"Iron is full of impurities that weaken it; through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion." Morihei Ueshiba

Today we enter the fiery moon of Leo, wow and let me tell you I feel it. For the first time in a long time I’m feeling a roar of rage. Which given my last few weeks, rage is better and more like myself so this is actually positive, that is unless you are the one whose head I’m biting off. If you are – you might want to step out of my way today. Leo is known for its outward lion and inward kitty, but don’t mention that to a Leo, they don’t really like to know that the world can see they are just like the rest of us. The quote above as usual speaks for my day or what I’m going through, usually though, there are very few outward events that affect my day and make me miserable, I do enough inward things to make myself miserable that no outward events are ever really needed.

I view my impurities and weaknesses, and weakness is something that I can completely accept in someone else, because I don’t see those attributes as weak, I see them as a small wisp of color in the larger picture of that person that makes them completely and utterly beautiful – and that makes me love them all the more. It’s that separation factor that constantly rears its head in my life, that I don’t belong to something larger and grander than I can imagine, or that I’m undeserving in some way of the gifts that are bestowed on me, or worse yet, I can’t even see the gifts in front of me and have become blind and lost my way – then I perceive my impurities as weaknesses and forget that I too am permitted to have my owns wisps of color to be a larger picture, which ultimately fits into a grand mosaic.

There is a place for everyone in the world; I say it time and time again. Though our judgments of others lead us to think that the world might just be a more peaceful place without certain people or opinions, and don’t worry I do it ALL the time. Hey after all I’m the Red Headed Judge! Last night for instance I being my dorky self I was listening to a talk show called Savage Nation on some obscure AM station, with my significant other who apparently also is a dork as he likes them just as much as I do. Well if you have ever heard Savage Nation it’s really something else, the man is puuurddy darned attached to his conservative agreements and attachments. Now I listen to these things because I feel that I’m open minded enough to do so, I value the judgments of others, in fact. Last night I heard something that made my jaw drop ---- “God wants to eradicate the radical Islamic religion so it will be so”. Now I was cruising at about 70 when Mr. Savage said this, and wow, just about went off the road. Now even Mr. Savage is entitled to his judgment, I refuse to judge him; the man does a helluva lot of homework and study to form his judgments and his entitled to them. After internalizing that statement for a while, I came to the conclusion to use it in a positive way for my own self improvement. Quit judging myself, and quit thinking my impurities make me weak.

Please do NOT take this as a political argument my affectionate readers, it isn’t the slightest, I prefer to handle my political arguments and judgments face to face. So if you’re either a fan of this man or not I do not care to hear it there are other places for that. I realize I’m putting some beliefs of others on the line with this, I suppose if your angry yes your entitled to that as well.

As the week rolls on and gains momentum, we will eventually leave the Lion sign of Leo and enter the self critical sign of Virgo, so I’m actually thankful that I’m getting all this out now as opposed to waiting for the inner critic to really take over later in the week. So instead I’m going to focus on that bigger picture that I speak of and realize that I’m just in the tempering process and I like you am on helluva sword already, just imagine the end and realize that your almost there, in truth you are there, your just imagining that you are not.