the wake we make

If you’ve been feeling anxious and ungrounded nowadays, you are not alone.

We definitely are living in the midst of interesting times.

These shocks will feel minor as compared with the host of positive changes and new opportunities ushered in by the Revati Full Moon. If you’ve been feeling the heat since last month's eclipse, you’ll soon get some relief.

Prepare to welcome in a new era of abundance and prosperity, and ride the wave of uncertainty until you reach the next level.

This year has been full and frenzied and this last week of October we can look back and begin to see the full extent of what was uncovered, initiated, dissolved and renewed.

Happy Halloween!

Brought to us by KK Ledford, Wild Moon Wisdom Astrology

Alan Watts' Antidote to the Age of Anxiety

Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.

BY MARIA POPOVA

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timeless reflection on presence over productivity — a timely antidote to the central anxiety of our productivity-obsessed age. Indeed, my own New Year’s resolution has been to stop measuring my days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. But what, exactly, makes that possible?

This concept of presence is rooted in Eastern notions of mindfulness — the ability to go through life with crystalline awareness and fully inhabit our experience — largely popularized in the West by British philosopher and writer Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973), who also gave us this fantastic meditation on the life of purpose. In the altogether excellent 1951 volume The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (public library), Watts argues that the root of our human frustration and daily anxiety is our tendency to live for the future, which is an abstraction.

Read the full article at https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/06/alan-watts-wisdom-of-insecurity-1/