LIFECYCLE FORECAST

True Strength is Delicate
Louise Nevelson


AN UPLIFTING LOOK AT THE ENERGY OF
THE STRENGTH MOON CYCLE

November 16-December 15, 2009

Welcome to the Strength Moon cycle; the twelfth lunation of 2009! This moon is also known as the Cold Moon, Oak Moon, Frost Moon, Long Night's Moon, Moon Before Yule and Margashirsha Poornima. All over the world and within all cultures we humans can't help but 'look up'.

For each lunation throughout this year I briefly refer to a way to connect to resource. Our inner Strength offers us endless opportunities to have courage as life tests our stamina. The inherent power of our true nature can help us to eventually become ever more bold as we reach for what is our heart's desire. Slowly we come to realize that every stretch and endurance test ultimately turns us toward Divine Ideas. When we engage in co-creation with the Divine we discover that resource and supply are part of the continous flow.

From November 16 until the close of the month we continue to gather information regarding the release from suffering and the causes of suffering as we engage in introspection. As we step into December the moon cycle shifts our focus to the Strength that results. We were born to discover and express our true Strength by creating the life that fits our true nature. Each year at this time we can polish the mirror that reflects back who were really are.

In December while the consumer culture is attempting to entice us to scatter and spend see if you can schedule a bit of nap time and/or relax with a good book. Continue to notice the natural processes that are at work within you now. In December we can go deeper in and realize that rest and rejuvination are a natural inclination no matter what we hear through the media. And as we step out of the mainstream and quiet down the Strength of our most current ideas have the space to float up into our awareness.

During this cycle a few useful questions would be, "What if I knew I had the power and true Strength to live my most authentic life? What would I dream to accomplish? How would I visualize my life? What would matter? How would I know? What will I place into my heart as I rest in a natural great peace?
During this 'Strength Moon' imagine the world empowered by your contributions. Rest in that space and savor the ideas of what's possible.

By this time you know that I have long been inspired by the work of John Randolph Price and the Quartus Foundation that he founded. The hardcopy snail mail monthly newsletter available through Quartus is, for me, a terrific tune-up tool. Within his prosperity work Price offers an acronym: M.O.N.E.Y. that stands for my own natural energy yield. By researching his work you'll discover the 40 Day Prosperity Program and the 60 Day Non Human Program. I've repeated these programs (and others that he offers) often and always with uplifting results.

Below is a short homework assignment to help you find your own connection to the restful and rejuvenating process of your own true Strength.

This brief monthly email can be placed into the context of the year by reading my full length Lifecycle Forecast 2009 article at ZodiacArts.com . I'm currently writing the Lifecycle Forecast for 2010 and it is showing itself to be a magnificent year to reestablish a dynamic connection to our most playful and joyful creative self....it's not too soon to ask yourself what form(s) of self expression really get you jazzed.

While you're visiting Zodiac Arts cruise around the site...David and Sandra Mosley are dedicated to sharing the ability to move through all of the cycles and the seasons following the rhythm of the natural world. Again and again they have taken the time to lean into their individual and combined Strength, resting when necessary in preparation for following their dreams.

Have some fun: print out then add color to the mandala for the current moon cycle (Sandra posts a different mandala for each moon/month). Sit in stillness. Quietly meditate on: "What inner Strength has been made apparent as I come to the close of 2009 ?"

Twelfth Lunation: The Strength Moon November 16 - December 15

The Divine Consciousness that I am is forever expressing its true nature of Abundance. This is its responsibility, not mine. My only responsibility is to be aware of this Truth.

John Randolph Price

How auspicious it is that we receive sixteen days at the start of this lunation to lean into the profound and far reaching energy that the Introspection or 'death and rebirth' cycle brings. To assist us let's look at a poetic descriptor for the energy. That way we can each find our own way to go a little deeper if we choose.

I'm looking to William Martin in The Sage's Tao Te Ching. Verse 22 aligns with this current energy:

If Not You, Who?

A youth may have ambitious goals but the sage has no need for ambition.

A youth strives for perfection but the sage is content with imperfection.

A youth is always on guard against loss but the sage has let go already.

Therefore, despite the apparent advantages of youth, it is the sage who shows the way. It is the sage who can be trusted. It is the sage who is the example to follow. It is the sage who has succeeded.

You cannot fulfill your destiny by hanging on to the qualities of youth.

If you do not display an alternative to blind ambition, our world will be depleted beyond recovery.

If you do not live with acceptance and grace, our world will be consumed by the fires of hate.

If you do not become the sage, from where will guidance come?

If not you, who?

As we enter December and near the close of 2009 we are already mid-cycle in this Strength moon. Now we can actively move out of the energy of November and briskly step into a quality of review and change.

Similar in feel to earlier in the year (during the March segment of the third lunation) this current time-line asks for a tempered and a measured approach to the tasks at hand. Remember the references to strength during last month? Now we truly feel that potency.

Throughout the year, each in our own way, we've been tuned into the creative/sexual charge of this second year in the current nine year pattern.

We work in nine year cycles, which end to end constitute a decade, with the idea that each twelve-month walk around the Wheel of Life offers us a global umbrella of energy to help to bring us into harmony.

The beauty of 2009 is that moon by month the umbrella over our heads has been one of mastership and accomplishment. A whole year to realize that 'we're all in this together' and 'there's only one of us here'.

In December the change that is asked of us is that of being still and embracing what we each know deeply. The keyword that is assigned to each month upon the wheel tells us a bit about how we can proceed to spiral year upon year as we walk 'round. To move through the keywords is to create pathways into the central collective consciousness of the ancestral lineage pulsing through us all.

Here is a quick review: January brings the concept of Cleansing, leading to February's Renewal and the Purity of March. At spring's turn we begin the next path leading into the center comprised of April's Clarity, the Wisdom of May and the Illumination of June. Here we turn onto the path of summer with July's Growth, the Trust we find in August leading to September's Love. Here we enter the quieting of autumn and the path of Experience in October leading to Introspection in November followed by our present position for aligning with Strength. The wheel offers a beautiful way to invest in time with a focus. Now, we are each given a perfect place for a review of how we have garnered strength through the experiences of the year.

I hope that you find great joy in having discovered deeper connections to your true creative Strength as we come near to the close of this year.

KEYWORDS for attuning to this cycle: abundance, adventure, agreements, clever, contracts, constant change, esteem, fame, fiery, honor, improvement, loyal, marketing, marriage, material gain, passion, peers, progress, protection, quick decisions, stillness, willingness

KEYWORDS that take your energy away: agitated, anxious, degenerate, ego bound, nervous, opposition, patronizing, quarrels, selfish, severe, temper

HOMEWORK: Go on an adventure. Develop freedom of expression. Communicate honestly. Practice being emotionally free. Promote your creative interests as a way to add to the whole

To connect to m.o.n.e.y. for this cycle make an investment in your best creative ideas. Communicate realistically with yourself identifying and expressing the dedication that you have forged for nurturing your new part, birthed throughout this year.


This is a good time to take Awakening in Time by Jacquelyn Small off the shelf and turn to the Index. Once there look up Service. Particularly the meditation on The World Server. This is an excellent practice for aligning with the Strength Moon.

This brief Lifecycle Forecast for the Twelfth Lunation of 2009 is describing the umbrella-like energetic qualities that affect us all. There are also personal fields of energy that are unique for each of us. These individual energies help us find 'our fit'.

To learn more about your personal energies:with a focus upon your current physical, emotional and intuitive qualities email: drozda@donnaionadrozda.com

Lifecycle Forecast 2009 © by Donna Iona Drozda
I have been walking the natural Circles, Cycles and Paths of the Moon since 1989. Thank you Sun Bear, Adina Walker, Buz Myers and all those in the world community who choose to 'Look up' ---all over this beautiful planet.

LIFECYCLE CONSULTING:

Thanks again dear readers! What a delight it is to have so many of you sign up for my first ever gift price for new clients...it is an honor and a joy to work with each of you as we become more creative seeing this precious human life that we've been given as our primary form of art.

Since 1991 I've offered Lifecycle and Extended Lifecycle sessions as a part of my studio outreach. These are services that focus upon how to allow yourself to become a 'flow-er' in your own life. It's a wonderful exchange when we can 'draw a map' of an informative and creative look at the twelve months ahead.

Lifecycle puts a spot-light on the physical, emotional and spiritual energy fields that are active for you at this time. There is an emphasis placed upon the deepest character building zone active in your chart right now. Having this information feels liberating and energizing opening the doors for new and renewed creative self expression.
Lifecycle is a wonderful tool when you are ready to re-align with the current qualities of your own true nature. You are offered specific homework to support you in actively creating a precious life that you will love more and more.


You might consider Lifecycle 'an energy drink that you listen to' :-)

I can work with you at anytime through the mail. Please allow three weeks for the receipt of your CD recording.

Lifecycle Cost: $185.00 for an 80 minute information packed CD

Lifecycle carries a money back guarantee.

email: drozda@donnaionadrozda.com for more info or to set your appointment.

Beautiful Gift Cards always available

Two comments from clients:

i was very taken by the last work on 2009......how the info became clearer as you were in tune with my handwriting and chart.Bravo......as i listened to this a few days ago the concepts were very helpful and enlightening.just wanted to give you a little applause for the fine work.i know i am fine tuning...but do not know why. The 'what's next' and 'what would love do now'.i am just enjoying life and whatever it brings to the table......you are a dear and i am so grateful for your work.

B.H.
CT
Got it today and wow, I'm blown away. You know how you kept talking about the 26 year cycle that began in 82 and went until 08? Those were the years of my relationship with K. Yes indeed it is time to reinvent myself, now if I could just decide how I want to invent myself. Decisions decisions. Really the cd was great, much food for thought. Will be working the homework exercises. Take care,J.M. VA

© Donna Iona Drozda 2009
All rights reserved. Please share as you choose with this © attached. Thank you.

LIFECYCLE FORECAST

And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass


AN UPLIFTING LOOK AT THE ENERGY OF
THE INTROSPECTION MOON CYCLE

October 18 - November 15, 2009

Welcome to the Introspection Moon cycle; the eleventh lunation of 2009! This moon is also known as the Hunter's Moon, Beaver Moon, Frost Moon, Snow Moon and Kartik Poornima. All over the world and within all cultures we humans can't help but 'look up'.

For each lunation throughout this year I briefly refer to a way to connect to resource. The ceaseless deaths and rebirths of life hold endless opportunities to Introspect. The impermanence of it all can help us to eventually become more accepting of what is. Slowly we come to realize that heartbreak and loss ultimately turns us toward Divine Ideas. When we engage in co-creation with the Divine resource is constantly reborn.
From October 18 until the close of the month we continue to gather information and Experience. Continue to keep notes over the last 13 days of the month to refer back to during the new year. Remember that everything that meets us in October offers a preview of 2010. As we step into November the moon cycle shifts our focus onto the Introspection that naturally accompanies death and rebirth.

In November tap into the light as it fades, watch the leaves fall, notice the birds migrate, think about the animals building their dens. What natural processes are at work within you now? This is when we realize that time is short simply by looking out the window in the late afternoon.

I went to a memorial service for my 92 year old friend Sir John last weekend. I was his companion for six years and each time we visited I came away smiling at his wit, and cutting edge passion for life. Right to the end he was razor sharp in intellect and humor. At his service I was deeply touched by the compassionate way in which he was remembered. He would have so enjoyed this honoring.
During this cycle a useful question would be, "What if I knew I had only 6 months to live? Who would I contact? How would I invest my time? What would be important? How would I make that known? What will I miss about this precious gift called life?
During this 'Introspection Moon' imagine the world without you. And then ignite a new lease on life realizing you still have time to create and enjoy.

Since the early eighties I have been inspired by the work of John Randolph Price and the Quartus Foundation that he founded. The hardcopy snail mail monthly newsletter available through Quartus is, for me, a terrific tune-up tool. Within his prosperity work Price offers an acronym: M.O.N.E.Y. that stands for my own natural energy yield. By researching his work you'll discover the 40 Day Prosperity Program and the 60 Day Non Human Program. I've repeated these programs (and others that he offers) often and with uplifting results.

Below is a short homework assignment to help you find your own connection to the deep and quieting process of Introspection (death to the old and preparation for rebirth of the new).

This brief monthly email can be placed into the context of the year by reading my full length Lifecycle Forecast 2009 article at ZodiacArts.com

While you are visiting Zodiac Arts cruise around the site...David and Sandra Mosley are dedicated to sharing the ability to move through all of the cycles and the seasons following the rhythm of the natural world. Again and again they have taken the time to be Introspective and to then take action to follow their dreams. The results are shared in order to help us all better flow with the cycles of life. Check out the mandala for the moon cycle (Sandra posts a different one each moon/month) and quietly meditate (as you add your colors) on "What needs to die so that space is made to rebirth a greater sense of self in 2010?"

Eleventh Lunation: The Introspection Moon
October 18 - November 15

What a relief it can be to realize, with each turn of the wheel, that nothing lasts forever. What would be the point if there were no 'death shore' to move toward giving life its true depth and import? The last part of October is leading us to the place of a natural shedding, dropping and burying of what is now through with being part of the physical world. And since the preview period is part of this movement it continues to be a time of noticing the way that we dance with death. In other words, with the push toward doing the work of the heart coming on strong for 2010 we can die to the way we keep our passion on life support.

Don't forget this year's energetic baby. Remember how hard you worked to bring that vision, impregnated two years ago, into the world.
Hold that 'child' of yours up to the sky and honor her. This is your creativity. Celebrate the beginning of this part of your life as you simultaneously prepare to drop an aspect that is dead and now too heavy to carry.

November brings 'Introspection' or a deepening of the experience of death and rebirth. The days of November bestow upon each of us a very large and magnificent energy gift. The energetic field that it brings this year is of a Master quality. Basically it recommends to us the choice of releasing our pain parts from a sense of suffering. The idea here is that to be born human is to be subject to pain. There really isn't any way around that fact. We will hurt. It hurts to be born, it hurts to die. Wounds will be inflicted along the way.

The energy visiting in November pulses a vibe that teaches that we can transmute the pain of life. Obviously this is not easy but it can be done. Think of it as the real Ph.D. work of a life. We can turn our personal suffering into compassion for other living beings. We can use it as a tool for increasing awareness by recognizing that all living beings also feel pain.
A great teacher on the planet was Viktor E. Frankel (March 26, 1905 - September 2, 1997). He wrote Man's Search for Meaning. I was fortunate enough to discover this book as a young woman shortly after violence visited my life. I refused to give in and buckle and I was heartened when in this book Frankel posed the pivotal question for my life. "Instead of saying 'Why me?' ask, 'Why not me?' With this one inquiry, plus the love and support of my mentor Alice and the love of my life; my creative spirit, I began to discover layer upon layer of strength rising up, slow but sure.

I trust that you will also discover and uncover, through the Introspection process, a dying to the old and an opening to the possible as this cycle flows through you. I wish you a grand journey as the energy has now turned us inward for the next six months.

KEYWORDS for attuning to this cycle:
accomplishments, advancements, Alpha and Omega, aspirations, better world, broad thinking, ethical, expert, firm friendships, fortune, genius, greatness, industry, introspection, limitless potential, material achievement, mountain-top, originality, practical solutions, practical uses, philanthropist, politics, professions, radiant energy, secure base, shape destiny, spiritual, strong opinions, super-conscious, transformation, vast wealth, victory, world-wide scale

KEYWORDS that take your energy away:
cold, desire for power, emotional difficulties, extravagant, extreme, gambling, lower desires, negative control, overindulgence, overwork, subhuman, tense, uninteresting, unsolvable

Note: You will notice an abundance of keywords for this cycle. This is due to the fact that we are all entitled to use the very best of what is offered by this Master energy moon and duly advised to refrain from falling into the 'low road' of what is listed here.HOMEWORK: Read a book that supplies you with courage and uplift. Rediscover a hero or a mentor for assistance in the area of your life where you know yourself to be gifted and talented. Honor your being. Acknowledge the countless gifts and miracles of the life that you have chosen. Consider new ways to share your strengths. Be the architect of your days.

To connect to m.o.n.e.y. for this cycle travel to your inner mountain top and survey the landscape of your dreams of what life could be for you when you truly allow it to work. Refresh your connection to this year's earlier m.o.n.e.y. homework of The Non Human Program found in A Spiritual Philosophy for the New World by John Randolph Price.This is a good time to take Awakening in Time by Jacquelyn Small off the shelf and turn to the Index. In the index look up Death/rebirth there you will find many pages to investigate for this cycle.
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This brief Lifecycle Forecast for the Eleventh Lunation of 2009 is describing the umbrella-like energetic qualities that affect us all. There are also personal fields of energy that are unique for each of us. These individual energies help us find 'our fit'.

To learn more about your personal energies:with a focus upon your current physical, emotional and intuitive qualities email: drozda@donnaionadrozda.com

Lifecycle Forecast 2009 © by Donna Iona Drozda

I have been walking the natural Circles, Cycles and Paths of the Moon since 1989. Thank you Sun Bear, Adina Walker, Buz Myers and all those in the world community who choose to 'Look up' ---all over this beautiful planet.

LIFECYCLE CONSULTING:

Thanks! It is a pleasure to have heard from those of you who chose to Experience a Lifecycle 'Creative energy' reading at gift price. It is the joy of my life to share these recordings with you. If you are interested in having a first recording done for half the usual cost email me before the end of October.

Since 1991 I've offered Lifecycle and Extended Lifecycle sessions as a part of my studio outreach. These are services that focus upon how to allow yourself to become a 'flow-er' in your own life. It's a wonderful exchange when we can 'draw a map' of an informative and creative look at the twelve months ahead.

Lifecycle puts a spot-light on the physical, emotional and spiritual energy fields that are active for you at this time. There is an emphasis placed upon the deepest character building zone active in your chart right now.
Lifecycle is a wonderful tool when you are ready to re-align with the current qualities of your own true nature. You are offered specific homework to support you in actively creating a precious life that you will love more and more. You could think of Lifecycle as 'an energy drink that you listen to' :-)

I can work with you at anytime through the mail. Please allow three weeks for the receipt of your CD recording.

Lifecycle Cost: $185.00 for an 80 minute CD Lifecycle carries a money back guarantee. email: drozda@donnaionadrozda.com for more info or to set your appointment.Beautiful Gift Cards always available
Two comments from clients:

I made two round trips to New Bern this week and I brought along my life cycle cd's for uninterrupted quality listening time (missed a couple of turns ha ha) and listening to them 10 months later simply blew me totally out of the water!!!! I can't believe all that has come to fruition, I laughed, I cried I engaged in serious contemplation and reflection and I can't thank you enough for doing two readings for me.

C.M. Virginia

Got it today and wow, I'm blown away. You know how you kept talking about the 26 year cycle that began in 82 and went until 08? Those were the years of my relationship with K. Yes indeed it is time to reinvent myself, now if I could just decide how I want to invent myself. Decisions decisions. Really the cd was great, much food for thought. Will be working the homework exercises. Take care,

J.M. VA

© Donna Iona Drozda 2009
All rights reserved. Please share as you choose with this © attached. Thank you.

Full Moon

The Full Moon phase let's us look into the mirror and see our shadow, our fear and our anxious parts...that's why we often hear of the Lunatics that are a foot at this time.

This October enters with a solid and grounding energy.

Think about endurance and the balance act of knowing when to be active and when to be still.

Practice focus.

This cycle also taps us back into the energy that visited us in the first lunation of the year. Take a look back at January and reinforce the Experience of that time period by imaging now what you might have done differently or better then. Or simply honor what you allowed and what you gave your attention to.

Luna-See for the 10th Lunation

Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

AN UPLIFTING LOOK AT THE ENERGY OF THE EXPERIENCE MOON CYCLE
September 18 - October 17, 2009

Greetings!
Welcome to the Experience Moon cycle; the tenth lunation of 2009! This moon is also known as the Travel Moon, Harvest Moon, Dying Grass Moon, Blood Moon, and in Hindu this is the Kojagiri Moon. All over the world and within all cultures we humans can't help but 'look up'.
I hope that you find useful the insights included. I design these entries to be short and focused. I hope that you enjoy the experience of discovering the patterns of each moon's information as much as I enjoy bringing it to you!

For each lunation, as part of the Homework throughout the year, I am briefly referring to a way to connect to resource.
The Experiences of life hold endless opportunities to become open hearted. We come to realize that resource dwells within the Divine Ideas that each heart opened Experience holds.

From September 18 until the close of the month we continue to gather together evidence to document what we love about life. As we step into the new month the moon cycle shifts our focus onto Experience.

Each year the October lunation gives us a preview of the coming year's primary energetic quality. What you Experience in October is giving you a 31 day encapsulated view of what you'll live out through the twelve months of the year ahead.

Keep a log of your physical, emotional and intuitive trail during the month and then refer back to it throughout 2010. If you fall down a slippery slope in October you will most likely repeat the pattern at some point in the coming year. Conversely, if you notice that you have an ease and an acceptance of what occurs in October this will be apparent as the new year unfolds. The global vibe for 2010 will be that of finding a renewed sense of identity, the voice of 'this is who I am' will be rising up even in the midst of the chaos that surrounds.

During this cycle you might ask yourself, "What is my sense of identity at this time? Who am I now? How do I express this awareness? How can I be true? What might I do? What action might I take to demonstrate the confidence of my true nature?

These questions are 'wise selfish' since being real and finding our true nature brings joy and the desire to express the best of who we are and what we can be. Contrary to what we may imagine, by asking questions of this nature we actually align with and step into our work in the world. Our work in the world changes. It's meant to. We're not static. In 2010 we're meant to stretch and express in renewed and socially connected ways that bring us into contact with our unique form of self expression. Practice buddying up with how this looks and feels for you during this cycle.
During this 'Experience Moon' take a risk that allows you to express the uniqueness that makes you YOU.

When we are truly expressive of our individuality and share it in a way that adds to the whole everyone has the Experience of being uplifted. The Experience Moon cycle is a social time. See what precious gifts you can express and share. This is an excellent time to ask yourself, 'Do those around me really see my best level of self expression? Or, as my mom used to say; 'Are you hiding your light under a bushel?'


Insert your own story line here. Tell yourself how invested you are in your own ability to add benefit and uplift to the whole. Write about your capabilities and document your own genius and brilliance so that you have a touchstone for where you were placing your energy during this preview period.


Since the early eighties I have been inspired by the work of John Randolph Price and the Quartus Foundation that he founded. The hardcopy snail mail monthly newsletter available through Quartus is, for me, a terrific tune-up tool. Within his prosperity work Price offers an acronym: M.O.N.E.Y. that stands for my own natural energy yield. By researching his work you'll discover the 40 Day Prosperity Program and the 60 Day Non Human Program. I've repeated these programs (and others that he offers) often and with uplifting results.

Below is a short homework assignment to help you find your own connection to the abundant and unfailing flow of creative experience and the resource that results from taking the risk to express in new and individual ways.
This brief monthly email can be placed into the context of the year by reading my full length Lifecycle Forecast 2009 article at ZodiacArts.com

While you are visiting Zodiac Arts cruise around the site...David and Sandra Mosley are dedicated to sharing the Experience of moving through all of the cycles and the seasons. They have taken action to follow their dreams and the outcome brings them into contact with the timely information which they openly share in order to help us all better flow with the cycles of life. This is a great month to print out the mandala (Sandra posts a different one each month) and quietly meditate (as you add your colors) on "What would I choose as my primary Experience in 2010?"


Tenth Lunation: The Experience MoonSeptember 18 - October 17
Autumnal Equinox September 22

Come quickly. You musn't miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again. Mary Oliver
Referring to the focus of the year we can say that once 'the baby' is born the real work begins. The two weeks that begin this cycle continue to deepen the connection to the recent birth and allows us time to bond with what we have brought into the world. We might say that September 'brings us home'.
It might be smart to set up a support team to assist with the unexpected duties attendant to the new addition. I can highly recommend a Mastermind Support Group. I've been in one continuously for over twenty years and have come to depend upon the Experience of the confidential environment and encouragement that they provide. Don't feel that you have to follow anything that I suggest...format and create your own circle of support. Just include confidenciality and non judgment as components and the Experience will be life altering. Consider one of the many variations on the Master Mind theme and foster a support system to help carry you and your 'off spring' forward.October enters with a solid and grounding energy. As we mentioned above, each October gives us a preview of the coming year.

Don't you wonder what the global energy for 2010 will provide? Collectively we will be under an umbrella of getting down to the real art of structured self expression, building social connections, learning to use time thoughtfully and well.

2010 will be about endurance and the balance act of knowing when to be active and when to be still. Overall the year will provide a global energy infusion of renewed sense of identity. We are being asked and offered the opportunity to see ourselves as citizens of the world. So now we can practice.

October gives us focus. This cycle also taps us back into the energy that visited us in the first lunation of the year. Take a look back at January and reinforce the Experience of that time period by imaging now what you might have done differently or better then. Or simply honor what you allowed and what you gave your attention to.

KEYWORDS for attuning to this cycle: abundance, achievement, balance, beauty, co-create, dance, ethics, Experience, fulfillment, good fortune, host, inspiration, intellect, passion, playful, positive attitude, rewards, self expression, socialize, time, values, write a letter

KEYWORDS that take your energy away: betrayal, burdened, codependence, delays, egomaniac, envy, exaggeration, fear, hurtful words, inconsiderate, intolerant, jealous, lost opportunities, malefic, material loss, restriction, scattered, self-centered, superficial, whining

HOMEWORK: The blend of energy that supplies the birth and then the attending to what has been born makes this a fine time for taking a good hard look at what you stand for. Once that task is accomplished be willing to change the parts of you that fall short of your best and brightest potential. Then dance. No really. Move your body in a joyful rhythm and flow with the Experience of being natural.

To connect to m.o.n.e.y. for this cycle feel and Experience the presence of a new plan and a new outlook coming to greet you. Keep in mind the preview quality of this cycle. From John Randolph Price affirm: I acknowledge the Inner Presence as the only activity in my financial affairs, as the substance of all things visible. Have you read his small Abundance Book...check it out...a jewel for our times.

This is a good time to take Awakening in Time by Jacquelyn Small off the shelf and read: Level Three Consciousness: Our Mental/Intellectual Nature page 94-105. A beautiful and timely guided imagery meditation called Healing the Emotions is on page 103. It's a really terrific way to ground the Experience of this cycle.
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This brief Lifecycle Forecast for the Tenth Lunation of 2009 is describing the umbrella-like energetic qualities that affect us all. There are also personal fields of energy that are unique for each of us. These individual energies help us find 'our fit'.

To learn more about your personal energies:with a focus upon your current physical, emotional and intuitive qualities email: drozda@donnaionadrozda.com

Lifecycle Forecast 2009 © by Donna Iona Drozda
I have been walking the natural Circles, Cycles and Paths of the Moon since 1989. Thank you Sun Bear, Adina Walker, Buz Myers and all those in the world community who choose to 'Look up' ---all over this beautiful planet.

LIFECYCLE CONSULTING:

Have you ever thought of having the Experience of a Lifecycle Energy reading? For the month of October only, if you read this and email me, I will gift you with a special 50% discount. This is for first time clients only. That means you pay $95.50 and within three weeks (or within a reasonable length of time depending on response) you will receive your personal 80 minute CD focused upon your physical, emotional and intuitive energy for the year 2010. Don't miss this opportunity to be served up 'an energy drink that you listen to'.

Since 1991 I've offered Lifecycle and Extended Lifecycle sessions as a part of my studio outreach. These are services that focus upon how to allow yourself to become a 'flow-er' in your own life. It's a wonderful exchange when we can 'draw a map' of an informative and creative look at the twelve months ahead.
Lifecycle puts a spot-light on the physical, emotional and spiritual energy fields that are active for you at this time. There is an emphasis placed upon the deepest character building zone active in your chart right now.
Lifecycle is a wonderful tool when you are ready to re-align with the current qualities of your own true nature. You are offered specific homework to support you in actively creating a precious life that you will love more and more.
I can work with you at anytime through the mail. Please allow three weeks for the receipt of your CD recording.

Lifecycle Cost: $185.00 for an 80 minute CD

Lifecycle carries a money back guarantee. email: drozda@donnaionadrozda.com for more info or to set your appointment.

Beautiful Gift Cards always available

Two comments from clients:

I made two round trips to New Bern this week and I brought along my life cycle cd's for uninterrupted quality listening time (missed a couple of turns ha ha) and listening to them 10 months later simply blew me totally out of the water!!!! I can't believe all that has come to fruition, I laughed, I cried I engaged in serious contemplation and reflection and I can't thank you enough for doing two readings for me.

C.M. Virginia Wow! I am so blown away. I feel like I have spent hours with you and my life story. Thank you so much for all of the information.I appreciate the tactful way in which you addressed my challenges and areas of blockage in this lifetime and present moment. I look forward to continuing to work with you now (as I move through the homework) and in the future as I update my journey and see how I'm doing.Thank you for sharing your gift with me. I have laughed and cried while assimilating the information, and I have this exhilarating feeling of knowing that I am heading in the right direction. I know that bringing CLARITY to my life purpose will also bring the ability to trust and appreciate myself. A.J. Virginia

© Donna Iona Drozda 2009
All rights reserved. Please share as you choose with this © attached. Thank you.

Disseminating Love

The first two weeks of this cycle have moved swiftly and I have found that my days have been infused with the love of my dear friend who may soon be passing from this plane. For six years I have been a companion to 'Sir John' and now at 92 he is preparing to move out of the world of form and into the world of the formless.

He is home and unmedicated so his passage has a purity and a rawness to it. He moves back and forth between what he has known and what he cannot yet know. It's not easy. He tells me "Dying is like Purgatory; the happy and the not happy."

As a student of Tibetan Buddhism I am appreciating the opportunity to Love every facet of what I witness him moving through. He struggles with courage and often with humor to become free of the physical restrictions that the years have laid upon him.

As you travel through the remainder of this cycle perhaps you too will notice those parts that no longer fit for you. You may feel the death or the release of what no longer works. Keep in mind that this is a culminating point. This is where we can feel the results of our work thus far this year.

As we come closer now to the equinox we also approach the opportunity to reflect upon our shadowy, less attractive, even stiff and uncomfortable personality traits. Why? So that we can Love them too. Looking in the mirror and compassionately embracing what feels 'less than' is a fitting exercise for learning what it really means to Love without conditions.



I feel privileged during this Love moon to have had the honor of witnessing Sir John's process up until our last visit of yesterday. We have said our goodbyes. He is on his 'magic carpet'. He is traveling. I am reflecting on the years of our growing Love as we shared together as dear friends and lovers of the arts.

For Sir John and for us all I share METTA:

May you be at peace.
May your heart remain open.
May you awaken to the Light of your own true nature.
May you be healed.
May you be a source of healing for all beings.

THE LOVE MOON CYCLE

August 20 - September 17, 2009

People with no shadows also have no substance.
Jacqueline Small

Welcome to the Love Moon cycle; the ninth lunation of 2009! This moon is also known as the Fruit Moon, Harvest Moon, Corn Moon, Barley Moon, and in Hindu this is the Bhadrapad Poornima. All over the world and within all cultures we humans can't help but 'look up'.

I hope that you find useful the insites included, I design these entries to be short and focused and I just LOVE to ferrett out each moon's information!

For each lunation, as part of the Homework for this year, I will refer to a way to connect to resource.
When we love life, and what life brings, we become open hearted. We come to realize that resource dwells within the Divine Ideas that each experience holds.

I learned a great deal about love of life from one of my earliest and most profound teachers, Alice Boucher Twitchell. We met in the summer of 1968 when I was nineteen. Each of us had just experienced deep loss and tragedy. Only neither one of us knew this about the other. I didn't learn of her unspeakably difficult challenge until twenty four years later. She never knew of mine.
Alice, more than twenty years my senior, had more spunk and passion for life than I had ever seen. She was a highly accomplished artist and had spent years studying marble sculpting in India. She demonstrated, simply by the manner in which she moved through the day, the way that I wanted my life to look. She silently and effortlessly transferred into me a blueprint. She gave me a foreign yet extraordinarily magnetic model of a yogic view of life. I was given a clear vision of life lived as art.

Even fifteen years after her death I continue to attempt to model my approach to life after what I learned from her. I am devoted to creating an homage to all the beauty and compassion that is her legacy.

This is the moon cycle where we focus on Love. To love life really has little to do with the emotionally dramatic mire that many equate with love energy. To the contrary this ninth cycle offers us the opportunity, each year, to actually touch in on what it is about life that propels us forward and ignites our passion. This 'fire in the belly' will not come from another person, although another person may show us what it looks like and even what it feels like, as Alice did for me.
During this cycle you might ask yourself, "Who are my models for 'Love of life'?" "How do I make choices that allow this recognition of Love to expand?"

During this 'Love Moon' remind yourself to really, honestly, no-hold-barred, Love your life. Look to the evidence that indicates how well your life actually works. The Love Moon cycle is a powerful time to see what precious gifts we've each been given to share. This is an excellent time to ask yourself, "How am I being, or how might I be of Loving service?"

Since the early eighties I have been inspired by the work of John Randolph Price and the Quartus Foundation that he founded. The hardcopy snail mail monthly newsletter available through Quartus is, for me, a terrific tune-up tool. Within his prosperity work Price offers an acronym: M.O.N.E.Y. that stands for my own natural energy yield. By researching his work you'll discover the 40 Day Prosperity Program and the 60 Day Non Human Program. I've repeated these programs (and others that he offers) often and with uplifting results.

Below is a short homework assignment to help you find your own Love connection to the abundant and unfailing flow of creativity and resource that perpetually surrounds us all.
This brief monthly email can be placed into the context of the year by reading my full length Lifecycle Forecast 2009 article at ZodiacArts.com

While you are visiting Zodiac Arts cruise around the site...David and Sandra Mosley are dedicated to loving life through all of the cycles and the seasons. They have taken action to follow their dreams and the outcome brings them into contact with the timely information which they openly share in order to help us all better flow with the cycles of life. This is a great month to print out the mandala (Sandra posts a different one each month) and quietly meditate on "What would Love do now?" as you add your color.


NINTH LUNATION: THE LOVE MOON

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.
Nisargadatta Maharaj

Until the end of August the prevailing energies continue to supply us with the opportunity for catching a wave of vital life force. Think of ocean surfing and see if you can ride this vibrantly charged field. It's a creative/sexual radiance that reminds us that to create anything in life we must need an awareness that there is a limitless internal zone, the orenda, from which all of our ideas and inspirations emanate.

See if you can feel the connection to a vibrant, accomplished, and rich possibility. Be aware. Individualize yourself in some way that you truly Love.

Look at your purpose. Infuse your ideas and ideals with dynamic expectation. See if you can keep your own counsel and remain quietly involved...a healthy mother ready to give birth is not rushing about she is focusing, breathing and preparing for her big event.

You may recall in the beginning of the year and in the main body of the full length Lifecycle Forecast article that it was stated: work diligently between January and through September, to birth what you truly want.
In the second year of a decade long cycle, as 2009 is, we are asked to patiently 'be pregnant' trusting that 'the baby' (the idea, the project) will 'be born' (you'll sense a certain something) in September.

As we step into September we come to the point where the energy of the year meets us in concentrated form. This happens every year in the ninth month and it's worth celebrating. Throughout 2009 we have been given time to quietly allow space for the new idea or vision (that was planted last year) to grow undetected, out of sight, and as we come to this place it's beneficial to pause and 'get an Ultrasound'. Listen in. Tune into the picture that lets you see within. Look at how all that you lovingly invest in has progressed.

So now...ooo lala... we've arrived (well, as if we ever really do )...and things (ideas, visions, inspirations) are ready to POP! We are ready to birth what we've carried this far. As we push our project out into the light of day we may notice our strength (just as any mother feels at the time of giving birth). We may, hopefully, notice how our Love and passion for life relates to the greater whole.
Celebrate this momentous occasion! Remember that there is a village out there ready to support this new addition.

This birth, and all that led up to it, brings into actualization the fact that we can each make our difference as we joyfully add our voice to the whole.
I thought it might be interesting to insert a poetic descriptor of what this moon's quality brings. I'm choosing William Martin's contemporary translation of the Tao Te Ching titled The Sage's Tao Te Ching. This verse can provide a touchstone for the entire cycle:
An Infant At Her Mother's BreastBecoming a sage is like becoming an infant once more at her mother's breast, peaceful and disturbed by no great worries. It is like becoming homeless and wandering, yet always at home wherever we are. We are no longer excited at every little change of fortune. Our minds are no longer filled with details and have more room for spaces of silence. Lofty goals and grand purposes have faded, replaced by a willingness to drift wherever the Divine current takes us.

This is a turning point in the year. Next cycle we receive an energetic preview for 2010. Enjoy this 29.6 days as a culmination for all that you have chosen to Love and grow in your life up until today.

KEYWORDS for attuning to this cycle: admiration, alert, awareness, awe, creative, diplomatic, expressive, good companion, insightful, intuitive, Love, patience, sage, self esteem, service, sexual flow, spontaneous, wakefulness, willingness, wisdom, wonderment, world

KEYWORDS that take energy away: burned out, disturbing, disruptive, dramatic, emotional, grumpy, hurtful, insincere, insecure, irritable, moody, personal soap operas, sarcastic, scheming, tactless, timid, touchy, unaware, unkind

HOMEWORK: When September arrives we are given thirty days to actualize the focus of this year. First celebrate the possibility then honor your accomplishments. We truly can sing a Love song. We can focus on the best for ourselves and our planet. Exercise that muscle with joy!
To connect to m.o.n.e.y. for this cycle be open to increasing your 'heart work'. The Love moon is referring to Love of life, Love of work and the willingness to discover the passion of working in the arena of our deepest passion and greatest Love.

This is a good time to take Awakening in Time by Jacquelyn Small off the shelf and read: Service is "Doing Your Being" page 227-248.

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This brief Lifecycle Forecast for the Ninth Lunation of 2009 is describing the umbrella-like energetic qualities that affect us all. There are also personal fields of energy that are unique for each of us. These individual energies help us find 'our fit'.

To learn more about your personal energies:with a focus upon your current physical, emotional and intuitive qualities email: drozda@donnaionadrozda.com


Lifecycle Forecast 2009 © by Donna Iona Drozda
I have been walking the natural Circles, Cycles and Paths of the Moon since 1989. Thank you Sun Bear, Adina Walker, Buz Myers and all those in the world community who choose to 'Look up' ---all over this beautiful planet.

LIFECYCLE CONSULTING:

Since 1991 I've offered Lifecycle and Extended Lifecycle sessions as a part of my studio outreach. These are services that focus upon how to allow yourself to become a 'flow-er' in your own life. It's a wonderful exchange when we can 'draw a map' of an informative and creative look at the twelve months ahead.

Lifecycle puts a spot-light on the physical, emotional and spiritual energy fields that are active for you at this time. There is an emphasis placed upon the deepest character building zone active in your chart right now.
Lifecycle is a wonderful tool when you are ready to re-align with the current qualities of your own true nature. You are offered specific homework to support you in actively creating a precious life that you will love more and more.

I can work with you at anytime through the mail. Please allow three weeks for the receipt of your CD recording.

Lifecycle Cost: $185.00 for an 80 minute CD Lifecycle carries a money back guarantee. email: drozda@donnaionadrozda.com for more info or to set your appointment.Beautiful Gift Cards always available
Two comments from clients:

I made two roundtrips to New Bern this week and I brought along my life cycle cd's for uninterrupted quality listening time (missed a couple of turns haha) and listening to them 10 months later simply blew me totally out of the water!!!! I can't believe all that has come to fruition, I laughed, I cried I engaged in serious contemplation and reflection and I can't thank you enough for doing two readings for me.

C.M. Virginia Wow! I am so blown away. I feel like I have spent hours with you and my life story. Thank you so much for all of the information.I appreciate the tactful way in which you addressed my challenges and areas of blockage in this lifetime and present moment. I look forward to continuing to work with you now (as I move through the homework) and in the future as I update my journey and see how I'm doing.Thank you for sharing your gift with me. I have laughed and cried while assimilating the information, and I have this exhilarating feeling of knowing that I am heading in the right direction. I know that bringing CLARITY to my life purpose will also bring the ability to trust and appreciate myself.
A.J. Virgina

© Donna Iona Drozda 2009
All rights reserved. Please share as you choose with this © attached. Thank you.

Disseminating Trust

Sun Bear was a wise and gentle Native American who felt the urge to help us with our harried ways. In his many books he introduces us to the circular natural pattern of the world via the Medicine Wheel.

My friend and teacher Buz Myers added to the work of Sun Bear by assigning a simple keyword to each of the months. As we walk the year and stop to breathe in the energy of the keyword for August we come away with a year by year deepening of trust.

Here, during the three days following the full moon, we can disseminate, share, give out what it is we have learned in our own life regarding this powerful concept.

Where in your life might you offer to another a reflection of the way(s) in which you have come to trust your life?