Diwali (or Deepavali) is a very significant five day festival in the Vedic tradition. This year, the festivities begin on the 18th in the USA, and continue until the 25th. The most significant day of the Diwali festivities is on the 23rd because of the new Moon. This is a celebration of light, of Lakshmi, and our divine resources. The festival of light spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair. As the solar eclipse is occurring simultaneously, we literally are experiencing an eclipse of our light, our solar energy, our soul. Today, let in the light, the abundance that is present in your life- no matter how small or nuanced. Turn on the light switch of your soul and let this be a poignant moment, intentionally driving out the shadows and inviting in more light to your life. Possibility, hope and joy are significant resources. Honor Lakshmi, light a candle at your altar and invoke her spirit of abundance and wealth. New Moon is at 16:57 CDT while Moon is in Libra and Chitra nakshatra. Moon moves to Swati nakshatra at 17:31 CDT. The partial solar eclipse begins at 17:00 CDT and continues until 18:52 CDT. A lot of movement and shifts are happening within this two hour time frame. Use this time for meditation, invocation and setting intentions if possible. Swati nakshatra increases shadow, movement and shape shifting. The rule of Swati, Vayu the wind god, increases these tendencies. Symbolically, this partial solar eclipse ushers in the next waxing cycle for us. This is a cycle that brings essential balancing for the pieces of our life and relationships that have been causing us upheaval. The balance occurs once we slowly sift and settle into our new choices and action steps. Digestion and assimilation of the past month bring the stability we are seeking. Finding the most nourishing morsels of our lives and what our greatest needs are, becomes our driving force. Transformation becomes the nourishment, as well as instigates the nourishment we need. Seek transformation and let new resources feed you. Your emotional body is a vital resource for making wise choices and action steps. Whatever your intuitive knowing offers you- go there. Use this wisdom to guide you. Restructure the way you offer yourself, how you share your wisdom. Shift the way you seek wisdom and knowledge. Invite in innovation. Let the body be a primary creative resource for you. Resource from the wisdom of the body. Listen deeply and ask your body to give you the guidance you are seeking. Pelvis and hips can be a resource for informing the way you dance with stability, support, moving forward and containment. How can you move forward with greater stability and support? *New Moon Chart Creative Ritual for the Waxing Moon Cycle
Libra becomes a vital part of our new Moon eclipse experience, as well as our coming waxing Moon cycle. Libra represents seventh house matters- relationships, our mirror, the other. Libra offers us balance, vacillation, global awareness and compassion, as well as confusion and lack of commitment at times. There is a correlation to the pelvis, which metaphorically connects us to stability and support, as well as a sense of holding. The pelvic bowl contains our sexual, reproductive and excretory organs. This is a vital body part for our sense of thriving, joy, passion and sensuality. It is a container, and also connects us to our vulnerability. The pelvic region connects us to 2nd chakra issues, including our financial and wealth resource, abundance, and our creative flow. 1) With the above elements in mind, draw an image of your pelvis. Let the image express your connection to this body part. What is your relationship with your pelvis? What is your response to this body part? How does it support you and help you thrive? Let these questions help you develop your pelvis drawing. Include colors, textures, images and shapes that express your pelvic relationship. 2) Dance your pelvis drawing. Find one element of your image that speaks to you. Perhaps it's a color, shape or some intriguing texture. Enter your dance through the pelvis and begin to move. Move your image using the resources of pelvis and the intriguing element you have chosen to work with. Keep developing your dance for 10 to 15 minutes. Let your dance evolve and increase your somatic sensations as you move. Remember to breathe and allow your pelvis to be a primary resource for your movements. 3) Harvesting. What resources did your pelvic dance offer you? What challenges? How can this inform the way you move forward in your life? Need some extra guidance and clarity? Schedule a session with me. Plan your week in tune with nature. Never miss a planetary update. Sign up for my weekly newsletter. Was this post helpful? Please share it with a friend! Thank you.
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We have been working with our warrior masks. Masking, unmasking, creating dialogue with these two pieces of ourselves. This is a new Moon week, and a powerful one at that!
As per this week's Horoscopes: New Moon is in the early hours of 11.3 at 06:50am CDT while Moon is in Libra and Swati nakshatra. Sun and Moon are in exact degree at this time with five planets in Libra (debilitated Sun, Rahu, retrograde Mercury, exalted Saturn and transiting Moon), all in Swati nakshatra. This nakshatra is ruled by Rahu, the north node shadow planet. It's important to strive for balance at this time (though it may feel impossible). This new Moon on 11.3 brings a solar eclipse with it beginning at 04:05 am CDT and ending at 09:28am CDT. And of course we are celebrating Diwali on 11.2- dedicated to the goddess Maha Lakshmi, goddess of abundance, wealth and prosperity. Pelvis is our creative energy center, our fertility zone. Use this body part for the focus of your body part dance and notice the connection to spine (strength, flexibility) that it offers. Note how these two co-create and are essentially interrelated. Come to your drawing pad and draw a big circle. Fill your circle (New Moon) with your abundant desires, prosperity and hopes. Nothing is too big, nor too small for this circle. What gifts are you asking of Goddess Lakshmi at this time? What brings balance and harmony to you and your life? Who is invited to join you on this new, sacred, abundant path? Give your New Moon Mandala a title. Moon waning (dark half) transiting Leo, Virgo, and Libra this week. New Moon on 11.3 in Libra at 6:50 am CST [CST begins at 2am on 11.3- set your clocks back 1 hour]. This new Moon week is an intense one and highly symbolic!
Venus moves to Sagittarius on 10.30 which means we are in a time of transiting/weakened (sandhi) Venus most of this week. This transit of Venus into Sagittarius brings us some powerful forces for change within relationships- both with our Self and with others. Expect growth and new inner knowledge over the course of the next month as well as extra passion and wealth-inducing endeavors. How will you use this information? Will deep wisdom overtake our worldly appetites or vice versa? This week also brings with it celebration in the Vedic calendar. Some of us will be celebrating the five days of Diwali festivities- days devoted to the goddess Maha Lakshmi, goddess of abundance, and her many attributes. Three of the most important days are dedicated to Dhanvantari, Hanuman and Lakshmi- Diwali and the new moon being the most important of all. For the USA, Dhanvantari is Thursday 10.31. This is a day of celebrating the father of Ayurveda, Lord Dhanvantari, physician to the gods and an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. A day dedicated to health and wholeness, two days prior to celebrating abundance and light during Diwali, and a day of praying for longevity. Health is the biggest form of wealth and we can use this as a powerful day for total being as well as a day to resource inner and outer balance. Moon will be transiting Virgo and moves from Uttaraphalguni to Hasta nakshatra on this day while in the 13th tithi (Trayodashi). This is very much a day that represents seeking balance on the inner and outer levels of life. Eat lightly today and follow Ayurvedic routine and guidelines. Ask Dhanvantari for tools, wisdom and the ability to take action towards health and well being. Friday 11.1 is Hanuman Jayanti, a celebration of Lord Hanuman. (Some celebrate Kali on this day instead). Moon is in the 14th tithi (Chaturdashi) and moves from Hasta (dawning and awakening) to Chitra (divine building and planning) nakshatra. Devote today to dharma, creating bold action steps towards actualizing your full potential and pray for the strength of Lord Hanuman today. Diwali begins on the morning of 11.2 in the USA. This exuberant festival of lights, and the day of Maha Lakshmi, is a powerful time of cultivation and celebration. Moon will be reaching towards its darkest, most inward point, in the 15th tithi (Amavasya) at this time and yet we celebrate the light of lights within all of us on this day. It is advised to light candles, leave a light on over night, buy new clothes, make offerings to Maha Lakshmi, eat sweets and enjoy the sweetness and abundance of life that she so generously offers us. Wealth, prosperity (material and spiritual), as well as beauty (inner and outer) are aspects of Lakshmi that are to be honored and treasured. Make your altar dedications to her at dusk and sing your prayers and desires to her. New Moon (+ the time change) is in the early hours of 11.3 at 06:50am CST while Moon is in Libra and Swati nakshatra. Sun and Moon are in exact degree at this time with five planets in Libra (debilitated Sun, Rahu, retrograde Mercury, exalted Saturn and transiting Moon), all in Swati nakshatra. This nakshatra is ruled by Rahu, the north node shadow planet. It's important to strive for balance at this time (though it may feel impossible). This new Moon on 11.3 brings a solar eclipse with it beginning at 04:05 am CST and ending at 09:28am CST. Whereas a lunar eclipse brings shadowed intuition and intellect (feminine), solar eclipses speak to our shadowed soul and externalized power (masculine). With Sun debilitated in Libra at this time (mixed with an intense energetic dynamic of five planets in a sign that desires to resolve and restore balance), being mindful of health is essential, if not forced. Being sensitive to our inner needs as well as compassion for others is imperative. Check in with your motives before acting and speaking. Notice where your pain body and wounds are dictating your actions and agendas. When connecting and relating to others ask yourself how you can come to the situation with boundaries, yet with willingness and acceptance. Know when to take a time out. Meditating during the eclipse is advised. Rahu's shadowed and insatiable appetite and cravings are effecting almost every level of our lives right now. There may be pains and sufferings, delusions and illusions, all playing their tricks on us! Self doubt and self-destruction are having their way with us, so try to stay out of the rabbit hole and the downward spiral before it takes you too far into darkness. The solar eclipse marks the ending of the 2 week period between lunar and solar eclipses- a delicate time where starting new endeavors is not advised. Now we can march forward with ideas, plans and actions! That said, the complexity of the transits can still bring us excessive mental activity and turmoil, intense cravings and addictive behaviors, as well as the need to consciously care for our physical bodies. Ketu's movement to Ashwini nakshatra at 03:34 am CST (just prior to the eclipse) brings healing and resources to the forefront- especially through the healing and creative arts. You can count on layers peeling off, and new light coming through. This subtle shift pre-solar eclipse is a divine part of the cosmic plan for our increased wisdom and the longstanding desires coming to us at this time- even with all the twists and turns. Trust the process- it will be worth it! This is an excellent time for wealth inducing yagyas dedicated to Lakshmi. Puja.net has a wonderful Diwali yagya starting on the 3rd. You can also find an assortment of Lakshmi chants and mantras available on the site. Utilize my jyoti/creative arts activities as a healing & awareness tool. This week's Jyoti/Expressive Art Therapy Creative Engagement Activity for Diwali and the week of 10.28 ::: *Horoscopes are based on your Vedic rising sign. You can also check your Moon and Sun signs for further insight. Do the same with your Navamsa signs for further clarity. Do not use these horoscopes with your “Western Sign” as there is likely no correlation. These horoscopes are meant to be used as a broad overview of the current transits and obviously do not address the specifics of an individual’s unique chart. Aries: You are facing the thick of it dear one! So much change and upheaval is moving you and moving through you right now. The darkness and shadows are getting pierced. Find time to be fragile and vulnerable and declare it sacred! Ask for support and it will appear. Taurus: The lights are on, is anyone home? The stove is on, what are you cooking? The desires are strong, are they aligned with depth, dharma and the propensity to help and to heal? Pieces are returning and reminders are resurfacing. What has not yet been digested? What rocks remain in the gut? Gemini: Oh the (same old) bad habits my dear! Obstacles and enemies are putting on a bit of a show for you. You may be distracted though and feeling ungrounded with a bit of indigestion to boot. Are you listening to your gut responses and minding your belly instincts? The way to the heart is through your gut, so listen carefully. There are some very important PM's waiting there. Cancer: Heartaches and heartburn. Put your hands to your chest and breathe deeply. Take time to walk barefoot and ground into the earth. Get your bearings and take root. Intuitive passions are fired up and yet vulnerable. Tend your wisdom fire and your tender inner flames. Leo: Tenacity is blowing you about. You roar with zest and fervor. Creative juices are running through you. And yet, what is that? Uncertainty? Fear? Terror? Do us all a favor, and quit fooling your Self. It's a time of weakness and vulnerability- own it, feel it, let it come alive within you and let it transform you. Virgo: Your courage is remarkable lately- putting focus on some of the tough, dark places, finding new ways to relate, co-create, and fiercely ask for what you need. Keep going and don't lose your motivation for bringing your desires to life! Sing your heart songs and share them with others. Listen to the birds for inspiration. Libra: Pulled apart and pulled in all directions. Which way are you going? Which way is up and which way is down? Shadows are dancing in you and around you, the discomfort is cutting at times. This is a time to create new steps, in a new direction- but meticulously. Be slow, creative and calculated. Resist the rush. Find your new pulse. Scorpio: Your room of solitary confinement is getting smaller and the walls are caving in. You've been sharply and keenly penetrating your psyche and navigating the rocky inner terrain, yet still maintaining a powerful exterior exoskeleton. Ready to crack yet? Let your self ooze and rip the band aid off for god's sake! We are all waiting to see what's in that dark, cavernous abyss. Sagittarius: Gains are blowing you around. Is that guilt and shame or gratitude and respect? Celebrate even if it feels uncertain. Some new abundance is slowly sinking in and it is starting to feel good. The reality is you deserve it and should own it. Check in with the greed though- that need for more and more in order to feel comfort. What is the dissatisfaction that lurks? Capricorn: Digesting > Re-digesting > Regurgitating > Restructuring > Re-solidifying = Intentional action and activation. Your creativity and passion is about to go into deep restoration as well as silent expansion, feeding and fanning your path and all your pursuits. The bag is packed and filled to the brim- why not donate some of the old and outworn to a good cause? Aquarius: Guru is as guru does. Teach, learn, advise and honor the ways of ethics. Who is that watching you? What is that inner voice calling, beckoning? What courage it takes to sit still and listen- to all the rumblings, deceptions, and Self avoidance. Skill arises when we get humble, authentic and take responsibility for all that we are. Transparency or bust. Pisces: Soon you will not be the same individual. You have been transforming and transcending, vulnerable in your complete overhaul. Communicating with the darkness is essential. Speak to your ghosts and shadows and ask them what they want of you. The dark portal of the past may be offering you haunts and insecurities, yet there is a soft landing pad available for you as well. Use it. Moon waning (dark half) and transiting Taurus, Gemini, and into Cancer this week. Moon is exalted in Taurus on 10.21 until the morning of 10.23 and in its own sign of Cancer from 10.26 until the morning of 10.28.
Mercury is now retrograde and in Vishaka nakshatra. Mercury will be retracing its steps through Libra over the next few weeks where it will cross over Rahu, exalted Saturn and debilitated Sun. Work on building alliances and support systems this week. Re-work, re-configure, re-connect in order to find something more sustainable with work and personal relationships. Mercury is retrograde until 11.10. Use this time to clean up and reorganize business and personal relationships, transactions and communications. Be mindful with arguments and convictions. This can be a time of expansion and proliferation for those who are building on top of a solid foundation. We are now in the two week period between lunar and solar eclipses. As per last week's transit report: This two week period between eclipses is a good time to "clean things up" internally and externally and will culminate on Diwali, the Vedic celebration of light where we honor goddess Maha Lakshmi. Think of the next few weeks as creating space for more light to enter, more wealth to flow, more creative abundance to course through you. Clear, clean, purge, and cut out all that is not working in your favor. This will be happening for you on a conscious and unconscious level as well as on multiple levels of existence. Surrender to the uprooting process. Utilize the creative arts and art as therapy practice through my Jyoti/Expressive Art Therapy Creative Engagement Activity for the week of 10.21 ::: *Horoscopes are based on your Vedic rising sign. You can also check your Moon and Sun signs for further insight. Do the same with your Navamsa signs for further clarity. Do not use these horoscopes with your “Western Sign” as there is likely no correlation. These horoscopes are meant to be used as a broad overview of the current transits and obviously do not address the specifics of an individual’s unique chart. Aries: Clean, clear, restructure and reform relationships and contracts with others. This can be a time of getting clear on your boundaries and what works/doesn't work for you. Make adjustments that better suit your needs. You are working through past relationship fears, concerns and irritations right now. Take some steps in a different direction this week. Remember to ask for help, seek comfort in sustainable ways and trust that this restructuring coming right now is in your best interest. Taurus: Digest, clean, clear and gently detoxify your gut. Use strategy and compassion for dealing with enemies. Likely you will be repairing, re-confronting and restructuring some misalignment with another. Find courage to say and do the right thing in order to heal the situation. This is a powerful time for you as a healer in general. Find ways to strengthen and clarify your offerings, services and the way you do business with your gifts. Pay special attention to pets, mother and father right now. Gemini: Expansion doesn't come without clearing, cleaning and cutting on some other levels- whether it's through re-prioritizing our desires and goals or literally cleaning out the closet. This is a time of "cleaning out all your closets" so that you can expand into a more efficient being; So that you can trust your Self and your inner guidance more innately. Get rid of distractions, the relations who are not serving your highest purpose, the toxic and the energetic vampire energy in your life. Be radical with your fall cleaning from the inside out. This is your time for a new life, but you have to make room for it. Cancer: Clean up, clearing out, restructuring and recommitting is happening for you right now with home and heart, land and mother, emotions and moksha. Find the intersection of these areas of life in order to maximize your liberation. Use the weekend for some introspection and restoration if possible. Watch for anger and irritations (these emotions bring great insights!) then make necessary changes if you have been misaligned with your long term needs for support and sustainability. Leo: Charging forward or charging back? It may feel like one step forward, one step back right now, but the good news is you are full of zest to keep dancing. Watch where you put that energy and to what capacity you use it. Your creativity is at an all time high, so using it in very concentrated ways is key right now. Are you aligned with others and are others aligned with your ferocity? Courage and effort can only do so much. Work it Leo, then surrender to the changes and fluctuations that come. Remember to make room for surprise and spontaneity. Virgo: There's energy hiding in your closets. Emotion is building and your pot is beginning to boil. Where will you direct all of this energy? There is good reason for it to be channeled into creative and career oriented pursuits, but it requires your focused courage. Your feelings of discomforts, fears and family attachments are adding to the pressure and likely creating issues with comfort, sustainability and your true desires. So many old messages are coming and telling you what you should do. If you can silence them, you will get the real answers. Libra: Finding comfort and security is so essential for you right now- especially with what may feel like chaos and calamity in most areas of your life. Especially be mindful of what you are ingesting- sweets, alcohol and intoxicants are very tempting right now. But what is the need for maintaining blindness towards your emotional fragility and life's inevitable fluctuation? Is it possible to meet and greet life head on with no excuses, exceptions, apologies, deceptions or pretending? Be bold with your shadows. Scorpio: Feeling like you can't seem to get ahead? The losses keep coming and a sense of overwhelm may be keeping you from feeling the expansion of this time completely. It's ok to feel the depression, the disappointments and the miseries. These old demons are from the past and can be valuable tools. Just don't let them keep you from maximizing this time or continuing to take action steps. Your efforts will pay off eventually so keep your career focus and energy. Remember, cutting and clearing, purging and removal are necessary to make space for the spectacular and the sustainable. Sagittarius: It is who you know that can lift or lower you. Friends can be great allies or turn out to be great disappointments. Right now, you are navigating these relationships and these terms and conditions. There is clean up, restructuring and re-organizing with friendships, career and your achievements. Remember that endings are not always bad, they create openings and portals for new life, new options, new awareness and possibilities to arrive at your doorstep. Let go of what is not working or in your best interest. It's ok to be afraid of uncharted territory. Capricorn: Things fall a part, thing come back together. Crumble and build, crumble and build. Right now you are probably seeing and feeling these patterns in your career and are trying to learn to surf the waves of up and down and the impact this has on your emotions and security. As Pema Chodron says: “Things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” Can you make room for all of this?! Extra credit for channeling this into an offering to others. Aquarius: New creativity is creeping into your career and offerings. Building new relations and alliances can be supportive right now. Be aware of your approach: are you pushing too hard with excess aggression or just being direct and clear? Lessons are coming at full speed and from teachers, guides and mystics- many of whom are in disguise or perhaps from your past. Your only job is to be awake enough to greet these tasks with eyes wide open, to learn your lessons, and to see where you can open to new possibilities. Awakening and dharma are available for you with courage and restructuring of your old patterns of behavior. Pisces: Great vulnerability is in fact great strength. You are in the midst of big changes, upheaval and reorganization which is bringing the discomfort to a maximum. This is a time of cleaning and clearing the past and it is a very powerful and poignant time if you use it as such. Your best use of time is retreating and returning to the Self- in a radical way. This is a time of restructuring, digesting, elimination and removal. 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