FULL MOON/LUNAR ECLIPSE 5-24-2013 – by Patricia Liles

FULL MOON/LUNAR ECLIPSE 5-24-2013

Dear Friends,

Full Moon with a Lunar Eclipse is Friday, May 24, at 10:25 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is the third eclipse and bookend to this powerful and transformative time. It is difficult to predict what the fallout may be from what has been stirred up during this month but you can expect some big energy to be moving around. The potency of this time could trigger security issues, judgment and doubt. Hopefully you will have had synchronicity and signs during the month that will keep you focused positively on your newfound abilities to manifest. This full moon is a time to recommit to what you know in your heart to be true about what you want to manifest.

Keep in mind that every thought, intention, desire, doubt, emotion, reaction and action has been greatly magnified during this time. Most likely you have had to deal with an intensity level in your life that feels bigger than what you have had to deal with in the past. You are giving birth to a new self and the birth process is stretching you in ways that you have not experienced before. Think of yourself in training for the higher frequency and expansive energy emerging on the planet. It is always important that you take some time and be in gratitude for your ability to step up to what life is giving you as well as to take a breath and a break from it all when you need balance. And take care of the body in some way as the body struggles with new energies it does not understand. You may be experiencing aches and pains you never had before. Work with water, drink lots of it, immerse yourself in it and make sure you are getting enough minerals.

Blessings,
Lena

ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:

Full Moon in Sagittarius/Lunar Eclipse

Friday, May 24, 2013 10:25 PM MDT

(Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:25 AM GMT)

Support and ease is abundant in the Full Moon chart and at the same time, challenges and tensions are strong in this powerful, amplified window. Keep in mind three interacting factors for this Moon:

1-Lunar eclipse

2-SuperMoon! (Which means the Moon is closest to the Earth, and Sun, Moon, Earth are in alignment to each other in a straight arrow fashion)

3-Exact Pluto square Uranus aspect period May 20 (third of seven squares from 2012 to 2015)

We are completing a notable growth period provided by the three-eclipse container of the last month and fueled by the awakening of the solar flares. With 2012-13 the peak in the 11-year sunspot cycle, the sunspots, so rapid fire in 2012 have remained quiet all year until now. Currently, totally active! They held their fire until we needed some extra fuel for the growth we have experienced in the last eclipse month. We’re being stretched, prodded, pressured and examined to see what we’re made of, and what we value enough to show up for. Windows like these help us destabilize, lose the familiar, and get out of our well-developed minds and get a glimpse of Spirit’s intention for our highest good. Our bodies don’t like it; resistance surfaces, but destabilization brings our best shot for regrouping, expanding and shepherding in the higher frequencies, quickened time, and greater balance our planet is now ready for.

At the same time, there is such effortless, easeful trine energy available here especially from the water signs-our emotional, receptive, fluid nature where we just tap in and intuitively understand what is going on from our deep knowingness. This trine water energy is part of our learning as well at this time – how to be fluid, receive, use our feminine powers of cooperation. Being connected feels so nourishing now – to others, to Spirit, to Nature, to our own hearts. If we don’t let the pressure of the dense physical illusion move us into fear (and there is plenty of reason to go there!), then we can tap into the frequencies that are supporting us in this extremely creative, exciting time.

It’s a dance! A balancing of pressure and surrender and the Sun’s shift into Gemini is just the energy we need to lighten the dense quality of our physicality so more miraculous energies of the invisible world can be made manifest through each of us. Part of the turn of 2012 relates to turning the corner on this planet of not only masculine polarity and violence, but in the denseness our bodies hold. Lighten up! Allow spaciousness. Give Spirit some room to work miracles and give you your heart’s desire. We are breaking the container we hold collectively of the suffering, hardship and loss of connection to Spirit and our planet of the last 2000+ years. Let’s allow this Gemini/Sagittarius Full Moon to work with our minds, thinking and connecting processes, beliefs, interpretations, and visionary abilities to create a larger, richer and more vibrant, abundant container for ourselves. We need to ‘hundred monkey’ this frame of mind, and this is the Moon for it.

Venus, Mercury and gift-giving Jupiter are all happily aligned in Gemini. In fact, if you look at the sky just after sunset this weekend, you will see these three heavenly bodies clustered together shining like diamonds in the western sky. Mercury is powerful in its own sign and ruler of the Gemini Sun; Jupiter in Gemini rules the full Sagittarius Moon. Venus is also in Gemini and in the same degree as Mercury – perfect support for playing with your mind and mental habits in new ways. The trio, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, are supporting Juno, Goddess of Committed Relationship, who is challenging and squaring the North and South Nodes. The Nodes represent what we have brought in from the past (South) and the cutting edge of where we are growing and learning (North). The challenge is in fixed, power signs (Taurus, Scorpio, Aquarius) so it represents a long-standing pattern that needs to be moved in the way we hold our personal relationships.

If we back out and look at a bigger picture, Pluto squaring Uranus is affecting our planet and our consciousness with an extended period of transformative forces and revolutionary change. We have to look at the traditional, calcified structures within our society and ourselves and submit them to the radical change demanded by Uranus. These two square again on November 1st, in the spring and fall of 2014, and for the last time in the spring of 2015. In the Full Moon chart, it is Vesta, Goddess of the Sacred Temple Flame, who is exactly opposing Pluto and squaring Uranus. Vesta is the feminine part of us that preserves our sexual/creative energy for focused dedication to a personal calling (sometimes sacred, artistic or enterprising). So Vesta is challenging the status quo and encouraging us to clarify from deep within our heart’s sanctuary where we want to concentrate and devote our energies.

The awakening our planet is experiencing will not move forward without the influences of the feminine aspects of ourselves holding a core position. We are all part of the shift from the constructs of cause and effect Newtonian physics to quantum physics. An eclipse in Gemini/Sagittarius has the potential to move our mental energies to a place that can encompass even greater capacities focused through the heart. Our very bodies must evolve from an electro-magnetic based manifestation to a more crystalline field with far greater abilities to connect with our planet, heal and nourish our bodies, manifest with ease, and utilize all the support available to us from the invisible worlds. Everything will be amplified during this eclipse period, so let’s consciously put forth our thoughts, prayers, intentions, and visualizations to activate the highest good for all and the best possible future.

06/08 Gemini New Moon 18º 10:58 AM MDT

06/20 Summer Solstice 11:03 PM MDT

06/23 Full Moon in Capricorn 5:33 AM MDT

Written by Patricia Liles ( patliles@aol.com)

GaiaPortal – Gaia Energy Message, May 23, 2013

Streaming Energetic Constructs Shape Overall Gaia Consciousness

Streaming energetic constructs shape overall Gaia consciousness as advancement in individual and collective consciousness occurs.

Severance of all non-Higher-Path-aligned timelines and intention conduits is occurring concurrently with advancement in consciousness.

Peaking of resistance to “standard human awareness” occurs in coming months, as “Hue-man Awareness” is nurtured and “standard human awareness” paradigms are dissolved.

Leaps of playful Joy are noted as “standard human awareness” paradigms are released.

Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche by Bill Plotkin

I’ve read Bill’s other books, and if this one is like them, it will be a real treat, filled with ideas to delve into. . . ~J

Published on Mar 11, 2013

http://www.wildmindbook.com/ - Our human psyches possess astonishing resources that wait within us, but we might not even know they exist until we discover how to access them and cultivate their powers, their untapped potentials and depths. Wild Mind identifies these resources — which Bill Plotkin calls the four facets of the Self, or the four dimensions of our innate human wholeness — and also the four sets of fragmented or wounded subpersonalities that form during childhood. Rather than proposing ways to eliminate our subpersonalities (which is not possible) or to beat them into submission, Plotkin describes how to cultivate the four facets of the Self and discover the gifts of our subpersonalities. The key to reclaiming our original wholeness is not merely to suppress psychological symptoms, recover from addictions and trauma, or manage stress but rather to fully embody our multifaceted wild minds, commit ourselves to the largest, soul infused story we’re capable of living, and serve the greater Earth community.

Gas Price Probe

Published on May 21, 2013

Sen. Bernie Sanders called on Tuesday for an investigation into oil price manipulation. He also proposed a 30-day deadline for federal regulators to use emergency powers to curb excessive speculation in crude oil markets.

Over the past five months, the national average price for a gallon of gasoline has gone up by more than 41 cents. The price hikes come at a time when U.S. oil inventories reached a three-decade high while demand for gasoline is lower than four years ago when prices averaged less than $2.30 a gallon.

Sanders spoke about rapidly rising gas prices during a Senate floor speech on two amendments he proposed to the farm bill.

Science Under Attack (BBC Horizon Documentary) . . . not sure I can watch this one . . . ~J

Published on Jan 9, 2013

Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded – from the theory that man-made climate change is warming our planet, to the safety of GM food, or that HIV causes AIDS.

He interviews scientists and campaigners from both sides of the climate change debate, and travels to New York to meet Tony, who has HIV but doesn’t believe that that the virus is responsible for AIDS.

This is a passionate defence of the importance of scientific evidence and the power of experiment, and a look at what scientists themselves need to do to earn trust in controversial areas of science in the 21st century.

Amid heckling, Obama defends drone strikes, vows to close Guantanamo

By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket

President Barack Obama defends his use of drones. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)Saying it’s time “to fight terrorists without keeping America on a perpetual wartime footing,” President Barack Obama invited Congress in a speech on Thursday to help him scale back the country’s 12-year conflict against al-Qaida and its affiliates.

“America is at a crossroads. We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us,” he warned in remarks at National Defense University.

Obama defiantly defended his use of drones to assassinate suspected extremists overseas, including Americans, but he asked lawmakers to join him in setting modest new safeguards. He renewed his call for shuttering the Guantanamo Bay prison for alleged terrorists. And he announced efforts to find a better balance between investigations of national security leaks and the freedom of the press.

“Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end,” Obama said in a speech plainly shaped by his awareness of the place drones and Guantanamo Bay could occupy in his legacy.

“Unless we discipline our thinking, our definitions, our actions, we may be drawn into more wars we don’t need to fight, or continue to grant presidents unbound powers more suited for traditional armed conflicts between nation-states,” he warned.

Obama was heckled at length by Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink and a leading (and highly recognizable) critic of the so-called war on terrorism.

“Can you tell the Muslim people their lives are as precious as our lives?” she shouted as she was finally ushered from the hall. “Will you apologize to the thousands of Muslims that you have killed? Will you compensate the innocent family victims? That will make us safer!”

After trying and failing several times to get her to sit quietly, Obama went off script and enlisted her protest to reinforce his message about the need to close the Guantanamo facility.

“The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to,” the president said, to applause. “Obviously, I do not agree with much of what she said. And obviously she wasn’t listening to me and much of what I said. But these are tough issues. And the suggestion that we can gloss over them is wrong.”

Here are some major points from his address:

= On drones

Obama offered an unapologetic defense of his use of drones, saying they are legal, generally moral and a last resort for getting terrorists when capture is out of the question, sending in American special forces is impossible and a local government cannot—or will not—act. “These strikes have saved lives,” he said.

At the same time, he acknowledged that civilian casualties can serve as a powerful recruiting tool for terrorist groups.

He warned against the temptation to see drone strikes as “a cure-all for terrorism” and invited Congress to help him set modest new safeguards, perhaps like setting up a new court that would vet potential targets or erecting an independent body inside the executive branch to do so.

He also had a message to those who, like Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, have warned against using drones at home.

“For the record, I do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any U.S. citizen—with a drone or with a shotgun—without due process,” Obama said. “Nor should any president deploy armed drones over U.S. soil.”

(Paul was underwhelmed. “I’m glad the President finally acknowledged that American citizens deserve some form of due process,” Paul said. “But I still have concerns over whether flash cards and PowerPoint presentations represent due process; my preference would be to try accused U.S. citizens for treason in a court of law.”)

Obama did not directly challenge critics who have noted that the White House has redefined “imminent threat” to the point of meaninglessness. A Justice Department memo, revealed in February, declares that “‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against the United States … does not require clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.”

Nor did he address a May 2012 New York Times report that the administration minimizes civilian casualties by counting “all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants.”

“What’s needed on drones is not a ‘kill court’ but rejection of the radical redefinition of ‘imminence’ used to expand who can be killed as well as independent investigations of alleged extrajudicial executions and remedy for victims,” Zeke Johnson, director of Amnesty International USA’s Security with Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement.

= On Guantanamo Bay

Obama called on Congress to lift restrictions on transferring detainees that the Pentagon has cleared for release back to their home countries—”Release them today!” Benjamin shouted—and said he was ending the moratorium on sending about 50 Yemenis home. U.S. officials have long considered Yemen a hot spot for reradicalization.

Obama said he was appointing senior officials at the State Department and the Pentagon to oversee the process.

He said some of the 166 Guantanamo detainees would be tried either in civilian courts or by military commissions, noting there was no reason not to hold them in prisons on American soil. Dozens of other terror suspects have been tried, convicted and jailed in the U.S., he said.

Obama acknowledged the most daunting obstacle to closing Guantanamo Bay is what to do with about 80 prisoners that his administration has decided cannot be tried in court and are too dangerous to be released. And he offered no concrete solution.

“But once we commit to a process of closing GTMO, I am confident that this legacy problem can be resolved, consistent with our commitment to the rule of law,” the president said.

Republicans immediately denounced the plan. “The president’s speech today will be viewed by terrorists as a victory,” said Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the top GOP lawmaker on the Senate Intelligence Committee. To keep suspected terrorists from attacking Americans in the future, Chambliss said, “GTMO must stay open for business.”

It was unclear how Obama would overcome bipartisan objections to closing Guantanamo Bay. The first lawmaker to deal a major blow to Obama’s promise to close the facility was a Democrat, then-House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey. And with the campaign ahead of the 2014 midterms already heating up, vulnerable Democrats may not rush to support the president’s approach.

= On the scope of the global war on terrorism

Obama’s remarks came as key lawmakers have begun debating whether to revise and update the post-9/11 law that underpins most of the so-called war on terrorism, legislation known as the Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF. Critics worry the executive branch has interpreted the AUMF as a blank check for a global campaign over which lawmakers have only limited oversight.

“The AUMF is now nearly twelve years old,” Obama said. Deadly attacks on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, and the Boston Marathon show terrorists still hope to kill Americans, but the Afghanistan war is winding down and central al-Qaida “is a shell of its former self.”

“I will not sign laws designed to expand this mandate further,” he said. “We must define our effort not as a boundless ‘global war on terror’—but rather as a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten America.”

Obama’s comments came one week after Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Michael Sheehan told the Senate Armed Services Committee in a May 16 hearing that the conflict will last “at least 10 to 20 years.”

= On recent investigations into the media

In the face of recent revelations of government investigation of journalists—which included the comparison of reporting to spying—Obama declared that “journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs.”

He said he had tasked Attorney General Eric Holder with reviewing Justice Department rules governing probes that affect reporters and report back by July 12. As part of that process, Holder will meet with “a group of media organizations to hear their concerns.”
He also left some unanswered questions:

— How will America respond to drone strikes by other countries?

The Obama administration has argued that it has the right to kill suspected terrorists inside other countries, with or without the host country’s green light. The president reaffirmed that right in May 2011 when he ordered the raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.

So what happens when China or Russia assassinates someone they consider a terrorist? It’s hardly an idle concern. Countries are racing to make up lost time in the race for drones. U.S. ally France, for instance, is in talks to buy drones from the United States and Israel. Others aren’t far behind.

There are related questions: Will Obama push for some kind of global regulatory structure affecting drone sales, something akin to nonproliferation regimes affecting the transfer of nuclear or chemical weapon technology?

— How many Americans, total, have been killed by their government since 2009?

The administration revealed late Wednesday that four Americans have been killed in drone strikes “outside of areas of active hostilities” since 2009: radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three others who were “not specifically targeted.” What about inside areas of active hostilities, like Iraq or Afghanistan? What about with means other than drone strikes?

— How does an American get off Obama’s “kill list”?

Apart, of course, from the way that results in drone pilots half a world away high-fiving each other? If there are no formal charges to contest, where do you go if you think your government has wrongly targeted you for assassination? Or, as the author of a harrowing book on Obama’s counterterrorism strategy, Jeremy Scahill, puts it: “How do you surrender to a drone?”

— Why can’t the next president just roll back any changes Obama makes?

Obama said he had signed a “presidential policy guidance” on Wednesday laying out his ground rules for using drones.

But presidents have a tough enough time fulfilling their own campaign promises (see: Guantanamo Bay, Obama’s pledge to close), never mind abiding by their predecessors’ rules. Whatever unilateral steps Obama announces on Thursday, a future president could likely undo.

A [Much Appreciated] Good News Update from the Thrive Movement . . . Thanks Foster! . . . ~J

Dear Thrive Movement,

We’ve been hearing lots of good news lately and wanted to pass it along!

Here’s an audio recording from Thrive Filmmaker, Foster Gamble, highlighting eight inspiring news stories that are worth celebrating – recorded on our Tuesday THRIVE Team Meeting call.

Click on any of the following headlines to listen to Foster’s “good news” summary, find out more about the stories and join the conversation.

* Senator Elizabeth Warren Demands Students Get the Same Interest Rates on Loans as Banks - Learn More. 

* Colorado House Votes Unanimously to Nullify Federal Farming Ban on Hemp - Learn More.

* Missouri Legislature Bans UN Agenda 21 - Learn More

* Australian Citizen, Adam Bonner, Gets Surveillance Cameras Shut Down in Nowra, New South Wales - Learn More.

* Activist Rebecca Campbell Files Public Courtesy Notice Against Aerial Spraying of Toxic Chemicals (aka “Chemtrails”) in Washington State & Provides Template for Others to do the Same in Their Communities - Learn More.

* U.S. Backed Guatemalan Dictator, Efrain Rios Montt, Sentenced to 80 Yrs. in Prison for Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity - Learn More.

* Unprecedented Global Action Taking Place in the March Against Monsanto on May 25, Everywhere - Learn More.

* Hungary Destroys all Monsanto GMO Corn Fields - Learn More.

Thrive on!

Foster, Kimberly and the THRIVE Team

PS – For your convenience, transcripts of audio and video content on “Foster’s Blog” and “News From Thrive” are being added to our website regularly (with more coming soon).  Select your language at the top of the webpage to translate the transcripts using Google Translate.  THRIVE, the movie, is also available in 24 languages – 16 of which are subtitled.  Click here to see all transcripts now available.