FAMILY INFLUENCES

     Moon is still hanging on in the sign Cancer. As enlightened as I may sometimes want to be, the tug of feelings from early childhood family influences is always with me. So much of my behavior is connected to my mother and father. As I get older,
as my own true Self emerges and I glory in my freedom and my individuality, I still have moments when I look in the mirror and there is Mom or Dad looking back at me. 
     Today is a good day to honor those roots, those family patterns that are part of the fabric of your life. Appreciating the love, the good intentions, and the pain, loss, and frustration of your history, 
it may be time to set your parents free. 
     The emotional pressures, the obligations, the things you're still trying to prove, the love that got mixed up in duty or high expectations, the rebellion and the seeking approval, all of that is real. But now is the time for forgiveness, for gentleness, for understanding, and for love. Loving the mother and father in you, including all of the family feelings in you,  now you can go ahead and be enlightened.