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

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