“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi
We have arrived to the last day of June in the year of 2020. There will never be another one. For a year that has seen so many changes, challenges, and conflicts, some will say they can’t wait for it to be finished. But we should live even more fully right now, immersed in the energy of this moment. There is a reason that so many things are happening all at once. When everything you relied on is made vulnerable, it forces you to come out of your shell and begin to see a different reality. Use the opportunities that continue to present themselves for growth and stop trying to crawl back into the same place you were before. It isn’t there anymore.
Gone With the Wind – It was 84 years ago today that the bestselling book was published. Now Gone With the Wind is back in the news because of its romanticization of a period deeply steeped in slavery and injustice. It could be the ultimate testament to white privilege from that era. But when it was written, the level of consciousness of the population was much different than it is now, at least to some extent. There are still groups of people who haven’t begun the journey yet, but more people now are at least aware of the degree to which racism exists. Again, there is no going back to the way it was. These are the growing pains of the next step in human consciousness and remembering who we really are.
The Mysterious – Scorpio is one of the most interesting signs of the Zodiac, rich in mystery and both passionate and powerful. The Moon spends today in Scorpio, inclining us to scope out the hidden layers of our lives. Do a deep dive and see what’s under all of the layers you have accumulated over the years. Get through the self-protection and find out what really steers the ship that is your life. Do you operate from a position of strength, boldly moving forward to claim what you want, or do you run away from things in an effort not to get hurt? Spend some time with yourself and figure that out. It’s good to know.
Thought of the Day – Find things that you can leave behind on this last day of the month. Old grievances, past memories, clutter around the house – purge it all. Start July with a clean slate and welcome the new. When we fill our mental and physical space with only the old, there is no room for the wonder of life to seep in.
Have a brilliant day.
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti