Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Sunday, November 20, 2011

Vedic Astrology Horoscope - Sun in Cancer - Venus - Moon - A lot more on Saturn

By Bond Jones


The Sun has entered Cancer inside Sidereal zodiac, bringing a powerful tendency to nurture and emotionally protect our loved ones. Once the Sun goes via Cancer the quality of divine motherhood is awakened in each of us -- at least which is the potential. Suddenly there is a renewed sensitivity to all of us as children. There is a great possibility for all to lay down their weapons and sympathize with their enemies for the next couple of weeks.

Cancer will be the sign of sensitivity, compassion and motherhood. It's ruled by the moon, the globe of selfless love, nurturing and peace. This can be different than the kind of adore we have in relationships which are transactional in nature. Relationship adore is in between 2 equals, 2 grown-ups. In relationship love, every individual has to retain up their part in the bargain, whatever that "bargain" is. Every relationship has several boundaries which are negotiated and, even so strange individuals boundaries may well look to outsiders, as extended as the 2 partnered agree from the terms, and honor them - there is normally smooth sailing.

This is what creates the relationship household (seventh house) a secondary organization / career house. We use the exact same negotiating skills at our career that we use in our romantic relationship - following all, folks are people. The larger trouble in relationships is our capability to compromise and satisfy our demands along with accommodate an additional person's. Individuals who are able to yield their demands with dignity do well in relationships. But this takes an authentic would like to please others combined with an both authentic intuition which knows wherever to draw the line and can draw that line with no anger or excessive ego.

However, the potential to play fair and negotiate and uphold common boundaries, etc. will likely be quite damaging inside a parent / infant relationship. Once a parent starts demanding the infant treat them as an equal, at least as soon as they're young, there can be very good harm done. Of course, once the infant grows up into teenage many years and beyond the relationship starts to develop and mature. But still, the parent must usually put the needed the child ahead of their own. Fortunately, nature creates this simple -- once the baby begins to grow up and develop their individual personality, numerous immature parents stop serving the baby / selflessly loving the infant - and begin to very much of harm.

Negotiating appropriate relationship boundaries are related to Venus and powerfully expressed from your Cardinal sign she rules, Libra - the sign of relationships. And, as was said, the Moon rules selfless parental love that only knows how to give. The mother loves the child no matter what the child does. But this shows the inherent struggle between Venus and the moon - the inherent struggle in between selfless love and conditional love.

It's quite easy to mix these 2 items up in our mind. When relationships turn into dominated by a selfless, parental type of love -- is only a matter of time prior to it starts to think like abuse for 1 and co-managing for your other. There has to be accountability first, only then can romantic love turn out to be selfless, devoted love. Similarly if the parent / child love is as well transactional, having a parent always insisting upon the immature mind on the baby being accountable for their emotional mistakes, as we would expect from our partner, much difficulty arises also. Without having the paradigm of selfless adore from the parent/child relationship, the parent just isn't able to insist upon accountability with out the baby feeling attacked.

This is an critical problem at this time with Venus about to go retrograde to the sign of Cancer. In Vedic astrology both the moon and the Sun are enemies of Venus. This enmity is expressed in a variety of ways. The influence on the moon on Venus (including occupying the sign of Cancer) is to confuse the transactional nature and expectation of adult relationship boundaries with the utterly selfless, caretaking, maternal nature of the moon. The influence with the Sun on Venus (including occupying the sign of Leo) is to insist upon a passionate, fiery and romantically accountable nature.

These themes will play out inside upcoming Venus retrograde cycle discussed last week in this newsletter.

The upcoming Venus retrograde cycle will mirror the recent Saturn retrograde cycle and also foreshadow next year's Mars/Ketu conjunction at 28 Cancer. There's one more extremely significant factor that need to be kept in mind relative to this Saturn / Venus relationship.




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Parents We Need Your Help

By Emily Fiser


According to the White House's Office of national Drug Control Policy strategy update released in February, parents are the most important role models in children's lives. When a family has strong convictions against the use of these substances based on "family" values "What will my parents think?" is generally the first thought process when a child is making crucial decisions on whether or not to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

One such growing problem that the police departments are seeing with teens happens to a simple household item- cough syrup. 10 percent of teens report having used cough medicine to get high and 50 percent of those teens strongly disagree that using cough medicine to get high is risky.

A great way to start opening an avenue for discussion could be over dinner, games, while driving, and or when you see a group of people such as teenagers drinking and hanging out. When you ask how your child's day was look them in the eye and really listen. Knowing who your child's friends are and inviting them over will also help you to know what your kids might be involved in.

In recent years there has also been an increase of prescription drugs being abused. Prescription drugs , can be quite powerful that is why they require a person to consult with a doctor on what medication they need, how it should be taken and whether there is potential for interactions with other medicines the person may be taking. Prescription medicines are made to be safe when following a doctor's advice and the directions are followed.

Abuse of prescription drugs come into play in many ways. Others take or share relatives' prescription medications without knowing what effects they might have on the body. Some people who have one prescription may go to several different doctors for prescriptions, not telling any one doctor about their other medications. Another easy way a person might start with abusing their medication would be to simply take more than the doctor prescribed.

Using medications in any way other than prescribed is extremely dangerous. Prolonged use of many prescription medicines can lead to addiction, and when medicines dosage is changed to achieve a high, or they are combined with alcohol or other drugs it can become not only addictive but extremely dangerous.

Give your children the facts- if they use drugs they will not get a drivers license, they will not be playing sports, running on the beach, dating, or going to college. Drugs are illegal, you could see jail time, fines, and by using a drug even just one time can make you do something that you will regret for a lifetime. Let your children know they DO HAVE A CHOICE choose freedom, not drugs!




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