Daily Dose - Oct 8 2013 - Tuesday/Mars/Thor - Medicine Music Video ~ Angels Singing in My Head - Miguel Antonio

Tuesday in considered to be ruled by Mars, a planet of action and all that such entails. Associated with Ares (the Greek God) and Aries (the astrological archetype) as well as with Scorpio, secondary to Pluto since its discovery.

For me this day had quite a bit of leisure throughout it, but I was happy to have done some reading and writing - admittedly activities that could also count for leisure ;) - and I recorded a video of a song I've been working on.

Though the video is only a few minutes long, there's a tricky part half way through it and I had to restart several times, and uploads onto youtube (as well as the program I use to upload video from my cam to comp) take extraordinarily long to load/save, etc. So I did spend a considerable amount of time doing stuff in between all that. x) Anyways,

Here it is. Enjoy :)

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Daily Dose - Oct 7 2013 - MoonDay/Cancer/Yemanja - Dreams, Emotion & Perspective

• Are you dreaming right now? Seriously, think about it, check your reality, physically and mentally. Look at your hand, your surroundings, does everything look normal? Do you remember putting everything where it is now? Where were you 30 min ago and what were you doing? An hour ago? Scrutinize every detail that comes to mind. Do this twice an hour and you'll be well on your way to having lucid dreams. Keep a Dream Journal, too.
• We may seem small in the scope of things, but can lead big lives if we live in love.
• Have you ever thought, we are each at the center of our lives, our universe, and we experience each other and ourselves from this particular point of perception.
• Sincerely, we must know our emotions before we can control them. If that is what one is striving for.

"True perfection seems imperfect,

yet it is perfectly itself.

True fullness seems empty,

yet it is fully present.

True straightness seems crooked.

True wisdom seems foolish.

True art seems artless.

The Master allows things to happen.

She shapes events as they come.

She steps out of the way

and lets the Tao speak for itself."

- 45, Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell

Daily Dose - Oct. 6 2013 - SUN-day/Helios/Ra - Stillness, Gratitude and Master Oogway

• Do not let fear of vulnerability get in the way living the life you are called to live, nor in the way of loving others and letting them know it.
• ~ I'm more than half sure that's a proper use of 'nor', which I used because I was mostly certain 'or' would've been incorrect, right? x)
  
• If it's not spontaneous it's not Spirit.
  
• Through the body, we become mindful of the breath, and through the breath, we gain awareness of mindful stillness. From here, this mindful stillness, we can experience life joyfully, because we see that the more grateful we are for life, the more deeply we perceive, and likewise, the more there is to appreciate. If we feel at ease and peaceful within, create that for ourselves, life's situations and experience will reflect ease, satisfaction and fulfillment.
  
  "You mind is like this water my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear."
  - Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda

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"Fill your bowl to the brim

and it will spill.

Keep sharpening your knife

and it will blunt.

Chase after money and security

and your heart will never unclench.

Care about people's approval

and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.

The only path to serenity."

- 9, Tao Te Ching

Daily Dose - Oct 5 2013 - Saturn/Kronos/ ~ Death, Time, & Discipline

• Live to learn how to die. We are given time on this planet in these bodies to 'die' and be 'reborn' before physical death, so we may know and remember the meaning, beauty and power of life, our purpose here, and the immortality of our spirit.
  
• If you know me/are local, make sure you attend one of my YogiShaman Trance Breath Empowerment or other Shamanic Journey workshops to experience this Alchemical process and transformation. Visit www.Miguelfl.com for more info.

• Does the way you live your life make you grateful? If it doesn't make you grateful don't waste your time. If we are unsatisfied we must ask why. In time the answers will come. Stay open.
  
• Each of us will, at some point or other, leave this life and this body. When it is time, Death comes for us all. It may be tomorrow, in 80 years or even today, but rest assured, he will come.
  This can be a source of stress, worry and fear, or a source of empowerment and enlightenment. So let us not waste our time here, and truly life live, enjoy all it has to offer, knowing the sacred in all things, being kind to ourselves and others and being grateful for this day, this breath.
  
• Time will heal all our wounds, and forgive us all our trespasses against ourselves and others and make us wise. For this healing and liberation to begin, however, we must set ourselves to our way without harming self or other.
  
  Make choices that help and support rather than hinder and cause guilt or fear. Thought we may stumble or fall, even many times each day, we have from then on to become better, to become who we wish to be, who we really are. 

Look, and it can't be seen.

Listen, and it can't be heard.

Reach, and it can't be grasped.

Above, it isn't bright.

Below, it isn't dark.

Seamless, unnamable,

it returns to the realm of nothing.

From that includes all forms,

image without an image,

subtle, beyond all coneption.

Approach it and there is no beginning;

follow it and there is no end.

You can't know it, but you can be it,

at ease in your own life.

Just realize where you come from:

this is the essence of wisdom.

- 14, Tao Te Ching