twice or more before taking an act. We shall have the open mind to accept the new ideas or persons who are the same class as us coming. We have to practice mediation or yoga.

China - The impetuous temper and the inclination towards violence to the countries (special for the adjacent countries) shall be watched. The contract of the business from the other countries will be taken at any cost. The irrational fear of the nation will be happened.

India - The changes and innovation will be the topic of the nation. The communication with the adjacent countries will also be the topic. The media, the transportation and the issue of the religion shall be watched.

U.S.A - The policy to the nation or to the international countries will not be clear and definite. The health of the president of the nation may be watched. The new technology or ideas will be developed. The revenue of the nation will be reduced.

Reference:
Saturn will enter in Dhanus.
http://vedicsky.blogspot.com/2017/01/saturn-will-enter-in-dhanus-sagittarius.html

For fast acting relief, try slowing down.

For fast acting relief, try slowing down.
-Lily Tomlin

from Deidre Raven.

Saturn (Shani) Fast 2017

The days to do fast are every Saturday, sunrise Saturday to sunrise Sunday, from July 29th to November 11th, 2017.

You may do Saturn fast if you are in the difficult time, or in Sade Sati.
Moon in Taurus, Leo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn may consider Shani Fast. If you are in Shani dasha or have Shani in poor place of the chart, Shani fast may help you.

There are two fast ways. One is half fast that we should not eat anything and drink water, juice, and fruit if needed during daylight. Eat a simple vegetarian meal without meat, fish, eggs, chicken, grains, and salt after Sunset. Avoid alcohol. Another is full fast. Only water, fruit, and juice can be taken. Avoid alcohol.
If you are unable to do fast, you just eat pure vegetarian and avoid alcohol.

Saturn mantra
Om Nilanajana Samabhasam, Ravi putram Yamagrajam
Chhaya Martanda Sambhutham, Tam Namami Shanischaram
Bija mantra 

Om Praam Preem Praum Sah Shanicharaya Namah

(recite 108 times daily during the fast)

Before you find the right path

It sometimes takes a lot of wrong turns before you find the right path.

- Steven Aitchison

credit: Steven Aitchison

Your story doesnot end here.

Don't give up because of one bad chapter in your life.
Keep going.
Your story doesn't end here.

credit: Lessons Learned in Life Inc.

Observe, reflect and become a little wiser every day

Observe, reflect and become a little wiser every day!
"Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully, profoundly beautiful."
- Alex Grey

from Lisseth Barrios's photos

You are holding suffering.

from Christina Richa Devi's photos

Angels are here to help us

The magnitude of life is overwhelming.
Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace.

-Levende Waters

photo from Paulette Marsh

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

“Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.”
“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”

- William Blake

photo from Christina Richa Devi

Let the Light shine in when the Heart feels pain

Let the Light shine in when the Heart feels pain ...

credit: Deidre Raven

Good food, good clothes, good shelter are not meant a good life.

A good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed—compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy—just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their rights and human dignity.

- Dalai Lama

Your past is a memory ...

credit: Steven Aitchison

The prettiest ...

credit : simplereminders.com

Happy Mother's Day

Mother are like angels, just like the ones above. No other person could be so caring and warm.
Nothing is more sacred than a Mother's Love.

credit: Angels On A Mission II and Robin Twohig

Life's tragedy

credit : Lessons Learned In Life Inc.

Pay more attention to the ways in which we are the same as other people.

"I’m Tibetan, I’m Buddhist and I’m the Dalai Lama, but if I emphasize these differences it sets me apart and raises barriers with other people. What we need to do is to pay more attention to the ways in which we are the same as other people."

- Dalai Lama

Stay awake, my heart.

from Paulette Marsh's photos

It's LIFE. We're all teachers and all students.

from Deidre Raven's photos

Compassion is not religious business

"Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival."

- Dalai Lama XIV

from Dalai Lama in Australia's photos.

The beauty of a person

The beauty of a person is not the surface one looks or the clothes one wears. It is form the heart of a person.

from Paulette Marsh's photos.

Path to Love

The path to love ... is our spiritual destiny.

- Deepak Chopra

from Paulette Marsh's photos

CHARACTER

from Deidre Raven's photos.

Not prevent you from facing times of darkness.

from Hippie Peace Freaks's photos.

Move, You are not a tree.

from www.curejoy.com

Love is a mirror.

Love is a mirror.
It reflects only your essence,
if you have the courage to look in its face.

-Rumi

from Paulette Marsh's photos.

Blessing of Love

from Paulette Marsh's photos.

Standing alone is better than being around people who don't value you.

from SimpleReminders.com

Happy Chinese New Year!

January 28th, 2017 is the first day of Chinese Year 2017. It is the Year of Rooster.

The auspicious time of first day (January 28th) for censing (burning incense), opening doors/windows, and receiving auspicious qi (chi) is 00:00 am - 01:00 am, 05:00 am - 07:00 am or 09:00 am - 11:00 am and the time of the closing doors/windows is 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm.
The better direction for receiving auspicious qi is north and north-east (if you have windows on north, you can open it/them during auspicious time);

The following days and time are auspicious for work resumption after 2017 Chinese New Year.
January 28th, 2017. (This day is except for people whose Chinese zodiac is Rooster.)
05:00 am - 11:00 am
February 6th, 2017. (This day is except for people whose Chinese zodiac is Horst.)
05:00 am - 09:00 am
February 8th, 2017. (This day is except for people whose Chinese zodiac is Monkey.)
05:00 am - 07:00 am
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 

We are all visitors to this time, this place.

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through.
Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love...
and then we return home.

- Australian Aboriginal Proverb.

credit: UPLIFT, Hippie Peace Freaks.

Saturn will enter in Dhanus (Sagittarius)

Saturn will enter in Dhanus on January 26th, 2017, will turn retrogression on April 5th, 2017, will move back into Vrishchika on June 20th, 2017, will turn direct in Vrishchika on August 25th, 2017, will re-enter in Dhanus on October 26th, 2017 , will retrograde again in Dhanus from April 17th, 2018 to September 6th, 2018, will retrograde third time in Dhanus from April 29th, 2019 to September 18th, 2019, will stay direct till January 23th, 2020.
Saturn is going to have three-times retrogression. Saturn will be in gandanta three times in year 2017.
Saturn with Mars will be on April 2nd, 2018 and Saturn will be on opposite side of Mars on June 14th, 2019.

We will be having an excessive desire, we will want to fulfill our goals at any cost (making lies,...), we will not follow the rules, we will be dominated by the emotion, we will be angry easily, we will be less spiritual.
We are going meet the challenges or issues on the system of rules that are compelled compliance with government or community to govern behavior, religions, border of countries, freedom (mind or physical; speech; publishing companies, press, etc.), race, foreign politics, foreign debt, immigration, traveling, airplane or airplane companies, banks, peace, male chauvinism (machismo), technology (may be improved).
We may feel depression and watch out our temper. Death rate may be raising. The war tendency will be watched.
The natural calamities (magma from volcano, fire, earthquake, seismic activity, storm, flood, tsunami, etc.), natural/human made explosions, trending of war, and accident of the transportation (airplane, etc. ) we shall keep a watchful eye on.

What we shall do during Saturn in Dhanus is we have to think twice before we make the actions or decisions, we have to be patience to communicate with whom we deal, we have to learn to forgive someone we may not like or who treats us not well. We have to practice mediation. 

The following predictions are by Saturn in Dhanus.
China - The nation sets the high target for itself and the nation wants to extend its business. The nation may meet the struggle or block with other countries. The people of the nation may feel unhappiness. Stock exchange and birth rate may be watched.
India - The economic activity, trade, financial stability, strength of currency, and religion of the nation may meet the challenge. The death rate, the health and transportation of the nation may be watched. The nation should watch the relationships with neighbor countries. People of the nation work hard and the labor strike may be happened. People of the nation may get lost their direction.
U.S.A - The transformation or revolution of the nation, the relationship with other countries and the business of the nation meet the challenge. The people of the nation may feel struggle and conflict.

Jupiter is in Kanya

Jupiter goes in Kanya from August 11th, 2016 to September 11th, 2017, turns retrogression on February 6th, 2017 and moves direct on June 9th, 2017.


We may feel the bounds, are more precise and the energy may boost up.

Ego = 1/Knowledge

taken from Karuna Kumari's photos.