Comments on: Opening Hearts & Changing Minds

By: anita

anita — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:35:46 +0000

wow… on dec. 14th a trip to australia planned for a whole year beforehand to enjoy december holidays w/family was unexpectedly cancelled the previous day due to the fact that my nationality needed 4 weeks to request a visa to enter (I overlooked asking beforehand and nobody told me about it either). U.S. citizens need only to pay 25.00 for a visa at airport.
All packed and ready we decided to take off for Oaxaca,Mexico. All doors opened beautifully,suddenly, the day mercury went retrograde our rented car(reserved in advance for 1 week) was cancelled, my daugther was hit w/ kidney infection in a remote beach…a young male in our party hit the top of his head on a towel rack in the hotel bathroom and was bleeding…each event provided the four in our party to use our best energies to solve and flow…we continued to help each other as more challenges presented themselves everyday…communications began to breakdown…on the 29th we travelled back to the u.s.a. my daugther w/strep throat, my husband with a skin rash on his chest, me with sinus infection. On new year’s eve three of us were totally under the weather w/huge lung,throat and sinus infections…big relationship issues showing themselves up and in the midst of all this we were able to not only survive..we also located a healer we had been looking for in the past months and the modality used could very well solve a 10 year health issue….there is no question that the intensity we are all experiencing is here to aid us all if we can manage to help each other flow…flow…flow…and TRUST. Thanks Jim for your newsletter…it provides many of us w/a very good point of reference
May 2010 allow all of us to be ready for the blessings that life offers in many disguises and to walk together hand in hand…

By: linda quakenbush

linda quakenbush — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:29:30 +0000

Wishing you a very happy new year, Jim. Your email blogs have been inspiring and incredibly insightful. The care and thought you have put into your writing really shows. Thank you for sharing your knowledge–it’s been like having a motor I can fire-up on the rowboat…

By: ronna

ronna — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:01:32 +0000

hello Jim~
I truly enjoyed reading about your definition of the full moon eclipse being an “inertia changer” … I must say I have felt the effects like a shot of tequila! Only… I didn’t know I had taken a shot, but… that I was experiencing something strong and mind altering!! I wonder if the severity had anything to do with the fact that my birthday occurred on December 31st?!
January 1st was when the sobering effect kicked in over how I had once again allowed a “friend” to energetically railroad a sacred space I had tried to create for my birthday and the celebration of a New Year with friends… I know I allowed it, and even opened the door for it by inviting him… and the “inertia changer” for me is realizing how wrong I was to allow this person into a space I know he doesn’t understand…
This is a quote from you-
“At other times, though, the inner changes are accompanied by a cathartic event, sometimes, explosive, that results from an upsurge of unexamined aspects of our psyche that need to see the light of day.”
Whew!!! Cathartic! Yes!!! The process by which I my realization occurred on both a psychic and emotional level was charged with pain, and an upsurge of questions and queries directed towards myself and my inner self.
My awareness raising in the process about how a sacred space is meant to be honored and protected. And how, in my anger towards my friend for acting selfishly… his actions were my teachers. I learned a great deal about myself in a powerfully short time- such as where some of my deeper values lie… and that perhaps they were “sleeping” till now.

Here’s to waking up the sleeping giants with us, and not fearing the power of their presence in our lives.

namaste~

ronna jones

By: NOW

NOW — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:39:21 +0000

I especially like to read your ‘take’ on how astrology is affecting our world politics. I read several different sites that bring to the table many different aspects of what is being affected and it is nice to compare what everyone is saying.

The ‘heart opening’ is being referred to in many places. You are right on!

Happy 2010!

Now

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:45:23 +0000

These eclipses and retrogrades are affecting my chart in a very significant way. Discipline, responsibility, taking action where ever I can (there’s a fine balance between taking action and not forcing things to happen) are all things that are part of these transits for me. Staying open to the unknown in the process.

Thank you!

By: Lee Varis

Lee Varis — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:02:01 +0000

Thank you Jim,

As usual, a very thoughtful and insightful article that mirrors whats happening with me right now. Various circumstance have arisen that find me cleaning up, throwing out, re-organizing (and backing up my computer) in preparation for a temporary move out of my office. All this is happening right in the middle of two book writing projects. I’m sort of “going with the flow” on this and not focusing on the stressful aspects of the multiple conflicting projects. It all seems to be about living “in the moment” and just acting in accord with the circumstances – one step after the other. Yeah… “open heart” – trying not to close off and feel sorry for myself seems to be the challenge at hand!

Thanks again,

Lee

By: sylvia alden

sylvia alden — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:50:54 +0000

Greetings Jim,
I don’t’ know enough about astrology for the jack and Jill series to have much meaning for me. What does have great meaning for me are your blogs. Thank you so much. You are positive and often have ‘wise words of wisdom’ that hit my heart. Some of those words were (I must paraphrase) ‘We are not meant to know everything right now.’ This is, for me, a vital Truth, which I sometimes forget. Thank you for the reminder to allow my life to unfold in perfect order.

All the best to you and yours in 2010.
sylvia