Eclipses – Intensification Of Energies And The Path.

“It’s that knife-edging of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power.”
Joanna Macy

This quote is very apt for me personally and also many others I have spoken and collaborated with in the last few weeks. After such long wearying months of inertia and uncertainty (albeit still ongoing), it somehow feels as though 2021 will be going out with a bang. And a big one at that!

Prepare to be shaken, stirred and awakened, as things we took for granted and wanted to return to, are seemingly turned on their head.

As I mentioned in my October blog – There is no going back. Your ability to master the art of Edge Walking will be essential as we all head into 2022. According to Lorna Bevan, 2022 will be a year of reality checks and shocks along with a tidal wave of dissolution.

It is time to connect to the ‘swamplands’ of the soul.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on Friday 19th, was the trigger for one to stop running for instant distraction. You need to stop and face the raw truth of what you are feeling and the raw truth of what’s going on all around.

The Lunar Eclipse was magnificent to witness in the New Zealand skies. The most intense for over a century. I watched the event for 3 hours as she went from full moon, to almost total darkness then to full moon again. Almost a premonition of what is currently happening across the globe. Unsettling at times as the truth finally starts to come out.

Whatever you feel deep down, listen to it, for it is yours and needs to be owned and acknowledged. The disowned shadow of our time is taking over the world, and therefore, it is so critical to meet yourself at the core, beneath all the media hype and madness to see your sensitivities are not pathology, but path.

Don’t automatically accept the initial conclusion of your negative internal voice. Question and reassess the whole matrix that has been spun and crafted by way of your cultural and familial systems. It is time to take a risk in telling a new story, dreaming a new dream, reimagining the soul and its purpose, weaving a new cloth.

It certainly feels this way for me. It is almost a year since I relocated from Sydney to Christchurch. A new cloth is certainly being woven. A year later, I am in a similar situation – packing up, moving out whilst major renovations happen. Dreaming a new dream, creating a new space for my soul to be nurtured and nourished. Whilst the energies of the land are gentler, the Lunar Eclipse certainly activated that which I had not addressed over the past months or years.

No hiding from anyone or anything now.

Time to pay attention to the areas in one’s life that need to change.

So what is uprooting you, surprising you, and nudging you to a new level of your personal evolution – or maybe unfolding in your world?

It really is the ‘ripple’ effect in action. Where you throw the stone.

Are you ready to let go of the illusion that “stuff” is important? Know that the only constant in life is change.

“The art of shedding the should”.

Possibly one of those internal mantras that keeps one stuck in doing what has always been done. Staying safe and not taking that leap of faith into the unknown.

The ability to walk at the edge, to find that outer edge of the ripple from the known and head to the unknown and fresh takes courage. To listen deeply to your truth. To walk the path.

Some wonderful questions to ponder:

What is your edge? What limits you? What limits your ability to break free of stuck patterns? What limits your ability to be present and awake? or to be intimate and loving? to be generous? to be forgiving? to be patient? to be creative?

Engaging in this kind of enquiry isn’t easy. How do you recognise the edges that constrain you? How do you dissolve them to open beyond them?

How do you create your identity-edge?

What has defined you over time and therefore confined you by constant reinforcing it with stories of various kinds? What do you paste on those internal walls?

When you question the edges that limit you, walking right up to them – finding nothing solid, stop asserting the truth of your stories and look at them. The narrative changes and you change.

The edges then become permeable – an opening, a way, a path.

Embracing paradox, where on one hand recognising you continually create the edges of your self-identity, and on the other hand, seeing through their illusory limits. It means being humble and confident at the same time. It means being aware of your own limitations and the limitations of others whilst practicing compassion and forgiveness.

This is not about escaping the world of limitations. It is about asking the questions. Deeply listening for those edges of the unknown. Stillness is important here, especially of the mind.

It is what the great thinkers and healers, such as physicists, astronomers, philosophers and shamans do when they ask ever deeper questions. It is what poets and artists do across all forms, when they practice their art. Playing at the edge of the known limits of the medium they work in and the unknown and limitless.

It is what you do when you realise that your restless thoughts and actions are your way of avoiding being in the present. Walk right up to that edge and see it for what it is – a path beyond itself.

Last night I was working with a client who is definitely embracing paradox – creating edges of his self-identity, as he embarks on final edits of his third book ready for launch and starting on book four of a series of seven. By owning the authorship, the writer has been accomplished. Embracing the role of marketer/promoter is where his edges of the unknown are.

Acknowledging the labels, the limitations and taking risks in these areas are extending the edge of the ripple. He is coming from a place of curiosity and creativity. All this whilst performing at the highest level as the CFO of a company. Writing a series of fantasy books has allowed him to see problems and issues at work, through a very different lens.

He is walking right up to that edge and seeing it for what it is – a track on his bigger path.

Journal and Reflection:

– What can you do to embrace the art of edge walking?
– What is your identity edge?
– How do you recognise the edges that constrain you and how do you dissolve them to open beyond them?