tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644717516426101893.post1558991297099511435..comments2024-03-22T15:37:29.563-04:00Comments on jersey girl looks up: New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo | August 21st - birthing a new nation, midwifery, the heart of a lion, Trump and the United States, part ICatherine Ivinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642469475264570967noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644717516426101893.post-47196366962419930252017-08-18T16:58:14.180-04:002017-08-18T16:58:14.180-04:00or "I could see peace instead of this."or "I could see peace instead of this."Catherine Ivinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01642469475264570967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644717516426101893.post-69263724547237419942017-08-18T16:56:55.522-04:002017-08-18T16:56:55.522-04:00Yes as it should be like it or not. And the more w...Yes as it should be like it or not. And the more we naturally like to control what is happening the harder these days are for us. <br /><br />That's a beautiful quote. Saved it. <br /><br />I agree about Pinterest. I sometimes get annoyed with the typos and grammar but I think the Millennials (hmmm Google is telling me the avg Pinterest user isn't a Millennial, it has that kind of 'let's look at something pretty and find a new way to style our hair' vibe though) ability to focus on feeling good will save us all one day. It's highly under-rated. <br /><br />I always like the Course in Miracles quote - "nothing real can be threatened. nothing unreal exists. therein lies the peace of God." and "your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and in seeking find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it" <br /><br />xoCatherine Ivinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01642469475264570967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644717516426101893.post-76062147858942087822017-08-18T15:10:12.330-04:002017-08-18T15:10:12.330-04:00Oh wow. A pregnancy metaphor is a good one. So we ...Oh wow. A pregnancy metaphor is a good one. So we could be pregnant with hope, looking for a birth/rebirth such as you say about the midwifery bits in your blogpost. We could be pregnant with that Rosemary's Baby thing, too - yikes. Whatever is being birthed can go either way but I choose to remain cautiously optimistic, however painful the birth will be, we will have to go through it to get to the goods. <br /><br />I know we are not the ones in control but we ARE the ones experiencing the ride and we seem to feel that we are invested in the outcome. We really are not. We are not entitled to a good outcome - only an outcome. We will experience the outcome but are not creating the outcome. That's where the unease comes from, I am sure. It's not really 'our' birth but the birth of something we can't control.<br /><br />I read a quote on Pinterest only yesterday (because Pinterest makes me feel like everything is okay - as opposed to Facebook that makes me feel that we are on the edge of the cliff). That quote : "The will of God will not take you where the grace of God will not protect you."<br /><br />Everything is unfolding as it should. Like it or not.lynn boweshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05786375395402917408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644717516426101893.post-34615090841199002512017-08-18T13:21:09.363-04:002017-08-18T13:21:09.363-04:00Hmm. I was wondering what it was feeling like in t...Hmm. I was wondering what it was feeling like in the heartland. I am avoiding the news, too. We are in the balsamic Moon phase now, so 'agoraphobia' and not mingling makes perfect sense. I have to admit I have some hope - like I did at the end of 2012 when I thought it very possible we could all wake up enlightened - that this energy brings us together in big ways. By the looks of the latest 'weather reports' it feels like some things might have to fall apart first. Your words about 'fullness' remind me of pregnancy again - maybe when everything empties out by you it will feel very new, very spacious. Maybe that is the feeling you will remember most, like whatever it will feel like when the lights come back on ... praying here, too xo Catherine Ivinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01642469475264570967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644717516426101893.post-42754805667939356092017-08-18T11:53:58.051-04:002017-08-18T11:53:58.051-04:00Ahhh . . . let's see. Here I sit smack in the ...Ahhh . . . let's see. Here I sit smack in the middle of the United States where we will get about one full minute plus of total darkness. Hotels are full. Highways are full. Wide loads and oversized trucks are prohibited on I-80 for the next week. Strangers to the Midwest and especially Nebraska are everywhere. I need to do some day-to-day shopping but every time I drive through the Target parking lot, I don't stop. It's just that weird right now. I can't make myself mingle with the people.<br /><br />I've felt uneasy for a month or more and can't watch news on television and avoid landing pages on the internet with news reports. What's going on here? This unease will have me plagued with what I hope is only short-term agoraphobia. I hide my head in the sand.<br /><br />My post is going nowhere but I'm affirmed that this is a time of darkness, however temporary, and what alligators leave the swamp will be replaced by alligators of a different sort. Alligators nonetheless.<br /><br />Praying for survival here.lynn boweshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05786375395402917408noreply@blogger.com