{"id":1272,"date":"2015-07-28T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T12:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astralharmony.com\/blog\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2015-07-29T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T12:45:00","slug":"guru-purnima-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astralharmony.com\/blog\/guru-purnima-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Guru Purnima July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends! The Moon is now waxing toward an auspicious Full Moon \u201cGuru Purnima\u201d culminating on Friday morning, July 31 at ~ 6:43 AM EDT (10:43 AM Universal Time), where it will occur in the sidereal sign of Capricorn, in Shravana nakshatra. According to Vedic tradition, the first Full Moon after Summer Solstice in Ashada month is Guru Purnima, the most auspicious Full Moon of the year. There was another Full Moon in early July that normally would have been the special Guru Purnima but wasn\u2019t because of Adhi Maas (Aadi Masam), the extra intercalary lunar month that we had this year.<\/p>\n<p>Guru Purnima is the most auspicious Full Moon of the year, a time when the whole world is quite receptive to divine blessing. This is the perfect time to begin a new spiritual or healing practice, honor and propitiate our preceptors, and commune with the divine teacher\u2014the gu-ru, dispeller of darkness\u2014who exists within all of nature. The festival of Guru Purnima is dedicated to Veda Vy\u0101sa also, and is therefore also known as Vy\u0101sa Purnima. He is the author of and a character in the Mahabharata, and is considered to have been the narrator of both the Vedas and Puranas, for which Lord Ganesha was his scribe. This day commemorates Veda Vy\u0101sa&#8217;s birthday as well as the day when he is said to have divided the Vedas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astralharmony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Veda-Vyasa-and-Ganesha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1282\" alt=\"Veda Vyasa and Ganesha\" src=\"http:\/\/astralharmony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Veda-Vyasa-and-Ganesha.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Capricorn is a mysterious and magical sign that exemplifies the manifestation of Spirit in matter. The Full Moon here can be a time to pause and enjoy certain *achievements* (that key word for Capricorn). The Moon\u2019s navamsa (ninth harmonic) falls in its exalted sign of Taurus, a pushkara navamsa which gives\u00a0 an added boost of spiritual and material blessings. Shravana nakshatra itself is an equable and genial section within sidereal Capricorn which relates to listening, contemplation, knowledge, organization and music. The Full Moon in Capricorn gently nudges us to take some quiet time to tune in and really pay attention to the &#8220;small still voice within,&#8221; and to take time to simply en-joy life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astralharmony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/full-moon-meme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1298\" alt=\"full-moon-meme\" src=\"http:\/\/astralharmony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/full-moon-meme-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astralharmony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/full-moon-meme-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astralharmony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/full-moon-meme-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/astralharmony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/full-moon-meme.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends! 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