Category: Daily Posts

Elder’s Meditation of the Day June 7

“If there is a shadow of a doubt someplace, that will cause a weakness.”
–Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA
In the Spiritual World there is a spiritual Law. The Law says like attracts like. This means whatever mental picture we hold inside our minds we will attract from the Universe. To make this Law work we must maintain a constant picture. If we picture or vision something, and along with this picture we have doubting thoughts, our vision will not happen and we will get EXACTLY what we picture or vision. The Law always works. A doubting vision will not materialize what we want. A vision without doubt will always happen. This is a spiritual Law.
My Maker, today, let my vision become strong.
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June 7 – Daily Feast

Confession may be good for the soul, but it seldom makes the one that heard it feel good. The nee to clear the air or get something out in the open can cause a bigger rift than the reason for confessing in the first place. Words cannot be retrieved once they are spoken. They are gone and calling them back is impossible. Some weigh on people’s hearts like hi lv s gi nv ya, many stones or heavy rock. Some are flung, like di ga it s di, a spear, to wound. And most should never have been spoken. Life and death are in the use of words. If we feel the need to confess something, we should do it where the listener knows how to handle what we say. It is an unthinking person that needs to be relieved of a burden to the point of putting it on someone who may find it hard to bear.
~ He knew his words were bad; he trembled like the oak whose roots have been wasted by many rains. ~

KEOKUK
‘A Cherokee Feast of Days’, by Joyce Sequichie Hifler
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Daily Motivator for June 7th – Disappointments of the past

What has already happened before is not what will happen next. Because right  now, you have the opportunity to change direction.

If you’re moving in a positive and fruitful direction, you can choose to keep  going that way, and even to accelerate your progress. Or, if you’ve experienced  difficulty and disappointment in the past, this is your time to make a  change.

When you focus on what’s already happened, it can be easy to feel permanently  stuck in a bad place. So focus instead on the fact that you can, right now,  choose a more positive direction.

Today is a new day, and it is your day to live in the best way you can  imagine. It is your day to move in precisely the direction you choose.

Though rising above a difficult past will require great effort and commitment  on your part, you certainly can do it. And there’s no better way to spend your  time than making your way forward and permanently locking your disappointments  in the past.

The disappointments of the past will begin to fade away as soon as you let go  of them. Let go, look forward, and know that you can make this next day the best  one yet.

— Ralph Marston

The Daily Motivator 

Daily OM for June 7th – Life Packaging

 

The Gift Inside

by Madisyn Taylor

We are all spiritual beings living in a human body even though our packaging seems different, we are very much the same.


We have all had the experience of encountering someone whose life seems so completely different from ours that we can almost imagine we have nothing in common. However, if we go deeper into observing, we will see that we all have the same things going on in our lives. It is as if our different lives are in essence the same gift, wrapped in an infinite variety of containers, wrapping paper, ribbons, and bows. Everybody experiences loss, grief, happiness, excitement, anger, and fear. Everyone can have money issues of one kind or another, and everyone struggles with difficult choices.  Our lives show up differently for each one of us because we each learn in different ways. One person may need to learn the value of money by having too little of it, while another may need to learn by having more than enough. We each learn about work and love, with experiences that are tailored to our particular perspective. Even as it appears that some people have it easy while others are in a continual state of struggle, the truth is that we are all learning, and it is very difficult to tell, when looking only at the exterior of a person, what’s going on inside.  This is one of the many things that can be so valuable about cultivating relationships with people from all walks of life. As we get to know those who seem so different from us, we get to really see how much of life’s challenges and joys are universal. We begin to look beyond the packaging of skin color, clothing preferences, and socioeconomic differences, hairstyles, and the cars we drive to the heart of the human experience. It is important to honor and value the differences in our packaging, but it is just as important to honor the gift of life inside each one of us, and the fact that, no matter how different the packaging, the gift inside is the same.

Daily Cosmic Calendar for Thursday, June 7th

Mercury – the Messenger of the Gods planet – enters Cancer (4:17AM PDT), a cycle that lasts until June 25. Mercury has been moving at its fastest daily pace of the year during the past three weeks (over 2 degrees per day), but now Mercury’s daily speed begins a gradual decline that lasts until July 14 when Mercury will makes its next three-week retrograde cycle. In the meantime, this morning’s Mercury transit into Cancer gives a boost for home and family interests, cooking and baking, gardening, antique hunting, historical studies and learning more about your ancestral tree.  A Moon-Jupiter flowing trine in earth signs (5:39AM PDT) – usually a very expansive alignment on mental levels and in business matters – has the challenge of also starting a void lunar uncertainty zone that lasts until 7:18AM PDT. Although this void-of-course Moon cycle is relatively short, it is wise to complete odds and ends while it is happening.  Once the Moon enters the third air sign of the zodiac – Aquarius – at 7:18AM PDT, the cosmic vibrations favor group projects, team sports, community activities and humanitarian efforts. The later hours carry a volatile force since Ceres makes a frictional, 135-degree link to extremist Pluto (7:04PM PDT) while the Sun squares the red planet Mars (7:31PM PDT).  The Ceres-Pluto encounter can temporarily derail your productivity across the board while the Sun-Mars skirmish is a valuable warning about hanging around with temperamental individuals who tend to shoot from the hip without thinking of the consequences. Pressing the anger button is off-limits. Being an ornery, egocentric havoc-creator is the complete shadow side of the Sun square to Mars.  Striving to put out interpersonal fires and inflammatory rhetoric is one way to utilize the Sun-Mars fracas in a positive manner. If you can also tweak this sky pattern into directing vitality in clear physical and emotional channels, then you are working wisely with the overall energy-field. Leave romantic overtures for another occasion.