Trauma Release and Psoas Relaxation

This is an exercise technique that activates a specific involuntary response in our brain stem that allows us to relax back into a state of homeostasis after stress by releasing frozen tension and restoring nervous system balance.  We store frozen trauma and stressful experiences in the psoas muscle.  Whenever we find ourselves in a stressful experience we cannot escape by fighting or running away, our nervous system automatically switches to the freeze response.  Tension stays frozen there until we release it. The exercise is perfect if you’re ready to release everyday stress and very, very helpful for trauma survivors, especially soldiers who’ve been in combat or people with CPTSD.  Your muscles will shake, and that’s a good thing; you’re shaking off nervous tension to a rebalanced state of relaxation. I did this very short technique and felt very refreshed and relaxed. I experienced some tenderness afterwards and needed to have a nap and a massage. Supportive touch was very important. If you decide to do this exercise and want or need facilitation and support, a solid grounding practice will help integrate and massage, energy work or, certified TRE practitioners are available all over the world.    If you want to skip right to the exercise, start the video at 4:21 minutes.  Cheers!

Pluto Goes Direct-The Relief of Clarity-You've Got The Power

Pluto, the planet with the energy to transform bitterness and vengeance to true power, goes direct in a few days ¹, so we’re sitting in a pile of bile until there’s movement on Thursday.  Be gentle with yourself and others.  Try to have a good day, don’t overthink or obsess if it leads to misery.  And if you can’t have a good day, don’t spread your misery.  Take advantage of this energy to get to the bottom of what’s really bothering you and get crystal clear about what you've been trying to achieve.  It’s time to know what's beneath it, what you really want and whether your focus is on the mark or not.   Bonus lesson points:  Only you can decide to make it happen.  What you focus on is what you see.  What you’re working for is what you get.  Extra credit:  Let the obsession with bile point the way out of trouble instead of towards it.  Practice flipping off misery with bitter comedy and let the laugh linger, not the bile.  Extra, extra angel credit:  Be patient with our fellow humans, who are learning the same tough lessons.  Be grateful for those who are patient with you.

Imagine all that’s weighing you down-totally dislodging-all the way from your point of view to the tips of your toes.  Have a good stretch and stay loose.  When Pluto goes direct on Thursday we’ll feel more clear and strong.  It will be time to 'release and flush' the albatross of misery, if we choose. ¹  I'm feeling bitter that misery seems to win all the time, still, I take comfort knowing that energy follows focus and sooner or later, we’ll learn to respect this natural law just like gravity and stop thrashing about against it and finally thrive.

When the planet of the sustained efforts needed to create something in reality-Saturn-moves into Capricorn on December 19th, it will initiate a new 2.5 year work cycle to build something that’s meaningful and built to last. ² The karma master will support us to follow natural law and thrive if we work for it.  Mars' 2 year warrior mission to provide fuel to fully express our power among our peers, aids us, and also hints at a time table for accomplishment.  I wish us all tons of strength and the softness and intelligence to ground our healthy goals in pleasurable satisfaction.  

If you plant ice, you’re gonna harvest wind.  “Franklin’s Tower”  Grateful Dead

I can tell your future, just look what’s in your hand.  “Playing In the Band”  Grateful Dead

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References

¹ Pluto Stations Direct, The Constipation Ends, Time to Release and Flush.  Expect changes and nasty decay to finally rot away as Pluto goes direct.  

² Saturn in Capricorn 

³ Astrology dates for 2017

Astrology Dates 2017 EST ³

Jupiter 27°22' ♎️ opposes Uranus 27°22' ♈️:  September 28, 2017, 12:25 am

Pluto Direct:  September 28, 2017, Capricorn 16°51', 3:36 pm

Mercury enters Libra: September 29, 2017, 8:42 pm

Full Moon, October 5, 2017 Aries 12°43', 2:40 pm

Uranus 27°01' ♈️ semi-square Neptune 12°01' ♓️:  October 7, 2017, 3:14 am 

Jupiter enters Scorpio:  October 10, 2017, 9:20 am

Venus enters Libra:  October 14, 2017, 6:11 am 

Jupiter 1°22' ♏️ bi-quintile Chiron 25°22' ♓️:  October 16, 2017, 4:53 pm

Mercury enters Scorpio: October 17, 2017, 3:58 am

New Moon:  October 19, 2017 Libra 26°35', 3:12 pm

Mars enters Libra:  October 22, 2017, 2:29 pm

Sun enters Scorpio:  October 23, 2017, 1:27 am

Saturn 24° 47' ♐️ square Chiron 24° 47' Rx ♓️:  November 2, 2017, 5:56 pm

Jupiter 5°10' ♏️ quintile Pluto 17°10' ♑️, November 3, 2017, 3:30 am 

Full Moon:  November, 4, 2017 Taurus 11°  59′, 1:23 am

Mercury enters Sagittarius:  November 5, 2017, 2:19 pm 

Venus enters Scorpio:  November 7, 2017, 6:38 am

Saturn 25°38' ♐️ trine Uranus 25°38' ♈️:  November 11, 2017, 4:45 am

New Moon:  November 18, 2017  Scorpio 26° 19′, 6:42 am

Sun enters Sagittarius:  November 21, 2017, 10:05 pm

Neptune Direct:  November 22, 2017, Pisces 11° 28’D, 9:21 am

Jupiter 9°23' ♏️ sesquiquadrate Chiron 24°23' ♓️, November 22, 2017, 5:29 pm

Venus enters Sagittarius:  December 1, 2017, 4:14 am

Jupiter 11°30' ♏️ trine Neptune 11°30' ♓️, December 2, 2017, 9:19 pm

Mercury Retrograde:  December 3, Sagittarius  29°18′ Rx, 2:34 am

Full Moon:  December 3, 2017 Gemini 11° 40′, 10:47 am

Chiron Direct:  December 5, 2017, Pisces 24° 19’D, 4:47 am

Mars enters Scorpio: December 9, 2017, 3:59 am

Saturn 29°38' ♐️ quintile Neptune 11°38' ♓️:  December 16, 2017, 10:11 pm

New Moon:  December 18, 2017, Sagittarius 26° 31′ ,1:30 am 

Saturn enters Capricorn: December 19, 2017, 11:49 pm

Sun enters Capricorn:  December 21, 2017, 11:28 am

Jupiter 15°17' ♏️ semi-square Saturn 0°17' ♑️:  December 22, 2017, 9:54 am

Mercury Direct:  December 22, 2017, Sagittarius 13°00’D, 8:51 pm

Venus enters Capricorn:  December 25, 2017, 12:26 am

Uranus 24°35' ♈️ semi-sextile Chiron 24°35' ♓️:  December 29, 2017, 12:41 am

Full Moon:  January 1, 2018, Cancer 11° 38′, 9:24 pm

Uranus Direct:  January 2, 2018, Aries  24° 34’D, 9:11 am

  

Eclipse Season, Summer 2017 - Sun and Mars Birth the Will of Lost Heart

Mars and the Sun cycle, and eclipse,  just like the Sun and Moon.  Every 2 years they line up at the same degree and start a new warrior focus together.  Just a few days into this Leo moon and eclipse season, yesterday we ended the Sun/Mars cycle which started on June 15, 2015 at 23 degrees Gemini.  The energy of 23 Gemini is: Creative Integration of undifferentiated ego desires and higher mind through the lower mind.¹  

Today we begin a new two year cycle at 3 degrees Leo.   The keynote energy for this Leo degree is: The masculine will to conquer their animal nature and to impress their peers with their skill in performing the ancient traditional power rituals.²

This seems pretty right on to me coming out of our last two moon cycles where we just got down to the nitty gritty of reclaiming the energy stuck in lost pains...recovered consciousness of our primal emotions from tribal conditioning...put it all out in front of ourselves and said ..."I've outgrown the need for old conditioning and I will master my primal emotions for my new purpose". ³  The eclipse journey from 0 to 28 degrees Leo is a journey through the heart and this Mars/Sun conjunction feels like birthing the will of our lost heart.  So, bon voyage, beloveds.  Breathe your power and enjoy!

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References
¹ http://www.mindfire.ca/An%20Astrological%20Mandala/An%20Astrological%20Mandala%20-%20Gemini%2016-30.htm (adapted from Dane Rudhyar's notes)
² http://www.mindfire.ca/An%20Astrological%20Mandala/An%20Astrological%20Mandala%20-%20Leo%201-15.htm

³ My Notes

Finally!  Stepping into Life From Our Lion Hearts
I’ve noticed the moon cycles between May and September seem like one big cycle leading us from troubled waters to clear hearts.  Today, July 20th,  we’re at the halfway mark through an energy shift that started around the Gemini new moon on May 25th.  Between today and Sunday’s Leo moon, the waning moon will pass over the significant degrees of the new and full moons since then, clarifying the purpose of our recent journeys.  So these next few days will be really important in putting the pieces of ourselves back together for the next part of the journey.  For the next four or five weeks we’ll journey through the eclipses with strong purpose and a renewed Lion Heart of courage, excellence, integrity and wholeness. 

To summarize the energy so far, Chani Nichols wrote of May’s new moon 
‘Life is equally inspiring as it is painful. Equally full of truths as it is deceit. Equally as loving as it is brutal…This new moon in Gemini asks us to understand the importance of witnessing life in all its diversity. From every side. Angle. Dimension…Pain can be prohibitive to our education at times. Biology tells us to recoil when an open wound is touched, and our psychology often follows this formula. However, we must learn to push past the survival brain’s signals sometimes so that we can get to the deeper meaning that a situation holds.’¹

I adapted this information from what CIA wrote of the Sagittarius full moon on June 9 
‘As Sagittarius’s symbol, the Centaur, combines the two sides of our brains, and as Gemini is dualistic in nature, at this full Moon we are challenged to be both self-aware of our human consciousness of mind and also the part that is driven by our wild, untamed and natural  animal instincts. (adapted from the text)’²

 Debra Silverman wrote of the Cancer new moon on June 23rd
‘Cancer allows us the hardest lessons. To love humanity as it is. To accept the raw, painful human condition that is never as we think it should be. To open your heart to the wounds that have been put in place during your childhood -- specially designed for you and your karma to eventually see them as the gifts they are…This dark night, a double Cancer sky is asking all of us: can you unconditionally love? Can you see that we are all doing the best we can?’³  Somewhere I read that the key to this new moon energy was allowing ourselves to become conscious of the primal emotions of our past conditioning.  Chani Nichols wrote ‘We can’t lighten up until we get real about what is weighing us down. Until all life is cared for, we can’t feel safe or secure. Personally or collectively.’ ⁴

Finally, Dipali Desair wrote about the Capricorn full moon on July 9th
‘…Consider that the Full Moon in Capricorn invites each individual towards greater responsibility of their emotional world and habits or tendencies…Family/Ancestral patterns show up pretty strongly now too. Some of the issues may feel like they have been carried on for generations down the Ancestral lineage, to the point of feeling rigid and inflamed…As much as you are doing your personal healing and work, there are some bigger patterns happening which may need to be cleared and a greater understanding about how they play out in your life now…’ ⁵


¹ http://chaninicholas.com/2017/05/new-moon-gemini-affirmation-horoscopes-week-may-22nd/  
² https://cosmicintelligenceagency.com/full-moon-sagittarius-2/
³ https://debrasilvermanastrology.com/
⁴ http://chaninicholas.com/2017/06/new-moon-cancer-affirmation-horoscopes-week-june-19th/
⁵ https://celestialspace.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/overview-full-moon-in-capricorn-july-9th-2017/



Moon Cycles, Eclipse Dates and Interesting Astrology 
New Moon:  May, 25, 2017 Gemini 8° 15’
Full Moon:   June 9, 2017 Sagittarius 18° 53 (Opposes Taurus Sun)
(Set…your intentions now for when Mars will fully activate the 1° degree point again on September 6th when marching direct again, is about aiming that arrow and looking ahead. CIA https://cosmicintelligenceagency.com/full-moon-sagittarius-2/)

New Moon: June 23, 2017 Cancer 2° 47’
Full Moon:  July 9, 2017 Capricorn 17° 9’ (Opposes Cancer Sun)

New Moon:  July 23, 2017 Leo 0° 44’
Full Moon:   August 7, 2017 Aquarius 15° 25’ Partial Lunar Eclipse (Opposes Leo Sun)

New Moon:  August 21, 2017 Leo 28° 52’ Solar Eclipse 
Full Moon:   September 6, 2017 Pisces 13° 53’ (Opposes Virgo Sun)
(Mars will fully activate the 1° degree point again on September 6th when marching direct again; aim that arrow and look ahead.  CIA https://cosmicintelligenceagency.com/full-moon-sagittarius-2/)

New Moon:  September 20, 2017 Virgo 27° 27’
Full Moon:   October 5, 2017 Aries 12° 42’ (Opposes Libra Sun)