I extend heartfelt gratitude to Normandi Ellis for her masterful translation of The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Below is passage 44. from Awakening Osiris, which I feel best illuminates what I attempted to express about the last full moon in Capricorn, and the potent opportunity each and every one of us can seize amidst the increasing chaos of this time on Earth...
Becoming the Craftsman...
"I eat the bread I baked. I drink the beer I brewed. I drape myself in white linen woven by my own hands. Making. Making. Making. My spirit lifts on the wings of a golden hawk. I am the cackle of joy in the throat of the wild goose. I am a child in awe of my own power, filled with wonder, bewildered, awake. I am one of the wonders of earth, full of blood and breath and singing. Even as I dance toward the mountain, even as I dance toward death, I celebrate my marvelous being. I dance with great ones who writhe and chant, who conjure spirit, the light in the darkness.
Truth lies on the hearts and tongues of men. Speak and live. You are creator and creation. You life is craft, your supple body molded by word, sculpted by desire, fired by deed. You poise yourself between life and fate, the will of men and the will of gods. In the beat of a heart, the suck of breath, you are the universe. Making. Making. Making.
I have heard lies, yet have not believed them. No mater the pain, I shattered illusions. I sought the crack in every cup. The thinks said of me in anger or in praise I have not made my own. It is for my conscience to guide my hand, my deed to create myself. I am myself perceiving myself, making, making, making.
In those moments of silence when desire and will are stilled, I know the purpose gods know. My body is nourished by the things of earth, my spirit by the things of the heart. Under flowering almond trees I eat the fruit of love. I watch boughs dance in the wind, hear wavering music in dreams. I am making, making, making. I offer what I have made - my bread, my peace, myself. I wrap my skin in the blue robe of heaven. I sit in the garden listening to birds. I do what my heart tells me. My thoughts leap visible as light. I am what I know, what I feel, what I make. I am myself, the ether of the instant, breathing. I gather and build my life. The earth is a small globe created by thoughts, mine and those of others. I walk among houses, the fields, flowers and rocks, even the poison of snakes, the sting of bees are mine. All existence is the measure between light and dark, bees and serpents, wind and fire. I love the scorpion, yet I know its poisonous sting. To live in harmony is a beginning.
What can be named can be known, what can not be named must be lived, believed. I speak of the creator and the creation, the ordinary life lived extraordinarily. I work for the sake of working. The joy of creating is the joy of forgetting everything else. I lean into life. My tongue is fire; my breath is wind. The spirit spits from my mouth. I speak of a chain of events where making leads to making, action to action, love to love, where the beginning began so long ago we find ourselves always in the midst of it.
There is no rest. The act is now. In your lives you will make children, make peace, make errors, you will make trouble, you will dance under the sun and the moon. As long as you live you will create life. You will rise and fall many times. It is like the making of a good loaf of bread. You will be nourished."
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Full Moon Full On
This full moon in Capricorn (at 11:39 PM, Thursday 7/14) is a lot like a new sheriff in town. And this sheriff has some serious work to do. The unconscious criminals have been slipping in and out of our lives to perpetrate layer after layer of frustration, anger, and confusion. For some, the unconscious criminals are robbing us of our physical well-being. For others, they're stealing our sense of emotional stability, our financial security, and our creative expression. And this is ALL in service (believe it or not) to transforming the nature of how we relate. First with our selves, then with one another, and finally with Mother Earth.
The reason for this, in astrological terms, is the Moon's current transit through Capricorn conjuncts with Pluto today, building up some serious transformational mojo as it opposes Venus in Cancer (which has been opposed to Pluto for the past couple of weeks), en route to tomorrow nights opposition with the Sun, also in Cancer. And all of this in the midst of the aforementioned (previous blog post) cardinal grand-cross that has us all feeling like life is a never-ending pressure cooker, ready to explode if one more shock hits our already overly-traumatized nervous system.
You want movement, yet you feel stuck. Stuck in the habituated patterns of your mind. And you're holding on for dear life. Well, it's not really you holding on, it's your ego. But for the vast majority, there's no distinction between the two. Even for those who make the distinction, fewer still have the fortitude to step up and actually reconcile the ego's perpetual denial of any conscious choice that's inconsistent with the ego's habituated patterns of likes and dislikes, myths, attitudes, and gestalts that have been maintained to limit or diffuse the opportunity of love and bliss abundantly available in every moment. But alas we forget, again and again. And with the human mind preferring misery over change, it appears we're doomed to ride this wounded pony into the ground, and die a painful death at the hands of these unconscious criminals.
But wait. Like a good neighbor, the full moon in Capricorn is here, raining down the elixir of truth. Not the truth we want to believe about ourselves. Not the truth we've fantasized about ever since our egos developed around the age of 7. No, this is the truth we feel in the hearts, outside the madness and chaos of the egoistic mind. It isn't always pretty, and often it can feel downright ugly, but this truth is none-the-less ours. And it's what we came here to be. This truth is unique to the individual, translatable through your natal birth chart, and it's yours to contribute to the whole. Unique to no one is the power of this time to transform your life in accordance with what you feel called to contribute, in service to this world.
The moon in Capricorn offers us the ability, here and now, to take all the emotional "stuff" we've gone through in the past few weeks, and create a new structure, a new pattern with it. It requires, of course, that we heal the wounds we've been carrying for way too long. For some that can happen in an instant. For those who ascribe to the collective belief that we have to work for our healing, then now is the time to do the work. Whether it's yoga, bodywork, counseling, breathwork, qi gung, pilates, surfing, whatever helps you balance yourself and work this accelerating energy through your body, there's no room for further delay. If you're aware that Self-realization is what you came here for. That fulfillment of your purpose is the reason for playing this absurdly horrific and profoundly beautiful game of life. That unconditional love exists in equal measure to the combative nature of the conditioned mind.... then now's the time to let the new sheriff do his job and cease and desist the unscrupulous control of your unconscious ego. If we continue moving along like nothing is wrong, skipping over this requisite healing by numbing our consciousness with the myriad substances (television, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, sugar, etc) available in mass quantitiy, we will destroy this planet.
Regardless of your beliefs, or your unique approach to life, EARTH - the organism upon which all life relies for survival - is shifting. What it's shifting into is up to each and every one of us. It is shaking apart the old structures and forms because they have been built by our collective unconsciousness. The corruption running rampant throughout human culture and within nearly every structure, is identical to that which is destroying the fabric of our collective consciousness. As within, so without.
And this is what the full moon in Capricorn is here to expose, for those with eyes willing to see. To see our unconscious judgements, our fears of rejection and our false beliefs, we must pay close attention to the mechanism we are that keeps us asleep. And then, wake up.
Here's my advice this full moon. Look in the mirror. See it all. It is plain as day, and ripe for transformation. Pay attention to EVERYTHING you see, but don't identify with it as anything separate. A baby's unencumbered laughter. That's you. Murderous bombings in Mumbai. That's you, too. The bliss and the suffering go hand-in-hand. And if you remain in your center throughout, attached to neither, dis-identified yet embracing of both, you will see your Self in all and you will see God in all. And then, like magic, you will see that you are co-creating with the creator, because the two are not separate...i.e., you are not separate from God. The planet's have aligned to show us where our unconscious ego separates us again and again from the divine, the truth, the way I AM, and it's up to you and me to say Stop. No more. This takes great courage. Extraordinary strength. Endless integrity. And infinite love.
And what will we get in return? Great courage. Extraordinary strength. Endless integrity. And infinite love.
You get what you give.
In gratitude to all for your unique contribution to our collective awakening,
Ryan
www.bodyworkastrology.com
The reason for this, in astrological terms, is the Moon's current transit through Capricorn conjuncts with Pluto today, building up some serious transformational mojo as it opposes Venus in Cancer (which has been opposed to Pluto for the past couple of weeks), en route to tomorrow nights opposition with the Sun, also in Cancer. And all of this in the midst of the aforementioned (previous blog post) cardinal grand-cross that has us all feeling like life is a never-ending pressure cooker, ready to explode if one more shock hits our already overly-traumatized nervous system.
You want movement, yet you feel stuck. Stuck in the habituated patterns of your mind. And you're holding on for dear life. Well, it's not really you holding on, it's your ego. But for the vast majority, there's no distinction between the two. Even for those who make the distinction, fewer still have the fortitude to step up and actually reconcile the ego's perpetual denial of any conscious choice that's inconsistent with the ego's habituated patterns of likes and dislikes, myths, attitudes, and gestalts that have been maintained to limit or diffuse the opportunity of love and bliss abundantly available in every moment. But alas we forget, again and again. And with the human mind preferring misery over change, it appears we're doomed to ride this wounded pony into the ground, and die a painful death at the hands of these unconscious criminals.
But wait. Like a good neighbor, the full moon in Capricorn is here, raining down the elixir of truth. Not the truth we want to believe about ourselves. Not the truth we've fantasized about ever since our egos developed around the age of 7. No, this is the truth we feel in the hearts, outside the madness and chaos of the egoistic mind. It isn't always pretty, and often it can feel downright ugly, but this truth is none-the-less ours. And it's what we came here to be. This truth is unique to the individual, translatable through your natal birth chart, and it's yours to contribute to the whole. Unique to no one is the power of this time to transform your life in accordance with what you feel called to contribute, in service to this world.
The moon in Capricorn offers us the ability, here and now, to take all the emotional "stuff" we've gone through in the past few weeks, and create a new structure, a new pattern with it. It requires, of course, that we heal the wounds we've been carrying for way too long. For some that can happen in an instant. For those who ascribe to the collective belief that we have to work for our healing, then now is the time to do the work. Whether it's yoga, bodywork, counseling, breathwork, qi gung, pilates, surfing, whatever helps you balance yourself and work this accelerating energy through your body, there's no room for further delay. If you're aware that Self-realization is what you came here for. That fulfillment of your purpose is the reason for playing this absurdly horrific and profoundly beautiful game of life. That unconditional love exists in equal measure to the combative nature of the conditioned mind.... then now's the time to let the new sheriff do his job and cease and desist the unscrupulous control of your unconscious ego. If we continue moving along like nothing is wrong, skipping over this requisite healing by numbing our consciousness with the myriad substances (television, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, sugar, etc) available in mass quantitiy, we will destroy this planet.
Regardless of your beliefs, or your unique approach to life, EARTH - the organism upon which all life relies for survival - is shifting. What it's shifting into is up to each and every one of us. It is shaking apart the old structures and forms because they have been built by our collective unconsciousness. The corruption running rampant throughout human culture and within nearly every structure, is identical to that which is destroying the fabric of our collective consciousness. As within, so without.
And this is what the full moon in Capricorn is here to expose, for those with eyes willing to see. To see our unconscious judgements, our fears of rejection and our false beliefs, we must pay close attention to the mechanism we are that keeps us asleep. And then, wake up.
Here's my advice this full moon. Look in the mirror. See it all. It is plain as day, and ripe for transformation. Pay attention to EVERYTHING you see, but don't identify with it as anything separate. A baby's unencumbered laughter. That's you. Murderous bombings in Mumbai. That's you, too. The bliss and the suffering go hand-in-hand. And if you remain in your center throughout, attached to neither, dis-identified yet embracing of both, you will see your Self in all and you will see God in all. And then, like magic, you will see that you are co-creating with the creator, because the two are not separate...i.e., you are not separate from God. The planet's have aligned to show us where our unconscious ego separates us again and again from the divine, the truth, the way I AM, and it's up to you and me to say Stop. No more. This takes great courage. Extraordinary strength. Endless integrity. And infinite love.
And what will we get in return? Great courage. Extraordinary strength. Endless integrity. And infinite love.
You get what you give.
In gratitude to all for your unique contribution to our collective awakening,
Ryan
www.bodyworkastrology.com
Friday, July 1, 2011
Eclipse download
Okay my friends,
This marks the origination of a blog that started out as a monthly newsletter titled Lunar Monthly. Welcome to what's going on in the stars, from the uncommon perception of my Halloween eyes.
At 1:53 AM (PDT) on July 1 we have the third eclipse in a row, a solar eclipse in Cancer - smack dab in the tag-team corner of the cardinal Grand Cross that will be with us until the middle of July (Venus will slide in as the Sun moves out). Not exactly a recipe for fun if we take into account the common perception of what these planetary aspects do to one another, relative to the friction four planets at 90 degree angles (which also puts the Sun/Moon conjunction in opposition to Pluto, and Saturn in the last of a long series of oppositions with Uranus). With transits like these, many a cynical eye might perceive this time on Earth as all kinds of challenging with little hope for relief.
But rather than jump on that bandwagon, let's take into consideration that common perception is based on a paradigm of human consciousness unequivocally bound to the past. What if, and I know this sounds crazy, but what if we let go of the past? What if we relax, and trust that past lessons learned have been nicely woven into the tapestry of who we are in this moment? Maybe, just maybe, we can take a quantum leap into something so radical, yet essential to Earth's survival. And that something is living, breathing and relating not from our out-dated survival patterns, but from our heart-centered truth. Sounds too good to be true, right? Maybe, but I'm a dreamer. And there's never been a better time to wake up from the nightmares created by our collective unconscious.
Most of us have been dragged through the mud the past few months (if not years), and the amount of work we've done is irrelevant to the window of opportunity to shift A LOT during this transit. If you've somehow miraculously been immune to suffering in the past year, take a look at the news. What we're experiencing... Disneyland it ain't. With all these planetary aspects raising the frequencies here on Earth, we will be tempted to perceive everything with the "common perception" that relates to all of that's happening from the vantage point of a victim of some cruel joke, perpetrated by a cold and distant cosmic order.
Trying on something new, a more uncommon perception, gives us an opportunity to recognize that although challenging, these aspects bring an extraordinary opportunity to relate to this heightened energy from a place of Authority. Take authorship of your life and create with this energy. Sure the inner-rebel will rear it's ugly head and deny your Authority, that's the game it came here to play. That's the part of you that identifies with the negative polarity of your self in such a way to convince you it's you. It's slippery that way. But you came here to play a different game. One of relating with the increasing life-force energy in such a way that you channel it into the story you're writing now. Your story, not his-story. What kind of Author do you want to be? Sure you could pick a genre, romantic comedy, action-adventure, whatever. But let's go deeper, and make conscious the polarity you choose. Light or dark. Choose. Knowing that the dynamic tension of these opposites are required for this world of form to exist, we're called now to be a master of both Light and Dark, and find the balance between the two within ourselves. And then, even when the darkness rears it's ugly head, we can still choose light. Call it in. Bring it down. We really can transmute the darkness into more light, and with Saturn in Libra it's all about balancing the karmic dance of these two extreme opposites in every relationship we experience. Be it a lover, a brother, a mother or a friend, the key to harmony in all relationships is inner-balance. And when it comes to our relationship to the world, the real task is to remain in our center as the structures around us fall away. Easier said than done.
There's a lot of energy right now. And not the kind that necessarily energizes us. For many, this remains a time of going inside and resting amidst the increasing bandwidth our evolution. Sure it's summer, let's go out and play, and all that jazz. But the Crab (Cancer) can only be out for so long before it must go back into its shell and feel what it needs to feel. Allow yourself the time you need to feel your feelings, and take care not mistake the feelings of others as your own. Now is the time to be crystal clear about exactly what you're creating, and a lot can be created right now. These are fertile times. The alchemy of this eclipse is extraordinarily potent. Poten(t)cially difficult. Poten(t)cially liberating. It's all in how we reconcile and create with what is essentially pure energy.
Looking ahead, the Sun's transit into Leo, with Venus trailing close behind, will be the time to get out on life's stage and dance your dance. Certainly more so than this moment. For now, play all you want, but don't forget to meditate on all that you've seen and felt, and integrate the lessons learned so you can allow this highly-charged transit to burn away the old structures you're ready to let go of. These aspects are designed to clear the old, and make room for the new. Of one thing we can be certain... birth cannot exist without death.
Now is the time to die to the old forms of your common perception. Honor who you are by letting go of who you're not. The planets have aligned in such a way that we will be made painfully clear of the consequences of holding on to what must be transformed. The choice is ours. We will heal the planet when we transform our suffering and return to the true nature of our heart-centered intentions, planted in the fertile soil of an emptied mind.
And have fun. With all of it. This is, after all, a cosmic joke. It's only cruel if we relate to it that way.
In gratitude to all for your unique contribution to the whole,
Ryan
For more information about Bodywork Astrology, visit www.bodyworkastrology.com
This marks the origination of a blog that started out as a monthly newsletter titled Lunar Monthly. Welcome to what's going on in the stars, from the uncommon perception of my Halloween eyes.
At 1:53 AM (PDT) on July 1 we have the third eclipse in a row, a solar eclipse in Cancer - smack dab in the tag-team corner of the cardinal Grand Cross that will be with us until the middle of July (Venus will slide in as the Sun moves out). Not exactly a recipe for fun if we take into account the common perception of what these planetary aspects do to one another, relative to the friction four planets at 90 degree angles (which also puts the Sun/Moon conjunction in opposition to Pluto, and Saturn in the last of a long series of oppositions with Uranus). With transits like these, many a cynical eye might perceive this time on Earth as all kinds of challenging with little hope for relief.
But rather than jump on that bandwagon, let's take into consideration that common perception is based on a paradigm of human consciousness unequivocally bound to the past. What if, and I know this sounds crazy, but what if we let go of the past? What if we relax, and trust that past lessons learned have been nicely woven into the tapestry of who we are in this moment? Maybe, just maybe, we can take a quantum leap into something so radical, yet essential to Earth's survival. And that something is living, breathing and relating not from our out-dated survival patterns, but from our heart-centered truth. Sounds too good to be true, right? Maybe, but I'm a dreamer. And there's never been a better time to wake up from the nightmares created by our collective unconscious.
Most of us have been dragged through the mud the past few months (if not years), and the amount of work we've done is irrelevant to the window of opportunity to shift A LOT during this transit. If you've somehow miraculously been immune to suffering in the past year, take a look at the news. What we're experiencing... Disneyland it ain't. With all these planetary aspects raising the frequencies here on Earth, we will be tempted to perceive everything with the "common perception" that relates to all of that's happening from the vantage point of a victim of some cruel joke, perpetrated by a cold and distant cosmic order.
Trying on something new, a more uncommon perception, gives us an opportunity to recognize that although challenging, these aspects bring an extraordinary opportunity to relate to this heightened energy from a place of Authority. Take authorship of your life and create with this energy. Sure the inner-rebel will rear it's ugly head and deny your Authority, that's the game it came here to play. That's the part of you that identifies with the negative polarity of your self in such a way to convince you it's you. It's slippery that way. But you came here to play a different game. One of relating with the increasing life-force energy in such a way that you channel it into the story you're writing now. Your story, not his-story. What kind of Author do you want to be? Sure you could pick a genre, romantic comedy, action-adventure, whatever. But let's go deeper, and make conscious the polarity you choose. Light or dark. Choose. Knowing that the dynamic tension of these opposites are required for this world of form to exist, we're called now to be a master of both Light and Dark, and find the balance between the two within ourselves. And then, even when the darkness rears it's ugly head, we can still choose light. Call it in. Bring it down. We really can transmute the darkness into more light, and with Saturn in Libra it's all about balancing the karmic dance of these two extreme opposites in every relationship we experience. Be it a lover, a brother, a mother or a friend, the key to harmony in all relationships is inner-balance. And when it comes to our relationship to the world, the real task is to remain in our center as the structures around us fall away. Easier said than done.
There's a lot of energy right now. And not the kind that necessarily energizes us. For many, this remains a time of going inside and resting amidst the increasing bandwidth our evolution. Sure it's summer, let's go out and play, and all that jazz. But the Crab (Cancer) can only be out for so long before it must go back into its shell and feel what it needs to feel. Allow yourself the time you need to feel your feelings, and take care not mistake the feelings of others as your own. Now is the time to be crystal clear about exactly what you're creating, and a lot can be created right now. These are fertile times. The alchemy of this eclipse is extraordinarily potent. Poten(t)cially difficult. Poten(t)cially liberating. It's all in how we reconcile and create with what is essentially pure energy.
Looking ahead, the Sun's transit into Leo, with Venus trailing close behind, will be the time to get out on life's stage and dance your dance. Certainly more so than this moment. For now, play all you want, but don't forget to meditate on all that you've seen and felt, and integrate the lessons learned so you can allow this highly-charged transit to burn away the old structures you're ready to let go of. These aspects are designed to clear the old, and make room for the new. Of one thing we can be certain... birth cannot exist without death.
Now is the time to die to the old forms of your common perception. Honor who you are by letting go of who you're not. The planets have aligned in such a way that we will be made painfully clear of the consequences of holding on to what must be transformed. The choice is ours. We will heal the planet when we transform our suffering and return to the true nature of our heart-centered intentions, planted in the fertile soil of an emptied mind.
And have fun. With all of it. This is, after all, a cosmic joke. It's only cruel if we relate to it that way.
In gratitude to all for your unique contribution to the whole,
Ryan
For more information about Bodywork Astrology, visit www.bodyworkastrology.com
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