Mind this Scorpio Full Moon

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This wound up in my text-box this week:

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly… Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them…throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you…trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly…on tiptoes and no luggage…completely unencumbered.

~Aldous Huxley, from “Island”

The moment this came to me via my brilliant professor bestie …now retired (& you know who you are) I had just stepped into a pile of quicksand. Which was surprising, even for me. I had had such a bizarrely hard, yet good for me (for my soul’s growth anyway) couple of weeks back when that trickster energy hit that I thought: surely I’m on the upswing now! Ha! Kinda, not really. 

I’m the odd bird who takes your question : “Hey! How are you?” Seriously. Probably too seriously. I search my guts for my best answer. I found myself recently saying to anyone who dared ask: “I’m in a death and rebirth pattern.” I get different responses depending on who is asking. If you were to ask me that very same question now, I would have the same answer, except for one minor shift: the pace has picked up. Like, it’s rapid cycling. When I feel extra weird, I see what the moon is up to. 

Well, we do have a full moon in Scorpio (sun in Taurus) this Monday the 12th. I will venture to say that I’ve been feeling this particular moon phase from miles away, so to speak. Another brilliant writer/fellow cancerian friend of mine texted me yesterday:: “Scorpio is slushy and spicy.” 

Indeed. And to that I would add:

and has long, slender, watery (emotional) tentacles…at least in my experience/this time around. I have felt nearly literally possessed by heavy emotional energies for days. Like the tentacles were all wound up around my organs and insides. And this is someone who is taking top care of their energetic/spiritual health right now. And I’m still getting batted around. And it’s the oddest thing, but I ran into a grocery store today and the tentacles let go in an instant. After gripping me for days! Odder still, this is the second time within, say, the last 4 months that I’ve had this experience at the very same grocery store. So, next time you feel plagued by strange feelings, hit up the HEB in Mueller (51st St) Austin, Texas.   ?????? 

Back to my original thought on Huxley’s above quote. If two of us were standing in a room together, we would not be experiencing life in the same way. Since so many of us met in a yoga studio, I’m wagering to say that the majority of us are pretty darn empathetic or largely, feeling-full beings. That is what my experience of us, after spending over a decade in studio spaces etc., has been. When I walked in to the first studio I did, my spirit was crushed and darn near broken. And that yoga practice helped me. Tremendously.  And my biggest hope with any class I teach or word I write here is that something, anything I say, can be a buoy in the moment for someone else feeling crushed or crumpled or withered or at the very least, confused, baffled or uneasy about all this life-experience delivers. I’ve seen what happens to a person who holds on to the “fear, self-pity, and despair” that Huxley references. I myself have been and am often still that person. And that part is hard and exhausting. And I’ve tasted the freedom from those heavy, low-calibrating emotions, and I far more enjoy my experience here when I “throw away [my] baggage…and go forward…completely unencumbered.” Yogic language would call it illusion: all the unreal lenses or stories we create or pick up in the more painful moments of our lives and continue to look through for the remainder of our lives, lest we take off and clean or dispose of those story-lenses. And I’ve found it’s a way of life. This regular cleaning. It’s like brushing your teeth. I’ll wager to say that most of us do this regularly. If we didn’t, we’d have a pretty nasty set of chompers. Its the same with our insides (our psyches, our hearts, our minds, our spirits). They too need regular cleaning. 

It’s Mother’s Day as I write this. And I send a huge heart-full of gratitude and respect for those of you out there who choose to nurture and nourish yourself & others with the sacred energy of a mother. I could not live without that nurturing and nourishing. It honestly is akin to oxygen for me. Thank you. I honor you deeply. I am missing my physical mom now. I had wished my entire life my mother could have put down more of the life-luggage she carried around. I’ve heard it said that a child’s greatest pain is the unlived life/unhappiness of their mother. This feels accurate to me. We have such an effect on one another, don’t we? She was, though, part of a generation where “healing” was not on the tip of the tongue. Perhaps it is far easier for my generation & younger to seek support. And I am here tempted to create a long list of all of the ways (Lightwork, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, meditation/breathwork, IFS, Grief Therapy, EFT, Yoga Therapy, Quantum Healing, the list is endless) but a way that will help you will come to your heart. It will make itself known. That is just the way our wild quantum world works. Even if its a regular conversation with a sacred witness (a trusted, Loving friend who simply listens to our deepest secrets and hurts). In the 12 step world it is said: “Secrets keep you sick.” But even if we don’t willingly let those go, the ever-expanding, consciousness of the universe along with that mother moon of ours pulls it out of us. Not to punish us…no way! Quite the opposite! I remember that when life feels hard and painful. I remember that life is removing a thorn for me. Nothing has gone wrong. I have done nothing wrong. I am being helped to expand and get free. The universe or multiverse or God or Science or whatever you wanna call it, is doing for me what I could not do for myself. So, if you’re hurting, you’re being helped. Every subatomic molecule in my body knows this to be true. It helps me SOMUUUUCH to remember this. So, I share it with you. 

Love you. Mind this moon if you know what is good for you (wink).  

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