Earth
As the moon wanes and transforms into her rebirth phase - it is time to offer all the gifts of this moons cycle into the darkness. Sending the lessons of this moon into the soil of our being in the Northerly landscape. We have had a moon cycle that transformed us over the threshold of Winter to Spring - it has been powerful and revelatory. Now we exhale and return to the dreamtime of the dark moon in the winter of the month tending to our roots and bones. An opportunity to begin again in the next cycle
Please listen to this Dark Earth transmission
Eclipse Season
On the 8th (Moonday Monday) we will experience the new moon in the first zodiac sign of Aries in the Season of Aries as a solar eclipse. The solar light, this outward fire energy will for a moment go dark. In Astrology Aries rules the first house energy of self. How things appear and are expressed will be given a chance for re-evaluation. An opportunity for clarity of self before we initiate what has been moving through us but needs our added agency to take off.
Eclipses offer restructuring energy and it is the slow integration that is needed to receive these codes and feel the fullness of the slowing down to really enable us to get clear.
Eclipses bring with them a wild card energy and coupled with the thrust of Aries fire in the dark moon there is a sense of revisiting our initiations - this re-evaluation will give us an awareness on how best to renew our steps to courage to be bold, embodied and move forward.
Aries activates our warrioress and our primal ‘I am’ survival mode as the sun (this governing body of solar self expression)
For a moment lunar consciousness will take centre stage and we will be thrust into the darkness. Now we have the ability to easily be aware of what is occurring through the cosmic cycles. I encourage you that no matter what anyone says - you approach this with your own intuitive understanding. Don’t be swayed but what you are told you are supposed to feel - instead be anchored in your truth.
Our ancestors (before those diligently plotting these events and the knowledge being widespread) would have likely been quite fearful of this sudden event in the sky (if they were within viewing range). Perhaps an echo of that in our epigenetic make up still dominates how we meet this phenomenon. I like to think of it as a great reminder that we are subject to the mystery, madness and magic of great mother. I also feel that the majority of people will be challenged when there is a big consciousness shift. They fear it rather than see it as an opportunity to shed old skins and outdated modes of being. Most aren’t comfortable in general with Rebirth being a natural process of our lives, over and over again within them and in the great scheme of our souls.
What is potent in this Eclipse as it falls in Aries Season with an Aries new moon is that Chiron is conjunct the North Node in Aries. In other words this is a catalyst for us to move towards our destiny in this lifetime. That is our purpose - what we came here to do, learn, be, see. To embrace what we are here to embody and ensoul. Chiron is the wounded healer so this transit calls forward the deepest wounds from the depths of our psyche and asks for us to catalyse them into powerful alchemy. To transform that which has been a tight knot binding us in fear and use it to call forward potent potential in the way we see our selves, the way we see the world and the way the world sees us. How are we expressing ourselves in the world, or are we gagged from doing so. This is asking us to step further into the deepest embodiment of ourselves unashamedly.
It is no mistake that this Chiron North node conjunction begins this Spring with the energy of the wood dragon. In TCM wood is our liver energy and for women especially this pertains to our agency, our processing of our blood - its a powerful organ (with its energetic counter part) of our blood power expression. How are we digesting (and therefore transmuting what we put in our bodies). What agency do we have. How do we un-emesh from the tricky energies that prevent us from being fully true to ourselves, to looking after ourselves and fortifying ourselves. We are being asked to address the balance - as above so below - as within so without - as the land so the sky. Our body temples have been in a state of processing all the karmic intergenerational energies that we chose to come here to heal. So aligning ourselves towards new unchartered potential is something that calls on our deepest courage.
Sharing with you here one of my fathers favourite quotes:
“Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure” Rainer Maria Rilke
PLANT ALLIES
What stirs? What life wants to be birthed through your consciousness? Is there an intent that coupled with your agency and will power can be made manifest? Is there a particular plant ally that you could honour in simple ceremony and offer gratitude for its gifts in your life? The dandelion is now fully available in all of its medicinal and therapeutic glory. Dandelion is one of the most well known ‘weeds’ much overlooked given it medicinal properties. It begins to shine its yellow beacons during Aries Season and supports our systems to flush the stagnancy of winter and support our liver.
JOURNAL REFLECTIONS
How can I cultivate a loving anchor in myself when there is so much shift, flux and instability? How do I cultivate resilience and find balance in the face of relentless movement? What burns within me to shine in the light of day and in what way am I hiding that light?
OFFERING
Make an offering of gratitude and a commitment to the earth
Enrich the soil for the coming cycle: This could be your moon blood, a song, a connection of your attention and time - feel into what the earth around you needs. Beyond imposing your mind machinations - ask to hear from her and directly tell you what she needs
Consider the circle of reciprocity - perhaps there is nothing you need to take but a gift in your being able to receive the present
ALTAR
Change your altar to reflect the Spring and create a fresh new energy to carry you forward
PRACTICE
Embody the Warrioress. How can you act in ways that embody your solar fire in a rooted and powerful way. This is not the uninitiated Warrioress who is hungry to strike out. This is the Warrioress who knows how to weald her energy and power in a sustained and loving way
Sending Merlin love from Cornwall where the stirrings of the dragon lines of Albion have been a potent reminder of these sacred lands and their hidden treasure
Next Steps on the pathway
As the moon waxes we will move into AIR