It’s no surprise to me that leading up to the New Moon, I’m getting several requests by a colleague to help her clear curses related to a man she was with. Interestingly my guides have let me know that I have enough on my plate to have this new acquaintance of mine be taking up too much bandwidth for her scenario. They have indicated to me that she has all the work she needs done and she has to process things first before more work is done. In essence, they said “she’s protected now. It’s being taken care of, just encourage her to know this new truth in her heart. To feel it.” “Then step away. You are not peoples’ trash compactors.”

Some jobs in life we ask for, other jobs, well, sometimes it’s just about survival: we didn’t ask for that job, and we certainly aren’t gonna get paid for it. We also don’t need “the guides” to tell us this. Sometimes, though, it certainly helps. If you are getting yourself into curses and using spells, then maybe the magic is too much. Too much attempting to control.

This is not how I live my life. I’m more the meditative type. I’ve always been more meditator and less meddling. Basically no meddling. There are a lot of ethics around what to decide to do and not do when we are empowered. That’s the depth of the gift. You have to know “right use.” In practice, most of the time, you abstain from using your gift until the proper situation requires it. Maybe that’s a little bit Taoist, to minimize intervention, or at least vet it really good if it’s the right time to apply a technique.

There are some areas where skills do get honed but the fact of the matter is, this has to take place with deep introspection and under tutelage and guidance of masters who have walked the path. This can take decades and lifetimes. It’s not something to be taken lightly.

If you feel like you are going through the big squeeze and under strong and peculiar astral forces, you are in good company. My colleague was right that it’s a good time to get rid of unwanted attachments and energies that don’t align with the current version of the work you are here to do. In her fear and desperation she was reaching out to both friends who she knows well and people like me who she really doesn’t know, for ASAP help. That is a vulnerable energy. We can be respectful and also know our boundaries which is another lesson in this New Moon in Scorpio. What boundaries are you holding?

I’m not into doing emergency energy work. It’s not my style. I want regular and dedicated focus at working on all the aspects, space and safety to explore what is truly needed. I want slow development with time and trust organically blossoming. I want carefulness and expertise in form and focus. This is what I deserve to attract in my life. This is the energy I wish to share. When I choose to work with people and learn from them, they have high ethics, and their work is very clean.

One of my meditation teachers via Kadampa said “there are lots of things you can do, but should you do them?” I think that question is also fitting for this New Moon in Scorpio. Let’s pretend that Scorpio is the proverbial scalpel. You have a grand trine between Mercury, Mars and Neptune. Be clear on right action, right use of language, and right intentions. Right use of the knife.

Neptune has a very transcendent quality and can link us immediately back in (plug in) to source. The Mars/Pluto opposition is the pressure cooker, the alchemical process our world is under. It’s like how heat speeds up the enzymes reaction in a chemistry experiment. The heat in this metaphor is driven from this pressure created from the structure— from the life “setup.”

This New Moon in Scorpio is a good time to realize that we really, really are all connected. Energy can flow and form and mix. It can get stuck. People are likely working in soul teams, having made agreements to share in the overall load. So this is a good time to look at your agreements. Look at the agreements you make with yourself first. What are you willing and not willing to put up with? That includes from yourself. Secure yourself as that loving ally and marry yourself to that job. Then the other jobs, people and pressures, will follow suit. At least, in theory. You cannot control outcome, but you can hone your energy and your intention.

This Aries Full Moon has a grand cross formation involving an opposition between Mars and Pluto. Slicing through this grand cross (square) of conflicting pattern is also the opposition of Venus in Scorpio and Uranus in Taurus. These areas of life (based on individual charts) are causes for either a lot of effort and focus, intense creativity and courage, or some level of frustration— even possibly breakthrough can result. The pattern is cardinal which means it has direction. The cardinal signs are Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn and bring in the new energies of the equinoxes and the solstices. They are signs that point the way forward as the wheel turns.

Life goes on. I read a wonderful quote by Robert Frost, “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

So we are at crossroads and impasses which are more or less one and the same. The outer experience of the world is unfulfilling as it is designed to be. The pursuit for happiness or contentment does not belong in the external landscapes of appearances.

Sun is trine to Jupiter with Moon sextile Jupiter which can show us the bigger picture. For me, I’ve gotten more spiritually aspirational and my disciplines and practices have benefited from my renewed vision.

I can thank Jupiter and prayer for the levity that has entered from the inside. It’s a functional levity and anchored to the awareness of impermanence.

If you should find yourself inspired or frustrated during this full moon general time, you can wait it out, or ride it out. Either way, even a very rigid pattern in the consciousness of being “stuck” or being focused doesn’t last long. If you have the focus and the energy, enjoy the flow—if you feel constrained, it will pass.

It’s a good set of days to journal on your motivations and reflect on what exactly inspires courage in you to face all the unknowns of regular life.

Have a full moon with wonder! Or have a wonderful, full moon! Enjoy being alive to live and to thrive, or just wait it out.

Meditation opened the gate

to the return to my reset’s fate.

Back on path with Kadampa,

Buddhist leanings into investigation

Karma full and vibrant

No hesitation

Understanding emptiness in a new light.

Formless awareness is my true sight and

condition. We are all in its fruition.

The illusions of mind are not the object

We project the all in our call for freedom.

This me is seen from another perspective

leaving behind the desire’s reflective.

The inside investigation is lit again.

As time measures space for moonlight

and friends. We are on our way to peace.

Realistically, there’s a lot of good in this chart. Perhaps we can see it if we look: You see those blue lines. They usually mean “favorable” positions. What determines that is they are sextiles or trine aspects. That means in geometric terms: 60 or 12o degree relationships between the two bodies in question (usually planets, but could be asteroids, or even signs, or mathematical abstractions with meaning).

So astrology is 2-D. But we can learn a lot from a drawing or a painting. The planetary bodies have made us this drawing in the canopy above us.

The red is the challenging aspect that involves the planet Mars (in Cancer). We might be even more dialed into family, heritage and home right now. Some family might need extra support. Conflicts can arise or better yet, energy with the Mars (go get it) for the sake of caring and nurturing issues close to home, close to our hearts.

I’ll be flighting tomorrow morning to Mexico and will be in Playa Del Carmen for a special retreat. I look forward to “seeing” you all when I get back. I might even post while I’m gone. I will have more time to think and BE. Either way, creativity will have room to flow. I will be in alignment with more of my own energy.

So, that’s how I’m enjoying my “reset button.” Eclipse energy is usually active for several months. Enjoy the potential!

Love and Light to you!

The Pisces Lunar Eclipse is coming in. You may have noticed. You may not have. Some of us are aloof to the feels and the nebulously non-anchoring energy that is the long-term Piscean swim through the cerulean cosmic consciousness, plunged into the pitch-black depths of an unknown watery terrain. The laws of physics apply differently than on land; gravity is experienced with resistance to the water molecules; we float. Density has its form and function in the water, and we are merging with the element that contains 70-80% of our innards. The word that comes to mind for me in its complete unadulterated fullness is surrender. The oxymoron here is that surrender is when you come up empty, and yet it is pregnant with the only next steps available to take.

There’s a caveat.

Surrender is not something you “will” like an Aries wish made to form (Taurus). Surrender is the experience of weakened knees, utter exhaustion, of hand’s up -white flag-mercy-praying-allowance. “Guide me, oh Spirit of thy savior.” Pisces represents the compete collapse of structure, program, direction, and it uses the narrative of redemption for hope as it moves into the full depth of that Pisces spiritual self-undoing. What Self? Who is there to cling to this rock? I have no hands. My grip is lost. There is no me.

Neptune is the modern ruler of Pisces, and she has been transiting her domicile of Pisces. Her full cycle transit takes 164 years! And, this is where the anaretic degree comes in. It’s a big word for: The end of the sign (29 Degrees Pisces). The end of Neptune’s transit in Pisces. Neptune entered Pisces April 4, 2011. We are harkening back to this time. This was within a month of when I began my blog here. It was intended to be mostly about astrology and spirituality. I did diverge, of course! Can you remember this time in your life? What was your focus?

When we talk about surrendering to love, it feels different, than losing, right? It is the same. We lose what we gain. We gain what we lose. This is the end that is the beginning.

This lunar eclipse features forward the inauguration of the next set of eclipse series of the Pisces and Virgo axis. Neptune won’t be entering into Aries until 2025, but this eclipse is meant to give you a whiff of what is to come. As they say, and I believe it is true: all endings are new beginnings. We might still be in the dark, yet. That’s a special place to be. What people neglect to realize is the “rest” that comes with “release.” Surrender is a way forward, but it must not be utilitzed as that in its full glory, or you will miss the gift inside its package. Surrender is the way out, the way in, and the way through. It is all that is left, but only when we are authentically empty--in order that we may be filled with the new.

I hope you can take a moment in gratitude, for all the pain and suffering in your life and in your lives that is on its way out. I hope you can remember to pray to your God/Goddess inside. For beyond words and illusions, beyond the pointings of spiritual masters, beyond even “good health, wealth, and mirth” is a calling to your soul. It is the only way to get to the redemption. The redemption that only you can supply.

May this full moon be like walking with your hand being held by the creator. May you feel the embrace of love and support, as you grapple with truth and surrender as your only anchors in an anchorless time. May you look to the light of the stars, and feel your feet on the ground. Praise your feet for their walking, your shoes for the supporting. This next age of Neptune in Aries, will help you with your warrior’s sword. The Spiritual Warrior awakens. The truth within be reclaimed.

“After tragedies, one has to invent a new world, knit it or embroider, make it up. It’s not gonna be given to you because you deserve it; it doesn’t work that way. You have to imagine something that doesn’t exist and dig a cave into the future and demand space. It’s a territorial hope affair. At the time, that digging is utopian, but in the future, it will become your reality.”

~Björk