Mars moves into Action-Aries

The Pisces Parking Lot starts to empty one planet and heavenly body at a time, beginning today with Mars moving into Aries. My favorite astrologer says expect VROOM ... from malaise into action. I'm feeling this shift and like it. My writing projects have been swimming in deep waters for weeks, editing, rewriting, listening for the heart of the story and not giving up on the baby whose still coming down the birth canal. I printed out my latest rewrite of The Safety Pin Cafe and did a read through. It sits beside me now. This morning I opened an email from my friend who had something to share ... a video about girls forbidden from reading. After watching the video below, I picked up my latest draft of The Safety Pin Cafe. In it is this paragraph: Pale (pronounced pah-lay), the main character in the story has woken up on a bed of stones in a magical place not far from her everyday world of cottage and neighborhood streets. She is talking to Raven and thinking about the gifts she's been given. BEFORE YOU READ THIS, take a moment to breathe the sense of yourself now ... Okay.

"Not just any cloak, is it?" I joked. He refrained from answering but gave me a look. My way has long been an unusual one. Filled naturally with imagination I rode the wings of dragons and sought other places rather than fight head-on. I sought stories as a way through, learned to read early on making up endings and beginnings as a girl. I had decades of practice. It was true what our Ancestors believed:  time is permeable and more a net than a wall. Here it seems, my stories were writing me with bits of here and there braiding together. Pinning where necessary the safety pins of my childhood were enough to make something more from less ..."

These are mythic times when borders are crossed and everyone counts. Age is no barrier, imagination matters and it counts that passion fuels action ... over time. Writing is my art, but more and more I believe it's my life that is the creative expression. So here's a chance to make everyone count. This is the email I received from my friend Hope.

"Dear Everyone

Please watch this fabulous video and pass it on to others. Every time it's watched, the girls' schools get some cash.

http://portal.sliderocket.com/BBVXH/Hoshyar-Foundation <http://portal.sliderocket.com/BBVXH/Hoshyar-Foundation> 

Aloha,
Mokihana

More Manu, Manapua Man, Mana for a New Moon, March 11, 2013

The powerful and watery energy of all those heavenly bodies in the sign of Pisces has really tripped up my earthy mountain goat genes (I have plenty of Capricorn). Trying, trying, trying too hard to climb mountains and hammer out goals with all that water is at best difficult, at worst, deadly. Satori posted a wonderful horoscope for today's New Moon in Pisces, with these two lines a life jacket for a struggling goat. Read the whole post ... go here.

"...The more you’re able to fog out the extraneous worries and concerns the more you’re able to channel the bliss. It is there to experience..."

For awhile now, I've been tapping into the channel of real depth and assurance that Manulani Aluli Meyer offers. This fifth daughter of the Aluli Meyer family makes room for me to re-translate and make sense of life. I post links and videos of Manu's lifework-- her kuleana--. She's unafraid, and fully awake to the depth of her responsibility and this inspires me to keep balancing my load like the Manapua Man. It's a New Moon and a moon on which to set new intentions for the coming Malama (month). I keep my astrologers' advice in hand:

1. Elsa P. in her latest newsletter reminds me, "If you are worried about the Saturn in Scorpio transit, here is a list of 8 common mistakes you should avoid. [the list is edited ... link here  go to the sidebar and  subscribe to her newsletters and get the scoop from her first-hand]

7. Stubborn refusal to acknowledge core transformation is necessary

 8. Thinking #7 should be easy or painless"

2. Satori's advice for a good region to plant new seed this New Moon is, "Midday the Moon conjuncts the Sun, the new moon. This is a great time for goal setting and emotional intention. In Pisces, this tends to work best if you tap into compassion and connectedness..."

And last, another scoop of Manu Mana. This is a quote from a keynote address entitled, " Our Collective Remembering: Five (K)new Ideas for World Transformation delivered in 2009.

" Here is the whole focus of this welcoming talk for your conference.  It is our thinking that changes everything, but it is our actions where they are expressed.  Why not see the holographic idea and be inspired to think through your own quality of consciousness – and then to respond appropriately?  Why not see our connection through difference?  It is the Hawaiian understanding found in auamo kuleana: collective production through individual excellence.  Why again do we not actively deconstruct our hidden assumptions of society that holds us hostage to uniformity, money and shallow forms of relating?

 Read the summary of Manulani Alulli Meyer's keynote address here.


My intention for the New Moon made this morning is to made use of the life I have as Makua O'o and re-translate the definition. Re-define Makua O'o for modernity as Meyer's would say, taking it deeper and spreading it for these mythic times in which we live. I've started to conceive a new workshop called "These Mythic Times" ... coming in April to celebrate Earth Day, 2013. Interested? Stay tuned for more information.

These are mythic times ...

I am spending time writing here where I make connection with my roots and am inspired by Manu Meyer.

See you there. Mokihana