tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334901452024-03-05T16:53:07.820-05:00Yogi Sense kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-77505069076957442242021-02-28T15:17:00.005-05:002021-02-28T19:20:46.777-05:00Virgo Full Moon, February 27, 2021 - Releasing Trauma & Reclaiming Inner Authority: Let Your Emotional Flow Guide You Home<p> </p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><i>We're on a journey to rebirth the Self at the Aries New Moon, April 11th. Until then, we're in the watery realms of emotional vulnerability...melting trauma and healing. </i></h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNLQNguG0bvu8FUd4GoFNbl6fKPKi7HBXsURYC4k9yBLTOf-PaCp_-mCM114rxDxBs4qO6ToAFncaiLtUwXdlObKNe2ujRkR7Imx7sdFj3R6CpTbSgc8119U62xn2jy7PlPIhMKQ/s1226/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+2.13.06+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="1226" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNLQNguG0bvu8FUd4GoFNbl6fKPKi7HBXsURYC4k9yBLTOf-PaCp_-mCM114rxDxBs4qO6ToAFncaiLtUwXdlObKNe2ujRkR7Imx7sdFj3R6CpTbSgc8119U62xn2jy7PlPIhMKQ/w478-h339/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+2.13.06+PM.png" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Let the Emotions Flow</b></h2><p>We're in the process of individuation...becoming the person we really are beyond our learned and conditioned responses that place authority outside ourselves. The only grounding we're experiencing is conscious transformation and constant change (Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus). The Virgo Full Moon yesterday underlined and emphasized what doesn't work anymore and reinforced identification of the nascent parts of us that need help to emerge to support life and to know what sparks joy (thanks Marie Kondo!). The Virgo full moon is a good time to cleanse and clear anything that does not spark joy in your life. There's a need to nourish and nurture ourselves emotionally as we make these new choices. It's helpful to stay grounded in releasing what doesn't support life and supporting and nourishing what makes us feel alive. Have patience to nurture and grow strong what is authentic and hold the vision for this authentic expression. We support ourselves when we're able to tune into the feeling sense of our right responses and commit to parenting this feeling sense lovingly. Emotions are heightened, let them flow and let this flow heal.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg94n4-X5uSh83Qsk3vkIJ46T_T21wlwIIsA6f9uB-OCaCyLhWVcuHGN_RYsaoQxCU7ZXr_QICJP5QNgIJqZLZchlzG0tWnrPaTJn7jI6kDVC5jIu2SIO7lL2dLJWdzu31uwEHUkw/s1056/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+2.27.23+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1056" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg94n4-X5uSh83Qsk3vkIJ46T_T21wlwIIsA6f9uB-OCaCyLhWVcuHGN_RYsaoQxCU7ZXr_QICJP5QNgIJqZLZchlzG0tWnrPaTJn7jI6kDVC5jIu2SIO7lL2dLJWdzu31uwEHUkw/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+2.27.23+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>What Sparks Joy?</b></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjukQbwEiPmY7RrXzdoJM1bLnIbK9EUP2eoVarIaqSj6CC2Z3YwuM8N0jELu-iKtPew9JTqRe4pvzLTyXsVKw5mn9WyQSTusipW7bD0I9IPG_ngiyWX5T7uhyeNEAGNDcrH7j5sIw/s682/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+2.54.54+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjukQbwEiPmY7RrXzdoJM1bLnIbK9EUP2eoVarIaqSj6CC2Z3YwuM8N0jELu-iKtPew9JTqRe4pvzLTyXsVKw5mn9WyQSTusipW7bD0I9IPG_ngiyWX5T7uhyeNEAGNDcrH7j5sIw/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+2.54.54+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></h2><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The Astrology</b></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Virgo Full Moon opposes the Sun/Venus in Pisces: there is discernment around what works and doesn't work. Tune into rituals and the desire to nurture and forgive the past; there is an ability to release hurt and wounds. The Yod between the full moon and Saturn in Aquarius and Chiron in Aries is highlighting the need for the Self to emerge, to support movement to internal authority and the need for patience for the changes that take time. The ruler of the South Node (Jupiter) in wide conjunction to the ruler of the North Node (Mercury) in Aquarius: there is a crisis in consciousness as we become aware of how our conditioned responses no longer serve us and there is an urgent need for our authentic responses to be able to support us. At the moment, we feel weak, but aware of this new self. Stay open, have faith! (Neptune in Pisces) Keep Up!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw7UXoHs5HlfFSxcdrwjZ_MBLYKUEvA9UYSUNyYInfVmEVjFgGcMKQTqezc81P1KsTzhvbZEZrY2L-VLVqCwmFxdqmpt0Pczz70ID3Rjq3K739ErmVSXzBvwr1mFttYJDgtcv-XA/s1442/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+2.59.11+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="1442" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw7UXoHs5HlfFSxcdrwjZ_MBLYKUEvA9UYSUNyYInfVmEVjFgGcMKQTqezc81P1KsTzhvbZEZrY2L-VLVqCwmFxdqmpt0Pczz70ID3Rjq3K739ErmVSXzBvwr1mFttYJDgtcv-XA/w405-h351/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+2.59.11+PM.png" width="405" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMdH-MMu8f0ygX0EvLkhwpThk9sxL2nY4Ov8sXPBKWjUswDfB4LNfS63NofAZJUsRsJnVOzhptlhq5Ea4VH6qditeMK8DCe0oGti1HbPuGsg4-RHFRNrITU3sLaBAyESPK01OpIA/s1582/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+1.43.19+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1582" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMdH-MMu8f0ygX0EvLkhwpThk9sxL2nY4Ov8sXPBKWjUswDfB4LNfS63NofAZJUsRsJnVOzhptlhq5Ea4VH6qditeMK8DCe0oGti1HbPuGsg4-RHFRNrITU3sLaBAyESPK01OpIA/w442-h232/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+1.43.19+PM.png" width="442" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Kundalini Yoga Class </b></h2><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>Support the Flow</b></h3><div><div>Bring your awareness to the water part of you: imagine yourself frozen and melting, identify the quality of water you are with unconditional acceptance, curiosity and affection. Cultivate sensitivity to your vulnerability, and meet yourself where you are in the melting process, gently release what is ready to go and bring the new vision of yourself into focus. Tune into the feeling sense of your right responses and commit to parent this feeling sense lovingly. Emotions are heightened; let them flow and let this flow heal rigidity. Reclaim the inner authority to make good choices for yourself that bring peace, prosperity and security.</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0NJ7MUwEmwnLIJH7BzS3S959zpZQ2f8W6nZGO5a5KAy2hlGL3EKznPfYl2a5MZpHV2F8002GN4uocDUN7ihYFcwPjLekQ8iirDFSOGzNJnw9_pEcSD__k4Cf5w4bUH73BJNRi8Q/s1430/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+1.52.06+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1430" data-original-width="1366" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0NJ7MUwEmwnLIJH7BzS3S959zpZQ2f8W6nZGO5a5KAy2hlGL3EKznPfYl2a5MZpHV2F8002GN4uocDUN7ihYFcwPjLekQ8iirDFSOGzNJnw9_pEcSD__k4Cf5w4bUH73BJNRi8Q/w411-h430/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+1.52.06+PM.png" width="411" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Kriya and Meditation</h3><div><b><a href="https://www.kundalinirising.org/KRIResource/Kriyas/KriyaforRenewedSelfConcept.pdf" target="_blank">Kriya For a Renewed Self Concept</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/mantra/antar-naad-mudra-full-moon" target="_blank">Antar Naad Meditation</a></b></div></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b><b>Mantras</b></h3><div><b><a href="https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/mantra/kundalini-yoga-mantras/mantra-toolkit-chattra-chakkra-varti" target="_blank">Chattra Chakkra Varti</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/mantra/kundalini-yoga-mantras/mantra-toolkit-ek-ong-kar-sat-gur-prasad" target="_blank">Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/meditation/featured-meditations/adi-shakti" target="_blank">Adi Shakti Mantra</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://blog.spiritvoyage.com/mantra-for-creativity-har-haray-hari-waheguru/" target="_blank">Har Haray Haree Wahe Guru</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://spiritvoyage.com/mantra/ardas-bhaee/" target="_blank">Ardas Bhaee</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_TmDIuD4naIqAvLAlJFnU-71lK_IFCZQZXonoq-xK0z91VXpynUco7Meli-gbIYSH4df3qL3XPB6euJmlVa0u0Yixipe_Y29cQrPmMtJLF_MtevPnmM2rcpuOBrmfCWxD1Ek22A/s1140/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+2.46.51+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="928" height="431" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_TmDIuD4naIqAvLAlJFnU-71lK_IFCZQZXonoq-xK0z91VXpynUco7Meli-gbIYSH4df3qL3XPB6euJmlVa0u0Yixipe_Y29cQrPmMtJLF_MtevPnmM2rcpuOBrmfCWxD1Ek22A/w350-h431/Screen+Shot+2021-02-28+at+2.46.51+PM.png" width="350" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Are you interested in learning more about yoga, chakra balancing or energy healing? Learn more at my <a href="http://helenmcgrathhealing.com/index.html">website</a> and take a <a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=722172&stype=-7&sView=week&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000134">yoga class</a> or make an <a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=722172&stype=-9&sView=week&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000134">appointment</a> for Chakra Balancing. xo Priti Vedya Kaur<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-38447903353345465532020-09-10T14:16:00.052-05:002021-02-27T16:03:28.226-05:00Mars Retrograde: Lift the Veil and Ride the Wave to Freedom<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOcySTDYctii8nGD13AJirEeS3L0LpSOHJn6KPQBYO6vAs47xcuVu8ZWb89wzfQktV2Ane9phdAF97SDfSDVGldQssL5l8Gd0NbeDkX5r9kAfn-0kTlE9FNiK5oUtsy5dTR8jsyQ/s876/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.15.45+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="876" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOcySTDYctii8nGD13AJirEeS3L0LpSOHJn6KPQBYO6vAs47xcuVu8ZWb89wzfQktV2Ane9phdAF97SDfSDVGldQssL5l8Gd0NbeDkX5r9kAfn-0kTlE9FNiK5oUtsy5dTR8jsyQ/w500-h226/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.15.45+PM.png" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>Mars Retrograde from September 10-November 14th<br /></b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Mars has turned retrograde in Aries until November 14th. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: trebuchet;"> If you've been wondering when the pressure of 2020 will let up, there's a chance this Mars retrograde will lead us into smoother waters. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It’s a right mess at the moment - during these 2 months this retrograde promises to challenge us deeper - AND - hope is on the way if you navigate the energy to your advantage. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>The Astrology<br /></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Without delving too deeply into the nitty gritty of the astrology - Saturn, Pluto and Jupiter in Capricorn are rewiring our personal neurology and all governing systems.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This trio trines Uranus in Taurus, which disrupts all ways we have dug our heels in for survival in a dehumanizing system, and the Sun in Virgo, which shines a light on where we need to purify ego and choose neutrality. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The nodes in Gemini/Sagittarius are dismantling rigid belief systems about right and wrong, allowing us to see differences as variations on a theme rather than moral certainties about good and evil.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chiron and Mars in Aries are asking us to reconsider who we really are at the core, demanding us to know ourselves deeply before acting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Venus in Leo desires we be valued for our unique gifts and</span> Mercury in Libra wants to find the right way to communicate harmoniously.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Finally, Neptune in Pisces is holding all these personal and collective complex energies in loving and healing liminal space, the space between worlds, when one world is not yet finished, but demands a new one emerge.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When it’s all over, perhaps we will be closer to knowing how to cooperatively relate to the inner and outer worlds from a place of inner authority.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Perhaps we will have some clues about how to relate cooperatively and well enough to thrive.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdt6RISXL2vZgk7BLH7IBDu-D5Rw6ThFkBdFgxERd4YUhGi8oprt5-EqNe7IzPJfBkWlQMBXRD9usu6BbedhXPCajpki3G7WvqhMNKjlV-ecp3hQzKY5UHwU2b6o1BwfcMbAUrA/s876/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.33.24+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="876" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdt6RISXL2vZgk7BLH7IBDu-D5Rw6ThFkBdFgxERd4YUhGi8oprt5-EqNe7IzPJfBkWlQMBXRD9usu6BbedhXPCajpki3G7WvqhMNKjlV-ecp3hQzKY5UHwU2b6o1BwfcMbAUrA/w500-h281/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.33.24+PM.png" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>What are the energies of Mars Retrograde <br /></b></span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Mars in Aries is the primal energy of ‘I AM’.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As a cardinal sign Aries is a creative, initiating force.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As a fire sign it is passionate and inspired.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Ruled by Mars, Aries is confrontational. </span>It is concerned with using the sword of determination to express the unique self. It is always oriented in opposition to a second energy in order to know itself by comparison.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At its best, it is the fierce, determined action to do what needs to be done to nourish, be and express ourselves in a whole and healthy way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At its worst, it may act in impulsive, reckless and divisive ways when it feels threatened or blocked to express itself or have its way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Retrograde Mars in Aries provides intense pressure to confront our conditioning to repress ourselves by understanding the meaning we give to conflict in the interactions with others in our worlds. <span class="Apple-converted-space">There is a need to understand what we are fighting with to be ourselves and to discover what we believe stands in the way of expressing ourselves. The Capricorn planets caution us to temper impulsiveness with long term goals, they ask us to allow the conflict to be internal and to look inward for the answers to what we're fighting before stepping forward with the sword. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4unr7PDsvs42X-n7Lrm7Lx_8ViQe_dlX24OReYMKE5ulwpo17oZp3PRuQjK0CHRIb0GV3wozuCOmHRI_gKIKvoVbADacIqOvBW8QjLt_O1tb583R8lbK_UlTGYwyO3iIQuYVz8A/s874/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.41.51+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="874" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4unr7PDsvs42X-n7Lrm7Lx_8ViQe_dlX24OReYMKE5ulwpo17oZp3PRuQjK0CHRIb0GV3wozuCOmHRI_gKIKvoVbADacIqOvBW8QjLt_O1tb583R8lbK_UlTGYwyO3iIQuYVz8A/w500-h281/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.41.51+PM.png" width="500" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Who Are We Fighting and Why?<br /></span></b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">There has been extraordinary evolutionary pressure since January to face<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>our fears and take this path of individuation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Do we have the right and ability to be self governing? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We’ve not done it before yet the pressure is unrelenting to do it in order to move from surviving to thriving. In fact, the sense is that unless we can thrive, we won't survive.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To succeed, we must know who we are and what we have to offer, stand in our strength and know how to make boundaries from a generous and inclusive heart. The retrograde will help us learn to stop projecting power outside ourselves in spite of the fact we're conditioned to do otherwise.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And this means we must find and reclaim where and how we’re projecting power onto others. We must use our spiritual warrior strength to cut through self deception to truth. And the truth may be complex and lead us to deeply conditioned beliefs and emotions about separation to be reconsidered.</span></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5eX_8mmxF76ZiVkTu3OCeYTqDJMyv81QbcH4xxjlZP4EGmpLkyGwiaeCPOjLEfcwZma8BmnmRxuFI_HoaZe1MIQht36G4traNVToNiOcrNbX_MJIJE3BChnv3e-3BEaxjz7QWA/s1914/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.21.06+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1914" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5eX_8mmxF76ZiVkTu3OCeYTqDJMyv81QbcH4xxjlZP4EGmpLkyGwiaeCPOjLEfcwZma8BmnmRxuFI_HoaZe1MIQht36G4traNVToNiOcrNbX_MJIJE3BChnv3e-3BEaxjz7QWA/w500-h249/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.21.06+PM.png" width="500" /></span></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">We’ve all been preparing in one way or another.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If you’re a kundalini yogi, you have been preparing for this shift in your practice.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> D</span>aily Sadhana brings us deep to know, love and tame the inner worlds. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisx_ki4JVDCrMYtTIrY6kpy4RP94-5BS3QTFnwS7ATT69SDs88aXmoqzcgy85JPZBRLQCuopcASF9k8exbkW1lltH42xEYKBVno-7cvaPL4bYWE2n5FSZm8aX6ibCF-bK8KjZl2g/s720/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.06.37+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="720" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisx_ki4JVDCrMYtTIrY6kpy4RP94-5BS3QTFnwS7ATT69SDs88aXmoqzcgy85JPZBRLQCuopcASF9k8exbkW1lltH42xEYKBVno-7cvaPL4bYWE2n5FSZm8aX6ibCF-bK8KjZl2g/w500-h256/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.06.37+PM.png" width="500" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Mars retrograde will take us deeper into our conditioning and ask us to relate with others differently.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When we run into conflict, we’ll be asked to face the difficult emotions of fear, anger, resentment and even hatred with others who may try to control us or who we may believe are controlling us. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> In fact, even if others are working to control us, it has nothing to do with us and everything to do with their own fears. </span>Or, </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">if we feel blocked or can’t move the way we want to, </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">we may try to handle our fear and irritation by controlling others.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">This retrograde is a gift. These primal, limbic emotions are simply the pressure to be and express ourselves that have been buried and have come to the surface. We are supported to integrate them into our higher consciousness and we’ll have more understanding how to express ourselves more precisely, effectively, cooperatively and confidently by the time the wave hits the shore. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKK0IN_D_Tc8lZxqM0S_zdbnPkvNcX9uEqs1riJ6xvHkI8_ugjRDgJfB7gfVjTEz_hj0G7UjwYMP6SCdu67jqOCMp_PjfJCTnaWrdUcOtji83w5PhikgVu-7JG5pTfTTP9nR-Pw/s874/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+3.04.11+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="874" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKK0IN_D_Tc8lZxqM0S_zdbnPkvNcX9uEqs1riJ6xvHkI8_ugjRDgJfB7gfVjTEz_hj0G7UjwYMP6SCdu67jqOCMp_PjfJCTnaWrdUcOtji83w5PhikgVu-7JG5pTfTTP9nR-Pw/w500-h250/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+3.04.11+PM.png" width="500" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Some Helpful Things to Get Us Through This Time</b></span></div><ul class="ul1"><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>This wave is a gift from Creator</i></b> to help us heal and become whole.</span></span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>W</b><i style="font-weight: bold;">e’ll know how to move forward with more wisdom and confidence, </i>when the wave settles at the shore on November 14th, both on our personal paths and in community. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><i>It is safe to know the deeper emotions. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b>We are supported at this time to be patient and control our impulsivity. </span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><i>You have the right to control your own energy, but not anothers’ energy</i></b>. </span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><i>You only have the right to control your energy</i></b>, know this and be free.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Anger will transform into fierce determination with your loving presence.</i></b> Use this time as an opportunity to know and love your anger and darker emotions better and well.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When you are able to be with it and allow it, the energy will melt to reveal the deeper vulnerabilities beneath it. In this gentler place you will free your emotions from the poison of resentment and feel grounded in a new confidence to move forward with fierce determination. </span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Cut the head off righteous indignation, </i>using your spiritual sword of neutrality and open heart. </span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Use this time to develop deeper compassion</i></b> knowing all beings are on a similar path to reclaim their inner wisdom and will have the hard task, ready or not, to face their deeply buried shadow material. *</span></span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: trebuchet; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>K</i></b><i style="font-weight: bold;">now what you are fighting for before your pick up your sword</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Before striking, ask yourself if you’re striking the right target. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Make a boundary with reactivity first</i></b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Mind your own business when you see others struggling with reactivity</i></b> in a way that causes disturbances and keep others’ success in your prayers. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> Their disturbance will pass. Imagine their desire to succeed. </span></span></span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Continue to work for the higher good and think of others with generosity </b>if you find their reactivity is creating disruptive disturbance that's hard to deal with. Find a way to give them a wide berth; do not take on the disturbance. </span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b><i>Protect yourself with purity and goodwill</i></b>.</span></span></span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Nourish your mind with the loving thoughts</i></b> that we are all children who have a right to be here and all have the right to learn by doing.</span></span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Don't make any assumptions, don't take anything personally, be impeccable with your word and just do your best. </i>Remember these 4 agreements of Don Miguel Ruiz.</span></span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Hatred never ceases by hatred, only love will heal</i></b>. Know this in your core.</span></span></li></ul><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Some kriyas and meditations to help us during Mars retrograde<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">-<a href="https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/meditation/featured-meditations/meditation-self">Meditation on the Self</a></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/authentic-relationships/yogi-bhajan-lecture-love/essence-self"><br /></a></span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">-<a href="https://www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/women/reverse-adi-shakti-kriya-creating-self-love">Reverse Adi Shakti Kriya<br /></a></span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">-<a href="https://www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/health-and-healing/hemisphere-adjustment-and-subconscious-memory-elimination">Kriya for Hemisphere Adjustment & Subconscious Memory Elimination<br /></a></span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">-<a href="https://yoga.destinymanifestation.com/OpportunityGreenEnergy.htm">Opportunity & Green Energy Set<br /></a></span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">-<a href="https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/mantra/3-cycle-laya-yoga-chant">Laya Yoga Meditation<br /></a></span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">-</span><a href="https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/pranayam/pranayam-techniques/meditation-calm-heart" style="font-family: trebuchet;">Meditation for a Calm Heart<br /></a></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">-<a href="https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/mantra/meditation-protection-and-projection-heart">Projection & Protection From the Heart</a></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipsPNmwgI9te1CygFZ3GFlwoLgttnyDhh5QTs2MTFtBF8HxocRrDNbiD2Yt5F8UtwmCp4nrXAZ6cT-TFywg7URQu5uNl1mc4FeEil3h5cIs9k8lxkjmfdV11MKNNAW9zbY8BCAHg/s1078/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.00.57+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="720" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipsPNmwgI9te1CygFZ3GFlwoLgttnyDhh5QTs2MTFtBF8HxocRrDNbiD2Yt5F8UtwmCp4nrXAZ6cT-TFywg7URQu5uNl1mc4FeEil3h5cIs9k8lxkjmfdV11MKNNAW9zbY8BCAHg/w419-h625/Screen+Shot+2020-09-10+at+2.00.57+PM.png" width="419" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: trebuchet; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">*<b>Shadow material</b> is anything that drives your personality from the unresolved emotions of the past. It is disowned parts of ourselves that haven’t been allowed expression.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It can be recognized in irritation, resentments, positive or negative projections, internal and external controlling and depression.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Are you interested in learning more about yoga, chakra balancing or energy healing? Learn more at my <a href="http://helenmcgrathhealing.com/index.html">website</a> and take a <a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=722172&stype=-7&sView=week&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000134" target="_blank">yoga class</a> or make an <a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=722172&stype=-9&sView=week&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000134" target="_blank">appointment</a> for Chakra Balancing. </div></span><p></p>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-17779621655274576852017-09-28T13:05:00.000-05:002017-09-29T23:15:43.061-05:00Trauma Release and Psoas Relaxation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">¹</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/pluto-stations-direct-the-constipation-ends-time-to-release-and-flush" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Pluto Stations Direct</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, The Constipation Ends, Time to Release and Flush.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Expect changes and nasty decay to finally rot away as Pluto goes direct. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jupiter 27</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">°22'</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ♎️ opposes Uranus </span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">27</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">°22'</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ♈️: September 28, 2017, 12:25 am</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New Moon: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">November 18</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, 2017 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scorpio </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">26° 19′, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6:42 am</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mercury Retrograde: December 3, Sagittarius 29°18′ Rx, 2:34 am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chiron Direct: December 5, 2017, Pisces 24° 19’D, 4:47 am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>New Moon: December 18, 2017, Sagittarius 26° 31′ ,1:30 am </b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturn enters Capricorn: December 19, 2017, 11:49 pm</b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sun enters Capricorn: December 21, 2017, 11:28 am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jupiter </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">°17' </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">♏️ semi-square Saturn 0</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">°17'</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ♑️: December 22, 2017, 9:54 am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mercury Direct: December 22, 2017, Sagittarius 13°00’D, 8:51 pm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Venus enters Capricorn: December 25, 2017, 12:26 am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uranus 24</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">°35'</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ♈️ semi-sextile Chiron 24</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">°35' </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">♓️: December 29, 2017, 12:41 am</span></div>
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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: <i style="font-weight: bold;">Creative Integration of undifferentiated ego desires and higher mind through the lower mind.¹ </i><br />
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Today we begin a new two year cycle at 3 degrees Leo. The keynote energy for this Leo degree is: <i><b>The masculine will to conquer their animal nature and to impress their peers with their skill in performing the ancient traditional power rituals.²</b></i><br />
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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". <b>³</b> 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!<br />
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<b>¹</b> http://www.mindfire.ca/An%20Astrological%20Mandala/An%20Astrological%20Mandala%20-%20Gemini%2016-30.htm (adapted from Dane Rudhyar's notes)<br />
<b>²</b> http://www.mindfire.ca/An%20Astrological%20Mandala/An%20Astrological%20Mandala%20-%20Leo%201-15.htm<br />
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<b>³</b> <b>My Notes</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Finally! Stepping into Life From Our Lion Hearts</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I’ve noticed the moon cycles between May and September seem like one big cycle leading us <b>from troubled waters to clear hearts. </b> 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, <b>clarifying the purpose of our recent journeys</b>. 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. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>To summarize the energy so far, Chani Nichols wrote of May’s new moon</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">‘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, <b>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.</b>’¹</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I adapted this information from what CIA wrote of the Sagittarius full moon on June 9 </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">‘As Sagittarius’s symbol, the Centaur, combines the two sides of our brains, and as Gemini is dualistic in nature, at this full Moon <b>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. </b>(adapted from the text)’²</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <b>Debra Silverman wrote of the Cancer new moon on June 23rd</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">‘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:<b> can you unconditionally love?</b> <b>Can you see that we are all doing the best we can?</b>’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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Finally, Dipali Desair wrote about the Capricorn full moon on July 9th</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">‘…<b>Consider that the Full Moon in Capricorn invites each individual towards greater responsibility of their emotional world and habits or tendencies</b>…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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">¹ http://chaninicholas.com/2017/05/new-moon-gemini-affirmation-horoscopes-week-may-22nd/ </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">² https://cosmicintelligenceagency.com/full-moon-sagittarius-2/</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">³ https://debrasilvermanastrology.com/</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">⁴ http://chaninicholas.com/2017/06/new-moon-cancer-affirmation-horoscopes-week-june-19th/</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">⁵ https://celestialspace.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/overview-full-moon-in-capricorn-july-9th-2017/</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><br /><b>Moon Cycles, Eclipse Dates and Interesting Astrology </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">New Moon: May, 25, 2017 Gemini 8° 15’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Full Moon: June 9, 2017 Sagittarius 18° 53 (Opposes Taurus Sun)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(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/)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">New Moon: June 23, 2017 Cancer 2° 47’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Full Moon: July 9, 2017 Capricorn 17° 9’ (Opposes Cancer Sun)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">New Moon: July 23, 2017 Leo 0° 44’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Full Moon: August 7, 2017 Aquarius 15° 25’ Partial Lunar Eclipse (Opposes Leo Sun)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">New Moon: August 21, 2017 Leo 28° 52’ Solar Eclipse </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Full Moon: September 6, 2017 Pisces 13° 53’ (Opposes Virgo Sun)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mars will fully activate the 1° degree point again on September 6th when marching direct again; aim that arrow and look ahead. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">CIA https://cosmicintelligenceagency.com/full-moon-sagittarius-2/)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">New Moon: September 20, 2017 Virgo 27° 27’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Full Moon: October 5, 2017 Aries 12° 42’ (Opposes Libra Sun)</span><br />
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Go back to my <a href="http://www.helenmcgrathhealing.com/">website</a>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-72058454177556457682008-07-02T07:57:00.004-05:002008-07-02T08:09:21.940-05:00Cancer/Capricorn Moon Cycle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MCG/H1336%7EMother-Holding-Baby-1986-Posters.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MCG/H1336%7EMother-Holding-Baby-1986-Posters.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>Cancer New Moon, </span><st1:date year="2008" day="2" month="7"><span style="">Wednesday, July 2, 2008</span></st1:date><span style="">, </span><st1:time minute="19" hour="22"><span style="">10:19pm</span></st1:time><span style=""><o:p></o:p><br />Capricorn Full Moon, </span><st1:date year="2008" day="19" month="7"><span style="">Saturday, July 19, 2008</span></st1:date><span style="">, </span><st1:time minute="59" hour="3"><span style="">3:59am</span></st1:time><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p>Meditation for Cancer<o:p><br /></o:p>I am worthy of self-love.<span style=""> </span>I am worthy of self care.<span style=""> </span>Because I feel this deeply, I choose situations and relationships that radiantly reflect my love and self care.<span style=""> </span>I choose to take care of myself because I am worthy of self care.<span style=""> </span>Because I have walked this path to self love, I have a deep sensitivity for the needs of others and I am a perfect reflection of unconditional love.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>Cancer is first emotion, primordial water. <span style=""> </span>She is the vulnerable infant heart, ready to love unconditionally and dependent on the receptivity of others to her love.<span style=""> </span>Her polarity, Capricorn, is independent of others’ opinions.<span style=""> </span>She is mature Mother.<span style=""> </span>This energy is grounded in Earth, the most mature Earth, it knows its worth (Taurus) itself (Virgo), and natural law.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>She knows how to use it all to create practical solutions to challenges.<span style=""> </span>She is the master manifestor of the zodiac; like the Magician in the Tarot, she knows who she is and how to use the tools she has to create what she wants.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>The invitation this moon cycle is to explore the vulnerability and dependency of the Cancer parts of ourselves as we allow the Capricorn Mother part of us to meet, hold and mature this energy.<span style=""> </span>It is a moon cycle to explore old heartbreak, and to observe old heartbreak in our present life around issues of having our loved received and our dependency issues met.<span style=""> </span>We are meant to learn that we are love-able and that our needs are worthy of self care.<span style=""> </span>We will be maturing unfinished emotional infancy issues.<span style=""> </span>Or, <span style=""> </span>we’re experiencing a desire to love unconditionally rooted in our own self worth.<span style=""> </span>When I think of Cancer’s potential, I think of Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Campassion.<o:p><br /><br /></o:p>Imagine the Cancer part of yourself as an innocent baby who loves who she feels unconditionally.<span style=""> </span>And imagine again, this helpless baby part needs her love reflected back to her to know her love has been received and that her love is good.<span style=""> </span>She needs help to be fed and changed and bathed.<span style=""> </span>Because of these needs, she is very dependent on the response of the other(s).<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>When you consider the zodiac as a map of evolution of the personality, then you understand that there is a next step in emotional evolution.<span style=""> </span>Cancer is undifferentiated emotion, Scorpio is the shared emotion of two individuals and Pisces is transcendent emotion that consciously understands how we are both separate and one at the same time. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>Cancer represents infant love that cannot discern itself from the other. <span style=""> </span>Like the 2 of Cups, it needs to know its love by feeling it reflected back purely.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>If Cancer needs have not been met as a child, and rarely does a child receive a perfect reflection of their love, then the Cancer part of us will meet the world with vulnerability mixed with resentful dependency in the feeling nature…thus the reputation of Cancer for having a hard carapace and pincers.<span style=""> </span>Vulnerable Cancer must protect herself.<span style=""> </span>Resentful dependency leads the lost child seeking approval to experience everyone as parent.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>Alternatively, Cancer needs were met so well that there’s an addiction to dependency.<span style=""> </span>For this Cancer type, if it’s not broke, why fix it!<span style=""> </span>In this case, Cancer is stuck somewhere around 2 yrs old and afraid to take her first steps of independence away from parent because it just feels too good to be taken care of by another.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>Yet another way Cancer gets stuck is in reversing the mirroring process.<span style=""> </span>When a child has emotionally dependent parents, Cancer’s empathy will naturally feel their needs and want to reflect love back to them.<span style=""> </span>Cancer’s pink and gentle heart wants nothing more than for others to feel good.<span style=""> </span>The problem arises for this Cancer type when they ‘need’ to care for others to define their self worth.<span style=""> </span>They usually don’t care for themselves first, but only after everyone else is taken care of.<span style=""> </span>This also leads to resentment in relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>In all cases the emotional focus is projected outward towards the other as Cancer is dependent on the other for permission to love and care for herself.<span style=""> </span>This is a normal part of emotional development, but it is a painful reality when we get stuck here as adults.<span style=""> </span><o:p><br /><br /></o:p>We can understand that healthy differentiation must be achieved somewhere in the middle of this spectrum:<span style=""> </span>our love is reflected back to us <i style="">well enough</i> to allow us to know we’re love-Able (able to love); our dependency needs are met <i style="">well enough</i> to allow us to trust that we are worthy of care and finally, the parent and the child see and respect that each are separate beings with different goals and perceptions.<span style=""> </span>In this healthy scenario, Cancer toddles happily away, looking back over her shoulder to make sure Mommy and Daddy are still there, listening to her inner drive for independence, taking her first steps away from her dependency, steadfast in the knowledge that she is love-able and worthy of self care.<span style=""> </span>From this place of security and self worth, she is able to take the next emotional steps towards sharing affection with others as a separate individual.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>This moon cycle is our yearly opportunity to explore these Cancer issues so we may finally know the value of our love and worth.<span style=""> </span>Even if you didn’t receive positive mirroring as a child, within you is the Capricorn Mother to show you the way.<span style=""> </span>As Wavy Gravy says, ‘It’s never too late to have a happy childhood!’<span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="">J</span></span><span style=""><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>Focus on where the emotional energy is flowing and ask yourself if it feels safe and right for you.<span style=""> </span>Notice if you’re waiting for approval or if you feel angry when you don’t get approval.<span style=""> </span>There may be some grief work as you realize how your love hasn’t been accepted.<span style=""> </span>For the Cancer part of us, rejection of their pink and tender hearts feels like death.<span style=""> </span>And it is.<span style=""> </span>Rejection for Cancer means putting armor on the heart.<span style=""> </span>Notice if you now only choose people who reject your love.<span style=""> </span>Ask the Universe to send the right people into your life to positively mirror you, too.<span style=""> </span>They will be sent to you!<span style=""> </span>If it is your time, ritualize taking your first steps of independence towards unconditional love for yourself and others.<span style=""> </span>There are no mistakes.<span style=""> </span>If you have suffered Cancer vulnerability, dependency or co-dependency, it was creating a river of deep compassion in your heart!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p>To everything - turn, turn, turn<br />There is a season - turn, turn, turn<br />And a time for every purpose under heaven<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span><br /><u><span style="">The Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Cancer is ruled by the Moon.<span style=""> </span>On an archetypal level, this moon cycle reveals the vulnerability of the Divine Feminine in the full force of the Yang part of the yearly cycle.<span style=""> </span>As the days are longest and Nature’s growth maximal, we meet this most vulnerable feeling part of Her/ourselves.<span style=""> </span>Just as the Yin defines and creates the Yang and the Yang defines and creates the Yin ,the powerful force of this season needs the Feminine to define and create it and the Feminine needs the powerful yang force to define and create it.<span style=""> </span>We cannot fully know our Divine Masculine unless we embrace our vulnerable feeling nature.<span style=""> </span>We cannot fully know our feeling nature without embracing the power of the season.<span style=""> </span>The evolution to maturity of this internal relationship leads us to the Sacred Marriage within us.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-91147370624523853462008-04-16T21:37:00.016-05:002008-04-20T08:50:46.854-05:00Scorpio Full Moon/Aries Moon Cycle: The Iron Pentacle<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.faerywolf.com/pics/ironpentacle01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.faerywolf.com/pics/ironpentacle01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aries New Moon ruled by Iron, April 6, 2008/Scorpio Full Moon, Sunday, April 20, 2008, 6:25am EST<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prayer for the Scorpio Full Moon</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I honor the flow of all energy in its purest essence. I open to the Divine perfection of all expressions of energy in the Universe. When I am with others or by myself, I witness the flow in myself and others with an open heart. I relinquish the need to control others' energy and stay deeply centered in my own experience.</span><br /></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">The Scorpio Full Moon arrives in just a few days. There are two things that are important to know about the energies of the new and full moons-Aries and Scorpio this month- Aries is warrior and Scorpio is warrior to the 1,000,000,000th power. The Aries warrior is Iron, direct and forceful. The Scorpio warrior is watery, internal, intense, emotional. How are you experiencing these energies in your life?<br /><br />We began our yearly rebirth at the Aries new moon on April 6th with Aries Iron-this is the part of us who pushes new life growth upwards towards the nourishing sun with the force needed to break out of our seed shells, through the still cold and hard earth, up through the soil. Imagine the force that's needed to break the seed shell-of our new selves. Imagine the force needed to grow through the density of earth-through dense habit patterns. Imagine now that new baby shoot, so fragile, not yet firmly rooted in the earth meeting the same warrior force of millions of other baby shoots.<br /><br />The Scorpio full moon reveals a feeling of life or death emotional disturbance about this first push towards life. Why? It's in the mystery. It's in your cells. You know deep inside you. The only thing I really do know is the Divine Wisdom of the Universe provided us with the force of Iron to birth this new life.<br /><br />It seems very simple when I write about it metaphysically, but here on the earth plane, going to work on the metro everyday, the process is experienced with deep emotional disturbances that defy rational comprehension. When I look around at other people pushing forward this month, I often feel uncomfortable with this energy. I feel uncomfortable with speeding cars and people pushing and shoving. I feel uncomfortable with my own warrior energy. It doesn't feel patient or kind. It doesn't think about other people's emotions first. It's very forceful and direct, not very tactful. It feels like it could create conflict. I have Aries and Mars in the 12th house, so I tend to tiptoe around it or meet it in projection, yet this month I have similar reports from many people. Are we collectively birthing a power part of ourselves? With the releases of the Pisces/Virgo eclipses and Pluto in Capricorn, I believe the time has truly arrived to take a fresh look at warrior as we take leadership roles in rebuilding Earth structures. Personally, I have devoted this time to channeling the energy to Shambhala warrior within myself.<br /><br />Scorpio represents the passion of deeply buried wounded emotions experienced as control, jealousy, vengeance. It's as if the coiled Kundalini snake, having once been burned, sits tightly coiled & ready to strike if there's even a hint of smoke in the air. Mature Scorpio knows the power in learning to navigate these difficult emotions-there's precious innocent energy hidden in the ancient wounding that is worth exploring as our fire meets our water this full moon. Imagine you're riding a fierce dragon and stay committed to love. It is the fire of the Aries warrior being whipped about by the wounded Kundalini. The water must hold the fire. 'Coming from our power puts us in a territory that we can't control. The full range of emotion is our reward, vivid and rich. The Goddess is a gifted surgeon, but not often much of an anesthesiologist. It's good to remember that pain is part of the territory.' (1)<br /><br />Some topics to meditate on could include...slavery, violation, betrayal...all of us hold deep within us the wounds of ancient enslavement...and now is the time to be free! I've been drawn to work with this energy in <a name="seed"><b>the Iron Pentacle Meditation</b> </a>which I've shared below. For more information please refer to <a href="http://www.reclaimingquarterly.org/67/pentacle.html">The Iron Pentacle Meditation</a> and <a href="http://www.faerywolf.com/essay_ironpentacle.htm">Understanding the Harmonics of Consciousness</a><a href="http://www.faerywolf.com/essay_ironpentacle.htm"><span style=""></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">wishing you bliss in your power, Helen<br /><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=""><b>the Iron Pentacle Meditation</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Create a comfortable safe, protected space. Call in your light guides and loving ancestors to help you and direct you towards loving acceptance, release of attachment to negativity and transformation and flow of all energies. Lie down, begin to breath and meditate on each point in the pentacle in your body/mind described below until you are conscious of energy flow and blocks. Bring your loving attention to all parts with the intention to own all your energy until you feel complete. Close your circle and give gratitude.<br /><br />Imagine that your third eye represents <b><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Sex</span></i></b>- the creative power of the Universe. It is both polarity and resonance within the current of Divine energy. It is that point of orgasm in which we open to the Universal dance and participate in its creation and in its destruction within each moment.(2)<br /><br />Now imagine this energy flowing from your third eye to your right foot which represents <b><span style="color:red;">Pride</span></b> - our recognition of our own self-worth and the ability to live fully without reservation, allowing our true nature to shine outward while not giving in to the ego's temptation to compare ourselves to others. It is complete innocence, living fully and unabashedly in the moment. (2)<br /><br />Now imagine this energy flowing from your right foot to your left hand which represents <b><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Self</span></b> -our full knowledge of our own potential as well as our limitations along with the knowledge of who we are in relation to others and the Universe at large.<br /><br />Now imagine this energy flowing from your left hand to your right hand through the heart chakra. Your right hand represents <b><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Power</span></b> -it is the balanced outpouring of our whole being; the focused harmony of all five points in the pentacle which allows us greater access to our own deep potential. It is the projection of ourselves into the world that causes change, that makes magick. It is never manipulative, for true power exists in its own right and finds revelry in cooperative relationships with other beings and points of view. (2) Note that <b><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Power </span></b>arises from a deep knowledge of <b><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Self.<br /><br /></span></b>Now imagine your power flowing from your right hand down to your left foot. Your left foot represents <b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Passion</span></b>-it is our ability to be open to the fullest experience of feeling, whether that be of the highest bliss, or of the deepest depression. It is the true embodiment of ecstasy. (2)<br /><br />Now allow your <b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Passion </span></b>to flow back to your third eye, completing the circuit of life. Continue the flow until you feel complete. </span><b><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br /></span></b><br />peace, love, blessings, joy, Helen<br /><br />(1) http://www.reclaimingquarterly.org/67/pentacle.html<br />(2) http://www.faerywolf.com/essay_ironpentacle.htm<o:p></o:p></p>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-85108867362974162892008-03-31T13:18:00.016-05:002008-04-01T14:47:12.650-05:00Summary of the Pisces/Libra Moon cycle<span style="font-weight: bold;">Summary of the New Moon in Pisces, Friday, March 7, 2008, 12:14pm EST, 17º 31’ / Full Moon in Libra, Friday, March 21, 2008, 2:40pm EST, 1º 31’ </span><br /><br />With the new moon less than a week away, I’d like to bring some light to the Pisces/Libra moon cycle and the yearly cycle we’re finishing up to hold us in love and light as we move through the dark days of this moon cycle towards the powerful rebirth of Horus at the Aries New Moon on April 6th. This is the time of year when we willingly release the parts of the ego which no longer serve our higher self and the new child energy we are birthing in our lives.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here are the Sabian Symbols for the new and full moons:<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">PISCES 18: IN A HUGE TENT A FAMOUS REVIVALIST CONDUCTS HIS MEETING WITH A SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCE </span><br />and<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">LIBRA 2: THE LIGHT OF THE SIXTH RACE TRANSMUTED TO THE SEVENTH</span><br /></div><br />I’ll try to sum it up in a few sentences. After the annular and solar eclipses, some part of us chose to come down from our personal mountains of spiritual isolation and alienation from the community. We felt confidence to:<br />1) face our fears and<br />2) to be with the fragile parts of ourselves who have felt small and vulnerable and<br />3) the willingness to meet the other as an equal, even the parts of others who feel small and vulnerable. This is the suffering of the world that we've protected ourselves from in the past .<br /><br />We've probably all had different experiences; my experience has been to know I'm not willing any longer to take this journey alone. And there has been a realization that if I really want to be here with everyone else in the community of humankind, then I will want to learn new ways to be with the fragile parts of myself and with the fragile parts of others.<br /><br />Dis-armed or dis-arming is where we find ourselves. Or perhaps <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">fully </span>armed and aware of the fragility and the reasons we ran up the mountain in the first place!!! We've met our fragility and the part of us who protects us from the fragility. It's our unique revivalist, the part who gives a great performance....you know, that part of yourself who knows how to keep the crazies at a safe distance? Think and feel about what it is you do when you feel threatened...it's never satisfying...OK, it's never <span style="font-style: italic;">fully</span> satisfying...and usually you feel alone in it. Perhaps you've been the one who keeps it together no matter what and now you're feeling the need to be held. The revivalist may not have gotten fired yet, but there is serious consideration and internal negotiations going on about his usefulness in our lives. The Libra full moon has graced us with ‘neutral mind’ around this deeply emotional process, providing spaciousness in old belief/thought patterns. And probably there has been a shift in consciousness in your thinking equivalent to an ascension from the 6th to the 7th ray.<br /><br />In the last days of this cycle we may be experiencing the desire to<br />1) run back up the mountain!!!! or<br />2) be with our fragile parts with a new compassion and strength and<br />3) be with the fragile parts of others with a new found compassion and strength or<br />4) possibly wanting to run back up the mountain, but choosing to stay anyway and praying for a path to love and light here at the foot of the mountain :-)<br /><br />For more detailed information on the Astrology of the Pisces and Libra paths to maturity, please see the preceding entry from the writings of Guru Rattana: <a href="http://evolutionaryastrology.blogspot.com/2008/03/pisceslibra-moon-cycle-march-2008.html">Pisces/Libra Moon Cycle</a><br /><br />With the powerful releases of the annular and solar eclipses of February and March, there has been a feeling of new beginnings. As someone wrote earlier this week, there’s a feeling of arriving. ‘Every Planet except Saturn is direct through April 2, when Pluto goes retrograde. Saturn goes direct May 3rd. The direct movement of the planets has created a feeling of forward motion. We have been supported in taking action and getting things done.’ (1) ‘Many of the major planets consolidated in Pisces and Aquarius during this time. Uranus in Pisces conjuncted the Pisces New Moon. The astrological context favored access to expanded states of consciousness, which lead to new insights, revelations and the exploration of dimensions beyond the rational mind. It has been the time to call our Soul into our body and to get busy offering our gifts to the world.’ (1)<br /><br />We are pioneering a shift from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age. The boundary between the two times, like the energy of Pisces itself, is illusory and prone to deception and human suffering. It’s no news that we are being asked to shift into a higher consciousness; this moon cycle I have surely shifted back and forth between an old familiar kind of Pisces suffering and expansiveness with old problems. What <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">is</span> new is there is a new freedom within to allow faith and practical solutions into old fear based grids/patterns.<br /><br />At its core, Pisces is the desire to merge with the Divine. Yet beneath that desire is a painful and hidden emotional experience…the deep emotional pain and longing for merging that is borne of a belief in alienation and separation. The solar eclipse allowed us space in old beliefs so we could come down off the mountain disarmed-to take space from the Piscean Age illusion that connection with the Divine is <span style="font-style: italic;">‘out there’</span>. The suffering of the Piscean Age has really come from deep fear we must protect ourselves from the collective suffering of humanity-the belief that another’s suffering can hurt me.<br /><br />So we went up that mountain, walked away from the suffering of our brothers and sisters, or took it on as our personal burden, putting our hopes in an external redeemer while sitting tight, contracting the body and holding our breath. The dis-arming some part of us agreed to at the eclipse has opened us to feel the pain of the contraction of 2000 year old armor. It’s not all ours to hold; the ancestors hold themselves here too. And it hurts in our bodies now…as we do our yearly self cleanse…as the energy rises from deep in the body to meet the new warmth, bringing it with it our fragile emotions. Keep breathing into the contractions for the Aries rebirth this week. Remember that this dark moon is not simply any old dark moon before a new moon, but is the dark moon that leads to our yearly Aries birth. We are still integrating the eclipse energies. Choose what you want.<br /><br />Peace, love, blessings, joy, Helen<br />(1) <a href="http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/">New Millenium Being</a>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-59390481100932950432008-03-31T12:43:00.001-05:002008-03-31T12:54:45.732-05:00Pisces/Libra Moon cycle March 2008<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Moon in Pisces, Friday, March 7, 2008, 12:14pm EST, 17º </span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:formulas> <v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"> <o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="pcs" style="'width:13.5pt;"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~3.FAE\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.gif" href="http://www.astrowisdom.com/signimages/piscesbl.gif"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img style="font-weight: bold;" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ADMINI%7E3.FAE/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image002.gif" alt="pcs" shapes="_x0000_i1025" height="14" width="18" /><!--[endif]--><span style="font-weight: bold;">31’</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sabian Symbol:</span><o:p></o:p><br />PISCES 18<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> IN A HUGE TENT A FAMOUS REVIVALIST CONDUCTS HIS MEETING WITH A SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCE</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">The following is from Guru Rattana’s New Millenium Being:<span style=""> </span>http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/ (not yet published online)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Index:</span><o:p></o:p><br />PART I - CURRENT ASTROLOGICAL INFLUENCES <o:p></o:p><br />PART II - UNDERSTANDING THE PISCES AND </span><st1:place><span class="style49">NEPTUNE</span></st1:place><span class="style49"> ARCHETYPES <o:p></o:p><br />PISCES’ PATH TO MATURITY<o:p></o:p><br />ESTABLISHING OUR DIVINE CONNECTION<o:p></o:p><br />FALSE ATTEMPTS TO MERGE<o:p></o:p><br />ILLUSION FORMULAS<o:p></o:p><br />THE ILLUSION OF THE AURIC BLUR<o:p></o:p><br />FALSE MERGERS ARE ONLY TEMPORARY:<span style=""> </span>ESCAPISM<o:p></o:p><br />WAKING UP IS REQUIRED<o:p></o:p><br />IN-THE-BODY, EMOTIONAL ECSTASY<o:p></o:p><br />WINE IS THE CATALYST TO AWAKEN OUR UNCONSCIOUS WORLD<o:p></o:p><br />WHAT WINE DO WE CHOOSE?<o:p></o:p><br />CONSEQUENCES OF BAD WINE<o:p></o:p><br />HOW TO IDENTIFY THE BEST WINE<o:p></o:p><br />TOUCHSTONES FOR CHOOSING THE BEST WINE<o:p></o:p><br />PART III - DEEPENING YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE<br />THE DIVINE WINE<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PART I - CURRENT ASTROLOGICAL INFLUENCES </span><o:p></o:p><br />Every Planet except Saturn is direct through April 2, when Pluto goes retrograde. Saturn goes direct May 3rd. The direct movement of the planets creates a feeling of forward motion. We are being supported in taking action and getting things done.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">The Virgo Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse February 20-21 and the Pisces New Moon March 7 both create openings for new beginnings and directions. Many of the major planets consolidate in Pisces and Aquarius during this time. Uranus in Pisces conjuncts the Pisces New Moon. The astrological context favors access to expanded states of consciousness, which lead to new insights, revelations and the exploration of dimensions beyond the rational mind. It is time to call our Soul into our body and to get busy offering our gifts to the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="style49">PART II - UNDERSTANDING THE PISCES AND </span><st1:place style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="style49">NEPTUNE</span></st1:place><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> ARCHETYPES</span> <o:p></o:p><br />Pisces is the 12th and final sign of the zodiac. When we get to Pisces, we have reached the last phase of our journey on Planet Earth. Our goals, needs and desires shift dramatically. During the first 11 stages of our journey, our focus is on learning the lessons associated with the individualization process. Our goals include developing our will and building a solid sense of Self.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PISCES’ PATH TO MATURITY:</span><o:p><br /></o:p>(1) We don't give up our Self. <span style="font-style: italic;">We expand our experience of Self</span>.<br /><br />(2) We don't disappear and become a non-entity. <span style="font-style: italic;">We merge our being with the Infinite and establish our Infinite presence on Earth. </span><br /><br />(3) We don't surrender into helpless nothingness. <span style="font-style: italic;">We let go of our limited perceptions of reality so that we can serve humanity</span>. Pisces is the last sign. We are still here on Planet Earth. We still have work to do and service to offer. We aren't dead yet!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> ESTABLISHING OUR DIVINE CONNECTION</span><br />Establishing our Divine Connection is required in our Pisces stage of development. To establish an authentic and lasting connection with the Infinite, we must (1) be able to step out of our analytical minds, and (2) leave our need to control at the entrance of the rabbit hole to Infinite reality. To lift the veil that separates us from the cosmic realm of divine oneness, we must (1) awaken our mind, (2) open our heart and (3) become conscious enough to experience the unity of all life.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> FALSE ATTEMPTS TO MERGE</span><br />It is tricky dealing with Pisces and Neptune because we may aspire to God-consciousness, but with rare exceptions, humans aren't there yet. In our unconscious, un-awakened state, the need for union still exists. Lost in asleep mode, we don't know how to get our need for Divine Connection met. So we try to cover up our deep psychic suffering with false substitutes. We are driven to try to satisfy this desire in unhealthy ways. We create problems, pain and suffering for ourselves when we attempt to fulfill this need with (1) substances, (2) circumstances and (3) relationships that are NOT the "real thing."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ILLUSION FORMULAS</span><br />The most basic Piscean/Neptunian illusion is that the experience of union is to be found in temporary, worldly substitutes - someone or something outside ourselves. These false unions can be with (1) addictive substances, (2) mommy and daddy stand in's /partners, (3) religious or political ideologies, and (4) material possessions and identification with financial and social status.<br /><br />One identifying formula is "I am a ---- because I relate to, believe in, worship or belong to ----."<br /><br />You can fill in the blanks with your illusion of choice. We all have them! Part of our Pisces healing is to identify what we are using as substitutes for our Divine Connection. Once we know how we are trying to get our unity need meet, we can shift our strategy.<br /><br />The defining test of illusionary formulas is when we (1) lose our boundaries and<br /><br />(2) our connection with Self. If we are dependent upon and energetically and psychologically enmeshed with 'a false god,' we have been swallowed up by some Neptunian illusion of transcendence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE ILLUSION OF THE AURIC BLUR</span><br />Addictive substances - drugs, alcohol and food- (1) numb the emotions, (2) dissolve the sense of self and (3) weaken and even make holes in the aura. Instead of a strong, coherent and integrated aura, the energy field around our body disintegrates into a porous, gray cloud.<br /><br />Auric blurs create illusions. We feel like we have merged with something larger than ourselves because we no longer have clearly defined energetic boundaries. We get a fuzzy feeling because we have become energetic mush, not because we have merged with the Divine.<br /><br />The temporary, phony euphoria is a result of anaesthetized emotions, which lowers our ability to feel. We get sucked into the energy fields of drugs, alcohol, TV or junk food. We have merged with the lower frequencies of mass consciousness, but not with the higher realms of God consciousness. We have merged with some form of JUNK, not with Spirit.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> FALSE MERGERS ARE ONLY TEMPORARY</span><br />Escapism and self-abandonment are Neptunian traps. Just when we think we have found the Divine in our out-of-the-body meditation, we are rudely awakened to the fact that we have to go to work, answer the phone or make a meal for the kids.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">The most painful Neptunian alarms sound when we try to merge with an addictive substance or another person. The most debilitating co-dependence is created when we identify with someone else to the extent that the boundaries are blurred between us. We are engaged in a serious addiction if we feel threatened and anxious by the loss of the relationship.<br /><br />If we feel like we will die if our messy merger is terminated, chances are it will end. The temporary euphoria of oneness is rudely interrupted by painful shocks that hurt like no other wound. Being ripped apart from a substance or a lover creates an auric pain that only the 'real thing' can heal. (Kirtan Kriya is the mediation given by Yogi Bhajan to deal with this situation. See Part III)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WAKING UP IS REQUIRED</span><br />The most critical requirement for merging with the Infinite, and the only way to avoid deceptive substitutes, is to be awake and aware and to experience our own authentic Divine Connection.<br /><br />We are bound to fall into Neptunian traps when we operate out of asleep consciousness. When we are asleep, we attract unpleasant situations to wake us up!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> IN-THE-BODY, EMOTIONAL ECSTASY</span><br />Pisces is a water sign. The water element corresponds to the emotional body. What we do with our emotional body is of critical importance. Our escapist tendencies are fueled by the desire to escape emotional pain.<br /><br />Pisces' goal is NOT (1) to escape from our body, (2) to transcend our worldly existence, or (3) to avoid feeling. Pisces as the last water sign invites us to experience our authentic self and the Infinite inside our mind and body and to feel this pleasure with emotional intensity. Pisces seeks, and can only be satisfied, through the experience of emotionally engaged, full-body, not of-out body, bliss.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WINE IS THE CATALYST TO AWAKEN OUR UNCONSCIOUS WORLD</span><br />Both myths and religions consider 'drinking wine' to be a special part of the ceremony that awakens humans to another state of consciousness. 'Wine' is not supposed to be a substance to cover up or to escape from emotional pain.<br /><br />Wine is the symbol of the catalyst that makes it possible to access the deeper realms of being where (1) we let go of our inhibitions of guilt and fear so that we relax and enjoy life, (2) our creative powers flow and (3) our Divine Connection happens. There is a special life-force that renders the mind and emotions available to both the creative and spiritual worlds. Wine represents this universal energy or life force.<br /><br />Artistic creation happens when the creative powers of the unconscious and Nature overpower the rational mind and detach the mind from rational thoughts, the ego and self-consciousness. The infusion of Divine energy elevates our consciousness so that our union with the Divine is possible.<br /><br />Wine is the symbol of the substance or force that awakens us to our unconscious world. The unconscious can deliver us to the gift of authentic inner joy or uncover hidden demons of fear. What we access in our unconscious ranges from (1) destructive and primal, animalistic urges,<br /><br />(2) our innate creative expressions, (3) connection with our soul and Source.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHAT WINE DO WE CHOOSE?</span><br />The question is what 'wine' do we choose. Different wines produce different results. Wine can be (1) a brew that leads drunken excesses (2) a tonic that helps us let go of and transcend past emotional traumas, or (3) our cup of bliss.<br /><br />(1) Lower grade wines can incite our basest nature and evoke savage cruelty and brutality. In many myths, excess imbibing of the 'fruits of the vine' lead to debauchery and undignified behavior. Too much of 'the seductive substance' can lead to insanity and madness.<br /><br />(2) Other unauthentic wines produce states of fantasy and delusion. The illusory world may be less physically destructive, but it is emotionally and intellectually damaging. And it renders us unproductive and dysfunctional.<br /><br />False wines lead us into confusion, chaos, pain, and suffering. They perpetuate our separation from Source. Lost in the duality of separation, we experience existential suffering, which we try to get rid of by numbing ourselves to the unbearable emotional pain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONSEQUENCES OF BAD WINE</span><br />The consequences of imbibing bad wine are unfortunate. The realization that our attempt to merge has failed can drive us to despair. The prolonged separation of Self from the Divine that can drive us insane. The inability to experience within ourselves the union between the Divine Masculine and the Creative Evolutionary Feminine that torments our psyche.<br /><br />We don't know where to turn.<br /><br />We don't know what wine to drink.<br /><br />We imbibe too much of the bad wine and too little of the good wine.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> HOW TO IDENTIFY THE BEST WINE</span><br />When we drink bad wine, we are driven deeper into the lower realms of our unconscious, where we experience mental and emotional pain and suffering.<br /><br />When we drink Divine wine, (1) our creativity is aroused and blossoms forth. (2) We eagerly participate in the process of creation and offer our gifts to the world. (3) We are emotionally engaged in a very satisfying way. (4) We embrace the flow of the evolutionary unfoldment of our soul. We experience joy when the wine we drink makes it possible for our psyche to walk through the doors that once separated us from our Creator.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOUCHSTONES FOR CHOOSING THE BEST WINE</span><br />Not good signs<br /><br />(1) When the 'high' experience disappears, do we have downers?<br /><br />(2) Is the temporary euphoria 'ecstasy' followed by agony?<br /><br />(3) Do we experience extreme mood swings, no moderation and get lost in the sea of emotionality? NOT A GOOD SIGN.<br /><br />Good signs<br /><br />(1) Does our experience bring us happiness, freedom and peace?<br /><br />(2) Do these experiences get stronger, come back easier and last longer?<br /><br />(3) Do we feel more present in our body, more grounded, more aware and more stable?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PART III - DEEPENING YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> THE DIVINE WINE</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">Divine wine is not an alcoholic beverage. Divine wine is universal energy and life-force. Three powerful ways to imbibe this life-force are by partaking of this energy through (1) the breath, (2) divine mantras, and (3) devotional chanting.<br /><br />(1) THE BREATH connects us to the prana which enlivens and sustains us. Each inhale delivers the universal life-force that pervades everywhere and persists regardless of form.<br /><br />(2) DIVINE MANTRAS carry the frequency of universal energy. The sounds act like a bridge between physical and non-physical realities<br /><br />(3) DEVOTIONAL CHANTING not only taps the higher frequencies encoded in divine mantras and the Word, it engages the emotional body. What we do with our emotional body is of critical importance. Engaging our emotional body in devotion provides the glue that integrates the Infinite and the finite.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> DIVINE MANTRA MEDITATIONS TO RELEASE ADDICTIONS</span><br />Yogi Bhajan has given Kirtan Kriya or SA TA NA MA Meditation to bring the aura back to wholeness. The sound current is a healthy way to cultivate an experience of union with the Divine. The delusionary substitutes for union with the Infinite must be replaced by energies that embody Divine substance. When we experience the Divine and oneness within, it is possible to be compassionate and be in relationship while maintaining the boundaries of our own identity.<br /><br />When one is suffering from severe auric pain, it is best to do the 31 minute version of this meditation, but there is also a 11 minute version. This meditation is explained in depth in the free on-line lessons (www.kundaliniyoga. org ) and in many Kundalini Yoga manuals.<br /><br />Following Kirtan Kriya by 'Wahe Guru Meditation for Surrender' on page 123 in RELAX AND RENEW is very powerful. After clearing the subconscious and opening the third eye with Kirtan Kriya, this meditation uses the breath to pull in prana and then projects the Wa He Guru, which means ecstasy, out the third eye.<br /><br />First practicing a Kundalini Yoga Kriya is essential to stay grounded and to absorb the effects of the mantras in the physical and emotional bodies. We must develop the lower chakras along with the upper chakras. The Pituitary Set #3 on page 51 in SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY (available on www.yogatech. com ) is a powerful (and short to medium length) set to develop the first and third chakras, while simultaneously activating the third eye.<br /><br />The important thing is to do whatever kriya and meditation you choose with awareness. Be aware of drinking infinite energy with every breath and be present to the nectar that resonates with the sounds of the mantras.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">________________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="style49">Full Moon in Libra, </span><st1:date style="font-weight: bold;" year="2008" day="21" month="3"><span class="style49">Friday, March 21, 2008</span></st1:date><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="style49">, </span><st1:time style="font-weight: bold;" minute="40" hour="14"><span class="style49">2:40pm EST</span></st1:time><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">, 1º </span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="lbr" style="'width:9pt;height:9pt'"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~3.FAE\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.gif" href="http://www.astrowisdom.com/signimages/librapnk.gif"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img style="font-weight: bold;" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ADMINI%7E3.FAE/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image004.gif" alt="lbr" shapes="_x0000_i1026" height="12" width="12" /><!--[endif]--><span style="font-weight: bold;">31’</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sabian Symbol:</span><o:p></o:p><br />LIBRA 2<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> THE LIGHT OF THE SIXTH RACE TRANSMUTED TO THE SEVENTH</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p>Libra Full Moon provided an opportunity to use our Libra skills of “higher mind” or the neutral mind to reinvent ourselves around our Pisces illusions and to show us the path to the true Divine Pisces connection we so deeply desire so that we may transcend our human suffering.<span style=""> </span>Libra skills vary according to their level of maturity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p>The following is from Guru Rattana’s New Millenium Being:<span style=""> </span><a href="http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/backissues/nmb124.html"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/backissues/nmb124.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Libra’s Path to Maturity:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IMMATURE -> MATURE</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style=""></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Indecisive -> decisive</span><br /><o:p style="font-style: italic;"><br /></o:p><span style="font-style: italic;">Ambivalent, indirect -> clear, direct</span><o:p style="font-style: italic;"></o:p></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p>Look outside self for opinions -> <span style=""> </span>inner authority<br /><o:p></o:p><br />Self doubt -> self trust, secure within self<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">Take things personally -> maintain emotional boundaries<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p>Over-sensitive -> aware and detached<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">No center -> inner equilibrium<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p>Look outside for balance -> <span style=""> </span>find balance in neutral center<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">Co-dependent -> independent/supportive in empowering partnerships<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">Intellectually cold and isolated -> <span style=""> </span>heart-centered and willing to connect<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">Judgmental -> non-judgmental, tactful<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">Hidden agendas -> harmonious presence<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p>Project inner conflict -> project inner peace and harmony<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">Superficial image conscious -> take a stand for justice and peace<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p>Focus on appearance -> focus on substance<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p>Fear-based -> self-confident, personal integrity <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49">Please others -> listen to others<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p>Nice to not offend -> honest, fair perspective<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p></o:p>Fear of not saying the right thing -> know what’s right and honestly <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><span style=""> </span>communicate it<o:p><br /></o:p>Mr./Ms. Nice Person -> true diplomat, fair mediator<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"> <o:p></o:p><span style=""></span>Compromise true feelings and needs -> honest about feelings and needs<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"> <span style=""></span>Compromise to get agreement -> hold space for harmonious alignment<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style49"><o:p style="font-style: italic;"> </o:p><span style="font-style: italic;">Creates resentment and manipulation -> creates cooperation and unity</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-21456259232413459242008-02-19T08:58:00.003-05:002008-02-20T14:03:28.980-05:00Full Moon in Virgo, Total Lunar Eclipse, Feb 20th, 2008, 10:26-31pm EST<h3 style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="post-title"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">THE SOLUTION IS TO TRUST IN THE MYSTERY-FEEL YOUR PRAYERS IN YOUR BODY AND ALLOW YOURSELF TO OPEN TO NEW SOLUTIONS TO GROUND THEM IN REALITY</span><br /></span></h3> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >USE INNER FOCUS TO COMMIT TO HEALING SELF AND SOCIETY (Sandra Pastorius-WeMoon Calendar)</span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Who is the new you imagined and prayed for at the new moon?<span style=""> </span>The gift of this new moon was an expanded perception of your reality.<span style=""> </span>There was an opportunity to open to a new way of perceiving an old situation.<span style=""> </span>The annular eclipse allowed for <b style=""><i style="">powerful release</i></b> of old limiting beliefs about your relationship to the community and how you fit into and cooperate with the community of humankind.<span style=""> </span>What was your desire?<span style=""> </span>Remind yourself of your new moon desires.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p>These desires have had to weather the storms of reality as we approach the Earth-y Virgo Full moon.<span style=""> </span>The new moon is a rebirth.<span style=""> </span>The new part of you is naïve, inexperienced, innocent…like a child…unaware of the deeper dynamics that shape reality.<span style=""> </span>(Are you aware that you are creating your experience/your reality with your beliefs?)<span style=""> </span>The seed planted will only bear fruit with attention and nurturing. <span style=""> </span>I do hope you all had the opportunity to feel and nurture the purity/innocence of your new moon desires.<span style=""> </span>If you felt it, the feeling became your prayer; regardless of your experiences this cycle, the innocent prayer was heard by your higher self and the Universe.<span style=""> </span>Now, how do you ground it in reality?<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p>Well, you have to get out of your own way.<span style=""> </span>The waxing moon has shed light on your true relationship with the community. <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>It has revealed where we’re strong and where we’re struggling.<span style=""> </span>If we believe someone is to blame for our struggle, we still have work to do (My personal message is to be the change I want.<span style="">) </span><span style=""> </span>Hopefully the waxing moon is revealing the beliefs that shape your reality.<span style=""> </span>Are they working for your desires or against them?<span style=""> </span>The Virgo full moon calls us home to the truth, our Selves, our body, our Virgo Priest/Priestess.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>And it does so like Coyote, like Trickster.<span style=""> </span>Allow the full moon to turn your beliefs on their heads.<span style=""> </span>Think outside the box.<span style=""> </span>Ruled by Mercury, the path of growth for Virgo is from self deception and criticism of self/the other <span style=""> </span><b style="">-></b> <span style=""> </span>deep self knowledge, acceptance of self/other and <b style=""><i style="">discernment</i></b>…the ability to pick and choose what feeds and nourishes your dreams in reality, in your body.<span style=""> </span>You will know because you will feel it.<span style=""> </span>The truth is in the body in the feelings.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p>Now, this is the last total lunar eclipse until 2010; it’s a culmination of work we’ve been doing the past several years and will require some integration time.<span style=""> </span>This means it’s <b style="">BIG!!!</b><span style=""> </span>There are two release points in your chart to consider:<span style=""> </span>2 degrees Virgo and it’s opposition 2 degrees Pisces.<span style=""> </span>Here are there Sabian Symbols for your consideration:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">2 degrees Virgo<o:p></o:p><br /><span class="style8"><b style=""><i style="">A LARGE WHITE CROSS, DOMINATING THE LANDSCAPE, STANDS ALONE ON TOP OF A HIGH HILL</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><i style=""><o:p></o:p></i></b>And</span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p>2 degrees Pisces<o:p></o:p><br /><span class="style8"><b style=""><i style="">A SQUIRREL HIDING FROM HUNTERS </i></b></span><b style=""><i style=""><o:p></o:p></i></b><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p><br /></o:p>I believe the message here is:<span style=""> </span>Do you believe you must sacrifice your needs for the collective?<span style=""> </span>Does that work?<span style=""> </span>Does it actually serve? Do you serve from guilt and fear or love-self love and love for the other? Do you know the difference? Do you want to? <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">In light of it’s opposition:<span style=""> </span>Do you sacrifice your Self (the highest expression of your Divine Self) because your feel overwhelmed by the power of the collective dream/nightmare? Do you feel small in relation to the collective dream/nightmare? What do you do about that? Are you in love or fear? <span style=""> </span>This is a possible interpretation of the potential release of this eclipse.<span style=""> </span>But on this Virgo Full Moon, awaken your inner Priest/Priestess and meditate on the Sabian symbols yourself to discover, <b style=""><i style="">in your body, </i></b><span style=""> </span>the truth of it for yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><o:p></o:p>Peace, love, blessings, joy, Helen</span>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-68163911456756668692008-02-05T15:56:00.000-05:002008-02-05T16:01:28.805-05:00New Moon In Aquarius, Wednesday, Feb. 6th, 2008, 10:44pm<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">New Moon/Annular Solar Eclipse at 17-18 degrees Aquarius<br /><br /></span> <p class="MsoNormal">Cutting chords with unhealthy internal father energy last month has led us to some liberation in wounded parts, allowing a desire to arise for sharing our gifts with the community in some way. Perhaps. Or perhaps we just have a tiny inkling of who we could be if we were liberated. The bottom line of the Capricorn/Leo moon cyle was: let your mistakes lead you to what you really want.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">And we land at the doorstep of our love for our brothers and sisters. And our desires for community. Now open to what you really want...<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">not what you don't want</span>...<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">what you want</span> without the problems. The message I get now is: open to receive new messages because solutions will not come from the old beliefs...we must open to receive new ones. Let them flow in. Let the eclipse tomorrow 'break open the head' around wounded beliefs. Check your chart for 18 degrees Aquarius to see what's happening there (or what it's aspecting) because those areas will be activated, liberated (possibly) from old ways of thinking about a problem. But don't <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">think </span>too much about it...or the old beliefs will speak. Let the new inspiration flow into you and around you and with you by your side. In the following two weeks, you will learn how to ground these new ideas into your deepest life flow with the Virgo Full Moon on Feb. 20th <st1:time minute="30" hour="10">10:30 EST.</st1:time></p><br />Peace, love, joy, blessings, Helenkalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-84565705231657587002008-02-05T15:52:00.000-05:002008-02-05T15:55:39.742-05:00Imbolc: Return of the Light 2008<b><i><span class="nfakPe"></span></i></b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">February 4, 2008</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">, <span> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">1.9 days before new moon in Aquarius on the 26<sup>th</sup> day of the Capricorn/Leo moon cycle.<span> </span><span></span><br />The Goddess is Cerridwen: <a href="http://paganinstitute.org/PIR/lunar_info.html#Lunar%20Calendar" target="_blank">http://paganinstitute.org/PIR<wbr>/lunar_info.html#Lunar%20Calend<wbr>ar </a><br />New Moon </span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Feb 6, 2008</span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">10:44 pm est</span></strong> <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> at 18° Aquarius* solar eclipse* opportunity to release and shift consciousness in the area of wholeness (cells of Gaia)</span></strong> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);"><br />The dying Osiris* is lovingly held and heard by the Mother Isis until this deep listening and holding by the Mother results in the birth of the Divine Child Horus.<span> </span>Osiris willingly gives up his life for the new vision of the Divine Child.<span> </span>The Great Mother willingly lets him die for the life of the child.</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);"> The Capricorn/Leo Moon cycle invites us to allow Osiris to die so Horus can live his potential.<span> </span>In practical terms, this means we face within ourselves the parts that are standing in the way of our potential, the outward, pro-active ways of be-ing/doing in the world that we now have clarity about, which don't serve <i><b>Life and the Divine Whole and Gaia</b></i>!!!!.<span> (Aquarius New Moon in Feb) </span>Leo Full Moon is the opportunity to reveal where we may still be attached to the superiority or inferiority of internal Osiris (Father) and the waning moon period is the time to willingly, consciously release our attachment to Him and let Him die within us.</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);"> <span class="nfakPe">Imbolc</span> arrives during the dark moon.<span> </span><span class="nfakPe">Imbolc</span> reveals to us the seed of Horus within us, if only we can release Osiris to his rightful death.<span> Our work between now and the Aries New Moon in April is to let Osiris die and birth Horus. </span>The Goddess for this day is Cerridwen, dark mother.<span> </span>Let her take you into this powerful magic releasing day and willingly offer up what you are ready to release to live the potential of Horus.<span> </span>The new moon in two days (New Moon </span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Feb 6, 2008</span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">10:44 pm est</span> </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> at 18° Aquarius* solar eclipse*)<span> </span>is the opportunity to release and shift consciousness around the theme of wholeness and your place in Gaia.<span> </span></span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Ideas:<span> </span>This day is best served with a Releasing Ritual…very powerful magic.<span> </span>Carefully connect to shadow and light.<span> </span>Meet the dark Osiris and travel the labyrinth to Horus, on your knees if necessary.<span> </span>Come back out knowing that Cerridwen has recycled this energy for the Solar Eclipse shift on the new moon in two days.<span> </span>Horus will be born on the new moon in Aries, </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">April 5<sup>th</sup>, 2008</span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);"></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);"> *The active, action parts of us who have traveled another whole cycle around the wheel and have realized what is not in alignment with the sacred marriage of divine masculine and divine feminine and serving life</span></p>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-86687239667819904022008-01-08T11:06:00.000-05:002008-01-08T13:03:03.393-05:00Capricorn/Leo Moon cycle: The Time is Now<p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">In this newsletter:</p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">*Introduction<br />*Summary of Sagittarius/Cancer Moon Cycle<br />*New Moon In Capricorn<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*A NEW ERA OF EARTH REALITY</span><span style="font-style: italic;">/CAPRICORN AND SATURN INFLUENCE AND THE NEW MOON - JANUARY 8th</span>from Guru Rattana: http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/<o:p></o:p><br />*Leo Full Moon</p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Bonus sections from Guru Rattana: sky events; Understanding how to work with the energies of Capricorn and Saturn from Guru Rattana: http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*SATURN, JUPITER AND PLUTO IN EARTH SIGNS</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*A NEW ERA - PLUTO ENTERS CAPRICORN</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*UNDERSTANDING SATURN</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS EXPRESSIONS</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*CHANGE, EVOLUTION AND GROWTH</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*THE PARADOX OF THE BEAST</span><o:p style="font-style: italic;"></o:p><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*SATURN'S PSYCHIC PROCESS</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*UNDERSTANDING SATURN'S LESSONS</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*INNER SHIFTS CREATE OUTER SHIFTS</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*SEARCH FOR MEANING AND SELF-DISCOVERY</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*MAKING OUR UNCONSCIOUS CONSCIOUS</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*THE WORLDLY PATH OF SERVICE</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*CAPRICORN'S PATH TO ADULTHOOD</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [1] Separation from Mother</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [2] Enter Adult World of Father</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [3] Rebellious Youth</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [4] The Rite of Initiation and Maturing into an Adult</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [5[ Finding a Vocation and Role in Society</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [6[ Peace with Father and Faith in Higher Power</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [7[ Acceptance in the Present Brings Connection with Spirit</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [8] Crystallization through Voluntary 'Imprisonment'</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [9] Internalized Ethics and Inner Authority</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [10] Merging of Son/Father Polarity</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> [11] Serving Humanity and the Divine Plan</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*DEEPENING YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*YOGA AND MEDITATION TO ACTIVATE AND CONTAIN FIRE</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""></span><span style=""></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Introduction</span><br />Happy New Year!<span style=""> </span>I wish you a new beginning of peace, joy, and fullfillment of all your dreams. 2008 is a 1 vibration year.<span style=""> </span>We are starting a new 9 year cycle and there’s a lot to do!<span style=""> </span>This new cycle will bring changes to humanity the likes of which have never before been experienced!<span style=""> </span>Take a deep breath of confident knowing and take the next steps to manifest your unique gifts and become whole!<span style=""> </span>We have the opportunity to make Gaia whole now.<span style=""> </span>Play your part, take the next steps to deeper self knowing so you return home to who you are to make Ourselves whole again.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Below is my interpretation of the energies of this and the previous moon cycle.<span style=""> </span>Following this interpretation I’ve included a lengthy discussion of the deep meaning of the Astrology we’re living now written by Guru Rattana.<span style=""> </span>Blessings, Helen</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Summary of Sagittarius/Cancer Moon Cycle</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">(December 9</span><sup style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">th</sup><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">-January 8</span><sup style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">th</sup><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">)</span><br />We are just finishing up the lessons of faith and vulnerability of the Sagittarius/Cancer moon cycle.<span style=""> </span>During this time we’ve had the opportunity to expand our philosophical and/or spiritual/universal/world view to bring hope to the vulnerable parts of ourselves who live in fear (without hope or faith). The lesson of this moon cycle was to bring hope to the hopeless parts of ourselves. The bottom line message of this moon cycle was:<span style=""> </span>there is fear and vulnerability when you are emotionally dependent on others’ authority.<span style=""> </span>The message of faith was:<span style=""> </span>trust in your own deepest knowing.<span style=""> </span>The waning Cancer full moon may have revealed the source of Cancer vulnerability: <span style=""> </span>giving our authority away to others or emotional dependence on others or taking care of others at the expense of your own needs is the actual source of vulnerability. <span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">New Moon In Capricorn: Tuesday, January 8</span><sup style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">th</sup><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">, 6:67 am EST</span><br />The waning moon has revealed the antidote:<span style=""> </span>the next steps necessary to manifest and share your unique gifts with the world from a place of personal authority.<span style=""> </span>Now is the time to do it. <span style=""> </span>State your intentions clearly.<span style=""> </span>What is it that you feel ready to roll up your sleeves for to create the life that serves your highest goals?<span style=""> </span>Are you ready to practice (loving) discipline, to practice until you make it perfect, to set realistic goals, to reclaim your emotional and physical energy for your own creative endeavors?<span style=""> </span>Are you ready to reclaim your emotional and physical energy by letting go of blame and caretaking others to avoid taking care of your own needs?<span style=""> </span>We must do it now to be able to share our unique gifts with the world.<span style=""> </span>We are needed now.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>And the time is NOW!<span style=""> </span>Pluto will enter Capricorn on January 25<sup>th</sup> .<span style=""> </span>The last time Pluto was is Capricorn was during the American and French revolutions, the beginning of the Industrial Age and Technology revolutions..<span style=""> </span>The world is getting ready to re-establish power dynamics.<span style=""> </span>You must know what your unique gift is and offer it now to re-balance power in the world.<span style=""> </span>(I strongly suggest reading the detailed meaning of the Astrology below to learn more about how to work with the energies of these historic transits)</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />A NEW ERA OF EARTH REALITY</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> CAPRICORN AND SATURN INFLUENCE AND THE NEW MOON - JANUARY 8th</span><br />Saturn, the planet of responsibility, accountability, maturity and master of our destiny, is currently exerting a powerful impact on our lives. We are being urged to stabilize our consciousness at a higher level and to ground Spirit in our bodies for our own healing and for the healing of the Earth.<br /><br />December 19th, Saturn stationed retrograde at 8 degrees Virgo. Until May 2, when Saturn goes direct, we will feel drawn to simplify our lives and to eliminate that which has become unessential and unproductive. The theme for the next few months is 'reduce stress and eliminate hassle.'<br /><br />The Capricorn New Moon is the first new moon of 2008. In this space between our past and our future, we need to ask ourselves, what new structures we wish to create in our lives. Our major concern is to make sure that we are climbing our own mountain and following our own path. Take a careful inventory of your life. What do you want to do with your life? Where are you stifling your own creativity and progress? Where can you step forward? How can you better align with your own flow and with the times?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Leo Full Moon, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="style72"> Jan. 22, 2008, 8:35am EST </span><br />The highest expression of Self (Leo) willingly contributes to world for the benefit of Us (Aquarius).<span style=""> </span>We have a Divine responsibility to discover and manifest the gifts of ‘Self’ for the benefit of all.<span style=""> </span>You must know who you are to be a healthy cell and do your ‘right’ job here on Earth.<span style=""> </span>You know deeply who you are and the gift you are meant to share.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>I understand Leo best as a cell in a living being (Aquarius).<span style=""> </span>If you’re a kidney cell you want to be the best kidney cell you can possibly be, for your own health and the benefit of the whole organism.<span style=""> </span>You must make sure you have balanced salt and sugar intake for proper kidney cell function; you don’t focus on oxygen intake, that’s a lung cells job, but oxygen, sugar and salt intake are important for all cells as a whole.<span style=""> </span>You know You (the collective) needs oxygen but you focus on doing your job:<span style=""> </span>salt and sugar balance.<span style=""> </span>It would really upset the balance if you focused on oxygen intake and put sugar/salt balance second (This is what immature Cancer does, btw).<span style=""> </span>Healthy Leo realizes that expressing its unique gift is truly for the benefit of all.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>In the evolution of the personality (individuation), ‘Self’ is rightly mixed up in and woven with ‘Ego’.<span style=""> </span>Our evolutionary job is to separate Self from Ego. In many spiritual traditions, however, we’ve been taught that Self <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">is </span>Ego and must be sacrificed for the benefit of all, but this is a mistake.<span style=""> </span>Self describes the unique qualities of you that you <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">must</span> know and be in order to share them.<span style=""> </span>Ego is attachment to feelings of either superiority or inferiority about Self-how you are unique. <span style=""> </span>This limits the healthy, flowing expression of the whole being.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>The Ego is invested with staying separate from the whole.<span style=""> </span>To go back to the kidney and lung cell analogy, the Ego feels that being a kidney cell is more/less important than being a lung cell.<span style=""> </span>But we know we need them both equally.<span style=""> </span>To say it another way, whether you’re a first string violin or a tuba or triangle in the orchestra, your music is vital to the expression of the composition.<span style=""> </span>Even if the instrument makes its unique music for 30 seconds or 18 minutes in a 20 minute piece, it is no less or more important than any other for the expression of the whole.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>So this moon cycle asks you:</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>*to first recognize what you need to do to be the best kidney cell or lung cell or first violin or tuba.<span style=""> </span>Do you need to practice stabilizing salt or sugar or learn how to maintain resonance in your strings or reed?<span style=""> </span>Are you willing to bring your intention to what you need to focus on to do<b style=""><i style=""> your</i></b> job now?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>*to then work with any lingering Ego issues, usually fear based, about attachment to superiority or inferiority about your unique gifts.<span style=""> </span>The Leo Full Moon will reveal your unique lesson here.<span style=""> </span>Peace, love, blessings, gratitude for your willingness to show up for this work, Helen</p><a href="http://evolutionaryastrology.blogspot.com/2007/12/claim-your-gift-and-come-home.html">Claim Your Gift and Come Home</a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Discussion of the sky events:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">From Guru Rattana: www.yogatech. com/nmb<br />SATURN, JUPITER AND PLUTO IN EARTH SIGNS</span><br />The two social planets - Jupiter and Saturn - and one outer planet - Pluto - are entering earth signs. This shifts the energy dynamic on the planet to a more practical orientation.<br /><br />SATURN passes though a different sign of the zodiac every two years. Saturn entered Virgo <st1:date year="2007" day="2" month="9">September 2, 2007</st1:date> and will remain through <st1:date year="2009" day="29" month="10">Oct 29, 2009</st1:date>. Those with Virgo Sun, Moon, Ascendant or several planets in Virgo will be particularity affected by Saturn's lessons.<br /><br />JUPITER visits each sign of the zodiac for 12 � months. Jupiter went into Capricorn <st1:date year="2007" day="19" month="12">December 19, 2007</st1:date> and will stay through <st1:date year="2009" day="6" month="1">January 6, 2009</st1:date>. Our expansion in the next year will be facilitated by Capricorn strengths. Those with Sun, Moon, Ascendant and several planets in Capricorn will have their spirits lifted and projects supported. If, of course, WE do the work.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> A NEW ERA - PLUTO ENTERS CAPRICORN</span><br /><span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span> moves into Capricorn <st1:date year="2008" day="25" month="1">January 25, 2008</st1:date> and stays through 2024. <span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span>'s long stay in each sign of the zodiac means that it, along with the two other outer plants - Uranus and Neptune - defines eras and generations. All three outer planets will announce endings and beginnings by changing signs in the next four years. Uranus will move into Aries <st1:date year="2010" day="28" month="5">May 28, 2010</st1:date>. <st1:place>Neptune</st1:place> will move into Pisces <st1:date year="2012" day="4" month="2">February 4, 2012</st1:date>.<br /><br />The last time <span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span> was in Capricorn was November 1762 through Decemer1778. This is the time of the Boston Tea Party, the <span class="yshortcuts">American Revolution</span>, the beginning of the industrial revolution and technological development, and the expansion of free trade and civil liberties.<br /><br />Saturn rules Capricorn. This means that we better get a handle on how to deal with Saturn if we want to take advantage of its liberating possibilities instead of feeling like we are being subjected to its tyranny for the next 16 years. In traditional astrology, Saturn is considered malefic. Even if we don't dread Saturn, we are apprehensive and would choose to avoid its heavy hand if we could.<br /><br /><span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span> has been in Sagittarius for the past 14 years, which in many ways has felt like a relief from the previous 12 years in Scorpio (November 1983-November 1985). (<span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span>'s elliptical orbit means that the time spent in each sign varies.) <span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span> rules Scorpio, which intensified the penetrating knife of <span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span> while it was in Scorpio's deep waters. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, whose expansive, benefic, and positive attitude in many ways softened the <span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span>'s truth and consequences program.<br /><br />On the other hand, the reckless, speculative, overextension of Jupiter got us into a lot of deep trouble, personally and collectively. Now stern Capricorn and Saturn have arrived to straighten us out. They should actually have a favorable influence in moving us back on track - forcing us (1) to live within reasonable limits, (2) to be more realistic about use of resources and (3) to take responsibility for the impact of our actions or lack of action.<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> UNDERSTANDING SATURN</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS EXPRESSIONS</span><br />All astrological archetypes -- signs and planets - are expressed both unconsciously and consciously (and every shade in between). The more unconscious we are, the more we subject ourselves to their negative expressions. The more conscious we become, the more we are able to take advantage of their powers and gifts. Understanding how Saturn operates and its special nuances can help us more wisely navigate the next 16 years.<br /><br />Playing by Saturn's rules can reduce both headaches and heartaches. How about trading a simpler life style for no credit card debt or threats of foreclosure? How about finding out if your dream lover is married before you start dating? Saturn causes stress if we don't abide by the rules. It relieves stress if we obey.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> CHANGE, EVOLUTION AND GROWTH </span><br />The outer plants - Neptune, <span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span> and Uranus - challenge our view of reality and ourselves, which is from the Infinite point of view always too limited. This is also true of Saturn, which lies between the outer and the personal planets. In traditional astrology (before the outer planets were discovered by modern astronomers) the Saturn archetype was used to explain many of the lessons of <span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span> and Uranus. All four planets have a different approach to tearing down the wall we build between our personality and our souls and the Universe. Each in their own way helps us discover that life, the universe and ourselves differ radically from what we perceive and imagine.<br /><br />Saturn, Neptune, <span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span> and Uranus each specialize in different types of wake up experiences. And we all react differently to these experiences. Some welcome their revelations. Others get upset, angry and blame outside influences and God for disturbing their lives. Those who accept events and are willing to makes changes within themselves have an easier time. Those who fight change continue to invite external events to wake them up. Energy that we cannot effectively internalize will be expressed externally, until we learn the lessons.<br /><br />Our attempts to play safe by maintaining the same rigid attitudes and behaviors sets us up for events to wake us up. If we fight, we get hammered even further. If we accept the situation as something necessary for our growth, the Universe can become our friend, and we can take advantage of the evolutionary opportunities as they present themselves.<br /><br /><span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span> is the dark mother who exposes our fear of unconscious power, primal feelings and sexuality. <span class="yshortcuts">Pluto</span> expresses as dark moods and deafening silence. It brings to the surface uncivilized urges, primitive desires, inexplicable emotions and passionate instincts.<br /><br />Saturn is the dark father who expresses as control, limits, restriction and rigidity. To avoid our Saturn lessons we defend our position with 'hyper-rationality, coldness, criticism, rejection and a sort of wet-blanket atmosphere that spoils everything" for those around us. *(1)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> THE PARADOX OF THE BEAST</span><br />In myths and fairy tales, the beast is always the dark side of the handsome prince. This paradox or duality is an operating principle in life. As we study all the astrological archetypes, it is important to keep in mind the constant undercurrent of paradox and duality. Realizing that embracing our dark side opens us up to experience higher levels of conscious is particularity important when we attempt to understand Saturn� who specializes in playing the role of the Beast.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> SATURN'S PSYCHIC PROCESS</span><br />The Saturn archetype represents a psychic process *(2) that serves to gradually awaken our consciousness so that we can attain more mature and authentic levels of Self. The individual psyche is pressurized with the purpose of achieving a more complete and harmonious integration of all our soul qualities. We are each driven to have a conscious realization or inner experience of psychic wholeness. It is only when we understand the hidden gifts that lie beneath the apparent flaws of our inner Beast that we can be freed from Saturn's spell and can become the Prince. Our gifts and true self lie hidden in our unconscious. Saturn works to crack the wall between our conscious and unconscious selves.<br /><br />Saturn is called the "the keeper of the keys to the gate" and "dweller at the threshold." The threshold is the gate to consciousness. We must past through the unconscious to open the gate of awareness. Saturn helps us achieve freedom and fulfillment through self-understanding and self-acceptance.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> UNDERSTANDING SATURN'S LESSONS</span><br />Saturn works through the educational value of pain, restriction, discipline and hard work. Saturn creates experiences of limitation and frustration. When we feel victimized by Saturn's heavy hand, we often react with self-blame, feelings of guilt, self-depreciation, and depression. Saturn knows that we do not get serious about self-discovery until pain and suffering give us no other choice. Then we grudgingly accept the necessity of our Saturn experiences. Nothing motivates our self exploration more than being backed into a corner where we have to work ourselves out of the predicament.<br /><br />Wherever Saturn shows up we experience problems and delays in achieving our goals and difficulties in successfully expressing ourselves in the world. When Saturn is active in our lives, we encounter painful circumstances which seem to just happen. We feel thwarted for no apparent reasons. We often call these unpleasant happenings bad karma. But this is a superficial interpretation of a deep acting process.<br /><br />We generally interpret what we draw to ourselves as chance or good and bad luck. In our victim mentality, we blame others, the system or God. We learn to be cautious, to protect ourselves and to be more appropriate. But practical wisdom is not enough. Saturn teaches us to take a broader perspective of our life challenges and to place them in the context of our evolutionary growth. Without this deeper understanding, we feel like pawns of fate and that we have no control over our lives. *(3) Saturn teaches us that we are not free until we take responsibility for our fate and for the consequence of our actions.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> INNER SHIFTS CREATE OUTER SHIFTS</span><br />If we carefully observe our self-growth process, we can witness how our inner shifts are reflected in our outer circumstances. This is not to say that we consciously create all our situations. Our soul is a dynamic underlying force orchestrating the events that favor our evolutionary unfoldment. Our soul wants us to expand our consciousness. As we do so we begin to understand how all aspects of our psyche interact to make us change and grow.<br /><br />The Saturn process shifts us psychologically by educating us in a practical way. We learn to cooperate with what is happening in our lives, instead of protesting and resisting. We earn our freedom by searching within to understand how we interact with the world and by adjusting our interactions accordingly. We foster our self-development by understanding the value of our experiences.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> SEARCH FOR MEANING AND SELF-DISCOVERY</span><br />To learn our Saturn lessons, we need to search for the meaning of the disappointments, fears, delays and struggle associated with Saturn experiences. Resolution is not found is stoically enduring our pain, doing nothing, having blind faith, and hoping that our patience and self-control will help us pay off this onerous karma. *(4) Even patience and a positive attitude are not sufficient. We have to dare to ask 'why' we are experiencing fear, delay, sadness and disappointment. What insights can we gain through these experiences that offer deeper meaning into ourselves and our lives?<br /><br />There is so much about ourselves, our psyche and how we unconsciously shape our reality that escapes our awareness. Saturn asks us to investigate how our thoughts, beliefs and emotions are expressed outwardly in the physical world. Saturn wants us to understand how the experiences we encounter are drawn to us by the creative power of our own psyche. *(5) Most of us are in denial about and do not comprehend the synchronous way in which our inner reality creates our outer reality. Saturn invites us to pay attention.<br /><br />Saturn makes us earn free will through self-discovery. Saturn's gift is the psychological freedom that we experience from taking the noose of external authorities off our own necks.<br /><br />The discovery of Self requires that we become our own authority. We must learn to differentiate between external values, beliefs and worldviews that we acquire from our parents, our peers, society and the collective unconscious and those that we discover by connecting to the wisdom inside ourselves.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> MAKING OUR UNCONSCIOUS CONSCIOUS </span><br />Saturn makes sure that we understand that superficial explanations of a problem will not make it go away. Saturn teaches us that beneath what we consider a problem is an attempt of our soul to awaken us to a more inclusive viewpoint and to find more balance in our psyche. *(6) What is really happening is not an event per se, but our unconscious striving to become conscious. The more our unconscious becomes conscious, the more we integrate unconscious aspects of ourselves and the more we experience wholeness.<br /><br />When our conscious intentions, desires and actions conflict with what we are unconsciously creating, we experience deep inner frustration, anger and sadness. Our existential pain can be experienced as futility, purposelessness, guilt, regrets and fear. What is really happening is that we are sabotaging ourselves with our unconscious programs and patterns. Pitted against ourselves, our self-destructivenes s becomes our worst enemy. We have to make this unconscious tendency conscious to do something about it.<br /><br />The deeper purpose of many of our issues is thus to uncover the reasons for our self-destructive patterns. As we do so, we can reorient ourselves to utilize these primal energies in a more useful and creative ways. The conflict between conscious and unconscious (light and dark) is to bring into consciousness more aspects of our soul. Understanding the irony of our Saturn lessons is necessary to release us from fear and guilt around the inevitable pain associated with the process of becoming more aware. Accepting Saturn's mode of operation lessens our psychic burden and serves to set us free from our own chains.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> THE WORLDLY PATH OF SERVICE</span><br />Many spiritual seekers wish they could give up personal ambitions and withdraw from the everyday world. However, escaping is not the path of today's spiritual seeker. Mountain top retreats were in vogue for centuries, but in these times seekers feel impelled to find a way to integrate their spiritual path with their worldly activities. Saturn, planets in the tenth house and in Capricorn direct us to embody Spirit and assume positions where we serve humanity. We are called upon to apply our knowledge in a vocation that makes a tangible contribution in the world. We actualize our dharma through serviceful achievements and by assuming positions of leadership and authority in the world.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> CAPRICORN'S PATH TO ADULTHOOD</span><br />The Cancer/Capricorn polarity integrates the Mother and Father archetypes. Cancer represents our inner child. Capricorn represents our inner adult. Cancer is about self-nurturing. Capricorn is about inner authority and establishing an inner foundation of clarity, peace and stability. The Capricorn impulse gets us in touch with the function that we are on Earth to perform and how we can serve the collective.<br /><br />Two defining themes of Capricorn's path are (1) separation from the Mother and (2) success in the world of the Father. *(7) The Capricorn archetype teaches about the relationship between father and son. 'Father and son' symbolize the relationship between child and adult, youth and old man, puer and senex. The lessons of this archetype are applicable to both men and women. Both sexes seek creative expression in the world. Below I outline the major phases or themes of the archetypical Capricorn path that transforms us from an innocent child into a wise adult.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [1] Separation from Mother</span><br />To grow up and become an adult, we must outgrow and break away from dependence upon our mother. We must learn to nurture ourselves and become emotionally self-sufficient. Attaining emotional independence, like every other aspect of our maturation process, takes time and serious inner work.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [2] Enter Adult World of Father</span><br />At some point, usually in our late teens (officially at 18), we enter the world of adult action. Thrust upon us is the necessity of building our future. The adult world is the sphere of the father. <span class="yshortcuts">Joseph Campbell</span> explains - "Whether he knows it or not, and no matter what his position in society, the father is the initiating priest through whom the young being passes on into the larger world." *(8) The growing up process involves (1) exploring the world on our own terms, (2) discovering both our weaknesses and our gifts, (3) learning worldly lessons and (4) figuring out how to financially support ourselves.<br /><br />Reflecting on the relevancy of integrating the son/father polarity for women as well as for men helps us understand why the feminist movement has been so intent upon achieving equality for women in a 'male' world. Achieving fair access to the world business, education, etc is part of becoming an adult. Women so longer want to be treated like children.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [3] Rebellious Youth</span><br />As we step out into the adult world, our father is initially perceived as the punisher, strict master, ogre who spoils the fun. What we do not understand is that the father role serves the purpose of helping us understand how the world works so that we can learn, accept and play by society's rules.<br /><br />The rebellious youth does not comprehend that to succeed in the world one must accept certain conditions and conform to certain limits placed upon us by society and physical reality. We are not inclined to patiently prepare ourselves for our adult journey. We are impatient and want everything to happen now. The na�ve and childish puer or puella (masculine and feminine terms for the person who does not want to grow up) acts spontaneously, without forethought and expects instantaneous results.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [4] The Rite of Initiation and Maturing into an Adult</span><br />Our rite of initiation is more than an event, a point in time, a legal marker or a ceremony. Our adult initiation is not achieved through proclamation, cleverness or a ceremonial event. Moving out of childishness, innocence and naivet� is a long term process. This life-long ritual of maturing into an adult involves deep inner transformation, which is progressive and continual. We are always in the process of growing up. Every achievement and every path to success must pass by "the throne of the Father." *(9)<br /><br />Our inner transformation requires self-honesty, which is difficult in face of the oppression of individual psyche by the collective subconscious, religious guilt trips and childhood programming. In addition Saturn and Capricorn have an internalized sense of inadequacy, self-consciousness, sensitivity to pubic opinion, fear of failure, and a propensity to attract situations that are socially embarrassing.<br /><br />The above may create a sense of inertia which prevents us from getting started or even admitting we have ambitious goals. This adds to Capricorn's frustration because it has a deep desire to succeed in life. The above combined with a love of success and an inner drive to make a useful contribution to society conspire to push the reluctant Goatfish forward. Austerity often camouflages Capricorn's intense ambition, which remains unconscious in younger years and is uncovered only after serious inner work, which prepares us to be effective in the world.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [5[ Finding a Vocation and Role in Society</span><br />Preparing for and finding work and a vocation is a big part of our initiation into the adult world. We must accept responsibility for educating, supporting and taking care of ourselves.<br /><br />We must make the transition from ungrounded idealism to active participation in our community. Our involvement in our community involves some kind of service and role within the whole. We must define our goals ourselves and guard against basing them on external values. What is important is that our goals serve some group purpose. When individual goals align with social purpose, our climb can be successful. When they do not, we feel a sense of frustration and futility.<br /><br />Our transition from son to father, from boy to man, from child to adult is relevant to both men and women. Both puer and puella will have their narcissistic and spoiled brat tendencies challenged. We have to find our special niche in life to experience our uniqueness. Being the center of attention and focusing only on oneself in the child's world is no longer available to us. We gain recognition and satisfaction through our contributory role in society.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [6[ Peace with Father and Faith in Higher Power</span><br />What appears to the rebellious youth as imprisonment is freeing for the budding adult. Commitment to an adult life, which requires making peace with the Father, helps us develop a connection with and faith in a higher power. It also helps us cultivate self-confidence, courage and trust in ourselves. We need the above to remain steadfast when we are challenged with conflict and failure. An external, paternalistic ideal of the Father will not hold up when we are tested with loneliness and despair. Our relationship with Spirit is forged as we deal with both success and failure.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> (7)Acceptance in the Present Brings Connection with Spirit</span><br />The immature puer Capricorn experiences dissatisfaction and feels trapped in relationships and jobs - anything that involves commitments and responsibilities in general. Puer's ideal is not in the present, but somewhere in the future. His excuses are that he wants to keep all options open and test the waters before committing. His real motivation is that he wants to put off growing up. He fantasizes about fame one day and has expectations about achievement and recognition. He hopes for more satisfactory relationships and vocation in the future. The problem with these idealized future-oriented fantasies is that they keep puer in a state of discontent.<br /><br />We experience freedom only when we accept our life as it is in the moment. Our spiritual growth happens when (1) we accept and appreciate what we have been given, (2) sincerely respect our life as it is, (3) treat ourselves with kindness, and (4) care for life as a treasured gift. When we come to terms with our life as it is, our orientation shifts (1) from the future to the present, (2) from ideals to reality, (3) from spaciness to depth, (4) from discontent to peace, and (5) from ego-driven to spiritual power.<br /><br />Power is not achieved through sacrifice or martyrdom. Power is not earned through worldly achievements or recognition. Power is forthcoming through connection with Spirit. This connection is forged by the mental attitude of acceptance and the emotional stance of consent. We open ourselves to Spirit when our heart and mind are not fettered by expectations, attachments and desires that limit what we can receive. Only when we are open to unconditionally receive, can Spirit flow through us. The door to our mind and heart must continually be pushed open a little further. We must clear the dust off on a regular basis. We must periodically renew ourselves to be renewed.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [8] Crystallization through Voluntary 'Imprisonment'</span><br />The motif of voluntary imprisonment and crucifixion runs like a dominate theme in the Capricorn psyche. *(10) Ironic as it may seem, Capricorn seems to thrive on problems, voluntarily submits to restrictions and almost always chooses the path of most resistance. This is because Capricorn's rite of passage happens by facing life's challenges. Capricorn's path is about crystallization of the Self, which happens only under intense pressure.<br /><br />Capricorn also voluntarily accepts what may appear at one level to be imprisonment because at an unconscious level it understands that limitations actually help us define our path, contain our energy, and usefully circumscribe our actions. We consent to what seems like restrictions so that we can ground ourselves and establish our niche in life.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [9] Internalized Ethics and Inner Authority</span><br />Senex, meaning the old wise one, can represent our personal father. But it also represents our internalized ethics which bind our consciousness. We initially acquire an operating code of ethics not only from our father, but from our mother and from external authorities in the world - religious beliefs, the educational system, teachers and cultural consciousness.<br /><br />Imposed on from the outside, this form of indoctrination becomes a superego, which dictates to and controls our inner responses. Silencing our authentic inner voice, it fetters our personal freedom. This externally molded inner voice morphs into a critical inner parent, which judges us, keeps us locked into sin/guilt trips and basically torments our inner child. Killing the father is basically an internal process whereby we (1) get in touch with our internal duality, (2) understand the origins of our negative voice, (3) end our self-judgment, and (4) develop an accepting and non-judgmental inner parent/father. We set ourselves free in our own psyche when we support instead of negate ourselves.<br /><br />The dawning of an internalized ethical code which is our own frees us from the sense of sin before a wrathful father. The awakening of an inner authority that can guide us sets us free to follow our own path. The identification of a purposeful vocation that we can commit to liberates us from the dark night of purposelessness.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [10] Merging of Son/Father Polarity</span><br />One basic Saturian truth is that our human nature is set within certain limits and boundaries. When we resist, we experience pain. When we accept our natural limits and quit tormenting ourselves, the father and son merge as our inner male. The father/son initiation is an inner experience which allows us to get in touch with and integrate deeper levels of ourselves. This integration must take place to become self-sufficient and effective in the world. This is true for both men and women.<br /><br />Capricorn is a confusing mixture of polar opposites -- strict morality and law and lawlessness and shame. The stern lawgiver, whose structured view of reality and strict rules collide with the lustful and freedom loving desires of the young son. These two personalities exist within the same person. The son must face the disapproval and punishment of his stern father. In doing so, he finds his father within himself. The old king father must own the son's rebellion. In doing so, he re-discovers his youthful spirit that he thought he had outgrown years ago. *(7 FLG 245)<br /><br />The oneness of our inner child and parent releases us from our inner duality. This is when we become the king or wise person and connect with our inner wisdom. The Father's mercy is experienced as truth. It is not a sugar coated ointment meant to appease our ego. But our inner male does not desire phony candy. It is the Truth that sets us free!<br /><br />It is only after this inner integration takes place the youth and adult are merged into a complete human being. This usually happens later in life. Only then is Capricorn's youthful spirit able to surface. The youth that we missed is recovered from deep within the psyche of the mature and experienced man or woman. This is accompanied by the sustaining foundation of the liberated adult Capricorn, who has faith in him/herself and the Divine. This faith shows that our initiation has been well earned.<br /><span style=""> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [11] Serving Humanity and the Divine Plan</span><br />Saturn and Capricorn do not support an other-worldly escapist path. Capricorn must learn its lessons and make its contribution in the world. Capricorn's role in the world is to serve humanity and a higher cause. The long, tedious process of surrendering the limited ego, giving up attachments, and transforming the critical mind into a consciousness bound by a universal code of ethics has an important purpose. It is to prepare us and to make ourselves available to receive Divine guidance, direction and wisdom about our service to humanity. It takes years to clear our karma, let go of our childish games, and shift out of subconscious self-sabotage so that we can assume our kingly (royal) wise role in the world.<br /><br />Saturn and Capricorn help us see how our unconscious holds us back. The long self-initiation process makes us an independent adult. As we evolve, it becomes easier to answer the question -Who Am I in the world? We identify and are able to commit to playing our part in the spiritual evolution of the plant. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> DEEPENING YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> YOGA AND MEDITATION TO ACTIVATE AND CONTAIN FIRE</span><br /><br />"Your greatest power is when nothing disturbs you, when your peace of mind is always in one piece, when you are not afraid." - Yogi Bhajan<br /><br />The increase of earth energy can help us become more grounded and make it easier to focus on our worldly tasks. But an abundance of earth energy, without enough fire, can also make us feel sluggish and depressed. Earth has to be able to find the light within. A good Kundalini yoga kriya to do at this time (especially in the northern hemisphere where the days are short) is the one for Sun Energy on page 34 of TRANSITIONS TO A HEART-CENTERED WORLD.<br /><br />This set stimulates the fire in the navel and moves this fire up to the heart. The first exercise blocks the left nostril with the thumb of the left hand. Do breath of fire through the right nostril for 3 to 5 minutes. This clears and focuses the mind and begins activating our internal fire.<br /><br />Between exercises and after the set, pay attention to the warmth in your body and the light in your mind. Focusing on these comforting experiences helps us contain and ground the energy of our soul in our body.<br /><span style=""></span><span style=""></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES</span><br /><span class="yshortcuts">Austin</span>, Stephanie, "Cancer New Moon," "Capricorn Full Moon," The Mountain Astrologer, Issue #136, December/January 2008, p. 103-4.<br />Behari, Bepin, Fundamentals of Vedic Astrology, Lotus Press, 2003.<br />Behari, Bepin, Myths and Symbols of Vedic Astrology, Sagar Publications, 2003.<br />Bogart, Gregory C., Astrology and Spiritual Awakening, <st1:place><st1:placename>Dawn</st1:placename> <st1:placename>Mountain</st1:placename></st1:place> Press, <st1:city><st1:place><span class="yshortcuts">Berkeley</span></st1:place></st1:city>, 1994.<br />Greene, Liz, The Astrology of Fate, Samuel Weiser, Inc., <st1:place><st1:city><span class="yshortcuts">York Beach</span></st1:city><span class="yshortcuts">, </span><st1:state><span class="yshortcuts">Maine</span></st1:state></st1:place>, 1984.<br />Green, Liz, The Outer Planets and Their Cycles, CRCS Publications, 1983.<br />Greene, Liz, Saturn - A New Look at an Old Devil, Samuel Weiser, 1976.<br />Houlding, Deborah, "Capricorn the Goatfish," The Mountain Astrologer, Issue #136, December/January 2008, pp. 40-47.<br /><br />1. Green, Outer, p. 140<br />2. Green, Saturn, p. 10<br />3. Green, Saturn, p. 12<br />4. Green, Saturn, p. 11.<br />5. Green, Saturn, p. 12<br />6. Green, Saturn, p. 10<br />7. Green, Fate, p. 246<br />8. Green, Fate, p. 245<br />9. Green, Fate, p. 245<br />10. Green, Fate, 247<br />11. 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Each precious moment is an opening<br />to let go of our pain and struggle<br /><br />to joyfully reconnect with our soul<br />to rejoice in the company of other divine beings and<br />to return home once again.<br />We ask, how do we find our way home? The answers resonate within our hearts.<br />Clear the way for your soul's journey on your destiny path<br />by renouncing your fears and frivolous preoccupations<br />by abandoning entanglements that cause emotional pain and chaos<br />by releasing your resistance to the expression of your own perfection.<br />Allow your body and all our chakras to freely vibrate with the symphony of the<br />cosmos.<br /><br />Choose to follow the path of your heart in every thought, communication and<br />action.<br />In your heart feel the presence of Divine love and with honor you will return to your true home. Gently allow yourself to open your heart to consciously reconnect with the Divine Mother<br />to match your vibration with the vibration of Her universal love<br />to go deeply within and free yourself from all external attachments<br />to attach yourself only to the Name of the Divine and the reality of your soul<br /><br />Anchor in these feelings by using nature and the precious gifts of life as your touchstones.<br />As the ocean cleanses the beach<br />let the silent sound of the infinite quiet your inner turmoil.<br />As the lullaby calms the baby<br />invite the gentle caress of the Divine Mother<br />to bring harmony to your emotions.<br /><br />As a pillar supports a palace<br />feel the energy in your spine<br />be the primal pillar of your body-the temple of your soul.<br />As a lamp gives light to darkness<br />feel the warm sun<br />fill your heart with joy and contentment.<br /><br />As the stars decorate the sky<br />allow the beauty of your spirit<br />to be the glowing ornament in your aura.<br /><br />By focusing totally on yourself, your energy, your feelings, and your heart,<br />gather and claim the special gifts that only you can give.<br />Load your gifts on your vehicle called "MY LIFE."<br />In your mind's eye, see yourself<br />setting out with other seekers on your path<br />gracefully sharing your gifts along the way<br />blessing and being blessed by everyone you meet.<br /><br />Your face is radiating love for all to see.<br />Your soul is glowing at the divine portal.<br />Rare are those persons who engage in the trade of their own precious gifts.<br />It is in sharing your gifts<br />that you receive your rewards.<br />It is in offering your gifts<br />that you obtain grace.<br />It is in living your gifts<br />that you partake in the celebration of life.<br />It is in gratitude for your gifts<br />that you find your way home.<br />It is in realizing that your gift is the gift of SELF<br />that your self-initiation is complete<br />that the destiny on your forehead is recorded forever.<br /><br />May the long time sun shine upon you.<br />All love surround you.<br />And the pure light within you, guide your way home.<br /><br />(Inspired by a reading from the Siri <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198934893_1">Guru Granth Sahib</span>)<br /><br />poem 463 Copyright May 1, 1997 and April 17, 1998 by Guru Rattana, Ph.D.<br /><br /><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198934893_2">Coronado, CA</span>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-25598766357108025542007-10-22T11:44:00.001-05:002007-10-22T11:44:56.201-05:00The JourneyThe journey,<br />The pathway,<br />The road<br />Is filled<br /> with blocks<br /> and rubble...<br />The accumulated<br /> mind<br /> of many lifetimes.<br />We must<br /> clear the path<br />To walk again<br />Through clear,<br /> uncluttered dimensions.<br />Leave the pretensions and<br />The masks to fade away.<br />Shine the light in the darkness<br />So you can see the way<br />Remove the weights<br /> of your burdened heart<br />And know the part you play.<br />Walk, walk life's highest way.<br />Naome 2005kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-47406908693545487512007-10-22T11:37:00.000-05:002007-10-22T11:44:07.821-05:00Breezes at Dawn<div style="text-align: center;">Finding<br />her rhythm<br />had been a long<br />and dangerous journey.<br />She travelled...<br />beyond the streets of oppression,<br />the valley of inauthenticity,<br />the forest of despair, the river of regret<br />and the desert of self judgment.<br />She crossed the sea of change,<br />the mountains of transformation<br />and finally, she arrived!<br />In the meadow of possibility<br />she claimed her life song...<br />Shiloh Sophia McCloud 2004<br /></div>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-28961946929631235892007-09-20T09:35:00.000-05:002007-09-20T09:37:56.348-05:00ONLINE ASTROLOGY COURSE (WEEK OF OCTOBER 8TH-WEEK OF JANUARY 21ST)<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>I am filling spaces for a 12 week level one online Astrology course. This course will introduce Astrology basics and Astrology vocabulary. You will learn how to look at a natal chart and interpret the basic meanings of the angles, aspects and planetary placements. Each week I will present a complete lecture for you to read; we will meet online or by phone (conference call) later in the week to discuss and answer questions. The final project will be an interpretation of your natal chart with corrections. See below for the full course description. Spread the word to anyone who might be interested!<br /><br /><b>In this course we will learn:</b><br />*meaning of the houses<br />*meaning of the archetypes of the signs<br />*meaning of the angles<br />*meaning of the aspects<br />*meaning of the ascendant, midheaven, IC and descendant<br />*meaning of the placement of the planets in the signs<br />*meaning of the placement of the planets in the signs in the houses<br />*interpretation of angular relationships<br />*meaning of retrograde planets<br />*meaning of the nodes in karma and dharma<br />*how to integrate the energies of the chart to describe a complex personality<br />*how to determine life path<br />*how to determine relationship path<br />*and much more<br /><br /><b>Dates:</b><br />Lesson one: week of October 8th<br />Lesson two: week of October 15th<br />Lesson three: week of October 22nd<br />Lesson four: week of October 29th<br />Lesson five: week of November 5th<br />Lesson six: week of November 12th<br />Lesson seven: week of November 19th<br /><b>Thanksgiving break: week of November 26th</b><br />Lesson eight: week of December 3rd<br />Lesson nine: week of December 10th<br /><b>Holiday Break: December 17th-January 7th</b><br />Lesson ten: week of January 7th<br />Lesson eleven: week of January 14th<br />Lesson twelve: week of January 21st<br /><br /><b>Cost:</b><br />$300.00 for 12 weeks or $25.00 per week<br /><br /><b>Contact me:</b><br />Helen McGrath<br />(514) 845-3686<br />kaliheart@gmail.com<br /><a href="http://evolutionaryastrology.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span>http://evolutionaryastrolo</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span>gy.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><span><br /></span><div><b>COURSE DESCRIPTION:</b><br /><br /><b>ASTROLOGY I</b><br />Our Astrological birth chart is a snapshot of the location of the heavenly bodies directly overhead at the moment of our birth. It is our Sacred contract between ourselves and the Divine for the path we have agreed to walk on our journey back to the light. The birth chart is a psychological map. Studying its symbolism reveals karmic patterns, relationship strategy and our potential for manifestation. It reveals our deepest longings, our illusions and how the personality compensates for the grand illusion. As the enneagram describes a specific energy pattern we are working with in this incarnation, the birth chart reveals specifically how we are doing it day to day.<br /><br />Renowned Jungian Analyst and Astrologer Liz Green has written that during the Piscean Age (the previous 2000 years), the Shadow (Capricorn) was found in the house of the Other (11th house). In relationship, this translates as the energy of projection and the necessity for an enemy. In the Aquarian Age (approximately 1970-4000AD or 2060-4000 depending on the source), the Shadow has moved to the cusp of the 12th house of our personal and collective unconscious. Thus, the work of the New Age is to bring the Shadow home to ourselves. With the blessing of heaven, as columnist Rob Breszny inspires us, "The Universe is conspiring for our happiness." I would add the Universe is conspiring for our freedom, for in owning our Shadow, we outgrow the confines and limitations of our personality as defined by the birth chart and eliminate the need for enemies.<br /><br />In this course we will introduce the Archetypes represented by the planets and signs of the Zodiac, the meaning of the houses, interpretation of the placement of the planets by house and sign and integration of the energies by aspect. We will explore the energy and importance of the angles and the weight of planetary aspects in the interpretation of the life path. We will use our personal birth charts as a case study.<br /><br /><b>References</b>:<br /><b>Alan Oken's Complete Astrology-The Classic Guide to Modern Astrology</b>, Alan Oken<br /><b>Twelve Houses </b>, Howard Sasportas<br /><b>Relating - An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet</b>, Liz Greene<br /><b>The Development of the Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology, Vol. I</b>, Liz Greene & Howard Sasportas<br /><b>The Outer Planets and Their Cycles</b>, Liz Green<br /><b>Saturn, A New Look at an Old Devil</b>, Liz Green<br /><b>The Luminaries</b>, Liz Green and Howard Sasportas<br /><b>Neptune - The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption </b>, Liz Green<br /><b>The Astrology of Transformation</b>, Dane Rudhyar<br /><b>Holistic Astrology: The Analysis of Inner and Outer Environments</b>, Noel Jan Tyl<br /><b>Soul-Centered Astrology - A Key to Your Expanding Self</b>, Alan Oken<br /><b>CHIRON, Rainbow Bridge between the Inner and Outer Planets</b>, Barbara Hand Clow<br /><b>Planets in Aspect: Understanding your Inner Drama</b> , Robert Hand<br /><b>Aspects in Astrology: A Guide To Understanding Planetary Relationships in the Horoscope</b>, Sue Tompkins<br /><b>Astrological Aspects</b>, Jeanne Avery<br /><b>Planets in Transit - Life Cycles for Living</b>, Robert Hand<br /><b>Healing Pluto Problems</b>, Donna Cunningham<br /><b>Lunar Nodes: Keys to Emotions and Life Experience</b>, Diane Ronngren<br /><b>Planets in Synastry </b>, E.W. Neville</div>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-8968037897655719102007-09-11T09:38:00.000-05:002007-09-11T18:11:12.871-05:00New Moon In Virgo/Solar Eclipse, Monday, September 11th, 2007, 8:31-8:44 EST: BODY AND MIND ALIGN WITH NATURAL FLOW<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Summary Full Moon in Pisces/Total Lunar Eclipse</span><br />On August 28th we experienced a full moon in Pisces and total Lunar Eclipse. 'This full moon/lunar eclipse was potent with potentialities eager to be birthed.' (1) During this period, both Venus and Pluto went direct (see below), awakening within us the desire to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">release our attachment to beliefs that reinforce scarcity and suffering</span>; to turn it all around within us-<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">to open to our true hearts desires-to open our hearts to the life that reflects our true desires, and to create new beliefs that more accurately reflect these desires...our true love dream for our lives. </span>We must make a clean break with old limiting thinking that causes suffering to ourselves and others! Happiness is our natural flow. It is up to us to purify our bodies and minds of negativity and limiting beliefs.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">New Moon In Virgo/Solar Eclipse</span><br />Today we experience both a New Moon in Virgo and a Solar eclipse. 'Solar eclipses inaugurate major endings, beginnings and dramatic shifts that catapult us to the next level.' (1) The potential that was birthed with the full moon/lunar eclipse provides the energy to shift us to the next level of manifesting our desires. During this period Saturn also ended its 2 1/2 year journey through Leo and entered Virgo, providing the grounded energy we need to manifest our dreams into reality. The Universe is truly conspiring for our happiness!<br /><br />The opportunities here require our full participation. Both Virgo and Saturn require grounding our dreams, creating structures that support and contain our visions. We must harness our energy, focus it and direct it towards our goals. When we are aligned in this way, our happiness flows. The opportunity of this New Moon/Lunar Eclipse is to commit to our dreams. Believe that the time is now! Take the action steps that will ground your dreams: consolidate your debts; register for that dance class; start that training for your new career or start that business; commit to a plan of action for your health or material abundance or relationship or play; commit to meditating on your right to live your dreams and make a home for that dream in your body/mind/spirit.<br /><br />Release all negativity around your dreams intentionally, through meditation for the mind, attention to health care, body movement to release negative accumulations in the tissues and karmic negativity. If you do find that you have negative attachments, commit to a plan of action to do the work to release them. That is a worthwhile dream; Virgo provides service to the world through her commitment to purification of body, mind, spirit. She meets the other pure; she knows herself deeply and interacts with the other from a fully conscious place within herself. Lay down your arms with the negativity by focusing on the pleasure of your dreams coming true. You can have what you want now. Now act as if...just do it...just say yes to it...the old will melt away as you focus your attention on what you truly desire. Of course, as you pay attention to your dreams and your desires, you will meet any lingering doubts and negativity, and now is the time to release attachment to it with love and consciousness. This is truly an opportunity to have free will through conscious understanding that our beliefs create our reality.<br /><br />Virgo is ruled by Mercury and Chiron (esoteric). So, honest communication with ourselves/others and alignment with spirit is the fast track to working with the energy. The Aries Full Moon on September 27th is the birth of the Child within us around these dreams. From now until the Full Moon we are asked to consciously devote ourselves to honest exploration of the above themes.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">WORKING WITH VIRGO ENERGY</span><br />Each one of us has Virgo somewhere in the chart. Even if there are no planets in Virgo in your chart, it tenants a house and its lessons will be learned through the focus of that house. Even if you don't know where your Virgo is, meditate on how evolving Virgo in your life will serve your dreams:<br /><br />The following is taken from New Millenium Being (1) #138 By Guru Rattana, Ph.D. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="lw_1189521463_3">http://www.yogatech .com/nmb/</span></a><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="lw_1189521463_3"></span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">'VIRGO'S EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEY</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">IMMATURE-> MATURE (needs to learn)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ritualism-> Real</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Servitude-> Service </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Deep sadness-> Deep understanding</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Resistance-> Manifestation</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Curses-> Alchemy</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Self-criticism-> Birthing our potential</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Doubts-> Faith</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Need to control-> Able to surrender and let go</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Nervous-> Attuned to natural rhythms</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Impatient-> Patient</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Bogged down-> Aware of the moment</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Critical-> Perceptive</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Picky->Discriminating</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Annoyed-> Realistic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">EARTH MOTHER VIRGO </span><br />Virgo is represented by a young Maiden/Virgin. She is often depicted sitting in a boat holding a flame in one hand and a chaff of grain in the other. She is gently and effortlessly moving with the flow of the evolving and manifesting current. The Virgo archetype represents the principle of universal justice, which happens when natural laws are obeyed. When they are not obeyed, adjustments are made to re-establish natural order. Often we don't like the consequences of these adjustments.<br /><br />Virgo embodies and represents the intrinsic orderliness and the fertility of nature. She understands and honors the value, appropriateness and way of life of every natural form - including, plants, animals, human beings and Mother Earth herself.<br /><br />Virgo is attuned to the reality that nature's way is unfolded in the seasons, life and death, the waxing and waning of the Moon, and the yearly and daily progression of the Sun and the Planets.<br /><br />Virgo is both saddened and disgusted by the disorder, destruction, chaos, and wastefulness of time and resources. Virgo does not have any sympathy for those who squander precious resources and make a mess of things.<br /><br />Mother Nature is a stern punisher of crime. There is no cheating, bribery or leniency in her court of natural law and karma. The same goes for Saturn. Virgo's vision is a life where natural order is restored and respected and natural justice rightfully reigns.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> CONNECTING WITH NATURE</span><br />Virgo's path is to connect with the natural order of nature, the universe and our body. To live in harmony with natural forces, Virgo must develop an intimate relationship with the body, the Earth and the cycles of nature.<br /><br />Virgo feels most comfortable when she can connect with the Earth. She loves to experience the energies of nature, which are pure, honest and fertile. Her anxiety stems from being out of sync with her personal and Earth's natural flow and dynamic energies. Her healing happens when she can reconnect with the vital forces of nature and the rhythms in her body. Then she can tap into her power, which is possible when she is guided by her instincts, intuition and natural rhythms.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> UPGRADING HOW WE USE OUR MIND </span><br />Virgo is ruled by Mercury, the planet representing our mind and intellect. How we use our mind determines our ability to become conscious of our body/mind connection. Virgo's critical mind can devolve into negative criticism instead of useful discrimination. In our analytical mind, we easily forget to tune into our body. Virgo is supposed to use the mind (1) to pay attention to our body so that we can monitor its well-being, (2) to listen to our instincts so we can be guided by our innate knowing, (3) to be aware of natural forces so we can be guided by a higher power and (4) to be able to let go and turn everything over to the Infinite, after all possible human effort has been done.<br /><br />One of Virgo's biggest challenges is to eliminate negativity and self-criticism. Another is to CLEAR THE CLUTTER in the mind. Virgo can access its powers only if it is consciously connected to Spirit and natures rhythms. Authentic connection requires reducing mind games and neurotic thought patterns that grab our attention and block the mind/body connection. Operating free of attachments and renouncing our critical habits is a challenge, but one that we must accept to move into our power.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">TOUCHSTONE FOR ECLIPSES</span><br />We may experience some dramatic shifts and breakthroughs in our lives at this time. The following touchstone may be relevant. "It is better to make a clean break with a bad habit than to make an abrupt break in a personal relationship. " *(3)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">KUNDALINI YOGA TO CONNECT WITH NATURAL RHYTHMS</span><br />Our Kundalini yoga and meditation practice this month focuses on connecting with the natural rhythms in our body, letting go of control, and reducing the conflict of the critical mind so we can use our mind to be more attuned to our body and its messages.<br /><br />The Kundalini yoga set that I suggest to practice this month is the "Relaxation Series to Remove Negativity and Tension" on page 38 in Relax and Renew. *(2) This set, done mostly lying down on the back and stomach, raising the legs, hips, head and torso, strengthens the first chakra and allows us to tune into our body rhythms and connect with Mother Earth.<br /><br />It is an integral part of the set to relax and let go between every exercise. When we let go, we can experience our natural rhythms and learn to trust them. We want to experience that we can let go and still be alive. In other words, we can let go of control and know in both our body and mind that there is a force deep within us that keeps us alive and breathing.<br /><br />This set features long deep breathing. Really get into the breath. At the beginning of the set, you will have to be very attentive to consciously breathe long and deep. Follow the inhale all the way to the end and the exhale all the way to the end. Stay with the breath. Over time the breath begins to breathe itself. We become one with our breath in our body.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> MEDITATION TO DEAL WITH IMPATIENCE AND CONFLICT</span><br />Here is a meditation to do while the Sun and Saturn are in Virgo or any time you need help reflecting on and resolving your internal contradictions and conflicts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> DIRECTIONS</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">POSITION</span> - Easy pose. Arms to the sides, elbows bent, palms facing forward. Jupiter and Saturn fingers up. Thumbs holding on to the other two fingers.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">BREATH </span>- Begin by breathing long and deep. If you have done the above or another Kundalini yoga kriya, you will be very connected to your breath. Be very attentive to consciously breathing long and deep. Follow the inhale all the way to the end and the exhale all the way to the end. Stay totally present to your breath. Over time the breath begins to breathe itself.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">MANTRA</span> - As you breathe, silently repeat, SAT NAM followed by an affirmation of your choice. Choose one that comes to you intuitively, one that will respond to or resolve your conflict. Possible affirmations are "It is fine. Everything is perfect. It is all working out. I can relax. Let go. Life is good.<br /><br />The formula is "Sat Nam. It is fine."<br /><br />Say this over the mental chatter and in response to worries and concerns.<br /><br />Stay conscious of your breath in your body during the whole time.<br /><br />Coordinate the mantra with your breath.<br /><br />Don't pay attention to or be annoyed by your surroundings or thoughts.<br /><br />Allow, don't resist, whatever is happening in your mind (including thoughts) and outside yourself. Simply bring your attention back to your breath, SAT NAM and your affirmation.<br /><br />Count if you find this useful to focus your mind. Sat Nam. One. Sat Nam. Two. Focus on the mantra, counting and the breath. Stay conscious.<br /><br />Observe your impatience, and any other form of conflict or stress.<br /><br />Deal with it through the patient rhythmic breath, SAT NAM, and the intention/affirmati on.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">RESULTS</span><br />With practice you will find that your internal stress and impatience begins to dissipate. The meditation becomes a soothing exercise. You begin to automatically call upon the breath, mantra and affirmation when you go into stress mode. Practice every day and get into a rhythm that makes you look forward to these moments with yourself.<br /><br />You will find that 3-11 minutes before starting your day will take the edge off your emotional state. It will be easier to keep your focus during the day. You will increase the chances of things turning out in a satisfactory manner. And you will be more relaxed as you move through life. Things often do not happen as we expect or think we want. But "It is all fine." Sat Nam!<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Astrology students:</span><br />the following exerpts from NMB #138 will be helpful:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br />*<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> SKY EVENTS</span><br />*<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> VENUS AND PLUTO GO DIRECT - PAY ATTENTION<br />*</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> WHERE IS MY VIRGO?<br />*</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> SUN AND SATURN IN VIRGO<br />*</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> ECLIPSES AND GRAND CROSS - HOW TO DEAL<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">SKY EVENTS</span><br />AUGUST 23RD - The <span style="font-weight: bold;">SUN</span> entered VIRGO at 5:08 AM PDT (12:08 PM GMT) and will remain until the Sun moves into Libra September 23 at 2:52 AM PDT (9:52 AM GMT)<br />AUGUST 28TH -- The <span style="font-weight: bold;">PISCES FULL MOON/LUNAR ECLIPSE</span> at 3:35 AM PDT (10:35 AM GMT) at 4 degrees Pisces and Virgo.<br />SEPTEMBER 11TH - <span style="font-weight: bold;">The VIRGO NEW MOON/SOLAR ECLIPSE</span> at 5:45 AM PDT (12:45 PM GMT) at 18 degrees Virgo.<br />SEPTEMBER 2ND - <span style="font-weight: bold;">SATURN </span>leaves Leo and goes into VIRGO.<br />SEPTEMBER 6TH - <span style="font-weight: bold;">PLUTO</span> GOES DIRECT September 6th at 26 degrees Sagittarius. Pluto went retrograde March 31st<br />SEPTEMBER 7TH -<span style="font-weight: bold;">VENUS</span> GOES DIRECT at 9:13 AM PDT at 17 degrees Leo.<br />Venus went retrograde July 27 at 3 degrees Leo at 10:27 AM.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">URANUS</span> went RETROGRADE June 23rd at 7:23 AM PDT (2:43 PM GMT) and remains retrograde through November 24th.*<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">NEPTUNE</span> went retrograde May 24th (at 22 degrees Aquarius) and remains in reverse drive through October 31.*<br />*Retrograde planets provide internal focus with the energies of these planets: ie, freedom, revolutionary ideas, dissolution of ego, clear or fuzzy connection to spirit. HM<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> VENUS AND PLUTO GO DIRECT - PAY ATTENTION</span><br />When planets go direct or retrograde, something shifts in our psyche. Direct motion puts us in forward gear. Retrograde shifts us to an inner, introspection space. Pay attention around September 6 and 7.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">VENUS</span> GOES DIRECT September 7th at 9:13 AM PDT. Venus went retrograde July 27. Are you more aware of what you want, ready to let go of what doesn't work, and go for what your heart desires? Do you love yourself a little bit more?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PLUTO</span> GOES DIRECT September 6th. Pluto went retrograde March 31. Pluto in retrograde can bring up deep seated issues. We become more aware of what our subconscious is doing. When Pluto goes direct we are less apt to let old programs control us and more able to consciously participate in making choices about our lives.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">WHERE IS MY VIRGO? </span><br />Like all the signs, not everyone has planets in Virgo. But the Virgo archetype, the soul desire to connect with nature and universal forces in the body, is a vital instinct in every human being. There are several ways to identify where and how the Virgo impulse plays out in our lives.<br /><br />(1) The sixth house is the territory ruled associated with Virgo. Any planets in our 6th house are driven by Virgo energy. The sign on the cusp of the 6th house indicates HOW we pursue our path of service and manifesting our potentials.<br /><br />(2) Locating the house or houses that contain planets in Virgo or have Virgo on the cusp helps us identify the arenas in life where we confront our Virgo issues and display our Virgo traits.<br /><br />Virgo is ruled by Mercury. Unlike other planets associated with a sign, the sign and house placement of our Mercury does not give us essential information about our Virgo issues. Versatile Mercury expresses its sign and many other energies of our chart.<br /><br />Those with Virgo rising (Virgo on the cusp of the first house,) a Virgo moon, several planets in Virgo or several planets in the sixth house will strongly identify with Virgo issues and path.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> SUN AND SATURN IN VIRGO</span><br />As we delve into the meaning and lessons of the sixth zodiac archetype, it is important to remember that each sign has its own path to fulfillment, wholeness and enlightenment. Each sign is also part of everyone's developmental process. If our Sun, Moon, Ascendant or several planets are in one sign, the lessons of that archetype will be major focal points of our lives. If the lessons are not in our face, we nevertheless recognize the importance of learning these self-empowering lessons.<br /><br />Once a year the Sun shines in each of the twelve zodiac signs. During approximately 30 days, we get a chance to take a closer look at the lessons of that archetype. Also when the various planets transit through a sign, we get to examine the archetype from the perspective of that planet. <span style="font-weight: bold;">SATURN</span> enters Virgo on September 2 for nearly two years. (Saturn will be in Virgo through July 21, 2010, except from October 29, 2009-April 7, 2010 when it is in Libra.) Wherever Virgo falls in our chart, we will be confronted with Virgo AND Saturn issues, including health, work, service/seva or servitude.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Saturn</span> lessons are similar to those of Virgo. Saturn is a masculine archetype represented as a wise taskmaster. Virgo is a feminine archetype, who symbolizes Mother Nature and the Earth Mother. Both represent KARMA. Both Saturn and Virgo focus on<br /><br />* HOW TO DEAL with material reality,<br />* living in harmony with natural laws,<br />* including the universal law of cause and effect or karma.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Saturn</span> confronts us with survival issues and the limits of existence on the physical plane. However restrictive and serious Saturn many seem, learning our Saturn lessons moves us to the next level of maturity and makes it possible to manifest our dreams. While the Sun is in Virgo is a good time to understand what we will be dealing with over the next two years.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> ECLIPSES AND GRAND CROSS - HOW TO DEAL</span><br />The whole month of Virgo is dominated by the effects of the mutable *(1) grand cross and the lunar and solar eclipses. In NMB #137 we discussed the Pisces/Virgo lunar eclipse (August 28), the Virgo solar eclipse (September 11) and the mutable grand cross that are impacting us in the next few weeks. In this issue, we will discuss HOW to deal with this energy. What is up for examination is making choices about HOW TO DEAL with our life challenges.<br /><br />The grand cross, which is directly impacting us at both eclipses, is formed by the mutable signs (Virgo, Pisces, Sagittarius and Virgo). Thus the mutable signs define how to best align with cosmic energies at this time. The modus operandi of the mutable signs is to (1) adjust (2) adapt (3) allow (4) don't resist, (5) let go of control, (6) go with the flow, and (7) be conscious in the moment.<br /><br />If we choose to resist the evolutionary flow in our life, the confrontational nature of the interactions between these four forces will create change anyway. In a grand cross, the four energies relate to each other in squares and oppositions, which require transformation and initiate endings and beginnings. Change will happen. We either participate gracefully or reluctantly.<br /><br />If we choose to embrace our Saturn/Virgo issues in a non-resistant way, we can release some victim and martyr programs, and some stress and anxiety. In the process we can (1) further our personal empowerment, (2) enhance our ability to act like adults, and (3) increase our capacity to manifest and prosper!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES</span><br /><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1189521463_0">Austin</span>, Stephanie, "Pisces Lunar Eclipse," and "Virgo Solar Eclipse," The Mountain Astrologer, Issue #134, August/September 2007, p. 104-6.<br /><br />Bogart, Gregory C., Astrology and Spiritual Awakening, Dawn Mountain Press, <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1189521463_1">Berkeley</span>, 1994.<br /><br />Burt, Kathleen, Archetypes of the Zodiac, Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, 2002.<br /><br />Greene, Liz, The Astrology of Fate, Samuel Weiser, Inc., <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1189521463_2">York Beach, Maine</span>, 1984.<br /><br />1. See NMB#122VirgoPath, page 10, for a discussion of the three modalities.<br /><br />2. available at www.yogatech. com<br /><br />3. Burt, p. 219.kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-16984319159570847902007-09-09T00:38:00.000-05:002007-09-11T18:14:28.956-05:00This work of Wom(men)<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">An Invitation to Incorporate the Divine Feminine Into Your Life Path</span><br /><br />Yes. It is time for a revolution in wom(men) and path, wom(men) and money, wom(men) and business, wom(men) and art, wom(men) and marketplace. We do not choose to give our works of any kind away for nothing. We are not starving or frivolous artists. We are creators whose creations save lives, heal the world, heal wounds. This work of wom(men), priestesses (priests) and practitioners of every kind is Visionary Work.<br /><br />Your work is vial, essential, needed. This work of wom(men) must include creating livelihood. This is not easy, quick, fun nor likely. <span style="font-style: italic;">This can be easy, quick, fun and likely when all parts of us are on board </span>* This is not accepted or encouraged. <span style="font-style: italic;">This must be accepted and encouraged by you first, before it is accepted and encouraged by the culture.</span>* And this is what we must do:<br /><br />*Create an abundance revolution<br />*We must create our own path<br />*We must create our own money<br />*We must create art<br />*We must be compensated<br /><br />We are creating our own mystical cosmic luminous overflowing BANK. A bank that does not cause, contribute or condone the suffering of others for profit. <span style="font-style: italic;">A bank that creates possiblilities for empowerment and right relationship to resources between and among all beings and the planet.* </span>A wom(men)'s bank. Believe it. Create it. Deposit into it. Draw from it. Invite other wom(men) to it. Enter the income stream in your golden boat of dreams and dream and work and pray and play and do not stop. Keep going. It will almost always seem impossible. But we will make miracles. Miracles are organizing themselves around our dreams, our work, right now.<br /><br />Believe it.<br />by Shiloh Sophia McCloud 2005<br />*I have added statements in italics and within brackets-kaliheart<script><!-- D(["mb","\u003cbr\>\n",0] ); D(["ce"]); //--></script>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-13597555980304199062007-08-30T11:39:00.000-05:002007-08-30T12:01:16.112-05:00LUNAR AND SOLAR ECLIPSES: TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE<div>By Guru Rattana, Ph.D.<br /><a href="http://www.yogatech/" target="_blank">http://www.yogatech</a> .com/nmb/<br />August 26, 2007<br /><br />Dear Friends,<br /><br />The Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Pisces/Virgo is Tuesday August 28th at 3:35 AM PDT (10:35 AM GMT). We are experiencing both a powerful Lunar and Solar eclipse in the next two weeks. I am sure you are feeling the impact in subtle and not so subtle ways. I am sending you this short NMB (New Millenium Being) highlighting only the Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Pisces/Virgo and the Virgo New Moon/Solar Eclipse September 11 at 5:45 AM PDT (12:45 PM GMT). I am writing the NMB on Virgo, which I will send out soon.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">ECLIPSES SIGNAL CHANGE</span><br />This full moon/lunar eclipse is potent with potentialities eager to be birthed. It is important not to let your mind get distracted by your own or externally provoked negativity. Take time to be alone and to meditate. (1) Strengthen your Divine connection. (2) Experience your oneness with the Infinite. (3) Renew your faith in Spirit. Do not let yourself be traumatized, undermined or sabotaged by events and challenges, which serve to rearrange your life at this time. Lunar and Solar eclipses bring both endings and new beginnings.<br /><br />The lunar and solar eclipses in Virgo and Pisces can bring an end to some suffering in your life, if you are willing and able to stay connected to the Divine. (Staying attuned to the Divine is the only way to permanently end pain and suffering.) Be quiet so that you are able to receive the fruition of your efforts and move to the next level of your journey. Stay clear of distractions that divert you from your experience of a higher power. Victory is sweet. So is Divine Connection!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">PISCES FULL MOON AUGUST 28</span><br />Every six months the full moon is also a lunar eclipse. Two weeks later the new moon is a solar eclipse. The lunar eclipse happens when the Sun, Earth and Moon align causing the shadow from the Earth to intercept the light of the Sun which is normally reflected by the Moon. Both lunar and solar eclipses create dramatic shifts in our lives. Transformation is the overall theme. It is a time to be aware and to respond with as much consciousness as we can muster.<br /><br />The Sun in Virgo illuminates where we need to discern what is important and what is essentially a waste of our time. The mental and physical energies of Virgo will help us focus and be realistic. The Moon is Pisces reminds us to have faith in and surrender to the magic of Spirit. Virgo teaches us the importance of keeping our body healthy and our mind clear so that body/mind integration is possible. The more our body/mind is aligned with Spirit, the more we can direct our lives from intuitive/instinctu al knowing. The Pisces/Virgo polarity emphasizes the need to make the connection between matter/body and spirit/non-physical realities conscious. Expanding our awareness of the interconnection between finite and infinite is our goal.<br /><br />Other heavenly interactions add to the potency of this eclipse. Mercury opposing Uranus can help us wake up and expand the reaches of our consciousness. Mars in Gemini is approaching a square with Uranus in Pisces (exact of September 3). The same day the Sun in Virgo will square Jupiter in Sagittarius. The Sun, Jupiter, Uranus and Mars together form a grand cross. A GRAND CROSS is made up of four planets which are in the same modality. They form squares and oppositions with each other. Squares and oppositions force change and signal endings and new beginnings.<br /><br />Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo and Pisces are mutable signs, which mean that they organize, adjust, and go with the flow. They specialize in change and transformation. When they are aligned with the cosmic flow and operate according to universal laws, things go fairly smoothly and evolution unfolds over time. However control trips, resistance, stuck energy and rigid belief systems create problems that prevent necessary change. That is where the energy of squares and oppositions are 'helpful.' Their energy breaks up the barriers that we create in our minds and eliminate the blockades we construct in our lives.<br /><br />This Full Moon/lunar eclipse can be disruptive in areas of our lives that require change. The more we tune into what should be obvious, the better we will be able to flow with the inevitable evolutionary winds.<br /><br />SATURN moves out of Leo and enters VIRGO on September 2. Saturn will be in Virgo through July 21, 2010 (except from October 29, 2009-April 7, 2010 when it is in Libra.) Wherever Virgo falls in our chart, we will be confronted with Virgo issues. Health, work, service or servitude.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">VIRGO NEW MOON/SOLAR ECLIPSE - SEPTEMBER 11</span><br />A solar eclipse happens when the Moon blocks the Sun, preventing 'the powerful flows of gamma, ultraviolet, infrared and other solar emissions' from impacting the Earth. During this brief moment, energetic patterns are balanced, karma can be dissolved and energetic matrices can be reconfigured. *(1) Solar eclipses inaugurate major endings, beginnings and dramatic shifts that catapult us to the next level.<br /><br />Several other celestial occurrences add to the potency of this solar eclipse. Two planets are ending their retrograde phase, intensifying the transformative forces and our desire to move forward. PLUTO goes direct at 26 degrees Sagittarius September 7. (Pluto has been retrograde since March 31.) While planets are retrograde we review, release, and realign. SA 106<br /><br />VENUS completes its bi-annual retrograde phase September 8. (Venus went retrograde July 27th) When Venus is retrograde, we feel the need to reassess our lives and align our external life with our internal values. We are also motivated to complete unfinished business, re-evaluate relationships and make sure we are following our heart.<br /><br />The mutable signs are still in their square and opposition positions forming a grand cross. Pluto squares the Sun on September 19th and opposes Mars on September 21st. Uranus is opposite the Sun and Moon. Jupiter in Sagittarius squares Uranus and the Sun and the Moon. (and widely opposes Mars.)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">There are many catalysts provoking change and transformation at this time. The mutable signs change through adaptation and integration. Our touchstones for this time can be (1) get clear, truthful information, (2) focus on what we want, (3) pursue our course of action with discipline, (4) act impeccably, (5) be open minded, (6) trust and follow our intuition and instincts, and (7) connect with and trust the Infinite.</span><br /><br />It is time to be very honest with ourselves and build our lives on the foundation of our own truth. We must listen to our heart and follow it. These eclipses can best serve us if we are proactive. If we protest, we will provoke uncomfortable reactions. Instead of complaining, we need to evaluate. Instead of letting our subconscious sabotage us one more time, we need to be consciously aware of how our actions and thoughts create our reality.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">MEDITATION - CLEAR THE CLUTTER</span><br />Any meditation that enhances your experience of the Infinite is perfect. All Kundalini meditations work. Silent breathing meditations will allow you the space to focus on the qualities of the Infinite. If you are practicing a mantra meditation at this time, be sure to sit quietly at the end and listen to the silence. Clear the clutter in your mind and focus on the qualities of peace, stillness, silence, vastness and the stability in your neutral mind. This is not a time to control. It is a time to be attentive and to let go. The only thing you need to control now is the focus of your mind.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES</span><br />Austin, Stephanie, "Pisces Lunar Eclipse," and "Virgo Solar Eclipse," The Mountain Astrologer, Issue #134, August/September 2007, p. 104-6.<br /><br />1. Austin, p. 106<br /><br />2. Austin, p. 106<br /><br />NEW MILLENNIUM BEING<br />#137 LUNAR AND SOLAR ECLIPSES<br />TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE<br /><a href="http://www.yogatech/" target="_blank">http://www.yogatech</a> .com/nmb/</div> <div class="note_content clearfix"> </div>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-30595387087318866962007-08-27T15:35:00.000-05:002007-08-27T15:39:36.601-05:00Full Moon in Pisces/Total Lunar Eclipse: August 28th, 2007; 6:35-37am ESTJust a short one this month; I'm just back from vacation...but here's the gist of it:<br /><br />We are in the Leo moon cycle (new Moon In Leo, Aug. 12th, 7:02pm EST). The WeMoon calander entitles this cycle : Work Focus and I'm not sure where that fits into my understanding of the energy except that we have just moved into Virgo Sun energy: The work of unveiling our true selves? Virgo as vocation? Virgo as the light of Christ consciousness? <br /><br />Leo energy is the energy of self love. Immature Leo energy seeks approval for its specialness in ways that cause separateness...like ego superiority. But it's not always superiority that fuels Leo, it could just as well be it's inverse...inferiority. And usually if we're playing with this polarity, we swing back and forth with a bias for one side or the other. It's important to remember they represent the same energetic polarity.<br /><br />So, our job this month is to identify where, in ourselves, we have identified with ego separateness...and how this identification limits the true expression of our light. Mature Leo is radiant self love.<br /><br />With the total lunar eclipse we're asked to allow the veil of consciousness to become absorbed from within...then rise up with our inner muse and follow her...whatever that means for each of us...around this ego identification thing. Maybe we can let go of this brutal limiting reality we're attached to in the Leo cycle...and allow our true Muse to guide us out of it to our unique light path (radiant self love).<br /><br />The total Lunar eclipse happens during a full moon in Pisces. Maybe we'll be aware of how this limiting vision of ourselves is rooted in a certain vision of reality...attachment to Maya...the limitations and pain and suffering of the world...that the world tells us is real. We can reach beyond those limiting visions to our real, true dream...each one of us has a special dream, uniquely true for each one of us...and following our bliss raises the vibration of love and light in the world....can we find our Muse and follow her even if it makes no sense in Maya?<br /><br />What does your Muse say?kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-39516533075680207632007-07-14T12:22:00.000-05:002007-07-14T12:33:19.147-05:00New Moon In Cancer, Saturday, July 14th, 2007, 8:04am EST. Oh Mother We are Calling!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSULI9Kp4e3UNMFZewc3rBRqO0clkO5fJKdcdh9U5miR4-w6IlOfJKGYVtf1jyIrX9Lj19cqoq6om0sLNvNhk-EA4sxISC0DokWpKZpC1Po2-Cv-qQrBEDjvOYoP5PyuwPPW1gWw/s1600-h/mother+earth.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSULI9Kp4e3UNMFZewc3rBRqO0clkO5fJKdcdh9U5miR4-w6IlOfJKGYVtf1jyIrX9Lj19cqoq6om0sLNvNhk-EA4sxISC0DokWpKZpC1Po2-Cv-qQrBEDjvOYoP5PyuwPPW1gWw/s200/mother+earth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087105884228896050" border="0" /></a><br /> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:time minute="4" hour="8"></st1:time><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Summary of the Gemini/Capricorn Moon Cycle (June 14</span><sup style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">th</sup><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">-July13th)</span><o:p></o:p><br />No doubt, the Gemini moon cycle brought deep realizations about limiting beliefs and the opportunity to align the mind/thinking with our higher selves.<span style=""> </span>It has been an opportunity to examine communication styles and to ask ourselves if they serve our evolving selves’ heart’s desires. We had the opportunity to reflect on the relative harmony (or conflict) between the way we communicate and our heart’s desires; to awaken the skill of listening to ourselves and our thoughts.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>We’ve had the opportunity to direct our intention, through commitment and dedication, towards aligning the mind/communication style with our evolving self. <span style=""> </span>And this challenging cycle brought valuable information about our vulnerability (Cancer Sun); it may have brought insight into the origin of limiting beliefs, as we had the opportunity with the Capricorn Full Moon to grow up a part of ourselves, to become independent of limiting beliefs.<span style=""> </span>The child’s mind makes many decisions about the meaning of life which may or may not accurately reflect ‘reality’.<span style=""> </span>If a child has the experience that when she smiles, Mommy and Daddy stop fighting, she may grow up believing she must hide her authentic self behind a seductive smile. During this cycle, that grown up child may have felt the desire to connect to others in more authentic, satisfying ways which challenged her immature beliefs, bringing her vulnerability to consciousness, as she took steps to do herself differently.<span style=""> </span>With the Capricorn full moon, the cycle demanded hard work and the creation of structures to support new visions.<span style=""> </span>The grown up little girl may have consciously chosen to invite experiences where she felt supported to express herself authentically.<span style=""> </span>Alternatively, she may have found herself communicating in ways that challenged her desire for authenticity.<span style=""> </span>In both cases, she has brought consciousness to the process; she has awakened the Gemini trait of higher mind ‘listening’ to her process. (1)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Cancer Moon Cycle (July 14-August 12) Oh Mother We Are Calling!</span><o:p></o:p><br />The hard work of the Gemini moon cycle is met by the nurturing arms of the Cancer New Moon.<span style=""> </span>With this new moon, we bridge the mind (Gemini) with the feeling nature. (2)<span style=""> </span>Cancer is a richly complex sign.<span style=""> </span>She is many things at once:<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>the Moon-the seat of ancestral emotions; She is our ancestral roots; Cancer represents our dependent self-the self which looks for tribal approval; it is our emotional sensitivity and dependence-therefore emotional vulnerability.<span style=""> </span>Cancer looks for emotional nurturing:<span style=""> </span>reflection of and caring for deep emotions.<span style=""> </span>She is the compassionate, nurturing Mother, Kuan Yin.<span style=""> </span>Mature Cancer <b style=""><i style="">provides</i></b> emotional nurturing and deep compassion.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >CANCER'S EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEY</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> IMMATURE -> MATURE (needs to learn)<br />Over protective -> Protects according to need<br />Avoids or denies feelings -> Honors and feels feelings in the body<br />Insecure -> Secure within self<br />Insatiable -> Satisfied within one self<br />Hides to feel safe -> Feels safe inside own shell<br />Accumulates things -> Able to let go of what is no longer useful<br />Needy -> Can nurture self<br />Fearful -> Able to trust self and Divine connection<br />Need to control environments -> Controls one's own reactions to situations<br />Sacrifices self and own needs -> Can give without losing connection with self<br />Over sensitive -> Able to protect one's self and honor sensitivity<br />Confused by unconscious emotions -> Stays with feelings until can interpret messages<br />Feels vulnerable -> Creates own safe haven and energetic boundaries<br />Uncertain about own powers/strengths -> Connects within to power of tenacity and focus<br />Moody -> Flows with shifts in emotions<br />Can be emotionally manipulated -> Flexible and adaptable in own flow<br />Co-dependent -> Appropriately gives and receives</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>Reflect on these keywords and your relationship to the nurturing principle to gain insight into your personal opportunities for growth of your evolving self during this moon cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Firing the Grid</span><o:p></o:p><br />This moon cycle asks us to bring our focus to our Earth Mother, Gaia.<span style=""> </span>She is Mother to ALL Life on this planet.<span style=""> </span>When we meditate on mother energy, in general, we find that it has been very ill for a long time, reflected both in human relationship, human culture and in the health of our Mother Earth.<span style=""> </span>Take a moment to reflect on mother, within yourself, with your own mother, with the Earth. <span style=""> </span>What is your feeling about nurturing?<span style=""> </span>Is it balanced?<span style=""> </span>Is it unbalanced?<span style=""> </span>Is it heart based?<span style=""> </span>Is it fear based?<span style=""> </span>Your meditation will give you clues as to what the opportunity for healing is this moon cycle.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Debased, Mother is sick and dying.<span style=""> </span>Where She once had unlimited energy to nurture her children, she is now gasping for Life.<span style=""> </span>This is NOT to say that she is not infinitely abundant; Her aura is simply severely depleted.<span style=""> </span>The principles of Holistic health tell us that all living systems, under conditions of health, will resolve themselves to health. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>The Goddess, the Divine Feminine, has been working Her way into our hearts, minds, lives with a strength that defies logic, given Her health.<span style=""> </span>There is a force for Life that is stronger than the depletion we have experienced in Mother energy.<span style=""> </span>It is our Desire for Life.<span style=""> </span>It is Love.<span style=""> </span>It is Compassion.<span style=""> </span>It is our Joy, what makes us feel light and happy.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>Many of us have been circulating information about <st1:date year="2007" day="17" month="7">July 17, 2007</st1:date></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> at 11:11GMT (<st1:time minute="11" hour="19">7:11 EST</st1:time></span><span style="font-size:100%;">).<span style=""> (</span><a href="http://www.firethegrid.org/">Fire the Grid</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUAluDvuU4">Shelly Yates on Youtube</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUAluDvuU4"></a>) <span style=""> </span>What I’m understanding is that we’re invited to take one hour on that day to sit in meditation of joy, what brings our heart joy and vitality, to reflect on our commitment to connect with our joy…as a way to bring healthy vitality to the Earth grid and to act as a bridge between the loving energy of the universe and our depleted Earth Mother, Gaia…to awaken our own Mother natures to ourselves and to Her and to trust that we will find a way to heal the relationship to Her and between ourselves, so that we develop structures to support life and abundance for all beings on this planet.<span style=""> </span>Do it!<span style=""> </span>Breathe it!<span style=""> </span>Pray it with your deep emotion!<span style=""> </span>Let your deep emotion flow through your body to feed yourself and Her!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Aquarius Full Moon</span><o:p></o:p><br />If we feel and respond to our feeling nature, we will have a beautiful opportunity this moon cycle to expand the compassionate, nurturing aspect of ourselves.<span style=""> </span>We begin the cycle under a Cancer Sun, intensifying the emotional nature.<span style=""> </span>On the 22<sup>nd</sup>, we shift to Leo Sun and our focus also shifts to the fire of inspiration of ‘the flourishing individual creative spirit’.<span style=""> </span>Leo represents the journey from immature self (ego) which asks for recognition for its uniqueness-to the mature Self, the individuated ego and recognition that each individual has something unique to offer the whole.<span style=""> </span>Mature Leo knows himself and his gifts and looks for a way to contribute these gifts.<span style=""> </span>Aquarius Full Moon will shed light on the health of the evolving ‘self’.<span style=""> </span>Our emotional vulnerability and nurturing natures awakened, we have the opportunity to shift our focus from ‘self’ aggrandizement to contribution of ‘self’.<span style=""> </span>Awakening compassion to the mother nature and our vulnerable selves will allow us to grow ourselves up in places where we may have once looked outside for attention and recognition to feel powerful, safe, cared for, desired.<span style=""> </span>Whole, we create from a joyful, satisfied place in ourselves.<span style=""> </span>Whole, we are a healthy cell and contribute health to the organism of Gaia, Us.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>Peace, love, blessings, joy,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Helen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">(1) <a href="http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/">New Millennium Being</a> (to be published shortly)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">(2) <a href="http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisnewmoon.htm">This New Moon</a><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:16;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-17516751400422224812007-07-08T17:57:00.001-05:002007-07-08T18:29:26.433-05:00The Possible Humanfrom: A Mythic Life by Jean Houston<br /><br />Consider my fantasy of the possible human, a once and future person, who may be both what we were and what we may yet become. (She describes a female for simplicity):<br /><br />The first thing that you notice about her is that she enjoys being in her body. A fullness of being inhabits the body, with its flexible joints and muscles, its movements fluid and full of grace. One senses an ebullience in the bones, an appetite for delight. She is given to long pleasures and short pains, in contrast to most of us, who experience long pains and short pleasures. And if her natural zippiness and boundless curiosity entice her into situations where she gets physically hurt, she is able to control any bleeding and accelerate her own healing.<br /><br />Like the yogi adepts in the Himalayas, she can voluntarily control involuntary physical processes and stay warm in cold weather and cool in hot. (This is true in emotional climates as well as physical ones.) She can also self-regulate skin temperature, blood flow, heart and pulse rate, gastric secretion, and brain waves. Indeed, she can consciously enter into alpha and theta brain wave states for meditation and creative reverie, drop into delta whenever she wants to go to sleep, and call upon beta waves when she needs to be alert and active. Scanning her body, she self-corrects any function that needs improving.<br /><br />The new Eve celebrates acute senses, which are not limited to five, for she enjoys synesthesia or cross-sensing, the capacity to hear color and touch the textures of music, capture with her nose the smell of words, and taste the subtlest of feelings. Since her sensory palette is so colorful and wide ranging, she engages and is engaged by the world as artist and mystic, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower. The splendor of her sensory life graces her with an accomanying gift, an excellent memory, for she is so present to the perceptual richness of everyday life that little is lost or disregarded and all is stored in her memory banks for later review and delectation. She can time travel into these memories, walk around in them as if they were happening now-talking to this friend, realizing that moment of joy, even holding the hand of a long ago loved one. Thus, she need never feel lonely, for the past is as present as the present.<br /><br />And wherever in the past wounding occurred, she can visit that time in her mind as the wiser version of her former self and bring understanding, compassion and wisdom to the occasion. This practice can free capacities that may have been frozen in the painful past and yield frutiful consequences for her present and future development. She is thus a time player, able to speed up subjective time when she needs it to go faster or slow it down so as to savor lovely moments or have more time to rehearse skills or review projects.<br /><br />The possible human can think in inward images and experience subjective realities as strikingly as she can know objective ones. She listens to inward music as complex as any symphony, in fact often richer, for instruments and sounds are added that are unknown or too expensive for any formal orchestra. She views new movies on her inner screen whenever she wishes, for she knows that it is the nature of the brain to provide stories, well wrought novels for her Inward Television Station. She uses these images to entertain herself as well as to provide the materials of creativity and invention. She is already an adventurer into a vast reservoir of virtual realities and needs no machine to assist her. She knows that self-creating works of art are always budding out of the fields of her mind, and she can capture and rework them as she wishes.<br /><br />Consciousness for her is a vast landscape, a continuous landscape, and she travels its length and breadth at will. She enters a state of meditation here, a region of deep trance there, finding shortcuts into the realms of fantasy and imagination, spelunking her way into the caves of creativity. She continues to discover the many cultures of her psyche and has matriculated in the Innerversity, studying all manner of knowledge and wisdom that these cultures within provide.<br /><br />She has many friends and allies in the inward and imaginal worlds, the most important of whom may be the beloved of the soul, the spiritual friend who is her archetypal partner and the companion of her depth reality. And, whenever she feels ready, she journeys to the source places of her soul, where she partakes of the everlasting waters of life and spirit. She lives daily life as spiritual exercise, and her radiance affects all who meet her, for she is deeply empathic, knowing herself part of a seamless kinship with all living things. Being more, and using more of herself, she feels and cares more deeply about the decay and degradation in the social and moral order. In spite of evidence to the contrary, she recognizes others as God-in-hiding, and in whatever way she can, she calls them back to their own possible humanity. She is one about whom we might say, 'The human heart can go the lengths of God.'kalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33490145.post-48761490963392743012007-06-30T09:21:00.000-05:002007-06-30T11:21:45.112-05:00Full Moon In Capricorn, Saturday, June 30, 2007, 9:49am EST, Capricorn Committment<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Capricorn Commitment</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><span style=""></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkskqbewabNRJlQqagYYmuraw04O2TUwCUkVCqX5hPSdakTLMqzszeQ8d3LLNvLUq4Mm3bt0ouYCNqEjuDCbCp2WUHDs8hMgGaM-49di6A3FFuepRZIyX3hWN3437CCAMawkrng/s1600-h/capricorn+committment.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkskqbewabNRJlQqagYYmuraw04O2TUwCUkVCqX5hPSdakTLMqzszeQ8d3LLNvLUq4Mm3bt0ouYCNqEjuDCbCp2WUHDs8hMgGaM-49di6A3FFuepRZIyX3hWN3437CCAMawkrng/s200/capricorn+committment.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081875734790228930" border="0" /></a><br /></div>This full moon I am referring you to <a href="http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisfullmoon.htm">Lisa Dale Miller's column</a> because I resonate with its description of the Capricorn moon. She discusses:<br /><br />* the feeling of struggle we are experiencing with 6 planets retrograde (ow!) and the full moon in Capricorn<br />* the opportunity to explore our commitment and hard work towards realistic goals<br />* the opportunity to create structures which support our heart's desires<br />* the opportunity to honor our personal timing<br />* the opportunity to compassionately meet those places in ourselves which are wounded in love and do not respond from love as a first response; facing the reality of love lost or denied<br />* the opportunity to resolve fear vs love within ourselves!<br /><br />I'd like to add some thoughts about the context of this Capricorn full moon in the Gemini Moon cycle. (<a href="http://evolutionaryastrology.blogspot.com/2007/06/gemini-new-moon-june-14-2007-1113pm-est.html">see previous entry</a>) I've written that Gemini New Moon under a Cancer Sun provides the opportunity to explore how lower mind is attached to ancestral imprinting...this means that the mind responds to all situations as if we are still 5 years old...it will tell us what it knows based on its experiences of 'reality'. <a href="http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/backissues/nmb119.html">Guru Rattana</a> suggests training the lower mind with breath/kundalini yoga and mantras. What we're doing is teaching a mind with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) that the war is over. I remember a story about a Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle for many years after World War II was resolved. The lower mind is like that: it only knows itself in the context of the original imprinting. Even if the original imprinting was nourishing and pleasant, we will likely meet life with certain expectations and limitations. Perhaps it was nourishing and pleasant for a dependent 5 year old, but not for an ambitious 35 year old.<br /><br />'Reality' is where Capricorn comes into the picture this moon cycle. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn. Saturn in the chart describes the area of life where we have been defined as 'limited'. For example, someone with Saturn in Gemini will likely feel like they are not as smart as other people and will 'over-compensate' by studying until they <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">are </span>smarter than everyone else<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">! </span>That's because Saturn in Gemini slows down the mind...from the quick responsiveness of Gemini to a more slow, thorough examination of something. The final result is a mind that is very discerning! The lesson here is that hard work and commitment will help anyone to overcome anything. (Emotional maturity of Capricorn vs emotional dependence of Cancer : Independence from emotional attachment to tribal acceptance-and the ancestral/tribal imprinting-Capricorn IS the grownup! Capricorn decides where it will focus its attention.) Where we get lost with Saturn and Capricorn is believing that the 'limitation' makes us <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">seperate</span> from the rest of the world...does our hard work bring more fear and seperation or open us in love to interdependence?<br /><br />In the context of the Gemini New Moon, this Capricorn Full Moon provides the opportunity to bring our desire for love and compassion to the lower mind: the parts of us who tell us why we are limited and will never get what we want, based in fear rather than love (see <a href="http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisfullmoon.htm">Lisa Dale Miller's column</a>). With so many retrograde planets, it is an opportunity to look deeeeeeeeeply at our thought and life process. How do we stand in our own way? Can we awaken compassion for the power of imprinting in the mind and with hard work and committment train the mind to work for our true heart's desire, rather than it's limited outlook?<br /><br />I have found that pranayama breath has really helped me this moon cycle when my mind was telling me how limited I was. The breath has helped to support the witness part of me and strengthen the higher mind-the mind connected to more expansive 'realities' and possibilities.<br /><br />For the full moon and the rest of this moon cycle (Saturday, July 14th), celebrate your personal timing and honor any movement you've made from fear to love with lower to higher mind. Celebrate any movement to strengthen your commitment to your heart's desire, softness, compassion, emotional fluidity. (Capricorn Moon under a Cancer Sun) The next two weeks will likey feel easier as you <span style="font-style: italic;">integrate</span> the 'work' you've done during this moon cycle. The opportunities still remain, with so many retrograde planets, to dive deeply to recover treasured peices of ourselves.<br /><br />peace, love, blessings, Helenkalihearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302265274846420303noreply@blogger.com0