Full Moon in Capricorn: Slow Your Roll

When Your Love Takes You to a Barn Dance

 

Today, we welcome the full moon in the cardinal earth sign of Capricorn, the Sea Goat. The Sun in watery Cancer trines the fortuitous planet of expansive Jupiter in Pisces, harmonizing well with the Moon right now. Earthy Capricorn connects us to Mother Nature and Cancer/Pisces brings in the cooling, yin, feminine side of life This is good: we need a little ease as the recent yang Gemini (air)/Sagittarius (fire) eclipses and Mercury Retrograde, along with unseasonal heat waves, put many of us on edge mentally and physically.

What is happening under the surface is that the messages from the culture (i.e. mainstream) tell us that it’s time to get back to “normal.” The state of California,for instance, is declared “open” and it’s magically time to socialize, see everyone again, move about, get busy, spend money, and do a lot of things that weren’t available to us over the past year of lockdown, whether because they were officially shut down or the fear factor was too high.

The problem is that our animal bodies and our soft underbellies, and our intuitive souls, may not be ready to get back into gear. The empathic wisdom in all of us is attuned to something much deeper than what is being fed to us on the social media feed or the news… If you’re one of the empathic people or sensitive spirits who feels this, you are not alone. Trust your body’s wisdom. Just because the society tells you to come out of your lockdown hermitage and run around again, it may not be time to do that for you.

When Kitty Encounters Her First Stag

As the veil covering that which is hidden has been fully ripped open since the past year, empaths and intuitives are acutely aware of what is behind the curtain. The collective shadow is knocking hard on the door – some of us can’t sleep at night as our guides are speaking to us, our ancestors are teaching us, our souls are doing heavy lifting and processing in the nighttime hours. If that is you, it is vital that you adjust your lifestyle to rest more often during the day. Take more naps, lie flat on your back, and definitely schedule less on the calendar.

Explain to your family or friends that you are needing more time to rest. If they’re in tune to you, and attuned to themselves and their own processes, they will understand and support you in this. Speak up: you are practicing good modeling!

When You Finally Attempt to Garden

If you do travel, whether by air or land, make sure you build in ample time (like, weeks) before and especially after your journey to ground, to earth yourself. Let yourself be in an “ordinary” lifestyle and chop wood, carry water, hang your clothes on the line, plant flowers, take a walk in the woods. Driving in cars and getting on planes stimulates vata, the air element, which in Ayurveda can create pain or stiffness, anxiousness, and confusion in the body-mind. Slow down, do less, especially talk less. Bed earlier, cook your own food, sit quietly and feel into your spine and hips and legs.

Same thing goes for social events and visiting friends and family: before and after the event, make sure you have plenty of time built in for quietude. The theme is spaciousness. Our bodies and souls are begging for more space and a slower pace. It’s totally OK to let loose or attend highly stimulating events or crowded situations – we just need to ground, root, and center all along.

Last but not least: IF you have plans to go somewhere, to have a visitor, to do something, and you feel a sense of unease or even dread about said plan – stop immediately and reevaluate. Adjust, minimize, or cancel. No hemming and hawing. This is a time in our evolution that we cannot compromise that which is for our body-mind-soul’s highest good. If you’re still hearing the internal message that “it would be good for you” or “it’s not nice to cancel on someone” or “it’s good to keep your commitments always,” realize that it is completely outdated conditioning. What is good for you IS what is good for everyone else, for the whole. When you are tuned into your body, your spirit... When you slow down and listen... When you pay attention to your belly, your root, your heart... it is absolutely PERFECT to change or cancel plans. You can trust that is perfect for the collective and everyone involved.

Do not deny any insights you are having.

Do not gaslight your soul. Honor your soul’s truth, and be free.

Enjoy your precious Presence.

with love,

Erin 

When You Take a Long, Solo Hike to a Secluded Beach

 

 

THE KING (OR QUEEN) IS AWAKE!

from Rumi

 

There are people with their eyes open

whose hearts are shut. What do they see? Matter.

But someone whose love is alert,

even if the eyes go to sleep,

he or she will be waking up thousands of others.

If you are not one of those light-filled lovers,

restrain your desire-body's intensity.

Put limits on how much you eat

and how long you lie down.

But if you are awake here in the chest,

sleep long and soundly.

Your spirit will be out roaming and working,

even on the seventh level.

Muhammed says, I close my eyes and rest in sleep,

but my love never needs to rest.

The guard at the gate drowses.

The king stays awake. You have a king inside

who listens for what delights the soul.

That king's wakefulness

cannot be described in a poem.

- RUMI

Have you read Truth Seeker yet? If you prefer supporting your local brick and mortar bookstore, you can order the book straight from your local bookseller. Otherwise, it’s available on Amazon Prime in paperback and Kindle here. I continue to be touched by the reviews (keep 'em coming, please), like this one from an appreciative reader in Berkeley, CA:

 5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, inspiring, and a joy to read

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2021

This book took me on a journey through India, and through spiritual awakening, with a front-seat view from the author's perspective. The honesty of the author's writing made it a joy to read, and her tone always remains humble and relatable, even when she shares her experience of awakening. I gained a greater understanding of the core principles on non-duality and I was moved by the piercing description of her love for her guru. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a spiritual "seeker", and to anyone who shares a passion for travel in India.

 Erin Reese, M.S. is a contemporary non-dual 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. Visit erinreese.com for more information.  

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New Moon in Capricorn: Reclaiming Inner Authority

Tomorrow, we receive the New Moon in Capricorn, cardinal earth sign of power, politics, authorities, and authoritarianism. The Moon is conjunct Pluto-Hades, assuring intensity and power grabs with the tone of total transformation, one in which many forms may fall away in order to make room for the new. We see those who are lusting for power and control, and those who are in opposition. With Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and asteroid goddess Pallas-Athena converging tightly in radical Aquarius nearby, we see those who are revolutionaries, resisters, and change-makers, whether we agree with them or not. The playing field is changing from moment to moment and it’s close to impossible to know who’s in charge anymore.

Let’s understand who’s really in charge: Consciousness. The Eternal. When we settle into this, we settle into our own inner authority, which is always moment to moment. This is where true peace and freedom lie. It requires a dropping of the need for things to make sense or to go the way one thinks they should. It requires a much deeper trust in Nature, in Reality, in a wisdom that is beyond politics, religion, or belief systems.

Trusting Inner Authority

I was raised by a Capricorn single mother in the 1970’s when there was no such thing as helicopter parenting or awards and trophies passed out to every child in class. Times were more than often tough in our struggling household, to be sure, and one key thing I learned straight out of the gate from my mother: work hard, buck up, don’t complain, and take care of yourself because nobody is going to come a-running to rescue you, skinned knee or broken heart or hurt feelings or anything of the sort.

Tough Love, indeed. I don’t condone this sort of parenting overall – but to be honest, I’d rather have been raised to fall back on myself, my own inner authority, than not. Eventually, I had to recover to reclaim my sensitivity and creative and emotional life, and learn to offer myself a sweeter side, to nurture and comfort myself, and to offer words and acts of self-care, self-tenderness and self-compassion. I learned to receive, to let others help me, to soften and relax. And to trust the Divine, thank Goddess.

And yet, with the staunch tone of the striving Sea-Goat, the climbing Capricorn at the helm, there’s no time for victimhood. No one else is going to come from outside to make you happy or rescue you. It’s all an inside job.

As I look at the New Moon chart, I see the intensity rising as we head toward the U.S. presidential inauguration. Many folks are on tenterhooks, wondering what will come, whether freedoms will return or be revoked. Whether we will heal as a nation or further be fractured and opposed to each other.

No matter one’s political leanings, those scrambling to find answers in the external are distressed. Again and again over the past year (and since time began), Consciousness makes it impossibly obvious: we see that there are no external answers, and serenity is not found outside of ourselves. Many reading this have been preparing for peace for their entire lives. This is called relying on a higher wisdom, and trusting  your self, your inner authority, and The Self. No longer can we wait for answers to our happiness and peace to come from the media, from D.C., from Twitter or CNN, The New York Times, Facebook or FOX News.

Anything can happen right now – the veil is lifted. We are offered the opportunity to awaken, to stabilize our peace within. If we keep holding on to the old ways of governing, of leading, of attempting to control, we are going to be miserable.

Stabilize in Present Time

How to stabilize? It is absolutely vital to stay in the Present Moment.

Turn off your phone. Go for a walk. Breathe.

If you are a news junkie or find yourself falling into a “scroll hole” regularly, make concerted efforts to take breaks. Set a timer or an alarm if you need to. Your serenity need not be determined by what you are reading, hearing, watching.

Remember: you will always know exactly what to do in the NOW, in the present moment. This is the only way.

If you are feeling fear, more than likely you are not in the present moment. You are living in the future, which is ultimately false and unreal, bring yourself back to the now by tuning into your body. Find your feet. Breathe from your belly. Trust your intuition completely.

If the fear and anxiety are continuing, check in with your Inner Child. Did she get spooked by what she heard or read? Is he feeling afraid because the adults around are losing their minds and behaving crazily? Perhaps the madness in the world – fear of illness, infighting, treachery – mimics the early childhood environment. Children of all ages can easily go into shock – fight, flight, freeze reactions – when “caregivers” or “authority figures” are behaving unpredictably or are just flat out mentally ill or behaving like raging alcoholics. What is happening in our greater society resembles the craziness of being in an alcoholic or abusive home environment. Power grabbing, gaslighting, controlling, terrorizing – it’s all here. So, work with your tools of detachment and healing from codependence. Reassure your archetypal inner child that they are loved, cared for, safe –that you are paying attention to them and that you will look after them and protect them no matter what. You will immediately find a relaxation occurring.

The truth of Who You Are, can never be contained. No person, institution, virus, politician, cranky family member or opinionated friend can take away your peace once it is firmly established in the Self, the Ground of Being. If you are still jacked around by belief systems, religions, politics, ideologies – allow the smoldering power of Pluto-Hades in Capricorn to burn it all, to take it and transform it at this New Moon time. Release the identification with the external. It is so unnecessary – the belief that things must go this-a-way or that-a-way. The Truth is What Is unfolding, in the here and now. Once this is realized completely, one can easily relax.

At this Capricorn New Moon, we have an opportunity to reclaim our inner authority, which is always in present time. Again: you will always know exactly what to do in the moment. Not a hair’s breadth before or after. Drop the stories, and stabilize in the Now.

Erin Reese, M.S. is a contemporary non-dual 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. Visit erinreese.com for more information.

New Moon Eclipse in Sagittarius: Intergalactic Evolutionary Shift

Today, we have a new moon total solar eclipse in the mutable fire sign of Sagittarius, the truth-telling seeker. I’ve been looking forward to this eclipse; it’s giving everyone the simultaneous space and energetic oomph to prepare for the next VERY BIG event on December 21, the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the sign of Aquarius.

I have some information to share with you regarding this eclipse that is bordering on airy-fairy. For shame! Still, I can’t deny it – I must come out of the closet a bit more. I’m going to use words like ascension, paradigm, and dimension. Remember, these are just words used to describe evolutionary shifts in consciousness. I don’t really want to use them either, but I’ve not yet come up with new words yet, even as a Gemini Rising and Gemini Moon. For now, bear with me and by all means, CHECK with yourself to see if what I am sharing resonates with you. If not, throw it out.

Many if not most of you will have heard some of these things already, especially over the past year. I’m particularly writing this for those folks who have been on the cusp of understanding this shift, in themselves and others, but maybe need a bit more encouragement to “go there,” and accept what is happening.

This week, with the eclipse energy permeating our very cells, we are in preparation for the upcoming 12/21 conjunction. THIS WEEK it is important to release, release, release any contracts, relationships, old belief systems, concepts that are old and outdated. You may find that you need to go within more this week. You may find that you need more quiet, space, time off. You may naturally eat cleaner foods like soups, dals, broths as you’re lightening up. Drink more water, get fresh air.

Everything and anything that you can release, wrap up, say farewell to, is great THIS WEEK.

Why?

Because on 12/21, with the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius, we need to be ready to take in all of the new light-filled information and consciousness that is about to flood the planet. This is a MAJOR SHIFT for humanity. It is NOT political. I repeat: this is NOT political. Those who are in tune to this evolutionary shift reside or will reside primarily outside of the old societal landscape, on an energetic plane. We are ending the OLD – the Capricorn traditional systems, infrastructures, and calcified belief systems.

We are shifting into an intergalactic, interdimensional frame of consciousness. This is literally rewiring our light bodies, our DNA if you will. We will no longer be functioning in same perceived realm of cause and effect. Some folks call this switching from 3D into 5D – that’s fine, it’s just a label. Some folks call it moving from ego consciousness to Divine Consciousness, some say “ascending,” some folks say “awakening.” No matter what you call it – what is important, is to feel it, to live it, to trust it.

This is thrilling stuff, and it is going to take some awareness on your part, especially for the next 2-3 weeks. Some of you might feel more grounded than others. Some might feel completely “off planet.” These are the stages we can expect (and you can see where you are personally – some of you have already gone through all of them, or may be just beginning – no matter):

• Preparation and Release of Old
  
• Allowing and Trusting
• Receiving the New Information and Energy
• Experiencing and Embodying
• Integrating and Stabilizing
• Living Fully in New Dimension   

When I speak of the difference between 3D and 5D, or ego vs. divine consciousness if you will, envision before you two different railroad tracks. You might be flip-flopping back and forth between tracks. You’ll feel it start to get more and more uncomfortable, until eventually, you’ll shift into full-time 5D awareness, stabilizing on the new track.

The thing is, your body-mind has to come along with all of this. Some of the symptoms you might experience are:

-          Dizziness, vertigo

-          Pressure changes in the head

-          Kundalini activity (shaking, bouncing, quivering)

-          Sensitivity to sounds and different pitches

-          Changes in visual perception

-          Changes in taste, smell, skin sensitivity

-          Sleep disturbances (don’t fret, it won’t last)

-          These are just a few possibilities. You might find that you need to STAY WARM, you might need to cool off. You might need celibacy, or you might need more sexual activity. Listen to your body, and give it whatever it needs right now; this will help the process.

Why is this happening? I am not keen on the word why, because it invites the mind to cling and identify. The answer is – because it’s necessary, simple as that. It is because Life has a need for it. Evolution.

Is there a reason, an intention, a trajectory? Sure, we can easily make up a story around this. But stories are often traps, so hold them lightly.

Saturn and Jupiter – Grand Conjunction in Aquarius (and Meditation) 12/21

The conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter occurs at 10:20 a.m. Pacific on Monday, December 21. (The actual Winter Solstice occurs at 2:02 a.m. PT that day.) I am going to host a free 45-minute meditation on Zoom at 10am Pacific on Monday, 12/21 – please reply to this email and let me know if you would like to attend. I will leave the Zoom room open for folks to enter/leave easily and quietly, so you may stay as long or briefly as you like.

This dance of Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius is very exciting to me, a native Water Bearer who was literally born for this.

Last night I was moving a ton of kundalini energy through my system; I felt like I was channeling between earth and sky for all of humanity, moving it out, moving it out. It went on and on; I finally had to take a break, and I knew I could because I’d be telling you about this, and you can now start to move this energy through your body-mind yourself.

I had the feeling there could be an earthquake in the next few weeks. NOT TO BE AFRAID. The earthquake very well could be INTERNAL.

Allow the earth energy to come up into the body, into the root chakra.

You may also simultaneously, before this or at a different time this week, notice old energy draining out your legs, down through your feet, into the earth.

We are moving out old, calcified Capricorn energy. We need to make space for Aquarius now. (This is not a dig on Capricorn energy – eventually we’ll let go of Aquarius, too (it all goes into the Piscean noumenon of Oneness, until it will begin again)… It’s what’s here now…)

Again, allow structures, beliefs, shoulds and ought-tos, political and social constructs, responsibilities that don’t belong to you, financial paradigms etc. etc. to drain away. They are being lifted.

You may become aware of a new form of protection – like a super-sized spacesuit – which is actually more of an aura – that will shield us instantly at any time we need it. Sensitives may be able to feel this in their energy field already. A spacesuit of light that is strong and impermeable to the false, to harmful limiting beliefs.

You may find that a friendship or job relationship or partnership ends – no worries. You may also find that physical items want to be purged. You might start losing weight easily. You might finish up tasks that have been weighing on you. All of this is making space for a new reality of ease, grace, and enjoyment.

This is so not about stay-at-home orders, yet at the same time, consciousness has orchestrated this pandemic perfectly so that you have more time to retreat, to rest, to experience this shift without disturbance. Staying at home is allowing those who might not otherwise take time to stop, to stop.

We are moving into a new dimension of reality. Remember this is necessary for you to step into being an intergalactic human, and welcoming ease, grace, and enjoyment once the body-mind is stabilized and integrated on the new “track.”

Ease, grace, enjoyment. One more time: Ease, grace, enjoyment.

This is not personal. It is not political.

It is not about being special, or being woke.

It is about evolution. 

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. Visit erinreese.com for more information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For those who want more technical info...

Times are Eastern

Dec 14	11:16 AM	New Moon Total SOLAR Eclipse	23 Sag 08'
Dec 15	11:21 AM	Venus enters Sagittarius	Ven 0 Sag 00'
Dec 15	5:17 PM	Chiron Direct	Chi 4 Ari 56'D
Dec 17	12:04 AM	Saturn enters Aquarius	Sat 0 Aqu 00'
Dec 18	12:25 PM	Juno enters Sagittarius	Jun 0 Sag 00'
Dec 19	8:07 AM	Jupiter enters Aquarius	Jup 0 Aqu 00'
Dec 20	6:07 PM	Mercury enters Capricorn	Mer 0 Cap 00'
Dec 21	5:02 AM	Sun enters Capricorn	Sun 0 Cap 00'
Dec 21	1:20 PM	Jupiter conjunct Saturn	Jup 0 Aqu 29' conjunct Sat 0 Aqu 29'