The collective wane!
The new moon energy can already be felt, or so it seems to me. We’re on the wane and it truly feels like this, lots of letting go, you just have to look at nature, as summer lets go into autumn, the trees are already losing their leaves, some have been for a few weeks now, and many of the blackberries are already spoilt (albeit more still waiting to sweeten).
Every moon cycle has the potential to shift us on but this summer there really has been a potency behind the shifting, perhaps the eclipse set this in motion, who knows, but the theme of letting go has been prevalent, and mixed too with the theme of stepping up that 2021 seemed to usher in. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has experienced a shift in perspective and a resulting change of heart about things.
It’s perhaps too early to tell, but I have a feeling we are being encouraged to accept life as it is, now, and let go of any attachment to outcome or notion of how we think it should be lived. It is as it is. It does us no good to try to pull the universe around with us, shaping it into what we want to shape it into, rather than allowing it to shape itself as it needs to be for us in this moment, on all levels of our being. The key word is allowing, so too, receptivity and receiving.
This isn’t easy. We’ve been conditioned to always look outside of ourselves and go make things happen, push and pull to make things happen, manipulate and control to make things happen. We haven’t been taught, and have not necessarily been encouraged to allow things to happen in their own divine timing. It goes against society’s emphasis on ambition and achieving - often using monetary gain as a way of evaluating how well we’re doing on the success ladder of life.
It’s difficult to let this conditioning go, because it is often so ingrained. I notice it even on my yoga mat, the need to achieve and create a shape, as if this alone validates my progression - always this emphasis of moving from one place to another, as if the finished pose is all that matters. The reality is, the bit in-between is where the magic really lies, if one can stay present to it and not be in a desperate rush to get to the perceived end.
Those of you who attend my classes will know how frustrating it can be to lift your arms so super slowly that you actually notice what happens when you lift your arms - how a part of you gets easily bored, another part gets really frustrated because it’s actually very hard work, another part might get angry and rageful, and another part might suddenly feel the grief that the arms have held all this time, but you’d never realised because usually you’re not ‘in them’ or ‘in the body’ this deeply.
It’s all a process. But our yoga practice gives us an enormous gift in that it helps to show up our patterns that aren’t always helpful to the way we’re living our lives. It also highlights our conditionings, which limit us in some way. If we’re lucky it might also reveal ancestral holding that limits expression of blueprint DNA, but maybe that’s a bit heavy for a Wednesday!
Back to the moon.. and yet into the body. For the moon communicates through body consciousness so our body will lead us if we check in, see what it is that currently needs our attention, what we need to allow and embrace, receive and bring in. It won’t necessarily be what our mind says. Our mind is all up for rushing and going fast, not slowing down to the extent that we can hear the whisperings of the body and see where we have laid our rubbish.
We’re collectively heading into the darkness, which can be terribly confusing and disorientating. This is interesting timing for the schools on Guernsey to return! It’s a potent time of transformation and healing though so go with it and be gentle through it.
Love Emma x
