The Five DON’Ts During Mars Retrograde

Published January 6, 2025 by tindertender

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mars-is-retrograde-be-car_b_4865786

It’s time to pay attention to your “actions” because Mars is retrograde until February 2025.

(It seems some folks decided to ‘go forth’ anyway. Interesting visitations and events lately.)

During Mars Retrograde ~

1. Don’t Argue, Fight or Start a War – Mars rules War. During Mars retrograde it’s a bad time to initiate a fight or dispute, because the aggressor usually backs off or loses. It’s a horrible time to start a war or begin a military action against another country because there isn’t a strong will or desire to complete the action. The invading country is likely to be the loser.

2. Don’t Have a Surgery – Mars rules surgery and is associated with surgeons. It also rules anything made of iron, including “cutting things.” If possible, avoid surgical procedures. Mars is a physical planet and during the retrograde, injuries and accidents related to carelessness (e.g. cutting) can occur more frequently. For that reason it’s considered a poor time for elective surgery. It’s not even a good time to find a new barber, hairstylist or any professional who works with a knife or scissors.

3. Don’t Start New Activities – If you do begin a new enterprise during Mars retrograde, your efforts to produce results will meet with greater frustration than usual. Projects are likely to stall or not develop as expected. You’ll find your energy level is lower than normal, making it harder to produce the success you had intended. If you’ve already started something, slow down and reassess your plans, adjust expectations and work through obstacles that are getting in the way of results.

It’s not a favorable time to start a new business with co-workers and partners. You’ll find that people will be unusually argumentative, and easily irritated when projects or activities do not run smoothly. Often the discord is so great, that even people, who normally get a long well, become angry and disruptive. The results are often poor decision-making based out of frustration, instead of patience and open dialogue.

4. Don’t Begin a Law Suit or Divorce – A lawsuit or divorce can be a fierce battle. Since Mars rules wars and battles, it’s not a good time for initiating a legal action. A lawsuit that’s initiated has no punch, with a high likelihood that the plaintiff will back off or end up the loser. If you’re trying to mediate a dispute, you’re likely to find yourself in heavy disagreement and not able to find common ground with the opposing party. When you present your side of the argument, there’s a lack of energy and passion in what you say that doesn’t compel the mediator to your point of view. To obtain better results in a lawsuit or mediation, wait until Mars goes direct on May 20th. (Note: Often during this retrograde you’ll hear about many high-profiled, celebrity separations and acrimonious divorces.)

5. Don’t Buy Mechanical Things – Mars rules anything made of iron such as engines and cutting tools. This is not a reliable time to purchase an automobile or any mechanical equipment. Just in the same way that Mercury retrograde can play havoc with the operation of cars and other machinery, you’ll find that computers and other equipment break down break more during Mars retrograde. In fact, if you have any mechanical equipment in need of repair, use this period to get it done quickly.

Use the Mars retrograde period, to slow down and reassess what you want and desire – before you take further action.

Memories Over Time, the 5th Day of January

Published January 5, 2025 by tindertender

“… why did you not become you, the fully active, realized person that only you had the potential of becoming?”

“We are reminded that illusion is child’s play and to follow illusion, naïveté.”
~ Leo Buscaglia

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“Our main challenge is to uncover, develop and hold on to our unique selves.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

“If we are not becoming all that we are, it is we who are not changing, and why we, therefore, must suffer our own non-being.”
~ Leo Buscaglia

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“We are all much less than what we can be.”
-Leo Buscaglia

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“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
~ Herman Hesse Demian

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If you don’t have trust, you don’t have anything worthwhile.

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No one can grow for us; we must each grow for ourselves.

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There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

⸺ Hunter S. Thompson

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Those who want to love so badly, but the bodies of those we love have become hosts for brutalizers. It’s a dilemma …

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Enter My House With Respect

Published January 4, 2025 by tindertender

Not to say the one within you IS you …

Translation of the text written at the Entrance to the Temple of the Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet, Karnak Temple

I only ask you to enter my house with respect. To serve you I do not need your devotion, but your sincerity. Neither your beliefs, but your thirst for knowledge. Enter with your vices, your fears and your hatreds from the greatest to the smaller ones, I can help you dissolve them.

You can look at me and love me as a female, as a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, as a friend, but never look at me as an authority above yourself. If the devotion you have for any god, It is greater than the one you have for the God that is within you, you offend them both and you offend the one👌

She On the Tip of Her Tongue

Published January 4, 2025 by tindertender

Whatever happens, stay alive.

Don’t die before you’re dead.

Don’t lose yourself, don’t lose hope, don’t lose direction. Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin.

Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.

Stay alive, stay alive inside you, stay alive also outside, fill yourself with colors of the world, fill yourself with peace, fill yourself with hope.

Stay alive with joy.

There is only one thing you should not waste in life, and that’s life itself.

~ Unknown (often misattributed to Virginia Woolf)

Art by Janie Olsen
www.thestorybookstudio.com

The Big Bang!! and the Wonders of a First Meal.

Published January 4, 2025 by tindertender

https://www.britannica.com/list/6-animals-that-eat-their-mates

Snippets of a Daring Adventure

Published December 31, 2024 by tindertender

I now know this experience as hidden folks downloading death energy onto me. Back then, I was just starting to really investigate.

This was an amazing experience! It was the first recognition, I didn’t understand at the time.

Our alignments began in 2021, to my awareness.

January 1st, 2015, I received message, “Eight years will go by quickly.” December 2023, this message was received. Apparently, my math wasn’t computing, lol.

Here we are, December 31, 2024.

Hey, Mama! You Are Beautiful!

Published December 30, 2024 by tindertender

By Knowledge is Power

PRAYER TO BREAK CYCLES

Published December 29, 2024 by tindertender

I now close the unfinished stories, unresolved situations, and poorly digested past experiences.

I put an end, a enough, a much needed limit on what no longer makes sense in my life.

I agree to complete this phase of my life freeing myself from everything that tied me to the old and the outdated.

May my past experiences not bring me the weight of pain, but wisdom to guide my steps.

May I never remain in what constrains, suffocates or limits me.

May I know how to let go of everything that is unproductive, that I be open to the new!

I allow myself to flow with life, changes and transformations.

I put an end to all the pain that I had not overcome, all the emotional disappointments that I have suffered, all the scarcity that I have experienced, all the physical and emotional woes, and all the woes that have bound me in the past.

In the name of my Holy Presence I Am, I decree that all knots, all misunderstandings and all discrepancies be broken now.

I now break all old, unpleasant and challenging cycles.

I am aware that I have served my purpose for these cycles, and that they have served their purpose for me as well.

I move on with learning and maturing ready for the new cycle that begins.

I accept endings and open myself to the blessings of new beginnings, to all the love, to all the health, to all the abundance and prosperity that await me.

~ Author Unknown

What if I said Yes? What if I said No?

Published December 28, 2024 by tindertender

“Who art thou, and for what reason art thou here, O mortal?” the Angel asked.

For some people it’s not about love, it’s about need.

“If you want to change your personal reality, you’ve got to change your personality.”
~ Dr. Joe Dispenza

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What if I said yes to the moon?
What if I let my calendar mind fall quiet and forget
Let that incessant load of lists get parked
Over there,
by the side of the road
That I used to follow
when I thought I knew who I was
when I thought I knew what I was
~ Clare Dubois, Founder of TreeSisters

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God disguised as a myriad things and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, “You’re it – I mean, you’re really IT!” Now it does not matter what you believe or feel for something wonderful, Major-League Wonderful is some day going to happen.
~ Hafiz

Awareness … it’s a beautiful thing.

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Courageous is the soul who adventures into time and space to learn of their divinity. For while they cannot lose, they can think they have, and the loss will seem intolerable. And while they cannot fail, they can think they have, and the pain will seem unbearable. And while they cannot ever be less than they truly are – powerful, eternal, and loved – they can think they are, and all hope will seem lost.

And therein lies their test. A test of perceptions: of what to focus on, of what to believe in, in spite of appearances.

YOU are divine.

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God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls, and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you too.

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One cannot be to everyone what each one wishes.