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Monday, May 04, 2015

May Day/Scorpio Full Moon: Feminine Healing for All

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Every influence these days feels super-charged, as our increasing sensitivity is responding to all things in an amplified way.


The Beltane/May Day* energies of last Thursday/ Friday, along with today's Full Moon in Scorpio, feel to have created a portal of deep and ancient healing around our inner Feminine. This is simultaneously helping to balance our inner Masculine, and ultimately helps to balance the greater collective Feminine/Masculine we see played out in our world.


It has triggered sadness, grief, anger and clarity connected to:


- Times when you may have been a Priestess serving the Goddess, or been a Nun or Monk serving God and Humanity, taking vows of service that had you sacrifice worldly things like having children, being in a love relationship, having material belongings, success and financial support. These vows are honourable when made willingly in a conscious way, however they are sabotaging if they belong to a life and self long past. These vows and committments are holding us back if they are lingering around in our cells and ancestral energy, stopping us from having what we consciously want in our lives today. Enough. If this resonates with you say something like:


"I now release myself from any old vows and committments that associate what I truly want (be it love, children, success, abundance) with no longer being able to be of service, and thus failing the Goddess/God/Humanity/my self. I now see that I can do both, and in fact by embodying my soul and spirit in a life that is authentically aligned with my Heart, by living true to my Self, I can be of greater Service than I ever could be denying myself those aspects of myself that are now calling for embodiment and expression."


This works best when you put pen to paper and write your own words in your own way, from your heart.


It has triggered fear, sadness and passion connected to:


- Times when you may have been persecuted for following your heart, for practicing your innate abilities, for sharing your knowledge. Times when you may have persecuted or repressed others. If your cells associate living and expressing your truth with betrayal, loss, punishment or death, then they will stop you at every turn from living and expressing your truth. Enough. It is time to forgive those who ever stopped you, blocked you or repressed you. It is time to forgive any part of the past, this life or other, that betrayed you. It is time to forgive yourself for doing that to anyone, and forgive yourself for doing it to yourself where you have blamed yourself.  Let it go.


- Times where you have been hurt, harmed and abused as a result of being female, this life or other. Scorpio brings up sexual energy, so old sexual wounds particularly may be coming up now. It is time to love yourself, wounds and all. Scorpio is about Death and Rebirth, so wounds about literal Birth may be coming up: fear of childbirth, disrespect around childbirth, powerlessness around childbirth. Enough. It is time to respect and honour Feminine Knowledge, Nature and abilities.


- Times where those females you love; mothers, partners, sisters, daughters, nieces, have been treated without respect, this life or past generations. Times where you have not valued women, or yourself as a woman. It is time to forgive others and yourself. It is time to let it go. 


Imagine yourself picking up a large rock (yours may be boulder size, go with it) - you may even like to do this literally with an actual large rock. Imagine that this rock represents all that heaviness, all that repression, all that terror and fear, all that has stopped you from freely and fully expressing all of who you really are. Imagine yourself standing at the top of a cliff. Now let that rock go. Watch it drop down into the waters below. Feel the weight of it fall away from your body, heart and soul. Let it go on all levels. You do not have to carry this anymore. It is time to be light and free. It is time to express who you really are. You are needed here now.


Aho.


*Even though it was technically Beltane/May Day in the Northern Hemisphere only due to the seasonal differences, we all felt the energetic influence on a cellular level. We all have that blood in our cells whether from our ancestors or past lives. We are all connected today energetically. Whatever is felt by the some, is felt by the many.

(c) Dana Mrkich 2015 

 

Lunar Eclipse lighting our fire | Dana Mrkich - Evolution Revolution

Lunar Eclipse lighting our fire | Dana Mrkich - Evolution Revolution
Monday, October 06, 2014


Holy Moly, this Lunar Eclipse in Aries that's happening on Tues night/Wed morning has been packing a punch for days already, especially if you have any major points or planets ranging in the 12-18 degree vicinity in your natal chart.


Lunar Eclipses are often about inner shifts, realizations and things coming to light that were previously unknown. This Eclipse is conjunct Uranus so this could play out with something really unexpected coming out of left field knocking you sideways. Or, it might just give you a little wobble and you'll find yourself happily surprised to see how far you've come now that things no longer rock you out of your centre quite like they used to.


Uranus also triggers our freedom-needing, rebellious side that wants to break free from any shackles or situations that have made us feel tied, bound or restricted. We need to watch our emotional responses right now because not only is all this happening in impulsive Aries, but it is a Grand Fire Trine to boot! Mars is in Sag, and Jupiter is in Leo, just adding some pep and fuel to a fire that is already crackling with electricity!  You might feel like someone has lit that fire underneath you, prodding you to confront unmet potentials within you, and triggering you to question your life and how you're living it. If you're feeling this, you're probably not feeling it in a dreamy, watery kind of way, but in an urgent, "I need to take action now, get out of my way!!!" kind of way.


With Uranus involved - and the Grand Fire Trine - we have to be particularly conscious not to project any fury and frustration outward at the nearest innocent bystander, or run away from home/our family/job/relationship in the heat of the moment - and there will be plenty of heat/inner fire/explosiveness/anger/frustration/irritability/volatility/passion stirred with all this fire energy.


We want to take a breath, and use this influence to check in with where we are out of balance - or feel out of balance. Where are we neglecting our needs/dreams/desires/fire/creativity/potential, and what can we do about it? How do we want to best express this energy and passion and fire that is awakening from within us? Do we need to shift our perspective? Do we need to discuss a change of schedule with our boss or partner in order to get more time to do what we feel we need/want to do?


None of this is easy. This eclipse and the trine is on my Chiron so for me it's been feeling like someone going back and forth over any remaining old wounds/old beliefs saying: "Do you feel that? Do ya? Do ya? What are you going to do about it?" It's been very challenging to 'just breathe', (and I can't say I've mastered that having quite the emotional releases lately) but at the same time sometimes it feels good to let the inner dragon roar and have a wail and express ones needs clearly!


The question for all of us now is: how to use and express this energy in a positive way rather than a destructive way be that destructive toward self or others. On a global/political level there is mucho projection going on right now particularly of the fiery kind, and if my personal projections have reminded me of anything it is this: while it temporarily feels good to unleash ones pent up emotion by hurling it outside of ones self, ultimately the source of that emotion continues to reside within us until we have addressed it.


Unhealed inner anger is generating so much outer conflict and violence, which in turn is triggering the community's anger, and the vicious cycle goes round and round. It is a natural human response to feel angry at what is inhumane, and yet to stay in anger is to perpetuate a cycling loop that is surely at its expiration date. Anger can definitely be a motivating energy, but we want to be motivated toward good actions rather than fuel the bad. When you feel anger coming up, flip it round and feel it as passion. Ask yourself okay, what is this feeling reminding me? What reality/behaviour would I prefer to be witnessing/experiencing right now instead of what is? What can I personally do about it? If I can't do anything personally right now, what thoughts/prayers/visions/love can I direct to the situation?


This Fire Trine Lunar Eclipse is powerful and in many ways I'm loving it and am grateful for it - in other ways it is most definitely a time to watch your temper, remind yourself to breathe before flying off the handle or taking any impulsive actions (especially with Mercury Retrograde making things a bit pear-shaped when it comes to communication), and bottom line: look within for the true source of whatever it is you are feeling. If fire is erupting from you, excellent - find out what emotion/dream/wound/desire/need within you is seeking attention, expression or balance.


How are you all feeling?


(c) Dana Mrkich 2014

www.danamrkich.com



Posted by Dana Mrkich - Visioning the Dream Awake at 12:52 am

October 2014 Astro-Energy Report: Patient Compassion and Compassionate Patience by Sarah Varcas

October 2014 Astro-Energy Report:
Patient Compassion and Compassionate Patience
by Sarah Varcas

We begin October with Uranus and Chiron highlighting the need to find new ways to both accommodate and heal woundedness at the personal and collective levels. They have been working together on this issue since June, simultaneously exposing where we are most wounded and offering tools to further the process of healing and the embodiment of wholeness. The first week of October plays out against the backdrop of a square between Mars and Chiron which reminds us that the imperative to heal comes hand in hand with the responsibility to do so not for our own personal gain but to ultimately bring the collective back into a state of balance. The healing which occurs in our minds and hearts, bearing fruit in our own lives, is simply a tiny microcosm of the rebalancing required in the collective consciousness to which we each add our own unique resonance. In exchange for our contribution we receive back the resonance of the whole, such that it is, to fuel our journey onward. Thus it is in all our interests to ensure our offering comes from a peaceful heart and an awakened mind.


We hear a lot about healing these days, but less about accommodating woundedness: allowing it to be there without needing to remove it. This willingness to recognise the presence of suffering and refrain from interfering with it is a powerful theme at the beginning of this month. We’re not talking here about apathy or a loss of hope such that we believe we’ll never change or the world is already doomed. Instead the heavens point to the need for compassionate patience which allows ourselves and other people to be imperfect, in pain, struggling without needing to intervene to make things ‘right’. They remind us that ‘right’ is whatever is in the moment, not a particular version of life that we prefer. If we find ourselves suffering in the first week of October, be it physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually, the biggest mistake we could make is to assume this means something is going wrong or we haven’t ‘come as far’ as we thought. Now is the time to abandon all such value judgements and simply accommodate the pain for a while. Invite it in. Listen to it as we would to a small child with something very important to say. Make space for the pain and then just be. This is the best advice for the first week of October, for if we can do that we will contribute to a growing tide of patient compassion and compassionate patience which recognises that life is intensely complex, as are we, and healing takes time. We are multi-layered beings and all manner of elements throughout time and space must align in a healing way for every layer to shift and change. The application of astrology teaches this every day: that we are in a process with its own shape and cycle. Our responsibility is to honour the cycles, not try to circumvent them; to work consciously with them in such a way that we maximise the potential of each moment. Wanting healing NOW, when the cycle says wait a while and be gentle with the pain instead….that’s just more suffering. Time to understand we are not here to call the shots but to live them. There’s a difference…


On 4th October GMT Mercury begins its retrograde cycle which continues until its direct station on 25th October. In doing so it alerts us to the fact that we may have missed something recently which proves to be a vital piece of the jigsaw. In our eagerness for ‘progress’ we can easily overlook the obstacle which will bring us down in due course if we fail to allow for it now. In stationing retrograde at this point, Mercury puts the brakes on for a while and bids us to look back over where we have recently been to see what we may have missed, wilfully or otherwise. We may have eagerly told ourselves whatever it is won’t matter and if we ignore it it’ll go away, or we may not even realise we skirted around it in the first place, but as we join hands with Mercury retrograde we have the opportunity to cast fresh eyes over the recent past to see what needs our attention. Note, especially, recent emotional reactions: did something spook you but you just told yourself you’re being silly? Did you have a ‘feeling’ about someone, positive or negative, but you brushed it aside? Did you turn down an opportunity when every fibre of your being was shouting ‘Yes!’ because your mind said ‘Oooh no! Far too risky!’? Or perhaps you took the risk without listening to the caution of your heart which whispered ‘not quite yet. Just wait…’. The good news is: whatever Mercury wants us to see now it does so because it’s not too late to do things differently. This is our chance to revisit and reshape where necessary. And given the current theme of patience, that reshaping may take the form of simply waiting, quietly, alert but still, for a time more conducive to the re-shaping of our plans.


Between the 4th and 8th October we encounter a Grand Trine in Fire setting the heavens ablaze and our spirits with it. We can claim its fire as our own as we embark upon a month with much to teach about timing: ours, the divine’s and everything in between! With fire comes inspiration and optimism. Stocking up on these qualities will do us no harm and a quick inventory of the inner strengths we have to sustain us as we journey onward is a good use of this energy. However, it also brings impatience, over-confidence and a rash disregard for the natural laws which say if you jump off a cliff without wings you will fall and into a fire without protection you will burn. So balance in all things is required here, to reap the gifts of the fire without the consequences of disrespecting it!


On 8th October a total lunar eclipse occurs in Aries at 10:56 a.m. GMT. With the Moon conjunct Uranus, it speaks of liberation and awakening, shocks and surprises. Feelings may run high, but a positive alliance between Mars and Jupiter offer us hope and buoyancy to ride the waves, reminding us that alchemy requires high temperatures to occur! If you feel like you’re in the furnace at this time, know that the heavens are focusing their power on you not to melt you down never to be reformed, but to burn away the dross in order for the precious gifts of life to be revealed. However, despite the presence of Uranus, master of surprise and rapid change, the fruits of this eclipse will take time to ripen, with the processes triggered now culminating in March 2015, which is another good reason to embrace the message of patience shared at the start of this month! All things come to those who wait, and whilst this eclipse may provide some unexpected input we will not fully encounter its results for some time yet, so be sure not to judge its worth too soon. There remains much to be revealed in due course.


In the few days following the eclipse we have some fairly up-beat energies coming at us, with the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and the North Node aligning to remind us that commitment and faith stand for a lot when facing obstacles and challenges. They speak not of blind-faith and Pollyanna hope but of the deep faith born of one who has faced obstacles before, who has walked the path of awakening for a while and who knows its ups and downs, pitfalls and blessings. They speak of knowing that quick fixes are no fixes and that engaging deeply with the process of inner and outer transformation teaches us much about the nature of time and space and the cycles of life to which we are all subject. They remind us that our own lives are mere specks within this vast and endless universe and embracing this bigger perspective can do wonders for our ability to bear with their more difficult aspects in order to embody their greater blessings in due course. Indeed, at this time the heavens point not only to our own tiny lives but also to the vast infinity in which we live them, reminding us that the fruits of the present moment may await us in realms and dimensions yet to be revealed. Patience, once again, is the watch word now.


This emphasis on patience is not, however, to imply that nothing is happening! Beneath the surface all manner of shifts are taking place, although their fruits are yet to be revealed. Indeed, if we try to force a premature ripening we may end up crushing them rather than harvesting them in a timely way. From 18th October to the end of the month we see a conjunction between Venus and the Sun, first in Libra and then Scorpio, which invites us to enjoy the process right now. No matter what’s going on in our life, we are encouraged here to find the pleasure and identify with harmony rather than struggle, with peace rather than discord. This is easier said than done when life is throwing us curve-balls, but here we have the chance to step aside and choose time-out rather than grappling with on-coming forces too formidable to subdue. It can feel almost irresponsible to sit back and take a nap when so much is pressing for our attention, but that’s what we’re encouraged to do! Now is not the time for action but for creating space in which effective decisions can be made in due course, once we’ve gathered ourselves fully and recharged our batteries.


23rd October sees a partial solar eclipse in Scorpio (9:46 pm GMT) conjunct Venus, further highlighting the need for familiarity with the process of transformation such that we can relax and allow it to happen as necessary. This eclipse reminds us we don’t always need to be in the driving seat and there is much to be said for sitting back and enjoying the journey, even when things feel intense and we’re certain we SHOULD be doing SOMETHING! Any solar eclipse in Scorpio will take us into deep water, but this one offers us an oxygen tank and all the requisite diving gear to enjoy the descent rather than be terrified by it! It reminds us that it is frequently the willingness to embrace the darkness which sheds the needed light to navigate it. Resistance is futile, the heavens tell us now, and whilst this may sound like a message of doom in fact it is one of hope, for it means that we can let go, lighten up and still do the deep work needed for true rebirth. We don’t have to be depressed as we encounter the challenges. We can stay relaxed and even find the fun in it! And yes, that in itself is a challenge, but it’s one worth engaging with now. We may just discover a whole new way to ride the waves of change with a smile on our face…


Mercury stations direct on 25th October, completing its retrograde passage and beginning its return to where it was at the start of this month. What we have learned in the interim is important information if we are to make good on commitments formed in July, August and September. We have learned a lot about timing this month and we may have to rethink some of our previous plans to incorporate what we now know. We have also learned about attitude and the need for sovereignty over our own mind-set and approach to life. These lessons, too, will come in handy as we survey our plans for the future. Whilst life is not about to become easy-peasy, when we can maintain a greater level of ease regardless of what occurs we are in a far stronger position to forge ahead and create much needed change when the time is right. And with a steady and positive attitude we will know when that time is and be ready to act accordingly.


As the month (and the eclipse season) comes to an end, we are reminded that whilst it’s easy to feel the strain of life’s challenges, a shift of perspective can enable us to access peace in times of strife, pleasure in times of discomfort and hope in times of despair. Nurturing the ability to choose our inner landscape rather than have it dictated by external events is a powerful strength which can carry us through all manner of difficulties. In doing so it is not that we deny the pain or simply think a positive thought to counteract a negative one. Instead we acknowledge that life in all its complexity can give us great pain and great pleasure in the same moment, hope and despair as one, comfort and dis-ease as part of the same package. And we have a choice, always, whether we polarise into one or the other or embrace it all in its fullness and know life inside-out, with a shout of joy, a wail of despair and everything in between.


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Sarah Varcas



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