Full Moon 20 Aquarius

                                                   Full Moon Blessings

Happy Birthday Leos

Thanks to all of you  for your sunshine,  to Steve, always xxx, to Brenna, beautiful Grand-daughter - hugs! Happy Birthday Susannah, lovely lioness! Happy Birthday Neeti, wise and generous spirit , May your Great Star shine on you now and forever.

          

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Paramahansa Yogananda

        Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
                                                                         Albert Einstein

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.

J.Krishnamurti

Has it gone?

Peeking out from under the blankets as Mars stomps away from the Grand Cross. Anyone still in any doubt about astrology?

Happy Birthday Ano!

xxx

Hope

  In the lane to the sea, doing great business! Show 'em how it's done girls!

Leo New Moon

The Sun, Moon, and Venus are fine and dandy, sending pleasantries to Uranus. The Sun's already shining  bright as you drop down from the High Moor towards the sea and along the farm lane the pigs and cattle are dozing in the shade. Two pounds in a box at the farm gate will get you a day's parking in a little field beside the lane and off you go, through a scrabble of hens and a waddle of ducks onto the track which drops down, down to the cove below.

It's not for the faint hearted, this track, it starts easy and gets tough if you have short legs - being hewn from the cliff face by miners and fishermen with no consideration of 21st century pleasure seekers. Often the cove is deserted, but today is different. Intrepid families have braved the mile long, rocky path and the separation from phone signals,shops and electricity to spend a good old-fashioned day on the beach. 

It's rarely safe enough for swimming here - there's no lifeguard and the currents are lethal but today is different - little ones bob about on bellyboards, a snorkler circuits the cove and teenagers try to swim to the headlands -nobody is in any danger at all.  The eager collie swims out and back a dozen times, finds friends to play chase with, no-one stops them, no-one worries, everyone is safe today. Families swim, blow bubbles, pitch tents, play cricket and picnic. No-one  gets drunk, nobody cries. Fathers lift tiny kids onto huge rocks and they are king of the castle, they laugh and do it again.  A seal comes in close,watching this extraordinary day. The children are fascinated by him and by the incoming tide which surprises their sandy feet.

You sketch a bit and take a photo or two but it's a day for just being part of the place for awhile. The spring tide is rushing in. Presently there will be a scurry for the long climb back and you're a bit slow so you leave now and take your time. Climbing back up the hot and dusty hillside, the sound of children having fun echos around the cove and up the valley. You stop and look back, resting a moment and it's then that you notice  the angels..... 

thick as a bag

Hereabouts they describe fog as 'thick as a bag' and that is what we encountered  on the cliffs at Morvah when we took our painting stuff out at the weekend. So the painting's a bit impressionist - fine by me. It was still nice; quiet and still - the sea way below just shushing onto the rocks and a baby skylark in the bracken behind me frantically calling for his Mum and food.

       Humbling reminder that nature is the better gardener and has the best hard landscaping! A lesson to observe how plants interact and always look harmonious together in the wild...Look, look  watch, learn....

 Off to try again today - the sun looks as if it may shine awhile - I badly need some sparkly sea and some blue.