Genevieve writes a horoscope designed for your Moon sign for Planet Waves called Moonshine. We run them twice per month, for each Full and New Moon. You can read them as part of the Planet Waves membership that features Eric’s horoscopes and astrology articles. — Amanda
Later today (Thursday), the Full Moon takes place at 3:57 pm EDT with the Moon in early Scorpio and the Sun in early Taurus. This alignment will form a partial lunar eclipse, kicking off a busy three-eclipse season (usually eclipses occur in pairs). Eclipses are pattern setting events, opportunities to leave behind old patterns or habits and begin new ones. This eclipse offers us an invitation to live more emotionally present lives, while also remaining grounded mentally and physically in the here and now.
Full Moons can often come with inner tension, or the feeling of a high-energy push for resolution. With today’s Sun-Moon opposition occurring as an eclipse, the emphasis is on letting go of what has not been working or what we’ve grown beyond. Rather than getting stuck in feelings of frustration, we can more easily let them slip away.
What’s left is an opening: a fertile space in which to build new emotional patterns and habits. Eclipses are good times to be mindful in what we do and how we act. Consciously act, think and feel to help establish the kinds of habits you would like to strengthen or build.
In fact, it’s great to get the ball rolling a few days before an eclipse and continue a few days after by devoting some time each day to doing what you most love. As you consciously offer up what you wish to release, what you wish to foster receives your focus and fills the void.
A number of important planets are also involved in this Full Moon. Mars is conjunct the Sun in Taurus and, on the opposite side of the wheel, the Moon in Scorpio is only a few degrees away from Saturn. Sun-Mars is bringing additional heat, desire and drive to the equation. There’s a push outwards for expression, especially in the physical form.
The Moon in Scorpio is deep feeling, at times potentially so deep it seems like there’s no bottom or end to our emotional body. Saturn conjunct the Scorpio Moon provides us with a structure through which to understand and work with these intense feelings and passion. It gives us a container to hold them and some traction to better communicate what we are experiencing.
As Mars and the Sun pull us toward our physical and mental selves, the Moon and Saturn are simultaneously connecting us with our passionate emotions. This Full Moon is helping us to see how similar these two aspects of ourselves actually are, and how we can embrace deeper emotions while still having a strong foundation in our physical world. As we step through the doorway opened by the eclipse, we encounter an opportunity for integration.
Also during this Full Moon, Venus is conjunct Pallas Athene in Taurus. Pallas Athene was given the keywords by Martha Lang-Wescott, “approval-seeking; strategies of relating; whether one is willing and/or able to do those things that will please another.” These “daddy-pleasing” tendencies can manifest both as the need to get approval from figures in positions of authority, as well as giving our personal authority away to governing organizations or institutions.
Venus and Pallas Athene forming a conjunction in Taurus is an image of doing too much strategizing and scheming, especially to try and please others. Instead, we are being called to apply straightforward honesty to our lives. Be your own authority rather than handing the job to someone else or a government or institution. Imagining scenarios or trying to over-plan a situation won’t necessarily bring the results we want. Rather, we are invited to trust in our own power and our ability to state what is right for us to get results in our lives.
This Scorpio Full Moon is a reminder that life is meant to be lived with a healthy dose of passion and feeling. We have an opportunity to access our emotions on a deeper level with the means and structure to live with these stronger emotions. Part of being our own authority is owning our feelings and emotions, experiencing them, and being able to share those emotions with the people around us.
As this partial eclipse works itself out in our lives, I suggest we hold space for ourselves and the people close to us to work through this process, which may not always be easy to communicate. Offering empathy and grace to ourselves and others will go a long way in helping us grow together.
Genevieve Hathaway is an astrologer, Planet Waves contributor and photojournalist. Genevieve is available for astrology readings. You can contact her at genevieve@venusinblue.com.
“I can either sit quietly and trust, or get off my freakin’ ass and manifest it”. Yeah Daniel – sometimes one needs to get off ones ass, other times to sit quietly, think much of the difficulty is knowing when to do one or the other. However, when it comes to trusting others, I think the golden rule is never to give away ones power to another, to always hold ones centre, as much as possible. And I think that cultivating awareness is the thing, a lifelong journey.
Thanks Lizzy so much, as always my friend. Thanks Mia too, I’m so grateful. Gonna be clearing some storage space this weekend!
Lizzy, this is purely my aggressive nature speaking, but I want to trust the Universe, I really do. But sometimes I get this feeling like the Universe is asking me to do something for myself. Often that feels like a test. I can either sit quietly and trust, or get off my freakin’ ass and manifest it. Trust can often be a way of handing over authority to something else. I’ve been trusting my whole life in answers that others have for me. I guess I’m saying I have to be careful with that. I also see the incredible value in slowing down and regrouping inside. I hope I don’t sound arrogant or scared of being dominated. I’m a softy, honest.
Thank you all for such powerful and moving posts. Just reading your post Genevieve and all the threads has stirred such deep feelings in me.
Dear Mia, your courage tenacity and humanity shine out and on me. I feel blessed by reading all your posts here.
Thank you PW community for all the sharing and giving here. I take great comfort from being about to connect in with you all.
It is an important part of the new heart centred ways we are all being urged to follow in our different ways.
Love to all
It has been great sharing with you guys. Thank you.
My wonderful Jasper transitioned the day before Thanksgiving at the age of 13 and a half. He and Sammy were best friends and several times after Sammy died I saw him walking down the hall with Jasper. There is no doubt they are together again and waiting for the rest of us.
Daniel, in terms of meditating, I meditate for five or ten minutes at a time, almost never longer. Often what I do is store the energy to be used later for a specific purpose. You might try that with the intention of using it for composing. Or sex. Or both.
It is difficult to communicate one an open forum where you are not one-to-one with another person. Thank you for asking and receiving my response.
Wow! Great discussion everyone. Glad this post got the ball rolling, and thank you everyone for all the amazing contributions to the dialogue. 🙂
Thank you for sharing your amazing, inspiring story, Mia.
I agree with Divacarla. This is a wonderful thread, and I’m so grateful to you all.
P. Sophia, Biren, thank you so very much for your beautiful comments! Your wise and lovely words help so much.
I love this thread. Thank you all for your naked sharing with one another and anyone else who needs it. You’ve each given me something for me, and I thank you.
See you on the other side of the portal.
Daniel – I so understand and share your frustration around creativity. i write, sing, play the guitar – but have been blocked in my creativity for many years. Remember the choir I joined? They loved my voice, were really keen to have me with them – but I got bored – they sing beautiful arrangements of rock and traditional songs, but it’s a lot of oohs and aahs harmonsing, and after a while… Another one bites the dust. What I realise is that so much of my creativity comes out in my teaching (in fact, I also teach creative writing!), but I would like to do more of my own thing. However, I think that every moment of our lives is creative, I think we have an idea of how our lives should be – but, as I’m realising for myself right now, we have to learn to trust and relax with what is – that the universe might have other plans for us, that we just can’t see right now. Even if you’re not creating your music as you’d like to right now, you have so many gifts to give to others, just your very presence! And just not moving and being still at times allows us to connect with something much bigger than ourselves. That said – I wish you lots of luck and love for your music!
Thank you Mia (and Gumby!), for sharing your story and energy. I’m so sorry about Sammy too.
Just a note about Kundalini, when I’m composing, I get so hot I’m sweating like crazy. I didn’t really have a traumatic moment, rather several wake up calls. I had an explosion of productivity from Jan to June 2007. I kept hearing “write it down!!! Because something is coming.” Then it all just stopped. I think I stopped it and said “Screw it. I’m not doing this anymore until you fix your life.” Composition and meditation became excuses and ways of hiding. I had three things to fix: my monk vows, my relationship to my mother, and to become uninhibited.
I don’t have music to post yet. If something gets recorded, I’ll be sure and send it along to Eric!
Gratitude all for a lovely day of writing and sharing. Ciao.
Hello Biren,
Thank you for your insightful comment to Lizzy that included me too. I have had my share of loss, tremendous loss really, but don’t look at it that way. I was born to experience the whole enchilada, so to speak and am appreciative that I have done just that. I have never been bored. Ultimately my desire to make a difference in this world has been beneficial in some way to me and to others. My life has gone through many changes, many unwelcome. But each step of the way what I have needed and often wanted has come to me. I too have let go and now enjoy the journey with very little in terms of material possessions. Less to dust!
The first time I had an astrological reading 33 years ago I was told I was a mystic and what I was looking for was not of this world. Quite true, actually. With Saturn conjunct my natal moon in Scorpio I am currently experiencing more loss, the loss of what has brought me the most joy in fact. It has all made me more determined than ever to share my experiences in the hopes that the information will help others. Over the past several days I have been writing here on Planet Waves more than ever before. It must be the eclipse.
Here is a slightly edited version of an essay sent to my friends on January 19, 2012, the day after putting my dog Sam to sleep:
HI FUMI / YO MU NA YA / KOTOMO CHI LO LANE
SHI KI LU / YU I TSU WANU / SO WO TA KUMEKA
U O E / NISALI HETE / NOMASU A SE YE HOLE……KE
Shinto prayer – 47 words of God
An artist friend emailed this Shinto prayer to me the other day. It was in response to my telling him I am having problems with one of my dogs who, though fine physically is deteriorating mentally. Dementia? A brain tumor? Perhaps it is the current chaos on planet earth that is impacting each and every one of us as we struggle to create a new reality that is more honest, fair and equitable.
Sam is an extraordinary dog. I received his photograph in my AOL mailbox the day he was to be euthanized at a shelter in West Virginia. He has lived with me and my other animals for almost nine years. Completely feral when he arrived, it took an entire year for him to be relaxed enough to smile. Sam has a huge heart and feels absolutely everything. It is entirely possible that the negative energy in the world today is driving him mad.
When Sam came to live with me in 2003, my animals and I were living in a $700,000 house in the Hudson River Valley. Our recreation revolved around a beautiful spring-fed pond that attracted blue heron, beavers, snapping turtles, deer, bear, and a large population of other animals to our back yard. Although I’d had a successful business in New York City and am the creator of ARTWALK NY and other ground-breaking events in the arts, I experienced financial difficulties that led to the loss of my home. It was ironic because I focused a great deal on helping the homeless while I lived in Manhattan. It troubled me deeply that so many people were living on the streets. Of course, that number is nothing compared to what is happening now, in 2012. As a result of the stress I experienced from losing my home, I developed a series of medical problems that occurred one after the other. Within a span of 14 months, I had multiple surgeries including a complete hysterectomy because polyps were growing out of all my reproductive organs. I was diagnosed with PTSD and numerous other problems that took an enormous toll on my physical energy. I thought I was able to handle the problems at hand but my body was telling otherwise.
Having come from an affluent family, one that created its own prosperity, it never occurred to me that I could one day wake up without any material possessions or security. I entered Copley Hospital for my hysterectomy with less than ten dollars to my name. During that time I experienced the profound generosity of Vermonters as total strangers came to my door with food for me and my animals. Multiple times people I’d never met drove over with truckloads of hay so I could feed my two horses.
I now have an art gallery in Vermont. I juggle on a regular basis. However, I feel that I am surrounded by people who are interested in protecting the land, living a sustainable life and helping each other. It is a good feeling.
What I have learned is something everyone can benefit from and something that real Vermonters know naturally. That is: what is essential. Vermont is not an easy place to live. The winters are generally brutal and require a great deal of strength to get through year after year. The aftermath of hurricane Irene and the response to it are one example of Vermonters dealing with the essentials and reaching out to each other on a continual basis. Vermont is, essentially, a heart-centered state that serves as an example to the rest of America. The lesson for me was that even though my life had been stripped of virtually all material comfort, what I was left with was me. I still had my intelligence, my creativity, my imagination, my sense of humor. I still had my faith in God and the belief that we are provided for each and every day.
There is so much discussion about morals and family values and judgments that we place on each other as a means of making ourselves feel more important. Regardless of what man says about God and religion, there is a force in the world that balances “justice” for lack of a better word. That force is karma. Regardless of the spin each of us puts on a person or event, karma and time will reveal the truth of what is really going on. We can see this clearly in the news as events unfold on a global level. For every action there is a reaction. We are all connected through consciousness. On a soul level, we all know our own motivations. If we could simply take the time to accept ourselves for who we truly are rather than who we think we are supposed to be, our lives would become more simplified and as a result more authentic. Our interactions with others would then be more authentic and the beauty in each other and our world would be obvious.
Sammy was put to sleep yesterday afternoon. As we were getting into the car to drive to Andrea’s office for his injection I looked up at the sky. A vertical rainbow was there in the clouds as a signal that things would be okay. His transition was a peaceful one. He slipped away immediately. He’d had an extraordinary life that was meant to end almost nine years ago. What he found instead was a motley crew of five other rescue dogs and a middle aged woman who created his pack. His family. Let’s stop the craziness. Let’s find better, sustainable solutions, for ourselves and each other.
I think we are finding a better way and this coming month will be packed with illustrations of that fact. PW is part of that sustainable solution.
dear lizzy,
i agree with mia… that the universe is infinitely abundant, kind and intelligent.
and it works for us, if we trust it more than we know what trust is. 🙂
and it is so intelligent about what each of us needs that it gives us what we need, if not what we want.
unlike mia, universe has taken things away from me… and never given me things i asked for or desired.
good for me. because, i would never have otherwise realised that my truest calling is to let go, let go, let go… lighten and simplify.
and the universe in its infinite wisdom and kindness, not only took away many things i had… it also started taking away my ‘mistaken’ desires and wants.
by taking away unwanted ‘dust’ in my ‘eyes’, it brought me the sight… to see what i was throbbing for.
today… i still fight it when it snatches away things or people or situations… when it empties me… but somewhere, sometime… i thankfully get back into that cellular memory, that the universe knows, and i can enjoy the ride.
living through these waves and troughs… i can say that if i had sat down with the most daring and most visionary of human beings, they would not have been able to design and give me a blueprint of the life i have today (from the life i was living, say 10 years back), even if they were given 7 life time period over which to chart the progress and evolution of my life. 🙂
hope i have ‘sold’ you the idea of the ‘kind and wise universe’.
happy journeying.
Daniel:
I read your comment several times and kept coming back to some words from the last paragraph from Genevieve: “holding space FOR ourselves and offering empathy and grace TO ourselves.”
When you wrote “I feel like a Bird of Paradise in a hot bath robe doing a sexy dance in my living room and no one’s watching…..” my first sense was to invite YOU to watch, to hold space for yourself, to see what unfolds as you invite yourself to have a front row seat at your own concert.
Perhaps to meld this in with Mia’s suggestion of clearing space, literally.
Thanks to you all: Lizzy, Mia, be, Strawberry, P. Sophia for your thoughts and insights. Love this community!
Dear Daniel,
Thanks for asking. I don’t think what you are describing is an either/or situation. I am a painter myself and had my first solo exhibit in SoHo my senior year of college (many years ago – unheard of at the time). I understand what it means to spend the entire weekend painting without eating or even brushing one’s teeth for fear of being taken away from my creative process. At a certain point I decided to use my creativity as a means of philanthropy although my sense of beauty remains highly rarified. My friend the poet David Shapiro considers me to be an important conceptual artist because I am creating, just not on a canvas. These have been my choices, and we all make them.
Creativity is a sexual act. In a sense you are creating love letters to a person, the world, or someone or something else when you create. Could be something not of this world. Your music, it seems, is the/one-of-the major gift(s) you came in with to share with others. I am not an astrologer so I cannot talk astrology with you. I have not heard your music, but I suspect that it would be revealing. Perhaps you can post a link to some here. You obviously felt transported or taken over by your composing and from my perspective, that is how it should be. My guess is you needing to find a partner who can appreciate you and go there with you physically and intellectually. I suspect that when you reintegrate your music someone suitable will simply show up. 2007 till now seems like plenty of time to own the sexual piece of yourself.
Using space clearing is a wonderful way to begin. It creates a physical act of letting go while not focusing on the issue at hand, not making a direct assault. Perhaps clean and clear your space around your piano for starters. Composing is not the only way to connect to source. Using your kundalini can activate your creative and sex energy at the same time. The ultimate goal is to get off on your life, to feel satiated by what you are experiencing. Both composing and physical intimacy are integral parts of that. But not an either/or. In the case of the artist I described, looking at images of her work I was able to pinpoint where she let go of an important piece of her art then asked what happened at the time and the story came out. I understood intuitively trauma was involved and knew if she could get her creative juices moving correctly, everything else would fall into place. If something traumatic happened for you around one of these issues that would be a big clue.
If you can, do post some of your music.
Mia
Miaferoleto, I really appreciated your support of Lizzy and the insightful comments you offered (here on a wonderful insightful article Genevieve! thanks!).
Some of what you describe struck a chord in me that I have been seeking answers in my own creative efforts. Prior to 2007, my music composition was my way of expressing my sexuality. Often, I felt that my sublimation was powerfully effective while at other times I felt the huge weight of being unable to be with anyone intimately due to my monk vows, except for my imagination. I felt cut off, and the vital parts of my psyche that were asking for attention was becoming intolerable. The build up to the end of 2008 precipitated changes that I eventually made in 2009. While I’ve come so far, I still get worried every time I sit at my piano that I’m sinking down and loosing touch with the physical worlds and my physical needs and desires. I’m afraid of my own repression, that I’m gonna turn into a f**k up because I’m not taking care of myself. Yeah, I judging myself; yeah, I’m beating myself up – but I’m also kicking my ass out into new experiences to get me where I want to be. And I think I’m stopping myself from composing in some ways. Sure, I’ll sketch. But I can’t seem to get into a project in the same way I did before. I’ll improvise for hours, but the work in writing it all down? Nope, I get all scared – because as any artist will tell you: HOURS WILL PASS BY AND YOU WILL NOT HAVE NOTICED!!!! I couldn’t even get up to take a pee that’s how consumed I could get, let alone eat.
My Reiki master says, “Keep composing! Keep it flowing! That’s how you connect to source. You stop that and it ain’t good.”
My buddy says, “Dude, there is such a think as balance. You just need to find it.”
My mom says I’m being selfish for keeping all my music in my head and not sharing.
I have an awesome studio. I have an awesome bedroom. I feel like a Bird of Paradise in a hot bath robe doing a sexy dance in my living room and no one’s watching…..
Okay, I’d be honored with some advice.
Daniel
Lizzy, in Eric’s intelligent article http://www.ericfrancis.com/articles/chiron_hist.html, describing Chiron here along with Jeff Green’ s astute contribution, it suggests that Pluto and Chiron work together in healing as a unified polarity.
“…that Pluto, functions as a subconscious process. Chiron works in full awareness, it can be easily subjected to scientific and psychological scrutiny, and is not easily given to issues like denial or avoidance.”
Please let me offer, in my humble spirituality, astrological practice and in objective observation, this proves the fact Lizzy, that not only can you do this, You ARE doing this, fully …consciously!
I have found in exploring Chiron and Pluto’s positions in my natal chart, along with taking introspection in Dane Ryder’s corresponding Sabian Symbol to their corresponding position in my natal chart very helpful.
And interestingly enough, very relatively to this conversation thread is where Chiron finds himself in exact position today. We’re at 12 Pisces! As you see Lizzy, as i mentioned to you here before, it seems you are a healer after all! xop.s.
(PISCES 12°): IN THE SANCTUARY OF AN OCCULT BROTHERHOOD, NEWLY INITIATED MEMBERS ARE BEING EXAMINED AND THEIR CHARACTER TESTED.
KEYNOTE: The ever-repeated challenge presented to the individual by the group in which he has claimed acceptance — the challenge to prove himself and his ability to assume responsibility effectively.
At any level of activity, sooner or later life itself demands of the individual that he or she stand up clearly and unequivocally to the ideal he himself has declared publicly his own. At the occult level the testing seems to be controlled and irrevocable. The “initiate” has become a constituent part of an integrated field of mental-spiritual activity. He is therefore controlled by the structural order of the group. He is no longer seeking; having found his place, he must prove himself able to fulfill the function associated with it. He is no longer “free” as an individual, for he has become a part of an integral Whole operating under structural principles of immense antiquity.
This second symbolic stage of unfoldment stands in contrast to the first in that the individual is now bound by collective laws and traditions. At a mundane political or business level he is the junior executive incorporated in a hierarchical institution. He has at all times to prove his worth.QUALIFICATION is an apt Keyword.
I also know that when something comes up to be cleared, it usually becomes larger than life, more terrible than ever; that it has to be seen in all it’s ugly glory before it can be flushed out.
Be, thank you so much for your wonderful piece. I feel so encouraged by your words, so reassured that this may be a tough time, but there’s gold in them there hills.
Thank you, gals! What a great bunch you are.
Thank you for sharing your lovely stories, Mia!
You can do this Lizzy.
The Universe is abundant for all of us.
I have a diamond story of my own. In the summer of 2006 I was in the process of selling my house in upstate New York. This particular week I had seen three different women all wearing bezel set diamond earrings. The woman wearing the largest diamonds was married to a doctor and I jokingly said to my realtor, “I need to marry a doctor so I can have bezel set diamond earrings.” Well, the following week I was cleaning out my closet and lifted up the built-in shelf for shoes in my bedroom closet. It was as if I had entered a tomb. There was a dead, shriveled mouse, lots of dust bunnies and a jewelry box. When I opened the box I was stunned to find bezel set diamond earrings but each earring had THREE different sized diamonds, essentially the same sized stones I had seen throughout the week. I took them to be appraised and ultimately had them made into three different pairs of earrings which I gave away as gifts. The largest pair was given to my oldest and closest friend who was dying of cancer. Her hair had just started to grown back after chemo and when she opened the decorative bag they were in she was thrilled. She had decided the day before that she was treating herself to a pair of diamond studs. I told her I must have heard her.
Consciousness is plastic and we are all on an adventure. Certainly these times are about as serious as we can get but we are reminded to be playful and creative in our own lives and the lives of those we love.
As written in a previous post, Saturn and this eclipse are conjunct my natal Moon at 8 Scorpio today and I feel the need to share my stories.
Mia
Mars today is in Chiron’s discovery degree (3+ Taurus) so in addition to the heat, desire and drive of Mars and the Sun, an opportunity to bridge these qualities to a higher level of consciousness is available to us. Today, the Moon (already in a sign that is known for hiding feelings) will cease to reflect the Sun briefly and our emotions will become a very private matter for us.
Considering that in today’s eclipse, trans. Pluto at 11 Capricorn (rx) is sextile the Uranus in the Chiron Discovery chart at 11 Scorpio 55, and considering that 11 Scorpio is where transiting Saturn stationed retrograde, this 3-eclipse season will not only speed up (eclipse + Uranian influence) the opportunities to leave behind old patterns or habits, it will make that transition much easier thanks to Chiron’s subtle hand.
In the “real” world, Saturn’s ability to structure is enhanced through this eclipse’s connection to the Chiron Discovery chart’s Sun at 9+ Scorpio, which is conjunct today’s Saturn at 8+ Scorpio (rx), who is conjunct the eclipsed Moon at 5+ Scorpio. Saturn takes his time, especially when retrograde, and because this is a longer than usual eclipse season, this ’emotional’ structure (Saturn conjunct eclipsed Moon) will have ample ‘time’ (Saturn) to build our new patterns and habits (Moon). Eclipses speed things up and yet this time around we have much more time to eliminate what needs eliminating. Thanks to the support of Chiron (through his discovery chart’s assets), we can do it consciously (Chiron’s Sun) and also raise the bar (Chiron’s Uranus).
Today Chiron himself is at 12+ Pisces. He trines the Moon in his own discovery chart at 12+ Cancer. There is a healing hand (Chiron means hand) being offered to humanity and it starts with today’s lunar eclipse. The Moon will be hidden briefly symbolizing a withdrawal from the outer world to focus on the inner world.
Today Mars transits the degree where Chiron was discovered. The Sabian Symbol is of A Pot Of Gold At The End Of The Rainbow. Dane Rudhyar says that mythology uses rainbows to describe a “linking process”, and that it is a “bridge used by divine beings to communicate with mortals”. We shall see further evidence of this communication as we move through this eclipse season.
Thanks so much Genevieve for getting us started today.
be
Bless you, dear Strawberry, for your sweet, kind words! I’m thrilled and inspired that you have had such a breakthrough. It’s fantastic news, and very encouraging for me, too. Much love.
Lizzy, I’m so with you on how painful it is to constantly be held captive by your emotions. I’ve recently had a major breakthrough (like, yesterday!) on that front, and I can tell you–it’s worth whatever it takes to find your personal space, independent of your emotions. I knowknowknow how hard that is! I know it can seem impossible, but it doesn’t have to be. Like Mia says–we have to be willing to let go of some things, but this current astrology is absolutely brilliant for helping that along, I promise. I’ve found myself in an entirely new world, and my emotions are only a part of it. It’s such a blessing. Keep working, you will come through this.
All my very best wishes and love to you.
“Changing how we think about things changes the life around us”. Yes, this is something I’m working on right now, am very aware of this. Thank you for this lovely and inspiring story, dear Mia, I love the image of losing and finding the diamond, both physically and metaphorically. You do beautiful work. Big hugs to you too!
Dear Lizzy,
It’s important to not focus on the details. It doesn’t matter what the norm is in Italy so much as being able to be open to what is there for you. This Full Moon/Eclipse is prompting me to be verbal so I will continue. I work with artists to get their work out there, often using healing as a focal point for their development. One of the artists I work with was holding on to negative patterns that were impacting her on many levels. After having had a difficult experience with a gallery owner, health and other things became issues. Although we had not met yet, I understood that a soul part had splintered off and that we would be doing some soul retrieval work. She began with space clearing her studio which released a huge amount of energy. During our first studio visit we worked on an element in her art that she had abandoned that, in fact, was perhaps the most defining element of her work. For the past six or so years she had been unable to sleep without medication and I understood the sleeping pills were impacting her on multiple levels. One of my goals became getting her off the meds. We began working together mid-May of last year. By September she was already able to go for weeks at a time without sleep meds and by December was medication free. Her art has grown tremendously.
During this time, we shared a significant healing experience. She lost the diamond from her engagement ring. Her family had taken her older daughter to camp and when they got home she saw that the diamond was gone. She and her husband took apart their entire bedroom, taking the bed apart and shaking out the rug. She told me about this the next day and of course, was very upset. It was a beautiful stone that she had worn every day for 20 years. My intuition told me there was some aspect of the car involved and I asked her to check the car and to call her daughter at camp to check her suitcase. Not wanting to upset her daughter she said she would wait. I shared with her a prayer I learned from the nuns in grammar school which works 100 percent of the time. It goes like this:
“Little Jesus lost and found,
please bring my __________around.”
I assured her that how things appear is not necessarily how things really are. We talked about what is really of value to her and the importance of her art. The ring was not insured so it was a huge loss, not to mention the emotional attachment. This conversation happened on a Sunday. The following Thursday night I had a dream about her in which I picked up her diamond from the floor and handed it to her. She had one diamond in her ring already with prongs for a second one. I said, “Your art is your second diamond.”
The following week, she called to tell me that she had picked her daughter up from camp and had so much to do that she drove around with her daughter’s bags in the car for three days. When she finally unpacked her daughter’s suitcase, there sitting in the middle of the bottom of the suitcase was the diamond. Just think of the odds that something so small would make it through camp for a week! She said it was as if it was sitting there waiting for her. She to me that her art was her second diamond.
Changing how we think about things changes the life around us.
Big Hug, Lizzy!
Mia
“Two years ago I was working at a job where I was really unhappy and it ended abruptly. It was a relief but a loss of income”. Btw, this is exactly what happened to me last December!
Bless you, dear Mia, for your wonderful advice and care, and for sharing your story, which I found very helpful. I live in a country where it’s acceptable to get paid very late for work, or even not get paid at all – which is one of the big problems for many people here, at this present time of crisis. In fact I’m owed two months work by my ex-employer, who is in turn owed money by the company that we were both working for. As for unemployment benefit, that barely exists here… So it’s all particularly challenging. However, I realise that the issue is a deeper one, which, as you say, is about trusting that it is there for you. I also recognise that I’m going through a healing crisis at the moment, which is hell, but v positive. Was struck by your advice to clearing out the house, to Susy – and yes, I’m drinking far too much coffee at the moment! Thank you Mia.
And thank you, Genevieve for your lovely words.
Dear Lizzy,
I wanted to respond to your post.
First, I encourage you to look at stimulants in your life like coffee and sugar. If your intake is high, consider lowering the amount you consume. Also, freshly made juice can clean out the toxins in your body. I realize you are in Italy but in the US you can by a juicer for as little as $30. Mine is a Black and Decker and I paid $29 and it works quite well. And, perhaps you can direct some of your energy into feng shui-ing your living space. Each and everything around us has a charge, emotionally and energetically. Best to keep that charge positive in times like these.
Secondly, sit down and determine your exact needs. Clear your mind and ask for what you need. The Universe is a place of abundance. Everything you need is there for you, you are simply bringing it into manifestation. Keep it simple and clear. Make a list if you feel that will help. My life has changed from having unlimited checking to always having what I need in the present. There is so much exterior stress right now it is easy to get caught up in it. Strength comes from being in the present as much as possible. Two years ago I was working at a job where I was really unhappy and it ended abruptly. It was a relief but a loss of income. I had worked there long enough to receive unemployment benefits but was told because it was a new organization I did not qualify. After a while I was at the ends of my funds and started to feel the anxiety of lack. I prayed being very clear that I had reached the end of my ability to be in this present state and asked for help. The next day I went to the mailbox and found a letter stating that my benefits had been reviewed and, indeed, I was eligible. I had my first check a couple of days later. I could give you countless examples of this principle operating in my life. The point is, it operates in all of our lives if we give it a little help and get out of our own way. Also, we are always on time in our own lives, we simply need to show up. The Universe already knew I needed that check to help me transition and it was already in the process of manifesting when I asked for help. Trust that. It is there for you.
Mia
Thanks Lizzy! Thank you for your heartfelt post and sharing what you are experiencing. I hope the Full Moon brings you much healing and positive experiences.
“What’s left is an opening: a fertile space in which to build new emotional patterns and habits”. Yes. Thank you for this beautiful piece, Genevieve. Yesterday I thought I’d cracked it when I decided to let go of victim consciousness and respond to my dire work situation by putting myself about again. But not long after that realization I unexpectedly swooped down into a state of acute fear and despondency once more. Then a light came on – I took a step back and saw how I go up and down with every mood, every crisis moment, and realized deep inside what I’ve known for a long time but have never been able to really put into practice before, that it’s the total identification with feelings that keeps one on a roller coaster, that when one is able to step back and watch the mind reeling, to recognise how the mind and life itself is in a constant state of flux, that’s where one can find some peace. I haven’t expressed this well, and even as I write I feel fear rising again. But it’s a little step in the right direction for me. May this eclipse bring release and blessings to all.