Vitality, power and the super full moon ahead

We’ve a super full pink moon approaching next week, 4.31am on Tuesday 27 April. I’m really excited about this and have been avidly watching and feeling into the moon since before the last full moon. The skies are so clear at the moment that it’s difficult to miss her.

I spent the last full moon in a dolmen, which was really special, because more of the dolmen revealed itself, this after the Spring Equinox, where I found a sun alignment. I followed the waning moon, visited the same dolmen on the new moon to feel an energy shift and see the most incredible skies without the light of the moon, and all these stars, even a shooting one! It was most definitely an emotional new moon, I was teaching Level One Reiki that day and there was definitely a vulnerability in the air.

Yesterday on the waxing moon I taught another Reiki Level One and the energy was very different. I had felt deleted on Saturday but yesterday there was a definite shift, and I was up early for sunrise, which helped to further energise for the day ahead. I even managed to get back out to a dolmen last night, to feel the energy shift on the waxing moon, skies still beautifully clear but no shooting stars, just a sense of something in the dolmen instead.

I’m expecting the energy to keep building this week. Full moons illuminate into the shadows, and they have a whole heap of energy to them too. Yikes, my waters broke six weeks earlier than expected (or perhaps just at the right time!) on that fateful super full moon in October 2016 on Herm! Who knows what might happen this weekend, although I’m hoping that Vicki’s waters don’t break on the first of our run of Sark retreats, this one the Soulful Sark retreat. What a time to run a soulful retreat - in the build up to a super full moon! I’d like to say that was planned, but it wasn’t, at least not by me.

I am continuously reminded though, that there is a timing to everything. Reiki enters our life when we need it the most, then it connects us to people at just the right timing. I am continuously blown away by this, it really is like magic, and I am delighted that increasing numbers of people are bringing Reiki into their lives as they seek greater meaning in their lives and recognise the need to explore, reveal and integrate their spiritual side, as well as attend to the many wounds we bring with us into this life and create within this life too, self healing then.

We are being awoken, I know it is becoming a little of a cliche, because everyone is saying it, but it is true. There is a bigger picture at work here beyond our mundane existence, if only we can see through more of the maya, the illusion. We’re being encouraged to do so though and this is evidenced, as I mentioned, by the increasing numbers of people opening themselves up to the spiritual. There are lots of tears at the moment, a combination of overwhelm, busy, busy, busy and also still this ongoing uncertainty about what might come next, because life has been turned on its head.

Of course many are crazing a return to ‘normal’ whatever that might be, some certainty, because it is known, and are hopeful that the vaccine will pave the way towards this, but I can’t help thinking it’s just a sticking plaster, just a flood gate, holding back the water, for now anyway. Like ants trying to save the eggs and rebuild the nest elsewhere, busy, busy, busy, this keeps us feeling sane, because on some level busyness is known and tried and tested and gives our life some meaning.

But many are awakening, perhaps you too, perhaps you awoke a while ago now, and recognised that we have been sold a lie. Humanity has become fragmented, we have lost our way. We’ve become obsessed by technology and science, to the detriment of our own sanity and wellbeing. Does technology truly make our lives easier, or do we find we are more rushed than ever? Does our emphasis on science, as a representation of western supremacy, makes our lives happier, more contented and fulfilled?

We are all born with the wisdom to heal and preserve life, and all living things are connected - even Covid, it’s not something to be feared, but something that brings with it the opportunity for transformation and change, to take greater responsibility for our health and wellbeing, to look honestly at how our lives are being lived, at our priorities and the way we utilise our precious time on Planet Earth. The greatest lie is the one that has us caught in fear, that has us thinking that a Covid diagnosis finds us in hospital fighting for our lives (and this is a reality for some, but a very small minority), that has us scared to live.

I’ve lost count of the number of conversations I have been party to recently, where people tell me how extremely busy they are, don’t have time to truly connect with children, or friends, no time for their spiritual practice, to live the life of their dreams, impossible to live any other life, because of the demands of work and the need to pay the mortgage, pension, all those things that lay heavily on us - the price for being alive in this age. Maybe there is no other way, maybe the only way is to get caught up in the craziness of thinking that’s the only way and paddling like mad to stay afloat. I always wonder what might happen if we just let go.

Let go of how we think it should be, of what society has told us, of the political agenda, let alone the pharmaceutical one, of having a good hard look at what life might mean for us, on Planet Earth, if only we could take the time to slow down and smell the roses, hear the bird song, appreciate the abundance of life lived in connection with nature, our nature, nature generally out there, with all its splendour and beauty. The tide that comes in and out in its own rhythm, the moon, cycling, the sun up and down, the birds and their morning chorus, collecting worms, pottering, knowing their place in the grand scheme of it, all of life trying to live, we all of us, ALL living things have an intelligence, an intelligence to live.

But how are we living? Sometimes it can be helpful to ask ourselves this. We’ll offer a million reasons to maintain the status quo. We feel we have no choice. We feel we have no choice. This is part of the lie that we have been sold.

Through media and clever advertising campaigns, the majority of the world’s population have been conditioned to rely heavily on modern technology and to buy into the illusion that power and money create happiness, this at the expense of our health and wellbeing. We feel we have no choice. Money buys happiness. Busyness lets us feel safe, gives our life purpose…until we slow down and ask, what next?

Many are recognising this now though, and making changes, re-aligning themselves, finding a new way. Reiki helps people to connect more deeply to their truth and to see things differently. It changes things. I love nothing more than sharing Reiki with people and seeing them coming alive again, beginning to recognise that they have a choice as the veils are removed one by one, as their consciousness strengthens and their vibration raises and what wasn’t fitting anyway, not drops away.

We begin to take back our power, that’s what really happens and we re-evaluate and make changes, realise that what was once a priority is not so important now. Our families start to see more of us, more of the real us too, not the us we have been groomed to be in this world, but the authentic version of us despite to break free, to dance, sing, express ourselves as the creative beings that we are at heart. All of life is a creative process why should we be any different, why would we want to want to be different?

This notion of power is very much in the field at the moment; reclaiming our power, trying to keep our power, cultivate our power, noticing the ways in which we are giving our power away and decreasing our vitality. It is this, this loss of vitality, that is also drawing people to Reiki.

Reiki is the gift of vitality and self-healing encoded into the genetic makeup of every living being, the higher self’s connection to the universal energy that breathes life into all living things. We are all born with the wisdom to heal and preserve life, and all living things are connected - our ancestors used and relied on their own abilities and instincts (their natural gifts) but unfortunately these basic skills have been forgotten and overlooked in humanity’s relentless ambition for achievement and progress.

There are a number of things that weaken our vitality and the free flow of the universal life force in each of us, including:

·       Too much alcohol

·       Poor diet

·       Insufficient exercise/excessive exercise

·       Drugs (both pharmaceutical and illegal)

·       Not enough rest/sleep

·       Stress

·       Tobacco

·       Negative habits

·       Negative thought patterns and core beliefs

·       Time spent on phones and social media

·       Too much TV

·       Poor breathing

·       Negative psychic activity

 It really is time to look more honestly at how we are spending our time here, to see where we are losing our energy and doing something about it, reclaiming our power and taking ownership for our experience of life, take responsibility for how we are living and to see through the lies we have been sold, and to appreciate the many lies we tell ourselves too, in our denial. The super full moon will illuminate more of this, help to shine a light into the shadows. It’s a scorpio full moon too, so it has a sting in its tail, we won’t be able to ignore it!

For those needing some help feeling into this moon, I’ll be running the online Reiki share through Zoom on Sunday night as usual, 8.30-8.50pm, check the timetable for details, we’ll be feeling into the moon and being open to what it is trying to reveal to us.

But otherwise take time to reflect, to consider how your life is being lived. Don’t try to figure out how to make changes, because this becomes overwhelming and we can only base our thinking on what has happened previously, so if we want the new, we have to surrender to something else to usher that in for us…and that happens when we let go. Nature abhors a vacuum; we let go and we open up to allowing the new in, and it will rush in, when the timing is right and the conditions are set, it’s like planting seeds, we prepare the soil, and wait…the universe has our back, we just have to believe in it.

Happy week!

xx