Thursday May 23, 2024
– Full Moon Phase @ 9:53 AM EST – illumination, realization, fulfillment, shadow, relationships, experience
– Moon in SCORPIO –
– Retrogrades
- Pluto – May 2 – October 12
– Best Days (from the Farmer’s Almanac ) – May 21st – 22nd – Hatch Eggs, Mow to Increase Growth, Dig Holes, Cut Firewood, Wax Floors, Cut Hair to Increase Growth
– Planting Calendar (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – May 20th – 22nd – Plant seedbeds. Excellent for planting aboveground crops, and planting leafy vegetables.
– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Year: – 20 ARIES: a young girl feeding birds in winter
– Aspect of the Aeon Sophia: (Wisdom): – Kali – The Destroyer
– Aspect of the Aeon Thelete: (Will/Desire): Ian, God of the East
– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Month – New Moon in Aries SUN/MOON – 20 ARIES: a young girl feeding birds in winter (EARTH – 20 LIBRA: a Jewish rabbi performing his duties )
SUN – 03 GEMINI: the garden of the tuileries in Paris
EARTH – 03 SAGITTARIUS: two men playing chess
Back sometime between 1910 and 1930, Billionaire industrialist and Steel industry Monopolist Andrew Carnegie hired a young Napoleon Hill to answer a question; What makes millionaires different from everyone else.
To do this, Napoleon interviewed and studied the rich and successful industrialists of the time to see what he could find. The answer to this he published in a book called The Law of Success in 16 Lessons. In these lessons, people could see learn the “secrets” to success.
Well, the book was long, and somewhat hard to follow. And was not ultimately successful. He then rewrote it and changed the format, calling it the Law of Success in Seven Lessons, which was moderately more successful, but still had not hit the sweet spot.
In 1937, further research and rewriting and editing, the work became known as Thing and Grow Rich. And the rest is history. This was the sweet spot, as it encapsulated the ideas from the first two books and made it into a short and very easy to read book.
Now I am not about to go into a full recap of the Book. But I would like to share a quote that goes to the heart of the message in Think and Grow Rich. It explains about the power of positive, directed thoughts and their effect on our reality.
“THOUGHTS WHICH ARE MIXED WITH ANY OF THE FEELINGS OF EMOTIONS, CONSTITUTE A “MAGNETIC” FORCE WHICH ATTRACTS, FROM THE VIBRATIONS OF THE ETHER, OTHER SIMILAR, OR RELATED THOUGHTS. A thought thus “magnetized” with emotion may be compared to a seed which, when planted in fertile soil, germinates, grows, and multiplies itself over and over again, until that which was originally one small seed, becomes countless millions of seeds of the SAME BRAND! The ether is a great cosmic mass of eternal forces of vibration. It is made up of both destructive vibrations and constructive vibrations. It carries, at all times, vibrations of fear, poverty, disease, failure, misery; and vibrations of prosperity, health, success, and happiness, just as surely as it carries the sound of hundreds of orchestrations of music, and hundreds of human voices, all of which maintain their own individuality, and means of identification, through the medium of radio. From the great storehouse of the ether, the human mind is constantly attracting vibrations which harmonize with that which DOMINATES the human mind. Any thought, idea, plan, or purpose which one holds in one’s mind attracts, from the vibrations of the ether, a host of its relatives, adds these “relatives” to its own force, and grows until it becomes the dominating, MOTIVATING MASTER of the individual in whose mind it has been housed.” ~Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
I have been thinking a lot about this idea since Monday, when the Happy Monday message by Albert Einstein stated. “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.” Because to so many people, the absurd seems insane or questionable. But just because the mundane among us may not see genius, does not mean it is not genius.
Now, if you have not read Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, you are missing a gem. I originally bought it from his official website and received a signed copy (He died in 1970, but I think they got him to sign a bunch of copies before he passed (he did not grow rich BTW). Now on the site it redirects to Amazon.
Either way, it is a great book that I believe everyone should read. I must buy another one as I gave mine away to a young friend in the summer before he left for college. It was an appropriate Grad gift for sure.