The Winter Solstice will be direct this year on Tuesday December 21st, at 11:38PM GMT/UT, 6:38PM EST, 5:38PM CST, 4:38PM MST, and 3:38PM PST.
This years Solstice has the extra added power and energy of a full Lunar Eclipse in Gemini opposing the Sun in Sagittarius. With both signs being at 29 degrees, this signals an ending of what was and new beginnings. This year’s event will take 3 hours and 38 minutes from beginning to end. The eclipse begins on Tuesday at 6:33 a.m. GMT/UT, 1:33 a.m. EST, 12:33 a.m. CST, 11:33 p.m. MST Monday , and 10:33 p.m. PST Monday, when the Earth’s dark-reddish shadow will begin to show on the edge of the moon. It will take about an hour for the shadow to cover the entire moon. Totality begins at 7:41 a.m. GMT/UT, 2:41 a.m. EST, 1:41 a.m. CST, 12:41 p.m. MST, and 11:41 p.m. PST and lasts for 72 minutes.
I offer up this blessing:
Great and Eternal mystery, Great Spirit; God, Goddess, All that is; The Infinite Radiant Is. I thank you for this light and this life. For this beauty way. I thank you for this season of deep contemplation, reflection and retrospection. It is this time of season that offers us the opportunity to grow inwardly as we await the coming of the outward growth of Spring.
In this time of the short day and the long night, I give thanks for all that I have achieved this past year, and all that I will achieve in the new one. I offer up prayers and blessings of gratitude, and thanksgiving for the lessons I have learned; the relations of all varieties I have helped, and that have helped me to grow.
I thank you for this time of stillness so that I can once again hear my heart beat in time with the true rhythm of the Universe.
As we move forward from this Solstice day, I give thanks for the renewing energy that fills all of our lives with the mounting warmth of the new Sun and the new year.
In Gratitude; In Thanks; In Peace; In Wonderment; In Joy I say Ring Out Solstice Bells!
I found this post from Patricia Liles at Lightworkers.org and felt I needed to share her wisdom here. Enjoy!
Full Moon in Aries/Sun in Libra – 29º.
Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 7:38 PM MDT
Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at patliles@aol.com
What? Two Full Moons in Aries in a row. Is the cosmos making a statement here. I think so. How could it be otherwise. The last Full Moon at the Fall Equinox was at 0º Aries and this Full Moon is at 29º Aries. Did I mention there were going to be five (5) Full Moons in a row at 29º? I did. But it bears mentioning again. What is the significance of 29º? It represents the ending of a cycle, a completion, an encompassing of all the previous aspects and influences, a summation, like the long journey up to the steps of the temple where you turn and look out over your life, acknowledging what has brought you to this point and then removing your shoes and garments and entering the temple without pretense or past. That’s where we are at this time.
We are completing a major cycle of consciousness in the evolution of our planet. We have five Full Moons in a row to contemplate where we have been, what we intend to shed and then to enter this new phase, clean and unencumbered by the past. But of course, there is work to do to enter a higher frequency energy in a clear and unencumbered state.
The Sun in Libra, also at 29º, opposite the Aries Moon has only benevolent aspects in this chart- to Pluto/Ceres and to the Nodes. The Moon also is aspected in a positive way to Pluto/Ceres and the North Node (point of growth and what we need to develop). There is no hint of the T-square of the entire summer that had us in the pressure cooker on high heat on the stove of ‘change-or-get-left-behind’. We made it. We are lighter, leaner, sobered. This is the Moon to celebrate our initiation into our relationship with our true Selves. Look around you into the eyes of your cohort that has embraced the challenge of deep societal transformation enacted from the inside out.
Aries as the first sign of the zodiac wheel is where we learn courage and create a (new) personal identity. The Ram has enthusiasm, assertiveness, and passion and loves a challenge. Its ruler, fiery Mars, calls in our physical energy and sexuality. Use the thrust of this energy to clean out the old patterns of holding yourself in a certain way and to open up the container of relationship to let in more loving kindness. Use your courage to shine out your inner gifts of beauty at the highest level possible. Let the enthusiasm of Aries fill your every contact and interaction.
Many of the personal planets are in Scorpio (Mercury, Venus, Mars, and asteroid Vesta), and we are only 1º away from a Scorpio Sun on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 6:35 AM MDT. With the Sun in Libra, the sign of relationship, and the Moon in Aries, the sign of the self, and their respective rulers, Venus and Mars in Scorpio, we are asked to take back our power for ourselves and use it to examine, penetrate, and let our secrets be revealed and surrendered. There are ways that our psyches are armored that keep our pure, divine expression deeply in check – enculturation, trauma, unsuccessful relationships, being driven deeply into survival strategies, endless witnessing of horrors to our fellow human beings via media all contribute to our inaccessibility to our relationship to our True Source. You can feel the protected places in the body where the life force no longer flows freely. The combination of Aries and Scorpio provides us with the courage to go deeply into these reservoirs of separation and release ourselves. This is our work now – freeing ourselves from the programming of the past that is locked in our very bones. Almost everything in this chart points to re-establishing a new relationship (Libra) with our selves (Aries) and from that we will be able to build a new foundation for relationship with mutually powerful others, and from that create a community/society from the ground up with a spiritual commitment to the whole. That’s what the Age of Aquarius is about in one sense, a grassroots movement to build a society based on truth, love and equality.
Pluto and Ceres are playing a big role now and in this chart. They have been dancing together for most of this year. This is the theme of balancing the power between the masculine and feminine that we as global awakeners have stepped up to integrate through our recreating of ourselves, our relationships, the way we work and live, vote, spend our resources, and how we treat others. Forgive and heal the masculine within and without. Empower the feminine in yourself and in all areas of your life. Mars, the masculine Warrior, is involved in the only stressful aspect in this chart. Mars squared to Chiron (and Neptune as witness) suggests what the masculine has carried from the past is aligned to open and heal now utilizing the detached compassion of Aquarius. Let’s all focus on our fathers, husbands, sons, brothers, uncles, lovers, teachers, friends and all the Shivas in our lives and send them love and forgiveness from our deepest selves. Much can be healed in this way. The chart is asking us to bring that masculine part of ourselves into balance.
This Full Moon will help us make our way to the top of that mountain, take a deep breath and survey all that we have accomplished. There is much to celebrate!
Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at patliles@aol.com
Bright Blessings to you all, and have a marvelous Moondance tonight! =)
So, what is a Positivity statement? First off, this is another tool that you can use to maintain a more positive outlook, emotion and energy, in your life. Typically, a Statement of Positivity starts with “I always…” followed by your positive statement about something that tends to happen more often than not. They can be about almost any subject or situation. Some of the ones I’ve heard over the years have been, “I always do good on math tests”, and “I always have the best time when I go to so-and-so’s house”, and “I always feel wonderful when I’m at the beach” and one of my personal ones, “I always feel amazing when I work with my healing clients”. Sometimes, a positivity statement can start with “I never…”, such as “I never get sick”, or “I never let minor irritations bother me”.
“I always walk in beauty and peace when I am in the woods”
Most everyone has at least one of these statements of positivity that they say on a regular basis. While some may not feel like they do because they don’t normally say it out loud, if you check how you feel about going to places that you enjoy, or seeing people that you love and respond to, you’ll find the mental inner talk that is saying these statements. Your mom says, “We’re going to Grandma’s on Sunday”, and you get excited and happy. You know you are going to have a good time. Why? Because you almost always have a good time when you’re at your Grandma’s house.
This is an expected outcome. You expect to feel good, be treated well and have a fun time. Because this is what you expect to happen, you send out positive waves of energy and emotion and those waves are reflected back to you and you receive them in the form of that good time at Grandma’s. You’ve just created your reality the way you wanted it to be, and you didn’t have to work at it, or think hard about it, or struggle emotionally with it. You had a thought, you then had a positive and good feeling about the thought, and you then set up the vibration based on your energy and emotion and so it was.
“I always feel an infinite connection when I meditate”
As you can see, this can become an extremely powerful tool that you can use to create your life to be as fun, loving and amazing as you want. You can also use this to reverse any negative statements that you’ve been making about your life. Instead of saying things like, “I never catch a break”, you can look back on your life, and see the times when you did indeed catch a break, and so you can modify the negative statement to a positive one by saying something like, “You know, sometimes I do catch a break, and I’m grateful for that.”
Whenever you look at anything that is a positive or a good feeling aspect of your life, you are immediately giving that aspect more energy and “life force” than the negative aspect. Remember, what you focus on, becomes your reality. The more strong emotion you have about what you’re focusing on, the faster it becomes your reality. Look at how good you feel when you say, or think, one of your statements of positivity. You not only feel good, but you also feel more confident and secure, because of your positive expectation. What this confidence and secure feelings do is calm your ego down, so that it doesn’t feel threatened. This means that the more positive statements you can say to yourself and about yourself, the more you are in spiritual and emotional control of your life.
“I always enjoy playing my guitar, for myself and others”
Have fun with this new tool, and see how easy it is for you to create new statements of positivity about all the different aspects of your life. They become very powerful affirmations that you can use at any time to help you shift your focus, reset your energy and feel better and better about you. Remember to make sure your statement is in present time, and that the words you use are powerful and meaningful to you, and help you to feel better. =)
While working with one of my healing clients, an idea came to me to help better explain how the principle of, as Abraham advises, “reaching for better feeling thoughts”, actually gets us where we want to go. The analogy I saw in my vision is of a tree. If you think of a tree, you see a strong, sturdy trunk with many branches evolving into even more branches and finally ending in either leaves, flowers or fruit.
The way this was shown to me, the trunk represents your core belief; in this case, your belief in your happiness and your ability to give yourself happiness and feel good. The stronger that belief, the larger the trunk of the tree. Obviously, if your belief is not that strong, then the trunk of your ‘tree of good feeling’ will be correspondingly small and slight. Now even with a small tree, you can still find your way to happiness, but it won’t be as plentiful as with a big tree, and you won’t feel it as intensely and abundantly.
What you want to do is to get your level of belief in yourself and your happiness so strong, that you have a continuously larger and larger trunk. When this happens, you will have more and more branches. Each branch representing another circumstance of your happiness. One branch is your job, lets say, and each successive branching off this main branch shows you the different types of good feelings you get from your job. There’s the “I like my job” branch, then the “I like and enjoy my co-workers” branch, and so on. You get the idea.
Tree of Good Feeling
By looking at the separate, yet combined and attached, branches of each aspect of your life, you can begin to see how you can create new branches of happiness at will, by looking where each branch takes you and adding on new branches as you find the new happiness there. I see this as a great way of showing yourself the abundance of happiness you actually do have in your life, and by looking at it in this way, you then bring in even more happiness in all ways.
You can use this imagery for any aspect of your life to see how abundant that aspect is. Use it to see how much love is in your life at this moment, and how much peace, and joy, and well-being, and prosperity. Anything and everything can be applied to this process and you’ll get immediate understanding of where you are at with each of them. May your Tree be evergreen in all ways. =)
