ARIES -- The Full Moon of Initiative

SPRING BREAK! The next two weeks stir up the initiative to break through the surface of the winter frost with the Full Moon in Aries and Hand Analysis access to the energy of Mars.

ARIES -- The Full Moon of Initiative
Friday, March 21, 2008, 11:40 am PDT

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It's no mistake that Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. We need this energy to begin a new cycle. We need the energy to burst into Spring and blossom anew.

Anyone remember the childhood game "Red Rover, Red Rover"? We'd form two lines facing one another, but a good 25 feet apart. Each line would join hands and then someone from one line would yell, "Red Rover, Red Rover -- send Heidi over!" Then Heidi would come running like wildfire over to what she perceived was the weakest link in the hand chain and attempt to crash through.

Arms were aching. Bellies were bruised, but Heidi loved Red Rover.

Heidi is an Aries -- so this makes sense. Aries LOVE to burst through obstacles. Daring is their middle name. The desire to pioneer, to chart unknown territory, to be brave, courageous and powerful -- this is how an Aries thrives. Aries are competitive, aggressive and a little cocky.

In Hand Analysis, there is a marking in the hand that perfectly exemplifies the forward motion of Aries. It is called the Mars Star. To locate it, look for an intersection of at least three lines on the fleshy part of the edge of your palm, just below the knuckle at the base of your pointer (Jupiter) finger. Don't worry if you don't see one. This will apply to everyone.

This marking represents the courageous part of you. This is part of yourself where you garner the capacity to take on your biggest challenges. Over the next month, notice how you take on the hard stuff.

The Full Moon is the time for inner reflection.

Try this:

Circle the most challenging aspects of your life:

* Bringing things to completion
* Standing in your own power
* Your sense of self worth
* Expressing your creativity and individuality
* Communicating your experience
* Expressing yourself honestly in the moment

Over the next two weeks notice -- just notice -- where do your battles show up? Usually, they show up around the most difficult themes in your life. Are you surrounded by rageful and belligerent people? Do you feel full of rage yourself? Just notice.

Go ahead and write about your experiences. How do they make you feel? What would you really like to tell someone / insurance company / landlord / boss / family member/ credit card company / internal revenue service / heads of state?

In our next issue, during the New Moon in Aries, we’ll talk about how to access your courage to take on the battles... the right battles for you.

Share with us what you are manifesting. We would love to hear (just email us or leave us a comment here on this blog)! This month we'd love to share the great note we got from Zak.

Coming up on the Horizon:
We jump into forward motion in the New Moon of Aries and Hand Analysis access to the take-no-prisoners energy of Mars.

Zak's Solar Dreams

We recently received this note about manifestation -- Lynn responds below:

Dear Lynn and Heidi,

Your LUNAPHASES newsletter is inspirational and a joy to read. I often share it with friends and always enjoy it even when I'm not quite sure how to carry out your wise advice. In your last installment you wrote "Share with us what you are manifesting." And so here I try.

Three years ago my husband and I set out in our 1969 VW Combi to Mexico where we discovered Guanajuato, one of the world's magical cities. Set high in the Sierra mountains of Central Mexico, Guanajuato was once the world's largest silver producer and the wealthiest city in Mexico, and the site of Mexico's victorious battle against Spain in the War of Independence. In its first hey day its population reached 90,000 but then dwindled down to under 8,000 after the Revolution in 1910. Despite its stunning Colonial architecture and spectacular natural setting, as recently as the 1960's Guanajuato was almost a ghost town. In the last 50 years, however, it has regained its stature. Today it has surpassed its previous population peak. Now a cultural Mecca, it is home to the 20,000 students of one of Mexico's most well-regarded universities, a symphony orchestra, the State government, and a plethora of music, theater, dance and art. It is one of those magical cities where people are always kissing in the streets.

It has, on average, 353.2 days of sunshine every year.

My dream is to make Guanajuato the world's first Solar City; a leader in the World War for Energy Independence. I want to take Guanajuato off the grid. Guanajuato can lead the world in our quest for freedom from oil, independence from the energy monopolies, and freedom from the toxic fumes that are choking humanity to death and making the planet an ever-hotter inferno.

Solar energy is the cleanest, safest, most reliable and potentially cheapest source of energy available. It's potential is mindboggling. In one hour the sun bathes the earth with more energy than the entire human population consumes in a year. And yet in the United States it is still one of the least funded forms of alternative energy. In this fiscal year the Department of Energy alotted $159 million to research and development of solar energy as compared to $427 million for research and development of coal driven power plants, one of the world's dirtiest energy sources and $303 million for nuclear power, one of the world's most dangerous.

Apparently the "Powers that Be" are not behind solar power. In Mexico the problems are probably just as bad if not worse. Handicapped by years of corruption, Mexico is notorious for inefficiency. While Mexico is comparably rich in oil and natural gas, this resource is owned, operated and benefitting the Mexican government. And like all developing populations, Mexicans are driven by the desire to catch up with their northern neighbor, unaware as they are of the extraordinary costs such an accomplishment would carry.

However as a cultural, intellectual and political leader in Mexico and a geographically compact city bathed in sunshine literally all year long Guanajuato is poised to be a perfect Solar City. For its size (currently about 100,000) it is rich in ambitious, forward thinking, cultural leaders. In addition its geography already makes it uniquely less car dependent than most any other city in the Americas. Built into a deep ravine, the vast majority of Guanajuato's streets are so narrow and steep they are only suitable to foot traffic. And to further limit the presence of cars within the city's narrow downtown, the majority of automobile traffic is funnelled underneath the town in a maze of great stone tunnels originally built to provide protection from flooding during the summer's torrential rains. Most significantly the city naturally developed to support its car-less population. Every community has a cluster of small stores and street vendors who sell the residents their daily needs. Getting from one side of town to the other is most often unnecessary. And lastly, when transportation is needed the city has an efficient and effective bus system - whose significant drawback is the fume billowing ancient diesel buses.

Lastly, located high in the Central Plains of Mexico, Guanajuato is surrounded by hot, dry, sun-baked desert. While creating a solar city might begin through such steps as distributing solar water heaters to every home, lighting the streets with solar streetlights, and installing photovoltaic solar panels on the city's sun-drenched rooftops, if this were not enough to meet the city's electrical needs another option exists - the creation of a solar power station. Most electricity is generated through the use of electric turbines. Nuclear power plants create heat through nuclear fusion which then boils water to drive an electric turbine. Coal power plants burn coal to boil water to drive the turbines. A solar power station would use fields of mirrors and fresnel lenses to concentrate and collect sunlight to boil water to drive the power turbines. The technology is simple and powerful.

The raw ingredients exist. As does the interest. But there my resources end, and my knowledge of how to proceed falters. I thank you both for already providing a forum in which I could focus my thoughts and my dreams - I'm sure a first step in achieving them. And I welcome any and all thoughts, ideas, encouragements and inspirations you may have on how to proceed.

Perhaps it takes the same dedication and perserverence that you, Lynn, dedicated to running your marathon - though I fear it may take such energies dedicated not for 6 months but for 6 or 16 or 26 years. And the pains may be more insidious (though far, far less debilitating) than the blisters on your feet. And I have no organized group to join! And so I sit at my computer reading articles on Solar Energy and dreaming. And hoping to find people to join in my dream.

Thanks in advance for all your thoughts and ideas.

Blessings and good wishes,
Zak

PS. Despite its diesel buses (there really aren't that many of them), the air in Guanajuato is beautifully clean making it a great place to view stars.

Wow, Zak... this is an amazing response to New Moon in Pisces with Hand Analysis skill set of clairvoyance. This seems totally channeled. And, completely inspirational. (I can't wait to your response to Aries... but I'm getting ahead of myself...)

Thank you so much for sharing this. This is exactly what we meant by inspired message for uniting community. I wonder if it would make sense to contact other organizations that have already implemented solar power into their grid. I wonder if it would make sense to contact companies that manufacture and install the solar panels. Garner wisdom from the little guys who are getting things going on a smaller scale... I wonder if it would make sense to begin some community building around this -- start holding meetings for exchange of ideas... you are clearly a very strong solo engine, and I can't imagine how powerful you'll become when you enlist the support of others... also -- I'm just thinking -- with your experience as a Director of Photography -- if you cut together a video and uploaded it on You Tube, you would instantly have an international audience.

Time to get the word out, girl... and stay tuned for the Full Moon in Aries...
Lynn

PISCES -- The New Moon of Compassion

A Magnificent Convergence: Compassion, Inspired Communication, Awakening, Groundedness... all are here for you to experience over the next two weeks with the New Moon in Pisces and Hand Analysis skill set of Clairvoyance.

PISCES -- The New Moon of Compassion
Friday, March 7, 2008, 9:14 am PST

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There is an astrological blueprint -- an astrological chart -- for each moment in time. Every Full Moon and New Moon has an individual chart that captures the particular texture of that precise moment. Generally in LUNAPHASES, Heidi has focused on the qualities of the sign of the Full or New Moon and how we can cultivate the beauty of that sign more entirely.

This New Moon, however, is quite potent in its line up, making it one of the most powerful times to awaken compassionate communication that can make a real difference.

Uranus, the awakener, sits next to the New Moon and the planets Venus, Neptune and Mercury are all gathered together in Aquarius. Add to that Jupiter in Capricorn in harmony with a Taurus ascendant.

Heidi is aware most of that will sound like astrological gobbledygook, but here's the key: Uranus will awaken the compassion of Pisces. Mercury, Neptune and Venus will create a beautiful, inspired, unifying message and the earth signs of Capricorn and Taurus will make it real.

What does this mean for you?

Now that you've spent a couple of weeks in your sanctuary, it's time to emerge and offer what you discovered there -- whether to your lover, your friends or your family. It's easy to feel overwhelmed with feeling or to hide the true texture of your heart, but now is the time to offer up your inspired message. Open wide and speak the poetry of your heart.

Six months ago, in response to a LUNAPHASES call to taking on a new commitment, Lynn decided to begin training for the Los Angeles Marathon.

Lynn raised nearly $1,700 with the National AIDS Marathon organization, and the proceeds went to AIDS Project, Los Angeles, which provides vital services for 8,600 people living with HIV in the L.A. area.

On Sunday, March 2nd, Lynn ran her first marathon.

What struck Lynn the most was how so many people were brought together in this event. The metro was packed with nearly 20,000 runners at 6:30 am, to get to the start line at Universal Studios -- 20,000 strangers encouraging each other, offering advice and wishing each other good luck. The energy was incredibly positive and uplifting.

Residents in every neighborhood came out to cheer on the runners and offered oranges, bananas and water. There were traditional drummers in Koreatown, South Central and in Little Tokyo. In the poorest neighborhood on the course, they came to the sidewalk with garden hoses and sprayed down the runners. A little girl, at Mile 17, stood in the middle of the road with a big bowl of ice cubes.

Los Angeles, on that day, came together with compassion and support on a level that Lynn could have never imagined.

Also, she experienced amazing support from her friends and family. At Mile 4, one friend passed Lynn apple slices. One friend was on a bicycle and showed up at Miles 8, 12, 13, 16 and stayed with Lynn from Mile 24 to the end. Two other friends came with posters that read, "Roses are Red, Al Gore is Green. Show us your tits, you're at Mile 13." They were laden with ice water, chocolate and salty nuts. These provisions are what kept Lynn and her teammates going. And Lynn's unfailing husband rode the metro to every stop that was on the course. He ended up running with Lynn up to the finish line.

Lynn was crying from Mile 23 to the finish line. Yes, she was in pain. But, more than that -- it was that her efforts -- huge efforts -- made an impact on so many people... her friends and family, the people who donated, the people who came out to cheer, and the 8,600 people living with HIV in her city.

In Hand Analysis, there is a gift marking that unites most of the components that are in this year’s New Moon in Pisces. The marking is called the Line of Clairvoyance, which is found on your palm running from under your pinky (Mercury) finger and encasing the fleshy part of your palm. Don't worry if you don't have the line. This will apply to everyone.

This represents the part of you that has direct access to your source.

So -- what do you have in your life that connects you to what is bigger than just yourself?

Where are you when you feel most supported -- by the universe?

Notice how all judgment -- of yourself and others -- disappears.

Notice how compassion creeps in.

When you are connected to source, you become inspired.

Your experience is what we all need to hear.

Now is the time for you to reach down deep, connect to source, and share your message with the world.

Try this:

Go for a walk in nature. Look at baby pictures. Garden. Meditate.
Notice how you feel when you are connected to the world.
Notice what has been percolating, and is ready to come out.

Share with us what you are manifesting. We would love to hear. (Just email us or leave us a comment here on this blog.)

Coming up on the Horizon:
In the next LUNAPHASES, with the Full Moon in Aries on March 21, we will channel masculine purpose and drive with the Hand Analysis skill set of Accessing Your Power.