Today is a full moon in the Northern Hemisphere. We still have snow here and so it makes sense that this moon has several different names:
- Snow Moon – there is often big snowfalls at this time of the year
- Hunger Moon – the snow makes it difficult for The People, our ancestors and for animals to find food
- Storm Moon – as well as large amounts of snow falling, the wind and the cold may enter the mix and then the Snow Moon is the Storm Moon
- Candles Moon – even though the days are getting longer, there is still much darkness. If one wants to see the others in the lodge, then many candles or lanterns must be lighted. Electricity makes having light much easier. Most people use more kilowatts in the winter months.
Today is a good day to change your thoughts about who you are. The best guidance about who you are or your “operator’s manual” if you will, is a poem called “Desiderata”. Read it over and over as a meditation. Let it change you.
Desiderata
- by max ehrmann, c1920
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Judy@angelsandancestors.com See www.angelsandancestors.com for a listing of events and the February 2011 Magazine. See our websites: www.angelsandancestors.com; www.datacloudconsulting.com; www.webdesign11.com; legionsofmichael.blogspot.com; www.joytography.com
Thank you for this. I really needed it!
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