Quote I love

“A man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body, yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure” J.B. Cabell

Concept I have been exploring again this week

How to achieve personal happiness..

This is a huge topic, of course, and there are many different opinions on what happiness is and whether we should even be aiming for it. I have been looking at it again through the lens of it being our true state of being, when we are feeling most alive, and not as a fleeting heightened emotion.

Some would regard this as being ‘enlightened’ or in ‘flow’ state and is characterised by nonself-conscious individualism.

As a goal for how to live, Bertrand Russell summarises how he achieved personal happiness exquisitely…

“Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to centre my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection”

While healing and growing requires deep self-exploration and focus on the question of “who am I?”…it is always timely and poignant to remember that the purpose of focusing on the self is to eventually realise that we as individuals are not the centre of the universe and that actually it is when we transcend ourselves and are able to shift focus to things outside the “I” that we truly find happiness.

and One More Thing

Super New Moon in Scorpio – 15 November 05:07 (UT/GMT)

Oh Friends What A Time To Be Alive!

We have all been through it these past couple of weeks, exciting portals (11/11) and rollercoaster energy shifts abound…and this New Moon in the dark and infinite waters of Scorpio is calling you to go deeper still.

This is all about diving further into your feelings. Your desire for true and meaningful emotional exchange with others and with the world is insatiable in this moment. But just because you lust for this emotional connection and healing it does not mean it will be easy. Opportunities for it may appear more easily but, as ever, beautiful soul, it is our work to do.

The wisdom for this time that is being called to be shared is to enjoy feeling the fantastic technicolour rainbow of emotion that you have been gifted. Enjoy the sensory experience of this human life. Enjoy your body, your vessel. Observe how she moves, flows, expands, contracts. This is the human journey.

You are here to experience. You are here to feel. And when better than the dark night of a Scorpio New Moon to allow all that lives within you to be felt, acknowledged, healed and carried forward or released making space for renewed awareness for this next chapter of life.

There is still so much fear, uncertainty and struggle in the world, in this era-defining year…as there is in all moments. Here we have an opportunity to witness it for what it is. To explore a new knowingness of the darkness that is always with us.

The cycle of death and rebirth is constant, infinite, happening in each and every moment.

Use this New Moon to witness some of your own cycles…what needs to be reborn within you? What needs to be shed?

With it’s beautiful watery depths, let this Scorpio energy guide you through your own transformation