Vacare Deo

Saturday Morning post-beach Dosa (Ghee Roast) and coffee ritual somehow brought me back to being in NYC in the early 90’s eating crepes on the street in Soho on those pre-Christmas, weirdly warm afternoons in the sun with girlfriends. You can see the Pisces New Moon nostalgia and imagination working on my psyche. What are you longing for—where is your imagination taking you? 🌙 Today was also the last day of a four-day Authentic Movement retreat intensive holding some of the most heart ripping in the beat way moments of 2021 so far. Grateful to my beautiful dancing sister tribe from all over the world. We’ve gone so deep together in the last year. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMXlxqdnxZw/?igshid=1hkvxrt497462

We are our choices-Paul Sartre Mars just moved into Gemini in the tropical zodiac where Rahu is. Choices could now become obsessions. It’s crucial to find our voice in the greater collective as we wade through these electric Aquarian waters of unity consciousness and the de -materialization where matter organizes around frequency. Gemini asks: How do we reconcile seemingly insoluble conflicts? Contemplation ( from the Latin root con-temple ..with the temple). Ps—who remembers these amazing old school Sydney Omar guides? https://www.instagram.com/p/CL9sa2THLwQ/?igshid=1edpve79j73tb

All can be done if the god-touch is there Sri Aurobindo (at Vallickavu, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLrEyoVnM_U/?igshid=r3216z5ic465

Saturn Day. Saturn presides over the root or Muladhara Chaka where Lord Ganesh our original Chintamani blessings prayer originates. Once we get that strong and clear, we are safe to go in and work on the deeper shadow emotional materials that show up in our relationships. What does it mean to make our work worship? This is the essence of the Gita, to offer the fruits of our actions and all notions of "doership" to the Divine. Letting go of the results. Wherever we have Saturn is where we can serve and offer not only our work as worship but as a means to exhaust our karma. 6th house is also our Karma house and where our work can serve as worship and healing. To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. —Ralph Waldo Emerson” From P40 day 28. #saturn (at Vallickavu, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLg-BRxH_Vx/?igshid=7sqaciji4q2c

“Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.” ― Pema Chödrön When we feel inferior or not good enough, it's still ego because we forget we are the self-effulgent Sun being lit up by the Supreme Being. So you might notice that it's like one thing goes wrong. You stub your toe, you lose your purse, you can't get a drawer to close properly, you forget an appointment, you drop a glass and suddenly all inner hell breaks loose from seemingly out of nowhere. This is how Mars works on a very subtle but powerful level as the Tower archetype. Suddenly it's like boom you're thrown right of your rigid inner structure of thinking you have it all under control and everything you've been stuffing away in your second chakra comes crashing into to throw you right smack on the ground. All the sadness, pain or anger that was operating at that low volume becomes the electric fuel for the gods as the lighting that hits the tower of the ego and we are finally set free as we fall on our ass. Be grateful for falling on your ass, falling apart, losing it, having a meltdown (all Mars things). Your ego will tell you it's embarrassing, shameful, humiliating but you know what? It’s all just God. Kali’s operation table. Beating ourselves up is us trying to push the light and the love away because we are angry, out of control or want the control of feeling like we can use our emotions to manipulate others into doing the work for us. This what happens when we are caught in our own codependency fears. We cannot please everyone and we are not here to die trying and that will only create one bitchy, pissed off shadow in the end. To die trying to love and serve everyone is not the same thing. We are all on the Dark Goddess Operation table right now with Black Moon Lilith with Uranus squaring Saturn. If this isn't Dark Mother operation in an astrology aspect I don't know what is. Excerpt from P40 Day 24. https://www.instagram.com/p/CLYi8MQnDw-/?igshid=117mlhdmo1img

One thing I can tell you is you've got to be free." C O M E T O G E T H E R New Moon in Aquarius. Watch these auspicious Aquarian moments as Jupiter will station direct on this exact point in October. Venus joins Jupiter while Mercury Jupiter and Venus square Mars and Black Moon Lilith. And last layer ..Saturn squaring Uranus. Translation .. What’s your vision? Are you listening? How do we retain the integrity of our roots without getting stuck in outdated paradigms, patterns and repeats of the past? Aquarius is all about *Experimentation* but with discernment snd dharma. https://www.instagram.com/p/CLLZ8r_no7j/?igshid=1oit47lswpx7i

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them. ― Carl Gustav Jung The Moon is our Inner High Priestess. She’s our Akashic records. She’s our past life memories. She’s our memories in total. Soma. She's our lunacy, our cycles, our madness. She rules our unconscious and sleep patterns. In Vedic astrology they consider the Moon to be the mind. In spiritual practices we are always trying to get control over our minds and ultimately lose the mind so it stops dragging us down into the negativity and the mud. We learn to stop identifying with the mind which is just a bundle of our likes, dislikes, memories, and mood swings based on the constant fluctuations. Meditation is the best medicine for the mind. So as the Moon changes signs every 2.5 days, so our moods and minds change. Then there is the matter of the Moon cycle. When she's waxing as she is now, our energy is on the increase and life tends to feel more full and busy. As she wanes as she will be doing after Thursday for the next few weeks, our energy wanes and we go more introverted. If you're feeling especially tired right now wondering why if the Moon is almost full it's an exception due to the Sun-Saturn and Mars square Saturn energy slowing us down and exhausting us. But in general when the Moon is almost full we're usually having our best energies. I remember living in NYC and the restaurants were always triple packed and everyone out when the Moon was getting full. What is more beautiful than looking up in the dark sky and seeing this gorgeous glowing orb filling up the sky and lighting up your path? Pure magic. The Moon is the High Priestess and the witchiest of planets for sure. She's gotten super trendy recently too as everyone and their cousin is creating New Moon and Full Moon posts. As a little astrology side-note to the Moon, Neptune, planet of illusions and deception is now EXACTLY squaring the Nodes of the Moon, Rahu (North Node) and Ketu (South). Very fated and intense influence for the collective unconscious. This amplifies feelings of confusion, fogginess, lack of clarity, and potential deception. So eyes wide open. Excerpt from Day Two of P40 https://www.instagram.com/p/CKeQUpCHdEs/?igshid=wbxg1npagaea

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. Martha Graham https://www.instagram.com/p/CKbyuOzn_hM/?igshid=1bp71d6uipcx8

Bestower of Boons—bringer of all auspiciousness. Sweet post-puja appearance on Amma’s birth star day to bless the next 40 days devoted to removing obstacles and humbly receiving the blessings of the Devas . #the jaiganesh #project40wishingwell (at Vallickavu, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKY-1Nend6J/?igshid=6fv2siqms5

For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us. We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one! We'll emerge from battered to beautiful. There is always light if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." --Amanda Gorman ... 22 year-old wise woman Pisces Poet Laureate Queen bringing in the auspiciousness on this exalted First Quarter Moon. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKRrXhvn0Co/?igshid=lolkcni17apz

"For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us. We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one! We'll emerge from battered to beautiful. There is always light if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." --Amanda Gorman ... 22 year-old wise woman Pisces Poet Laureate Queen bringing in the auspiciousness on this exalted First Quarter Moon. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKRrERkn68L/?igshid=1m6pku7vjwxd9

Cintāmaṇi (Sanskrit; Devanagari: चिन्तामणि), also spelled as Chintamani (or the Chintamani Stone), is a wish-fulfilling jewel within both Hindu and Buddhist traditions, said by some to be the equivalent of the philosopher's stone in Western alchemy. Within Hinduism, it is connected with the gods, Vishnu and Ganesha. In Hindu tradition it is often depicted as a fabulous jewel in the possession of Vishnu as Kaustubha Mani or as on the forehead of the Naga king called as Naga Mani or on the forehead of the Makara. The Yoga Vasistha, originally written in the 10th century AD, contains a story about the cintamani. The Hindu Vishnu Purana speaks of the "Syamanta jewel, bestowing prosperity upon its owner, encapsulates the Yadu clan system". The Vishnu Purana is attributed to the mid-first millennium AD. The original name of the upcoming P40 was Wishing Well but after this name came to me in meditation and looking up the meaning I realized it was too divinely ordained in synchronicity with the meaning of the Philosopher’s Stone in Alchemy to include this beautiful name. Also a name for Ganesha, Remover of Obstacles and the prayer that we may only hear that which is auspicious. (There are only four spaces left in p40, so if you’d like to join us get in soon via bio link). https://www.instagram.com/p/CKRK_DcnhY6/?igshid=1oac9dtjpetnm

“This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.-Swami Vivekananda https://www.instagram.com/p/CKJZd0HnSat/?igshid=8jeikmeky1rm

Om, O Devas, May we Hear with our Ears what is Auspicious, May we See with our Eyes what is Auspicious and Adorable, May we be Prayerful (in Life) with Steadiness in our Bodies (and Minds), May we Offer our Lifespan allotted by the Devas (for the Service of God)--from the Ganapati Atharvashirsha The next P40, WISHING WELL starts Jan 24th and is devoted to the alchemy of a daily spiritual diary, sadhana (spiritual practices such as journaling contemplation, meditation, chanting etc) inspired by the seven personal planets ruling the seven days of the week, seven chakras and the seven key inner deities of our horoscope that give our lives meaning and direction. Each day we'll focus on that particular planet, corresponding chakra, and potential teachings and blessings of that particualr planetary deity. See blink below for the guide to the seven personal planets and their key themes Project 40 is a potent transformative cauldron of Jungian Depth Psychology, Alchemy, Metaphysics and Experiential Astrology and has been developed and deepened over the past decade with now 44 Project 40's with a growing soul family of seekers who come together from all over the world to do the deep work. It's a truly unique and intimate alchemical healing journey lived in real time where daily emails are delivered right to your inbox with real-time insights, messages and inspiration. Each message is overflowing with rich imagery, quotes, rituals, journaling questions, tarot spread prompts, Jungian psychology insights, astrological transit ("weather reports") and teachings and whatever omens, synchronicity or messages appear for the Temenos (sacred circle) on that particular day. Plus, we will meet up for a LIVE opening circle ritual on Zoom, a midpoint Day 20 check in circle and then a closing ritual circle. "“Explore daily the will of God.” ― C.G. Jung The Wish Luxe and and Star packages have sold out but you can still get in on the Wish Fulfilment package and join our circle. The EB discount expires in 24 hours and the circle is limited to 40 to keep it intimate. Join us via link in bio Kamala lithograph & watercolor c. 1880-1885 via Om from India https://www.instagram.com/p/CKG59K1HQUC/?igshid=s8i2jqri8um8