<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">Lion's Gate</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">The stars and planets </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">always point to Now.</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">This moment is the only</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">portal, a wide open doorway </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">of love </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">leading back to earth,</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">our true home. </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">Here's the secret: you don't need</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">to go anywhere else. </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">My astrologer gave up</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">when she looked at my chart </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">and saw constellations </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">spinning out of control,</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">planets madly dancing, </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">erasing their trines and sextiles</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">like lines drawn on water,</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">exchanging aspects like masks</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">of grief and exultation.</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">"You're just empty space!" she said,</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">"How do you do that?"</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">"Friend," I replied,</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">"awareness is a crystal </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">more solid that the sun, </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">more tranquil than Polaris. </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">Everything dissolves</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">but the diamond </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">glistening between your nipples.</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">First, you must learn to smile.</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">Laughter emancipates the stars </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">from the tyranny of knowledge. </div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">Then, let go of yesterday.</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">As for tomorrow, it's already</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;">here.</div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Fred LaMotte</div></div></body></html>