auspicious Full Moon celebrations! May we aim high and bathe in the celestial soma and co create from essence, not effort. May there be compassion suffusing all our thoughts and deeds and the favor of the GODS obtained by our most humble pranams to JUPITER, Brahaspatayer, Guru of Gurus, and indeed remover of darkness. May we all abide in loving kindness and enjoy the divine leela in which ever way it plays out.

A Root In Each Act And Creature
The sun's eyes are painting fields again.
Its lashes with expert strokes
Are sweeping across the land.
A great palette of light has embraced
This earth.
Hafiz, if just a little clay and water
Mixed in His bowl
Can yield such exquisite scents, sights,
Music - and whirling forms -
What unspeakable wonders must await with
The commencement of unfolding
Of the infinite number of petals
That are the
Soul.
What excitement will renew your body
When we all begin to see
That His heart resides in
Everything?
God has a root in each act and creature
That He draws His mysterious
Divine life from.
His eyes are painting fields again.
The Beloved with His own hands is tending,
Raising like a precious child,
Himself in
You.
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~ Hafiz ~
The Gift -- versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky

She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when the sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,
So that in guise it gently sways at ease,
And its supporting central cedar pole,
That is its pinnacle to heavenward
And signifies the sureness of the soul,
Seems to owe naught to any single cord,
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound
By countless silken ties of love and thought
To everything on earth the compass round,
And only by one's going slightly taut
In the capriciousness of summer air
Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

Poet: Robert Frost
Poem: The Silken Tent
Volume: A Witness Tree
Year: Published/Written in
1942