New YOUTUBE VIDEO: Scorpio Full Moon Lunar Eclipse + Meditation
In a recent Astrology Counseling Session, I picked a card from my Animal Spirit Deck (by Kim Krans) to begin the Reading. I like to do this because it sets the tone and foundation for our session together. The meaning of the card almost always aligns with the themes I see in the Natal Chart, which inspires me, and is my method of “letting go” (getting out of my head, so to speak) to invite into the reading the higher qualities of intuition and trust … trusting in the flow of the conversation and that the client will receive exactly what she or he needs. I shuffled the deck and the Panther presented itself. My client smiled and shared with me a story of the significance of this particular animal in her
life. The Panther’s tagline is: “Annihilation of the Unnecessary, Purging.” This, as it turns out, is also the perfect tagline for the Scorpio Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on May 5 (1:34 EST). *** The Panther: When In Balance: Brave, productive When Out Of Balance:
Self-destructive To Bring Into
Balance: Get rid of the unnecessary *** During this Scorpio Full Moon Eclipse, we have an opportunity to let go, once and for all, of the ghosts of the past.
This blog is for you if you'd like to learn more about Eclipses, and what this particular Full Moon Eclipse in Scorpio may mean for you. Scroll to the bottom of the blog (button below) for each House Axis (note: during the full moon, the moon will be in one house of your chart and the sun in its opposite house). In the Astrology system, there are 12 signs and houses, broken down into 6 pairs, or opposites. If you are already familiar with the anatomy of a Natal Chart and the concept of pairs or opposites (derived of two signs or two houses), you may want to skip to the next paragraph. If you look at a Natal Chart
Wheel (for a free Natal Chart, go to Astro.com), you will see that the 1st house is directly opposite the
7th house, the 2nd house opposite the 8th, and so forth. Similarly, the sign Aries is opposite Libra, Taurus opposes Scorpio, and so on. In my teachings (Yoga, Astrology, Holistic Wellness), I focus a lot on the
idea of creating and maintaining balance in our bodies and lives, which we can do through the integration of opposites. In my yoga classes, I teach the poses in a way that encourages harmony between polarities: i.e., effort and ease, strength and softness, movement and stillness, the downward (earth) energy (Apana) and the upward (sky) energy (Prana). The foundation of my holistic wellness teachings, rooted in Ayurveda, is about cultivating the opposite qualities of one’s natural body/mind constitution in order to create and maintain balance. You can think of pairs of signs or houses like a see-saw: if there is more weight on one side, it will plummet, fast and hard, to the earth. Remember the feeling when you were a kid of either descending to the ground with a bang (ouch!) or, if you were the lighter side, floating up up up to what felt like the sky, feet dangling, suspended in the air until
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In my 4-class series for emotional balancing, we use yoga,
pranayama and kriyas/breathing techniques, meditation, and journaling to face emotions (step 1), move through them as gracefully as we can (step 2), and build a spiritual foundation, an inner home (step 3), we can always return to.
The Moon in the Natal Chart symbolizes your roots, the
past, and what makes you feel comfortable and secure, on the deepest of levels. It reflects the soul and psyche and is connected to home and family, which includes one’s “inner home” or foundation, built from early experiences and conditioning. The Moon Placement in the Natal Chart also points to where we can become “stuck,” both emotionally
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