Full Moon in Aries 🔥 The Eternal Inferno

India, Future. Collage by Erin Reese, 2008

Today we pay respects to the Full Moon in the sign of Aries, the fiery Ram. In 2020, we've long gotten the hint: heat, hellfire, and anything goes. Planet Earth is fueled-up by Mars' long encampment in the sign of his ruler, the warrior Aries, squaring the stellium Saturn, Pluto, and Jupiter in Capricorn. This does not let up entirely until January 2021. Then, a new cast of cosmic characters will roll onto the scene for the evolutionary grand theater.

In the meantime, if you're still asking yourself how to make sense of "what the f*&@ is happening", well, there's the source of suffering right there. It can't be understood, at least not in the usual way. This is akin to Albert Einstein's truism, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

Aries is the "I Am." Pure, unadulterated existence. No shame, no blame, no pride, no guilt. Raw potency, intensity, volition without involvement. A crystal clear, fiery will that springs forth as uncompromising and inarguable as Life Itself, as Nature. Like Aries' I Am, YOU are a force of nature. Never separate.

A few words on that note, penned last week before satsang, apropos of our Full Moon in Aries:

THE ETERNAL INFERNO

 

You are safe.

You are safe.

So long as you continually tell yourself you are under threat

 

By this wildfire
By this pandemic
By this politician
By this, that
And the Other Thing

 

you are in a state of defensiveness, reactivity, and fear.

 ~

“STAY SAFE”?

You never were unsafe.

Come into trust.

Trust in what?

The Ground of Being. Existence.

 ~

Why be so attached to any of it?

Your house

This body

This marriage

This country

 ~

You are That, the substratum, the suchness, the Isness of Life Itself. You never were separate.

You are the pandemic. You are your despised politician, your racist, your activist.

You are the wildfire, tearing through the forest, the town, the home.

You are the love affair

You are the divorce

You are the death, the birth

The renewal

And the destruction.

 ~

Get over your small self

the “me me me me me”

See through it

The best joke on the cosmic comedy circuit.

Fully allow, see.

Enjoy this tragic-comedy-drama-hootenanny

Why be bothered if Rome burns

Or your house, body go down with it?

You are That which lit the flame

In fact, you are the pyre itself

The eternal inferno.

 

Erin Reese, M.S. is a contemporary spiritual teacher, author and guide. A modern mystic with over thirty years of experience, Erin Reese offers incisive, practical intuitive readings to her clients worldwide. She is a counselor, guide and mentor to those seeking an alternative to traditional psychotherapy or business coaching. Erin also offers non-dual meetings and retreats on embodied liberation and freedom from suffering.

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