Monday, February 20, 2012
"The Siva tattva is immortal, the transcendent vibratory principle. The universe, in undifferentiated unity, lives in its very being, though appearing to be different from it. It is conscious and nondual., the source of infinite bliss. It is the highest luminous truth, Sankara, the all-pervasive Self of all."
~ from Nothing Exists That Is Not Siva by Swami Muktananda
Happy Shivatratri New Moon. Om Namah Shivaya blessings
Neptune in Pisces
Om Namah Shivaratri blessings.
In the spirit of India’s auspicious celebration in honor of lord Shiva, the Sun pulses Pisces love to dissolve your old stories, step forward on your hero's journey, and dream this dream awake.
“Dreams are only disguised feelings. The more we bring these painful experiences to the fore, the easier they become to deal with. Fore? What’s fore mean?”
~ Jennifer Tilly, from Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway”
The message of the moment is the Sun’s conjunction with Neptune in Pisces, which will be joined by the new moon in exact conjunction at 2:34PM on Tuesday, 2/21. Our true feelings are freeing themselves from the ego's control, and coming to the fore like never before (pun slightly intended). To be succinct, our attractors are tuning us to a higher vibration. As Jupiter moves out of it’s opposition to Saturn, the ego softens its grip and our emotions move forward more freely as what they really are... energy in motion. Like a refinery that creates fuel from crude oil, our emotional process can cease to drain us, and instead function as our fuel, regardless of their positive or negative charge. Non-attachment with our emotions allows us to connect with the non-dual current of unconditional love. This is the domain of Pisces, sourced beyond our unconscious psyche that inhibits the liberation we seek from the trauma held so tightly in our nervous systems.
Before I go further with the astrological aspects to support that statement, I want you to imagine you’re playing hide-and-seek in the neighborhood where you grew up. You’re standing outside your childhood home, and in your mind you’re envisioning all the places someone could be hiding from you. You cover your eyes and count down from twenty, when suddenly something shifts. The walls disappear, and you see through the physical construct of your neighborhood. Released from the false construct of separation, you access your inner-vision. And you proceed without effort to locate your hidden playmates.
In much the same way, the game of hide-and-seek designed by the ego, to protect us from our traumatic memories, has blinded us from the truth. With Neptune’s clear vision we see, it’s not the trauma that needs to be released. It’s the ego’s attachment to the memory of the the trauma. Imagine a life free of attachment, where we can perceive these oppositional forces as complementary to life, rather than antagonistic. Through this lens we perceive the human organism as the miracle of harmony it is.
“Think about this; If the corpuscules in your blood stream weren’t fighting with each other and eating each other up, your body wouldn’t be healthy. So what is discord at one level of your being, is harmony at a higher level. And here you become aware that the discords of your life and the discords of people’s lives, which are a fight at one level, at a higher level of the universe are healthy and harmonious. And you suddenly realize that everything you are and do is at that level as magnificent and as free of any blemish as the patterns and waves, the markings and model, the way a cat moves. And that this world is really okay. And can’t be anything else, otherwise it couldn’t exist. Life is pattern. It is a dance of energy.” ~ Alan Watts
It’s been over a hundred and fifty years since Neptune, Pisces ruling planet, last danced in the sign of its dominion. Neptune symbolizes the capacity to transcend the mind’s finite perception of limitation, and connects our heart with the greater whole. Your intuitive, impressionable, and psychic faculties are lit up like a christmas tree right now. Open up and receive. Information, resources, love, etc. Heart-centered focus on whatever you commit yourself to carries hyper accelerated manifesting energy in 2012.
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.” ~ Goethe
Each of us has been working hard to realize our dreams through our own personal nightmares. The twists and turns of your hero’s journey exposed the futility of attachment. And to the degree you’re comfortable, or willing to be uncomfortable, you’re being asked to let go of the conditioned ways you make decisions. You’re encouraged instead to listen to the harmonic vibration of your heart. Like a crystal bowl, you're tuning into your unique frequency, beyond the filter of ego.
Our dreams illuminate with the support of a cosmic alchemy designed to support their manifestation. With auspicious Jupiter transiting in physical Taurus, drink deep the nectar of your right-brain creativity, listen closely to the guidance of your higher mind, and expand through the resistance you encounter. Saturn in the last degree of Libra sits in harmonious trine to the Sun Moon Neptune conjunction in Pisces, which sits in a juicy sextile aspect to Jupiter. Translation: Extraordinarily creative energy is accumulating inside of you while Mars continues his retrograde through Virgo. Mars, your masculine aspiration, is preparing to source this extraordinary energy when it goes direct on April 13. The catch...? With Mars in Virgo, and all this Pisces influence, you’ll have access to this manifesting energy provided your intentions align with “the highest good for all concerned.” Actions not in service to our fellow man will steer us out of alignment, and into more lessons in ego attachment.
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure I have received and am still receiving.” ~ Albert Einstein
Science provides more than sufficient evidence for skeptics of the power of intention. The following is paraphrased from Dr. Dawson Church’s, The Genie in your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention:
The Heartmath Institute did an experiment to determine whether the act of deliberate observation could wind more tightly, or unwind, human DNA; a characteristic that can be measured by the molecule’s absorption of ultraviolet light. They used two specific variables: 1) Focused intention; and 2) The heart coherence of love and goodwill (For those who question the methods of measurement on this one, read the book).
These two variables were tested in three specific combinations. Intention without heart coherence. Heart coherence without intention. And intention combined with heart coherence. The results, verified by more scientific parameters than you care to read about here, were this:
- Intention without heart coherence had no effect on the DNA’s helicular coils.
- Heart coherence without intention had no effect on the DNA’s helicular coils.
- Intention combined with heart coherence tightened or loosened the DNA coils in accordance with the focused intention.
“These studies demonstrate that the DNA molecule can be altered through intentionality. The better participants were at generating a state of heart coherence, the better they were at affecting DNA with their intentions. Control group participants who were untrained and unskilled at heart coherence were unable to produce an effect despite the strength of their intentions. Both intention and heart coherence were required in order to alter DNA molecules.” - Dawson Church, Ph.D
This puts a whole new spin on the power of heart-centered intention, no? Back to the stars, and the point of this post. The new moon on Tuesday will be directly conjunct Neptune in Pisces, and in optimal aspect to both Jupiter and Saturn. Moving forward into 2012, you have all the planetary support you need to transform the ways you unconsciously relate (from ego) to your self and the world. Pay close attention to the vibration of your heart-centered intentions. If you’re saying “I don’t think I can hear it,” you’re right. This requires us to transcend the limitations of the thinking mind.
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
All that’s required for passage onto Neptune’s dream boat is the faith to listen to the harmonic rhythm emanating from your heart, and take full advantage of your intuitive guidance. Dissolve the attachments that cloud love and goodwill from flowing freely. And finally, dance in celebration with your unique gift of creation. As you step forward, and resistance arises in equal measure to whatever you initiate, just remember that if you react, it’s not really you. It’s your ego. Don't listen. Respond instead with love and goodwill, and watch the resistance transform into the energy that propels you further into the miracle of life.
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” ~ Martin Luther King
One last thing to keep in mind. We’re still in winter. We have limited yang energy this time of year, compounded by Mars and Saturn in retrograde. Like a dancer resting backstage in preparation for the curtain to go up, allow whatever process of energy cultivation you’re in to take its natural course. When Mars goes direct on April 13, the warrior archetype of your hero's journey will be fired up and ready to serve the manifestation of your dreams.
Thank you for your contribution to our collective awakening.
Stellar blessings,
Ryan
www.bodyworkastrology.com
In the spirit of India’s auspicious celebration in honor of lord Shiva, the Sun pulses Pisces love to dissolve your old stories, step forward on your hero's journey, and dream this dream awake.
“Dreams are only disguised feelings. The more we bring these painful experiences to the fore, the easier they become to deal with. Fore? What’s fore mean?”
~ Jennifer Tilly, from Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway”
The message of the moment is the Sun’s conjunction with Neptune in Pisces, which will be joined by the new moon in exact conjunction at 2:34PM on Tuesday, 2/21. Our true feelings are freeing themselves from the ego's control, and coming to the fore like never before (pun slightly intended). To be succinct, our attractors are tuning us to a higher vibration. As Jupiter moves out of it’s opposition to Saturn, the ego softens its grip and our emotions move forward more freely as what they really are... energy in motion. Like a refinery that creates fuel from crude oil, our emotional process can cease to drain us, and instead function as our fuel, regardless of their positive or negative charge. Non-attachment with our emotions allows us to connect with the non-dual current of unconditional love. This is the domain of Pisces, sourced beyond our unconscious psyche that inhibits the liberation we seek from the trauma held so tightly in our nervous systems.
Before I go further with the astrological aspects to support that statement, I want you to imagine you’re playing hide-and-seek in the neighborhood where you grew up. You’re standing outside your childhood home, and in your mind you’re envisioning all the places someone could be hiding from you. You cover your eyes and count down from twenty, when suddenly something shifts. The walls disappear, and you see through the physical construct of your neighborhood. Released from the false construct of separation, you access your inner-vision. And you proceed without effort to locate your hidden playmates.
In much the same way, the game of hide-and-seek designed by the ego, to protect us from our traumatic memories, has blinded us from the truth. With Neptune’s clear vision we see, it’s not the trauma that needs to be released. It’s the ego’s attachment to the memory of the the trauma. Imagine a life free of attachment, where we can perceive these oppositional forces as complementary to life, rather than antagonistic. Through this lens we perceive the human organism as the miracle of harmony it is.
“Think about this; If the corpuscules in your blood stream weren’t fighting with each other and eating each other up, your body wouldn’t be healthy. So what is discord at one level of your being, is harmony at a higher level. And here you become aware that the discords of your life and the discords of people’s lives, which are a fight at one level, at a higher level of the universe are healthy and harmonious. And you suddenly realize that everything you are and do is at that level as magnificent and as free of any blemish as the patterns and waves, the markings and model, the way a cat moves. And that this world is really okay. And can’t be anything else, otherwise it couldn’t exist. Life is pattern. It is a dance of energy.” ~ Alan Watts
It’s been over a hundred and fifty years since Neptune, Pisces ruling planet, last danced in the sign of its dominion. Neptune symbolizes the capacity to transcend the mind’s finite perception of limitation, and connects our heart with the greater whole. Your intuitive, impressionable, and psychic faculties are lit up like a christmas tree right now. Open up and receive. Information, resources, love, etc. Heart-centered focus on whatever you commit yourself to carries hyper accelerated manifesting energy in 2012.
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.” ~ Goethe
Each of us has been working hard to realize our dreams through our own personal nightmares. The twists and turns of your hero’s journey exposed the futility of attachment. And to the degree you’re comfortable, or willing to be uncomfortable, you’re being asked to let go of the conditioned ways you make decisions. You’re encouraged instead to listen to the harmonic vibration of your heart. Like a crystal bowl, you're tuning into your unique frequency, beyond the filter of ego.
Our dreams illuminate with the support of a cosmic alchemy designed to support their manifestation. With auspicious Jupiter transiting in physical Taurus, drink deep the nectar of your right-brain creativity, listen closely to the guidance of your higher mind, and expand through the resistance you encounter. Saturn in the last degree of Libra sits in harmonious trine to the Sun Moon Neptune conjunction in Pisces, which sits in a juicy sextile aspect to Jupiter. Translation: Extraordinarily creative energy is accumulating inside of you while Mars continues his retrograde through Virgo. Mars, your masculine aspiration, is preparing to source this extraordinary energy when it goes direct on April 13. The catch...? With Mars in Virgo, and all this Pisces influence, you’ll have access to this manifesting energy provided your intentions align with “the highest good for all concerned.” Actions not in service to our fellow man will steer us out of alignment, and into more lessons in ego attachment.
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure I have received and am still receiving.” ~ Albert Einstein
Science provides more than sufficient evidence for skeptics of the power of intention. The following is paraphrased from Dr. Dawson Church’s, The Genie in your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention:
The Heartmath Institute did an experiment to determine whether the act of deliberate observation could wind more tightly, or unwind, human DNA; a characteristic that can be measured by the molecule’s absorption of ultraviolet light. They used two specific variables: 1) Focused intention; and 2) The heart coherence of love and goodwill (For those who question the methods of measurement on this one, read the book).
These two variables were tested in three specific combinations. Intention without heart coherence. Heart coherence without intention. And intention combined with heart coherence. The results, verified by more scientific parameters than you care to read about here, were this:
- Intention without heart coherence had no effect on the DNA’s helicular coils.
- Heart coherence without intention had no effect on the DNA’s helicular coils.
- Intention combined with heart coherence tightened or loosened the DNA coils in accordance with the focused intention.
“These studies demonstrate that the DNA molecule can be altered through intentionality. The better participants were at generating a state of heart coherence, the better they were at affecting DNA with their intentions. Control group participants who were untrained and unskilled at heart coherence were unable to produce an effect despite the strength of their intentions. Both intention and heart coherence were required in order to alter DNA molecules.” - Dawson Church, Ph.D
This puts a whole new spin on the power of heart-centered intention, no? Back to the stars, and the point of this post. The new moon on Tuesday will be directly conjunct Neptune in Pisces, and in optimal aspect to both Jupiter and Saturn. Moving forward into 2012, you have all the planetary support you need to transform the ways you unconsciously relate (from ego) to your self and the world. Pay close attention to the vibration of your heart-centered intentions. If you’re saying “I don’t think I can hear it,” you’re right. This requires us to transcend the limitations of the thinking mind.
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
All that’s required for passage onto Neptune’s dream boat is the faith to listen to the harmonic rhythm emanating from your heart, and take full advantage of your intuitive guidance. Dissolve the attachments that cloud love and goodwill from flowing freely. And finally, dance in celebration with your unique gift of creation. As you step forward, and resistance arises in equal measure to whatever you initiate, just remember that if you react, it’s not really you. It’s your ego. Don't listen. Respond instead with love and goodwill, and watch the resistance transform into the energy that propels you further into the miracle of life.
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” ~ Martin Luther King
One last thing to keep in mind. We’re still in winter. We have limited yang energy this time of year, compounded by Mars and Saturn in retrograde. Like a dancer resting backstage in preparation for the curtain to go up, allow whatever process of energy cultivation you’re in to take its natural course. When Mars goes direct on April 13, the warrior archetype of your hero's journey will be fired up and ready to serve the manifestation of your dreams.
Thank you for your contribution to our collective awakening.
Stellar blessings,
Ryan
www.bodyworkastrology.com
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