September New Moon + Solar Eclipse Wisdom + Creative Ritual

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Moon shifts into Purvaphalguni nakshatra just before Thursday, September 1st begins, moving into the domain of Bhaga, the resource and pleasure provider. At 03:03, the new Moon officially arrives, bringing an emptiness and release with it. The new Moon is in sidereal Leo and Purvaphalguni nakshatra, coinciding with the annual solar eclipse.

This particular solar eclipse will not be visible in North America, but will touch Southern Asia, Western Australia, Much of Africa, the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Antarctica. The eclipse will begin at 00:13 MDT on the 1st and continue until 06:00 am, with the maximum eclipse occurring at 03:01 am MDT. Eclipses are a time to meditate and do spiritual practices. From a Vedic perspective, it is not advised to be outside during an eclipse, nor start new projects during the eclipse portal (the two week gap between solar and lunar eclipses).

The new Moon day, is an inward, lunar day which will require emotional body attention. Plant seeds and attend to your creativity in gentle, intentional ways. Bhaga supports the senses- sensuality, creativity, feelings, resources and that which brings pleasure and passion. He brings resources and grants your desires into form. As an Aditya (a god who brings resources and support) Bhaga shares wealth and happiness, luck and fortune, as well as blessings from past incarnations. He brings marital unions and creates love, affection, sexuality, sensuality and pleasure. The ruling planet of this constellation is Venus, currently debilitated in Virgo. This impacts the Bhaga's ability to support the resources he provides. Purvaphalguni is synonymous with the arts and all creative expression. What stirs your being and excites your spirit? Do that, but do it gently in the days to come.

Cancer is on the horizon at the time of the new Moon, provoking heart, tenderness and emotion. With Moon transiting Leo at the time of the new Moon, conjunct Sun and shadow node Rahu, big feelings and the need to express them will be themes for the coming weeks. The eclipse will make sure that this process feels extra challenging, however. Expect the shadow element to provoke stronger needs and desires. Are you in right-relationship with these needs or are they running away with you? The eclipse portal softly opened on August 18th with the Aquarius full Moon and an "almost" eclipse. This new Moon and solar eclipse kicks off the strongest portion of the eclipse portal, which won't end until the full Moon on September 18th. Remember that eclipses bring shadows to the surface so you can attend to them while also allowing a clearing and release process to take place. The healing available at this time is optional- meaning you must do the work it takes to get the job done.

This waxing cycle provokes strong articulation of words and the need for self expression. Big feelings, emotions and inner tides will provoke and activate a new awareness of self- in relation to others. There are frustrations and challenges with this self expression, which invokes a certain drama with this particular eclipse portal. Words and thoughts may not be shared poignantly. Some people may be withholding or resisting self expression all together, creating intensity and excess challenge unnecessarily. Speak from the heart- with tact and truth. Let the chips fall as they may. The necessity is for you to honor your need for self expression. Speak the sweet truth and know that your words are rooted in compassion.

Use this cycle to refine the art of communication and self expression. Strengthen your ability to articulate words so that you are honoring your feelings more accurately. What is being left unsaid? There's a tendency to be confused about feelings and emotions, resulting in not knowing what you need. If you don't know what you need, you can't express the needs. You can't get your needs met if you can't express them! This will result in dissatisfaction and either self loathing or aggravation with others. Your job is to deepen your relationship with your emotional body so that you know what you need. From here you can express these needs and learn the art of compassionate communication.

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Relationships become a sort of guru in the coming weeks. A resource for helping you awaken and become more fulfilled. This requires your willingness and courage to explore the self more intimately and investigate all your shadows that keep you feeling disappointed, discouraged and locked in your scarcity story. Life force energy is vulnerable and requires your gentleness right now. As creative as this cycle is, it also requires your diligence and careful attention to health and inner resources. You may notice that relationships feel extra challenging in the coming weeks. Use your relationships as mirrors of your own self. Any discomfort from the "other" is an opportunity for you to look at places in yourself that are not fully aligned with your needs. Use this as a time for clean up and work with your shadow and grief very intentionally.

With all the elements of the masculine, father, power, purpose and empowerment that have been stirred and provoked over the past few months as multiple planets have moved through Leo, this new Moon marks a poignant time of closure. What themes have you been healing with your father wounds? What is your intention moving forward? How can you honor your masculine needs with action steps, clarity, creativity? What does right-relationship with your power and dharmic purpose look like? Feel like?

This can be a creative and fruitful time- if you work with it gently and slowly. Forcing outcomes will not provide fruitful results. There will be stops and starts with creative endeavors, sensuality, playfulness and relationships, so take this into consideration as challenges arrive. Your hands and voice become important resources to support digestion and assimilation as well as greater self power. Work intentionally with these body parts. Use the hands their function of open and close, grasping and releasing to integrate and awaken. The hands and voice can support your process of artful self expression.

Get innovative and think outside the box. Balance worldly and spiritual desires. Work diligently on clearing mental and emotional body blockages that negate and suppress your full creative expression. Open your channels of self expression and notice what is keeping you locked in resistance and avoidance of your full power and potential. Ask for guidance and support with this process.

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Creative Ritual

With all the focus on Leo during this new Moon Solar eclipse, as well as the past months of multiple planetary passages through this sign, working with the gut is very timely. Leo correlates to the 5th house of the Jyotish chart and is connected to the solar plexus, father, intuition, playfulness and romance. The metaphors for gut have to do with digestion and assimilation as well as elimination.

What are you digesting and assimilating? How effectively do you eliminate?

You can use this Creative Ritual process for multiple levels- to support assimilation of environment, your internal/external landscapes, digestion of words, ideas and life's experiences.

The gut is connected to intuition- our "gut responses". Stomach problems are associated with "the inability to process and assimilate impressions received from our outer environment. Our ability to eliminate, or how we eliminate, is connected with the abdomen. In Eastern traditions, the belly is considered the center of the body, and the place form which a state of balance emanates. The abdomen acts as a transit area between the upper and lower areas of our body." -The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy by Daria Halprin.

1) Start by using movements such as "cat and cow" and gentle spinal twists to activate the gut. Notice if your breaths are going all the way to the base of the stomach, or stopping short. Lie on your back and place your hands on your belly. Feel the gentle undulations of its rise and fall with each breath. Gently knead your gut with your fingers. Notice any sore spots or lumps? Move around the navel in a circular pattern. Stop and let your body relax and respond to the touch of your hands on your belly.

2) Movement exploration. Stand, sit or lie down. Notice any impulses in the gut and belly. Move from these sensations, these impulses. Let your movements be in response to the impulses you notice. Spend 5 to 10 minutes moving. Keep tracking sensation. As you bring your movement exploration to a pause, answer this statement. "I sense." Repeat your statement aloud three times.

3) Come to your drawing pad. Draw an image of your belly. What images were invoked during your body part exploration? What colors and textures are enlivened? Put them in your image. Ask your Self "Are there 'leftovers' that I am digesting still?" Does your gut have more to say, more to digest and assimilate?
Spend 10 to 20 minutes creating your image. Title it. Then answer this question: If your gut could talk, what would it tell you?

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