The winter solstice is upon us. Like no other time in the year, we’re called to source our light from within. And in so doing, we burn through the veils of illusion that lock our perception in a world of separation.
And there’s really no way around it. We have to burn through the endless chatter of this suffering mind in order to receive with crystal clarity the healing melody of our heart’s song. Calming the deafening explosion of dissonant thoughts, we heed the guidance and harmonic pulse of our soul’s rhythm. Listen. Let that pulse guide you.
With the new moon in Capricorn on December 24, and Jupiter finishing it’s retrograde cycle and starting fresh at 0 degrees Taurus on December 25, we find ourselves with an extraordinary opportunity to restructure our lives in accordance with the harmonic pulse of our soul’s purpose on this planet. If that sounds like kind of a big deal, it is.
Like never before in my observation of astrological cycles, it appears that all the challenges and traumas we’ve endured can be transmuted into whatever we consciously choose in the year ahead. The operative word being “consciously.” How can we discern our conscious choices from our unconscious? Easy. Look back at the last year of your life. What choices did you make out of habit? Out of reaction? What were the results? With 20/20 hindsight, reflecting on the effects of your choices, what will you do differently when similar circumstances present themselves? And they will. Only this time, you’ll meet them not from your fear-based patterns of reaction, but instead with responsive awareness centered on the truth and wisdom you’ve gleaned from all that led you to this moment.
The key with Saturn’s transit through Libra (going retrograde from Feb 7, 2012 - June 24, 2012) is to relate - with everyone and everything - without getting pulled off center. Take responsibility for your feelings, instead of letting them spin you out into the spectrum of outdated reactions. And recognize that you’re not responsible for the feelings of anyone else. They’re going to feel how they’re going to feel. By staying in, or enabling another to remain in, our unconscious patterns (codependence, for example), we perpetuate karmic repercussions we can no longer afford. The imbalance in the world is a direct correlate of every individual’s commitment (or lack thereof) to living in alignment with our truth. And if you’re living in your truth, with genuine kindness and compassion, the universe will bestow many blessings upon your path in the year ahead. That’s Jupiter finally moving forward in Taurus. Big abundance and creative output awaits all who follow their bliss, and remain devoted to their truth.
It’s been a year. Not all bad. Not all good. But all perfect. We’re alive to tell the tale. Only now we can narrate the story moving forward, as opposed to pulling it up from the past. See the year to come as though it were already manifest. Put to rest your orientation to a now that’s built on the faulty construct of a dissociative past. Those days are over. Let them die as the year expires. Give birth instead to what dreams may come.
Few can argue the epoch of our human existence is shifting. Into what? Well... that’s subject to what you believe in. And in all matters of belief we cannot escape from subjective opinion. Absent concrete evidence to support my claims, I share the following knowing full well that the constructs of religious indoctrination will illicit a reaction, or better stated, a denial from most. Like the GOP pundits and their propaganda machine (FOX News, etc) that surreptitiously deny human activity contributes to climate change, I too recognize you can never underestimate the power of denial. Did you know that over half the populace of America, thanks in part to the aforementioned propaganda machine (and a healthy dose of denial-based ignorance), now believes that the rising CO2 put out by our growing industrial world has NO effect on climate change? To this I simply say... wow.
But I digress. The POINT I was getting at, is the shifting of the human epoch. I have a bent towards examining the correlation between science and spirituality. Some lean towards one or the other. Recognizing there is no separation (original theme of this post), I like to think we’re shifting from Homo sapien to Homo illuminous. That we’re more than just our physical body. That a light source exists within us, and that light is surfacing in profound and beautiful way. And in conjunction with that shift, we’re shifting from the Information Age to the Age of Intuition. What does that mean...?
It’s like cloud computing. A mobile application (the human mind) processes data and software stored in remote servers (the universal mind) and delivered through the internet (collective consciousness). Incalculable bits of information are traveling through the internet (the spontaneous gamma oscillations of human consciousness) and retrieved by our individual web browser (intuition) and downloaded accordingly.
I’m still working on that one, but I put it out simply to illustrate that the mechanism of our intuition has a mirror in our technological innovation. We have access to energy and information like never before. That's no accident.
And all this is to say.... We have A LOT available in 2012. The winter solstice still represents a time of going inward, a hibernation of sorts. We have access to A LOT right now. Tune in. Solidify your connection to the light. Receive your guidance from within. Create alchemy with all you’ve accumulated. And come spring, the seeds of your deepest intentions will take root like never before. Plant them in the fertile soil of an emptied mind. Remain aware that past habituations and patterns (ego-based emotions and fears) will arise from time to time in an attempt to distract us. Identify with nothing and remember your aim. With Jupiter in Taurus on your side, you can clear those distractions without effort and focus into completion the manifestation of your dreams. Dream big.
In gratitude to all for your contribution to our collective awakening.
Stellar blessings,
Ryan
www.bodyworkastrology.com
An added bonus... A passage from T.S Elliot’s masterstroke Four Quartets that beautifully illustrates through graceful prose the soft darkness of this winter solstice...
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark,
And dark the Sun and Moon, and the Almanach de Gotha
And the Stock Exchange Gazette, the Directory of
Directors,
And cold the sense and lost the motive of action.
And we all go forth with them, into the silent funeral,
Nobody’s funeral, for there is no one to bury.
I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you
Which shall be the darkness of God. As, in a theatre,
The lights are extinguished, for the scene to be changed
With a hollow rumble of wings, with a movement of darkness
on darkness,
And we know that the hills and the trees, the distant panorama
And the bold imposing facade are all being rolled away--
Or as, when an underground train, in the tube, stops too long
between stations
And the conversation rises and slowly fades into silence
And you see behind every face the mental emptiness
deepen
Leaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about;
Or when, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious
of nothing--
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without
love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought;
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the
dancing.
Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning.
The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry,
The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy
Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony
Of death and birth
You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there,
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are
not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
and what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Eclipse is Coming!
The eclipse is coming! The eclipse is coming!
The significance of this eclipse, while ranking a few decibels below the urgency that fueled Henny Penny’s misaligned pronouncement that the sky is falling, the sky is falling, is none-the-less enormous.
Now I admit, I think all full moons are significant. So much so I’m either locked in my office and tapping the creative wave bequeathed by the moon’s reflection of the sun, or I make a pilgrimage to some remote location to bask in the unencumbered lunar glow. This month, oddly, I completely forgot to look ahead at the astrology and invited my parents to fly out and visit me on what appeared to be a good “non-holiday weekend” to share some quality time with the two who came together to form the one (me).
How did this happen? How did I blindly surrender my rigid maintenance of writing during not just a full moon, but a LUNAR ECLIPSE?! I’ll tell you how, and then I’ll elucidate why I couldn’t have planned this any better. And I suspect your personal narrative will relate in some way to what I see.
How this eclipse slipped my mind is easy. Mercury’s retrograde. The planet that impels our thinking mind, or lower mind, is doing it’s thrice annual electric slide backwards in the sky that takes our mind down memory lane, and gives us all kinds of discombobulated reviews of oft intense feelings. Some not so pretty. Others not so ugly.
*Here’s a retrograde moment... my sister just called, and we had a lovely conversation that our busy schedules seldom afford, while I was writing about our parents. This strikes me as a perfect example of Einstein’s "spooky action at a distance,” later termed quantum entanglement, where two related or entangled particles, separated at vast distances, continue to directly influence the other. All too similar to everyone's inextricable connection to the sun and the moon, reflected genetically through our parents.
The fundamentals of quantum entanglement segue nicely with why I overlooked this full moon. Because I’m not in control, that’s why. A force beyond my control-hungry ego set this up. And that’s the power of this eclipse. The power to unite above with below. Within and without. And the opportunity to bow at the sacrificial altar, have the courage to LET GO, and surrender the ego-based idea that I’m in control.
The new moon solar eclipse in Sagittarius on 11/24, and the upcoming full moon lunar eclipse in Gemini on Saturday, 12/10 at 6:36AM (PST), both occur during Mercury’s retrograde transit. This is no small potatoes. It’s not every day the dynamic core of our issues (our mind) exposes itself on a level so vividly clear one moment and precipitously truculent the next. It’s as though we’re dancing the tango with the erratic complexities of our inner-world, and then all of a sudden we become the floor upon which those erratic complexities seem to be relentlessly stomping a Texas two-step (steel-toed boots included). Sound familiar?
A couple of quick caveats... My personal exploration of healing, be it physical, energetic, emotional and/or psychological unavoidably influences what I’m about to share regarding this eclipse. The enormity of this opportunity, regardless of whether you resonate with my pithy anecdotes, is universal. Also... while multiple planetary transits and their mutual interactions are at the root of what I share, I’m inclined to focus this message on the qualitative nature of this eclipse and what’s to follow. Email me if you want quantifiable planetary aspects.
Allow me to continue with exactly what’s available, in quantum proportions, during and beyond this eclipse. We have an incredible opportunity to heal the noxious feeling of separation that plagues our perception. On one side we have our linear mind, and its unconscious fixation on past traumas that function to contract around all the uncomfortable energy that’s arising. And on the other side we have our intuitive mind, inspired to expand and create with the intensity being generated in our solar system right now. First we have to get up close and personal with our unconscious analytical mind, and the survival-based patterns of control it designed. Like yin and yang, the the two hemispheres of the brain are at the same time separate and interdependent, which means they cannot function without the other. If we avoid making conscious our unconscious, if we ignore the value of remembering the wholeness of who we really are, the melody of our heart’s song is inescapably orchestrated through a thinking mind that dooms us to replicating our past.
“What you think about, you bring about.” - Napolean Hill
The Sun and Mercury are both in the sign of Sagittarius, the devout explorer of truth and expansion into our higher mind. Because this time of year gives us the least amount of sunshine, we’re each called to draw forth more light from within. This light can weave through our memories, and transform them into the batter with which we consciously create. The full moon is in Gemini, which represents the lower mind, and the opposing Sun is in Sagittarius, the higher mind. Let this opposition expose the misaligned beliefs and negative emotions that generate the unconscious patterns conditioned by your past. Do they allow the light to move freely through you? If not, let them go. And by let them go, I don’t mean forget they exist. I’m saying let them be free. Allow that energetic charge to fuel the heart’s fire to create the life you came here to live. What was once limitation is now an even greater expression.
Did we really come here to perpetuate the unconscious imprints of our childhood? Or to repeat those handed down from our ancestors? We had plenty of positive experiences too, and we received conscious attributes of incalculable value from those same ancestors. Now’s the time to integrate it all. This planet needs us to shine our light, yet so often when we do, the shadow of the mind rises up to blind us. As Earth orbits directly between the solar and lunar bodies, the full eclipse will project our planetary shadow onto the surface of the moon. And that shadow will finally be exposed as the fraudulent denying mechanism of the ego. Thy will be done as the alchemy of the Self rises up to show us the light beyond our separate self.
Like a moonbeam of divine fuel, let the elixir of the soma rain pour down through the chakra of your crown. Align the hemispheres of the brain, quiet the chaos of the mind, and orchestrate the symphony of your heart’s song. The wattage of how much light we can shine is expanding exponentially to balance the darker aspects that are surfacing in our dualistic world. Like the dance of the lower mind with the higher mind, we're at choice to where we put our conscious attention.
Fortunately my higher mind pulled the veil over my eyes and prevented my conscious attention from identifying with my lower mind's resistance to compromising my alone time with the full moon. In that, we can always trust that wakefulness will triumph over sleep. And the triumph of higher mind has coordinated an opportunity to share this eclipse with my mother and father, the two people who represent the origins of my feminine (lunar) and masculine (solar) energy. This is blessing beyond proportion. A cosmic Mastercard commercial with the “priceless” tagline. And a moment to remember and appreciate that I'm not in control, and the universe has my back. The more I get out of the way, the more it guides me in service to the light.
"The fates lead him who will. Him who won't, they drag." Seneca wisdom
I wish you all blessings of light as the nights continue to grow longer and the days shorter. May we always remember our light inside the darkness.
Thank you for your contribution to our collective awakening.
Stellar blessings,
Ryan
www.bodyworkastrology.com
ps The forecast moving forward... Mercury goes direct 12/13, and Jupiter goes direct 12/25, at zero degrees Taurus. We can give tangible form to our conscious expansion, and reign in the prosperity and abundance that is our birthright. Help us transform our world in 2012. And do so with all your heart.
The significance of this eclipse, while ranking a few decibels below the urgency that fueled Henny Penny’s misaligned pronouncement that the sky is falling, the sky is falling, is none-the-less enormous.
Now I admit, I think all full moons are significant. So much so I’m either locked in my office and tapping the creative wave bequeathed by the moon’s reflection of the sun, or I make a pilgrimage to some remote location to bask in the unencumbered lunar glow. This month, oddly, I completely forgot to look ahead at the astrology and invited my parents to fly out and visit me on what appeared to be a good “non-holiday weekend” to share some quality time with the two who came together to form the one (me).
How did this happen? How did I blindly surrender my rigid maintenance of writing during not just a full moon, but a LUNAR ECLIPSE?! I’ll tell you how, and then I’ll elucidate why I couldn’t have planned this any better. And I suspect your personal narrative will relate in some way to what I see.
How this eclipse slipped my mind is easy. Mercury’s retrograde. The planet that impels our thinking mind, or lower mind, is doing it’s thrice annual electric slide backwards in the sky that takes our mind down memory lane, and gives us all kinds of discombobulated reviews of oft intense feelings. Some not so pretty. Others not so ugly.
*Here’s a retrograde moment... my sister just called, and we had a lovely conversation that our busy schedules seldom afford, while I was writing about our parents. This strikes me as a perfect example of Einstein’s "spooky action at a distance,” later termed quantum entanglement, where two related or entangled particles, separated at vast distances, continue to directly influence the other. All too similar to everyone's inextricable connection to the sun and the moon, reflected genetically through our parents.
The fundamentals of quantum entanglement segue nicely with why I overlooked this full moon. Because I’m not in control, that’s why. A force beyond my control-hungry ego set this up. And that’s the power of this eclipse. The power to unite above with below. Within and without. And the opportunity to bow at the sacrificial altar, have the courage to LET GO, and surrender the ego-based idea that I’m in control.
The new moon solar eclipse in Sagittarius on 11/24, and the upcoming full moon lunar eclipse in Gemini on Saturday, 12/10 at 6:36AM (PST), both occur during Mercury’s retrograde transit. This is no small potatoes. It’s not every day the dynamic core of our issues (our mind) exposes itself on a level so vividly clear one moment and precipitously truculent the next. It’s as though we’re dancing the tango with the erratic complexities of our inner-world, and then all of a sudden we become the floor upon which those erratic complexities seem to be relentlessly stomping a Texas two-step (steel-toed boots included). Sound familiar?
A couple of quick caveats... My personal exploration of healing, be it physical, energetic, emotional and/or psychological unavoidably influences what I’m about to share regarding this eclipse. The enormity of this opportunity, regardless of whether you resonate with my pithy anecdotes, is universal. Also... while multiple planetary transits and their mutual interactions are at the root of what I share, I’m inclined to focus this message on the qualitative nature of this eclipse and what’s to follow. Email me if you want quantifiable planetary aspects.
Allow me to continue with exactly what’s available, in quantum proportions, during and beyond this eclipse. We have an incredible opportunity to heal the noxious feeling of separation that plagues our perception. On one side we have our linear mind, and its unconscious fixation on past traumas that function to contract around all the uncomfortable energy that’s arising. And on the other side we have our intuitive mind, inspired to expand and create with the intensity being generated in our solar system right now. First we have to get up close and personal with our unconscious analytical mind, and the survival-based patterns of control it designed. Like yin and yang, the the two hemispheres of the brain are at the same time separate and interdependent, which means they cannot function without the other. If we avoid making conscious our unconscious, if we ignore the value of remembering the wholeness of who we really are, the melody of our heart’s song is inescapably orchestrated through a thinking mind that dooms us to replicating our past.
“What you think about, you bring about.” - Napolean Hill
The Sun and Mercury are both in the sign of Sagittarius, the devout explorer of truth and expansion into our higher mind. Because this time of year gives us the least amount of sunshine, we’re each called to draw forth more light from within. This light can weave through our memories, and transform them into the batter with which we consciously create. The full moon is in Gemini, which represents the lower mind, and the opposing Sun is in Sagittarius, the higher mind. Let this opposition expose the misaligned beliefs and negative emotions that generate the unconscious patterns conditioned by your past. Do they allow the light to move freely through you? If not, let them go. And by let them go, I don’t mean forget they exist. I’m saying let them be free. Allow that energetic charge to fuel the heart’s fire to create the life you came here to live. What was once limitation is now an even greater expression.
Did we really come here to perpetuate the unconscious imprints of our childhood? Or to repeat those handed down from our ancestors? We had plenty of positive experiences too, and we received conscious attributes of incalculable value from those same ancestors. Now’s the time to integrate it all. This planet needs us to shine our light, yet so often when we do, the shadow of the mind rises up to blind us. As Earth orbits directly between the solar and lunar bodies, the full eclipse will project our planetary shadow onto the surface of the moon. And that shadow will finally be exposed as the fraudulent denying mechanism of the ego. Thy will be done as the alchemy of the Self rises up to show us the light beyond our separate self.
Like a moonbeam of divine fuel, let the elixir of the soma rain pour down through the chakra of your crown. Align the hemispheres of the brain, quiet the chaos of the mind, and orchestrate the symphony of your heart’s song. The wattage of how much light we can shine is expanding exponentially to balance the darker aspects that are surfacing in our dualistic world. Like the dance of the lower mind with the higher mind, we're at choice to where we put our conscious attention.
Fortunately my higher mind pulled the veil over my eyes and prevented my conscious attention from identifying with my lower mind's resistance to compromising my alone time with the full moon. In that, we can always trust that wakefulness will triumph over sleep. And the triumph of higher mind has coordinated an opportunity to share this eclipse with my mother and father, the two people who represent the origins of my feminine (lunar) and masculine (solar) energy. This is blessing beyond proportion. A cosmic Mastercard commercial with the “priceless” tagline. And a moment to remember and appreciate that I'm not in control, and the universe has my back. The more I get out of the way, the more it guides me in service to the light.
"The fates lead him who will. Him who won't, they drag." Seneca wisdom
I wish you all blessings of light as the nights continue to grow longer and the days shorter. May we always remember our light inside the darkness.
Thank you for your contribution to our collective awakening.
Stellar blessings,
Ryan
www.bodyworkastrology.com
ps The forecast moving forward... Mercury goes direct 12/13, and Jupiter goes direct 12/25, at zero degrees Taurus. We can give tangible form to our conscious expansion, and reign in the prosperity and abundance that is our birthright. Help us transform our world in 2012. And do so with all your heart.
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