Gemini New Moon: Being Mindful

Perth: 16th June 10:05pm; Melbourne: 17th June 12:05am; NY: 16th June 10:05am

LA: 16th June 7:05am; GMT: 16th June 3:05pm

It's hard work having a mind. Minds have a way of wandering off when you need them to focus and focusing intensely when you need them to wander off.

It may seem to be a trivial issue, but if you think about it (excusing the pun), where your mind goes creates your entire world. Slowly over time you bring your thoughts into your reality, which is why getting to know your mind and how to use it is one of the most important goals of any person's life.

The greek god associated with the mind is Hermes (aka Mercury) who, with his winged helmet and sandals, was able to go the the heights of Mount Olympus and the depths of the underworld. He was a messenger, a traveller and a trickster and certainly one of the most intriguing of all the greek gods.

He rules the sign of Gemini where we have our new moon today. Mars is also nearby which feels like a need to focus all that mental energy, but a pull to be distracted by all the possible places the mind could be right now. Mercury is the fastest moving planet in the solar system, how do we slow down our own internal Mercury to make good decisions and keep our mind where it needs to be, not seduced by the future or slipping into the past?

That's up to you. Maybe it's meditation and body movement, maybe it's chatting with friends and making sense of life, maybe it's being alone and shutting down the external voices. It's your mind, only you know.

It's also a special moment for The Luna Tuna as there is a guest selector on the mix today. Long time friend and soul/funk aficionado, Mr Ian Collins (aka Noles aka Holmes), has joined in the mix today as a celebration of the Gemini twins.

Check them out now - the funk soul brothers.

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The Luna Tuna

Sagittarius Full Moon: Get a Move On

Perth: 3rd June 12:19am; Melbourne: 3rd June 2:19am NY: 2nd June 12:19pm

LA: 2nd June 9:19am; GMT: 2nd June 9:19am

A Sagittarius full moon, we'd be thinking about uplifting good times, finding meaning, freedom, energy to burn, on the great adventure of life, right..?

Well, not exactly for this full moon. Mercury is doing its moonwalk having now just passed by the sun, Saturn also retrograding out of Sagittarius and the full moon squaring Neptune in Pisces. The clouds of illusion and busy chattering minds are in the way of all that light, making the misery more compelling than the mystery.

When I think about the archer it brings forth the idea of a single pointed focus. How good it feels when you reach that special zone as all the energy is locked onto one goal. All of that scattered energy comes together and you feel at one with yourself, complete. Focused, driven, present and alive. That's what I associate with a single focus.

And it's easy when there's something external to put that focus on, something drawing your attention to quiet all the external noise. But the message for this moon seems to be about finding that single pointed focus within yourself, the simple process of being alert, awake and in the here and now no matter what madness might be occurring in the outside world, doing what you're doing.

Sagittarius is concerned with meaning, it's the essential hero's journey. Osho said this about meaning:

'Life is in living. It is not a thing, it is a process. There is no way to attain to life except by living it, except by being alive - flowing - streaming with it. If you are seeking the meaning of life in some dogma, in some philosophy, in some theology, that is the sure way to miss life and meaning both.

Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is herenow, this very moment - in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries.'

I like that, life is happening in you now. This moon reminds us to get into the heart of life and live it from there, but also to get ourselves moving, to not get stuck in the muck and gunk of thoughts and old patterns. So that's what the mix is for today - to get you moving and maybe break out into a one-man-dance-party just for fun.

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The Luna Tuna