Water Relfects....Water Trine June / July 2013

All This Water....

In All this water we see ourselves reflected.

Through all this emotion being stirred with the water signs, 

we are reflected through the emotion

And we see and know ourselves

To be all things.

And that is the nature of love, of empathy, of connection.

<3 Yourself Deeply.  This is how we know ourselves.  

And I will too :)

Venus in Leo... she wouldn't want anything less, than love for herself, and all things.

Look at all this water...re-flect back inward.

And through all the emotion, through all this water, 

we see our own beauty.

(But we need to soften to it, to surrender to what we find....that which seems daunting or embarrassing, is a jewel, just uncut...)

Dark Beauty Magazine's photo

Photographer: Holgersson

Diamond in the heart...

Cancer sun shines as her moon reflects the energy of the heart.

Our hearts are rough and uncut diamonds as we shift to new ground within; in our hearts the diamond waits to be cut.  we express our true self as we build awareness (the sun) of the internal within (cancer). 

Too many illusions, our space becomes foggy (neptune).  We are working through the fog (chiron conjunct Neptune in Pisces).

this requires a purge.

(see memory. Part 2 post)

A clearing.......

Prepare the ground, clearing the old, for the new shaping of our inner jewel, the diamond/the heart.

Drop inward without fear. Love whats within.

This creates the ground to carve the heart.

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From Cosmic Weather:

June 30, 2013 ~ "A large diamond not completely carved" 10 Cancer

This symbol is illuminated 11:34 AM EDT June 30

Rough cut

The diamond is an archaic symbol of perfection.

In its raw state, a diamond is still beautiful although rough cut.

Apply this image to the way one might write without pausing to edit or polish along the way. Get the rough draft done, edit later.

This can easily apply as well to work returned to. It may seem like a task of editing, and in a way it is. However, expect to re-work the piece in rough fashion. - Blain Bovee

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Cosmonaut via Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Dear Brave Souls: from the uncut manuscript of Women Who Run With the Wolves. My answer to 'writing short.' lol. I hope you are smiling with me. 

Remember who you are and why you came... and Who sent you. 

All good hearts, all mending in the making, are needed here... not here-here only, but on this Planet that whirls through the Universe carrying our incredible motherlode of humanity. Think of it in aerial view...

and remember.


This comes with love,
dr.e

Jupiter in Cancer,now involved in the water trine. from Dharma Stars ~ Spiritual Astrology. June 2013 - June 2014

Dharma Stars ~ Spiritual Astrology

"BIG year ahead from now until July 2014 for Cancerians (and, to a lesser degree all other Cardinal signs) ~> Beneficent Jupiter moves into tropical Cancer at 2:41bst tomorrow morning, the 26th, for the 1st time in 12ish years. Jupiter expands and grows whichever sign it is in. We’ve just witnessed the last throws of a capacious Jupiter in Gemini, sign of communication, with revelations of how all kinds of information are stored as digital data in excess. Now, however, Jupiter’s emphasis is upon expanding support systems, sangha & (global) family, as well as improving loving kindness and the right-brained fertile world of emotions and feelings. Jupiter is actually exalted in watery, reflective Cancer, sign of the sensitive homebody, which may seem rather odd for all Jupiter’s far-reaching cosmic greatness. Yet it makes perfect sense that in order to be adventurous and develop faith and ethics, hope and academia, to be wise and to grow, we need fans on the home front to lend generous support; i.e. we need to nurture our inner-stability, so that we are secure in our foundations, even before grasping the (spiritual) world’s more abstract concepts, truths or theories, from all of which Jupiter, as sacred Guru, teaches us how to become liberated. _/♥\_
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Also, from that worldly point of view, it’s a great year for home improvements for everyone (says she with paint pots at the ready!)  " --Dharma Stars ~ Spiritual Astrology

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Photographic artwork is of a drop of Water encompassing Jupiter, by Markus Reugals _/\_ with love & thanks for sharing _/♥\_

Cancer Sun, Leo Venus, Grand Water Trine.

  Tap within for all we need. 

                          Feed energy, 

                                       chi, 

                                           prana, 

              with the inspiration from within....<3

Beautiful Cancer Leo creative combo.

Try a heart opener/backbend to open the chest while the sun is in cancer :)

I promise the results and feelings will be delightful....

<3 yourSelf.

Deeply.

Wholy.

Completely.

Every DAMN part!

Memory. Part 1.

Water-logged.

It's been raining for days...

.

Everywhere, it's been raining.

Enter the astrological Water Trine.

Water represents an inwardly gathering quality of energy.

Big news astrologically, this water trine.

A VERY fortunate energy...esp with all this water...

A lot of big news lately with the water signs.

A lot of big news in astrology lately actually.

Once again, all this rain, this water, this emotion.  Shows us something within.

Oceanic fire Goddess.
leo venus, grand water trine, 
mercury retro in cancer.
It's time to go inward.  It's time to explore these waters, egoless (supermoon softened our ego into our dharma).



Fire has an expanding, developing quality of energy.  Light a fire within.  Take a lesson from the lioness goddess, Leo, where Venus the goddess of everything energetic just roared her first few days from the watery realms of cancer:
 .....celebrate who you are. 

 Even though you may be sad and falling to pieces, or if you are joyous, love the moment where you're at....

Cause it's been raining for days.

And storms have their own beauty.

Venus's shift into bright fire sign, Leo, bringing some fire,  creatively burning off some of that water log....water represents emotions.


Here's our water checklist in the sky:

• Water trine, 
• 3 planets (mercury, sun, and jupiter) in Cancer (water sign), 
• mercury retrograde now, 
• venus just left Cancer for firey lioness Leo for some self adornment, 
• and Mars is soon to enter this deep oceanic depths of the emotional psychic sign of cancer...empathy, love...
• and Neptune is in it's home court in Pisces.
• And over half the sky in retrograde motion...

NO Wonder it's raining....

....themes of nurturing the self, the internal world, and seeing those we love as an extention of that very self....

or where we don't...

and Venus in Leo, well, she won't stand for anything less than the best for herself or those she loves.

... the solution to the water log may be in re-membering, re-hashing, re-working, re-thinking, re-designing, re-structuring, re-leasing the inner world.....

                        .....as Mercury in Cancer went retrograde last Wednesday, we're directed towards reflection upon the time from when Mercury last went retrograde, also in a water sign, Pisces (the disolving of all emotion into the ether of connectedness, and we learned how our emotions through feeling them connect us to other)... now we deepen through our own internal connection to all those emtions, experiences, habits and thoughts brough up since last week with the supermoon on sunday....while the sun was in Cancer, the moon's commrade, or energetic double (called "ruler" in astrological definition)...

dare to dream.

dreaming that new self into creation may be the answer of fire to all this water.
letting the authentic self shine.  even if we're feeling "drippy".

cause it's been raining for daaaaayyyss....

... yup, water log.... emotional overload.  Everything re- goes in a mercury retro.  The planet of communication, the now, represented by air sign Gemini and earth mother Virgo, does this backwards movement across the sky every few months or so.  So happens this time we're in Cancer, water sign, the birth of emotions and we become nostalgic, full of memory and emotion.
the supermoon last week was like a giant flashlight (full moons have this climatic ability to draw our subconscious to conscious, or for us to fight it). the biggest all year, it came and showed us our depth of emotion and the depth of our intention.  (see post on Yogastrology June workshop 2013)

oh yeah, mercury....2nd mercury retro of this year in a water sign.  Yup, it keeps raining.
and with the grand water trine still in aspect with all 3 water signs in play, we become even more associated with the emotional, realm of desire, and dream world than normal.  Yup. And for this round, becoming aware of all things emotional that we've kept locked inside seems to be in order, and the cosmos gives us a magnifying glass.

                                                     A magnifying glass...

because....

Water...

 reflects, 
connects,
     and responds... 
And, have you noticed, it's been raining for days...

If I pay attention, "sit" (or roll around on the floor) still enough, with my breath as my anchor...

...I can see the workings of my subconscious without the veil...

And that is the beauty of this moment in astrological history. 

 We're preparing to shift, but there's some purging of memory to release us of emotion.  Bringing the subconscious to light.

The emotions we have reflect our individual experiences, connect us back inward, and allow us to respond from our authentic Self, although the external pulls for our energy.

Water.... 

Retracts, 

Separates, 

and Reacts.

The Shadow of Emotion....

Shadow of emotion is that it retracts us when repressed, separating from internal as well as convincing us we're separate and alone.  We react. Repressing or ignoring the way we feel separates us from flow.  From authenticity.  Diconnected from self.  From world.  From Cosmic Force.  A mix for reaction.  We deny the heart and give into the shadows.

Learning to walk without attachment; Learning to walk with the emotion to move it through.

               This is the transformation of  internal alchemy...

Once a feeling has been felt, it's been felt, it's done.

...the attachment is inside...

"Living for love, learning to let go"

--Yogastrology :: Yoga Meets Astrology, Cancer, chapter 4.

Where do you find your strength?

in the wound, or the healing....

"What makes your heart pop wide open?" --Yogastrology :: Yoga Meets Astrology, Cancer, chapter 4.  When the heart speaks, dare to listen.

In the moment that we dare to accept ourselves, we rise to our own indescribable beauty .from Pure From Within

What keeps me authentic?  

Running, or truth.

The truth is much less painful than we imagine.

The illusion of thought contains this suffering.


vulnerability empowers us.

"do we let our emotions possess us, or do we possess our emotions." --Chris McGuire, Pranayoga Fort Wayne



And with all these emotions...

...oh hehemm, excuse me, rain ;p...

...pouring down, 

do we choose to get drenched?
  
Or do we stay conscious of the internal as we observe the turns of the shifting tide of emotion ...
....oh wait hehemmm, rain, and choose to feel it.


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Tara Brach: Gift to the Soul: The Space of Presence

Tara Brach: Gift to the Soul: The Space of Presence: Photo credit: Kalliope Kokolis For many of us this is a season when it feels that we are going faster and faster. Everything’s racing,...

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Quote from blog post below:

"Along with the speediness we have the sense that there is not enough time. It’s interesting to observe how often we are living with that perception. It is usually accompanied by a squeeze of anxiety: “I’m not going to be prepared,” and a chain of insecurities. “There’s something around the corner that is going to be too much,” “I’m going to fall short,” “I won’t get something critical done.” There’s this sense that we’re on our way somewhere else and that what’s right here is not the time that matters. We’re trying to get to the point in the future when we’ve finally checked everything off our to-do list and we can rest. As long as this is our habit, we are racing toward the end of our life. We are skimming the surface, and unable to arrive in our life.

Thomas Merton describes the rush and pressure of modern life as a form of contemporary violence. He says: “…to be surrendering to too many demands, too many concerns, is to succumb to the violence.”  When we’re speeding along, we violate our own natural rhythms in a way that prevents us from listening to our inner life and being in a resonant field with others. We get tight. We get small. We override our capacity to appreciate beauty, to celebrate, to serve from the heart.

Our mindfulness practice offers us the opportunity to pause and rediscover the space of presence. When we stop charging forward and open to what’s here, there’s a radical shift in our experience of being alive.   As we touch into this space of hereness, we access a wisdom, a love and a creativity  that are not available when we’re on our way somewhere else.  We are home, in our aliveness and our spirit.

Adapted from my book Radical Acceptance (2003)"

Sure is bright out tonight :) ... "Supermoon" Full Moon in Capricorn June 23

 

"Full Moon at

11:32 UTC, 7:32 AM Eastern, 4:32 AM Pacific is

 the largest Full Moon of the year, which means this is the Moon’s closest encounter with Earth for all of 2013.

 

Supermoon images at Space.com here. 

 

 

This Full Moon is at 2 degrees Capricorn, the

Earth sign aligned with the knees."

--Yogastrology.com

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beautiful

Poem below by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

♥ and light under the soltice and "supermoon" full moon...

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"Dear Brave Souls: SOLSTICE 2013, for you...

La Luna: el espejo de polvo y fuego

The Moon, The Mirror of Dust and Fire

Here are lessons

of La Luna

this Solstice night:

Our moon, rugged,

rocky, 

stony, 

dusty,

pock marked,

carved upon--

Look at her!

Really look at her!

She is not smooth.

She is not young.

She is not unmarked.

She is riven.

She is scarred.

                    She is in the rough...

and still she reflects

the Fire Star...

still she who is silver,

still she who is gray,

sheds white spun silk light,

sheds custard yellow light,

sheds deep blood red light

sheds light in dark veils...

proving, night after night

that whatever is worn down,

whatever is ravaged,

whatever is venerable

can still receive, STILL receive,

and throws, STILL throws...

an inextinguishable Light

that can be seen

from more than one planet

in our solar system. 

Think of it,

if there be beings

on other spheres,

they too, behold Her,

and no doubt,

love Her too ...

have stories about the mother

who mirrors fire

no matter her ravages,

no matter her mysteries

yet to be understood.

This comes with love to you on this Eve of Turning of Time recognized by so many, each in her own way, each in his own way, as each sees fit. 

Dr.e

"La Luna: el espejo de polvo y fuego: The Moon, The Mirror of Dust and Fire" poem from the unpublished manuscript: "The Poet Laureate of Roselandia Indiana-- the World's Most Well-Known Unknown Poet" by cp estés ©2013, all rights reserved.

Elizabeth Peru

Super Full Moon - It's about actioning your PURPOSE: ... the Moon is full & also at it's closest approach to Earth all month - making this a 'super' moon. It will look visually large. This happened in May & will occur again in July. You may be feeling anything from mentally elated to physically woozy. My advice is to honour however you feel today. If you need to lay low, then do so, if you need to be busy then do so. Our purpose is being activated by this event & our purpose is all about using the talents & skills we are good at & that we love, that makes our heart sing. So make sure you are recognising & not overlooking using your talents. Seek deep into your heart today & ask, "What am I here to use?" The answers will flow on this moon...trust ♥ #supermoon #lifepurpose

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...............More to come tomorrow...................
Enjoy the light of the moon..............................
                    <3................................

Finding our limits....

We've found our limits and continue to explore them via the pluto uranus squre (started 2010 until 2015), fear and disbelief from cultural meme and lack of trust in the internal self the culprit for our limitations.

Break the cycle, release the mind into the heart and make friends with our fear as a signal of information from our higher self, not a death sentence. Nurture the dream with faith that its there for our expansion. Expand beyond the mind, beyond the limitations, if even only to release the imagination that has been asleep in the limitations.

Break the cycle through awareness. Feel your way into and out of the dark by imagining your highest intention.

<3 and light as awareness through emotion draws us into the depths of our shadows of limitations.

Breathe well, breathe often ;)

Summer Solstice June 2013

"Vulnerability is allowing ourselves to truly be seen."  --Jason Nash

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.-chagall

"All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world."--chagall


Tonight, the Sun moves into Cancer.  
As the sun moves into Cancer, it marks the point of the Summer Solstice, where the light of day is the longest of the whole year.

What does this mean for us?

We come into full awareness of that which we planted during the spring in the Aries cycle, and as we "square" that aries energy with the sun in Cancer, we add a new element to the mix that seems incongruent with the aries energy:  how our hearts feel, and we begin to nurture our intentions and actions into fruition from the inside out.  We begin to release our head into our heart, as we walk down the body from aries to cancer, from head to heart.

How does what you started feel to you now?  Is it in line with your heart's desire?  Follow the emotions with the breath.  Notice what you feel as you meditate on your intention in the full light of awareness brought with the solstice.  Notice what needs to be exhaled and let go of, and what needs to be nurtured to bring forth into our lives.

Meanwhile, we start this process by acknowledging our inner landscape.  Exploring the depths of ourselves in the light of the full sun, and reaching out from that place of strength, our humanity, the human heart.

How deeply are you penetrating into the depths of the shadow and light of ourselves?  
To ignore one is to ignore meaningful insights and understanding of the self as a human 'shell' or space embodying the spirit.

Cancer is represented by the crab.  half on land, half in sea, the crab learns to navigate the inner and outer environments with ease.....



But...
We first reach inward, into the depths of the sea, or our unknown depths.  Become whole with ourselves.
Then we extend outward in full awareness of that self reaching out.
Cancer's have a tendency to absorb others, environments, energy, being a highly psychic sign due to their call to dive deeply inward, they know the depths and potential of the human spirit, mind and body.

So in this tendency, call it the shadow of cancer, to reach outside before inside we develop illusion.... we absorb that which is not us.  We are called to release, feel, purify, and then build that heart space with awareness, with nurturing, love. 

When we don't, we become "shelled", unable to break open that soft heart into what we truly are called towards that lies known only in our heart individually.... the process of going inward is deep, complex, and many run, unable to face the good, bad, and ugly.

But that is our beauty.
Why are we so embarrassed of ourselves.
We are human.  We feel.  We sense.  Let yourself dive deep into the ocean.




And then emerge with the grace of vulnerability as you extend yourself out.
Remembering that internal world, just as when we "wake" out of end svanasana in yoga, we keep that sense of the breath in the body (gemini) moving in a current that draws us inward as we sense the flow, the rhythm of our own body, mind, and emotions.  Through this sensitivity we watch with that witness (see post from earlier today), the observer, to keep that sense of self as we interact and experience.  

We give ourselves space by tapping into that depth.  Space to feel out whatever comes.




If we become too externally focused, stop feeling and start reacting, we become hardened by that "crab shell" and sense the urge to protect ourselves.  

This is what keeps us in pain, in illusion.  Really the work is in the self, the rest flows with ease.  When we don't sense that ease, we go back into the internal world to build, rework, feel, and release.  

Instead in culture, we are taught to ignore that soft internal world.  We are told that feeling, vulnerability is weak, and focusing on nurturing ourselves is weak.  Why?!  Because it's scary to us.  It's dark, deep and unknown.

So make it known.  Love that internal self wildly, madly, completely, and nurture that dream, that vision, that we find in our own hearts.  Soften to become strong.



Just like in yoga:

It's not how hard I can become through the struggle of external effort to hold the pose. 
Rather it's about how soft I can become to RESPOND to the pose, my body, my self.
A flexible mind releases fear and struggle of effort into easeful effort, using the breath.
We learned through the gemini energy that it is the breath that draws us into mindful ease where we release into the flow that surrounds us always and we can truly RESPOND to ourselves, to our feelings, without the attachment, without the struggle.  the struggle comes when we don't feel the breath, that flow, a symbol of our ability to feel, sense, and move in ease.

The breath is the body, the body the breath.  
With the breath, the subtle body awakens and move the energy to the physical, where effort becomes doing instead of struggle to do.

We become alive, from the inside out.  




Without the internal world becoming strong through awareness and letting go to our feelings, we become shelled, protective, defensive, and those crab claws emerge and attach us to that which may not be in our heart afterall.  Because... we didn't look.

Cancer energy is a call to develop the self... that soft spot of the heart which holds our humanity in a bridge to our spirit.  We unlock inside to unlock outside.  

It can't happen any other way, otherwise, it's just effort, just trying.  

And watch as you love yourself to death, how you emerge as that butterfly from the cocoon, new, alive, and living in integrity.

Otherwise we're crusty shelled hearts, unable to feel our way through life.

Yeah, you say, but you don't know what's so wrong with me!  What i do, what I struggle with!  It's horrible, it's evil, its embarrassing, I can't let that out!

You're right... no one will ever know who you are, until you let it out.

But we're called to look at it first, with our own eyes.  

As a cancer myself, it was always easier to take what other ppl said as my own.  That caused me pain through illusion.  

On one hand we're right, nobody does know what we go through.  That's our job to bring it to the world, taking it from victim hood to strength.

And THAT is the power of vulnerability, of looking in and then out.  

As we deal with our own Shit, literally, we become at peace with it.  We feel it, pass it, let it go with the breath.  But we have to feel it first!  You can only heal what you feel.  So know you're own self.  Take yourself from victim to strength through vulnerability, practicing on the inside as we comb through our heart, and then taking that strong nurtured self with us as we extend out.

I can't imagine anything stronger than being totally authentic, vulnerable.  

The ego becomes pure, connected to the spirit, and the heart becomes light.

Watch how your world responds.  


Astronautalis, "holy water"  you tube video.
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"holy water"
"Well it's hope, it's hope, that has me staring to the burning sky
I know, I know, there's something hidden, on the other side
I woke, I woke with such a feeling I could never rise
Now I'm gazing skyward till the sun just burned me blind

Burned me blind, burned me blind
Burned me blind, burned me blind

Well, one drank up the holy water hoping for a light
While another slipped a sewing bodkin right inside his eye
And they ran out from the city calling, collecting salts and lye
Crack and crush it, burn it maybe baby, find the God inside

God inside, God inside, yeah
God inside, God inside

We know there's something to which we're blind
'Cause it's hope that pulls us forward till we die

Ollie ollie oxen free, come out from where you hide
Tell me, tell me what you want from me, I promise I provide
I'll drink your poison, I'll keep you company, I'll serve you till I die
Come on, crack Pandora's Box for me, blind me with the light

With the light, with the light, come on
With the light, with the light

Learn the language of our Holy Fathers retrace their sacred rights
Plot and chart the arc of Haley's Comet, floating through the night
I drain my blood until my chalky body feels closer to the sky
I dance upon the edge of death just to prove that I'm alive

I'm alive, I'm alive, yeah
I'm alive, I'm alive

We know there's something to which we're blind
'Cause it's hope that pulls us forward till we die"

--Astronautalis, "Holy Water"

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:  MEDITATION ; 

The process of internal / external awareness... what do you do externally to turn on your awareness, lifing the veil?  We can suck up all the holy water looking for a light when we are turning outside to find the light..,, really, the light is on the inside
otherwise, the sun just burns us blind.
God, Light, is inside...find it, and carry it with you out.
Hope lies in knowing the self, building it, and trusting in that authenticity.
How much holy water have you drank lately ;).... find it inside...
We think what lies inside is poison to us functioning outside...
it's only poison from the outside in....really it's the elixir of our soul, crying out to be seen.
We think we have to bleed out... no... we purify by release.  Trust your hope.

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Join me this sunday, June 23rd, from 12 p -2 p at Pranayoga Downtown for a practice and conversation exploring these themes of vulnerability leading to strength and drawing the inner world in close while reaching out to the world.  We'll explore feeling the cross over of the gemini energy into cancer by using the breath to create a mindful relationship with what lies within.

Full water trine is back (more on that, posted tomorrow) to celebrate the event too!  It will be a beautiful exploration of the self merging with the breath into awareness from which we extend our vulnerability outward to open flow into our lives through authenticity.  Explore with me your own beating heart, open the chest revealing and cracking open the crusty shell of our hearts that accumulates as we run through life, and open into flow as the water trine supports healing by drawing inward and nurturing ourselves, following the pulse of life, the breath.  

We release the chest, we release the heart.  By chipping off the crust we build up, we clear that vessel of the heart, designed to intake, feel, and then purge to open to new experience.  Without that purge and release, we build up emotion which is like a firecracker in the chest waiting to explode.  So what happens?  Our shoulders get stuck trying to protect the heart, and we develop stiffness in the upper spine down the body and into the neck and head, our shell, trying to hold it all in place.  Feeling our bodies and breath we will open ourselves to easeful effort through awareness.  A soft practice using our awareness emerging from and with the breath to respond to each pose and gain strength from the inside out, releasing the struggle of the body to hold the heart safe and defended... this results in freedom of the upper spine!  :) Come, celebrate the heart, ground deeply, and surrender to how beautiful each one of our journeys are. We'll learn to smile at the depths of our being, drawing it out into the light of the sun, awareness, and form a relationship of love and nurturing with that which draws us deep into our humanity and spirit connection.

"Can you surrender to how beautiful you are"  --Yogastrology.com