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Assignment #2:
Jyotish Basics Homework Exercise: Look at your jyotish chart and identify these parts: -Locate your first house. What is your rising sign? Then note the planetary ruler of your rising sign. Where is it located in the chart? Is it exalted, in its own sign or mulitrikona? Is it in a sign that it is friendly to or an enemy or neither? -Locate the house your Moon is in and then note the sign it is in. This is your Moon sign. Where is it located in the chart? Then note the planetary ruler of this sign. Is it exalted, in its own sign or mulitrikona? Is it in a sign it is friendly to or an enemy or neither? -Locate the house your Sun is in and then note the sign it is in. This is your Sun sign. Locate this planet in your chart. Then note the planetary ruler of this sign. Is it exalted, in its own sign or mulitrikona? Is it in a sign it is friendly to or an enemy or neither? -Locate all nine planets in your chart. What houses are they in? What signs? Are they considered exalted, debilitated, mulitrikona or in their own? Or none of the above? -Look at Jupiter and note his aspects (drishti) 5, 7 and 9 houses away from him. What houses/signs/planets does he gaze at? -Look at the drishti of Mars 4, 7 and 8 houses away from him. What houses/signs/planets does he gaze at? -Loot at Saturn’s drishti 3, 7 and 10 houses away from him. What houses/signs/planets does he gaze at? -Look at Rahu and Ketu and note their aspects 5, 7 and 9 houses away from themselves. What houses/signs/planets does he gaze at? -What is your Atma Karaka planet? Locate this planet in your chart. What house is it in? What sign? Dharma Awakening Mentorship {Group Class #2}
October 18th, 2015 Module 2
Module 2: Jyotish wisdom and your dharma. We will continue to build our jyotish knowledge with a more in-depth look at the signs. Using your own chart, we will address dharma and dharmic indications of the chart specifically. What does your natal chart say about your dharma and life path? For clarity about your path, we will use 9th and 10th houses of dharma and career as well as 2nd house of wealth to determine what your offering is to the world and what your chart says about making money. Further indications from the other houses of the birth chart will be included as a way to gain increased awareness about the vital resources you need for your path, your creativity, who you work with, and what your offering is to the world. This week we amplify and address our creativity and our ability to find resources. Second chakra issues will addressed and the creativity and financial blockages that are connected to this chakra. Working with our dreams, visions, creativity and senses, as well as our vulnerability and shame, we will work with blocks and challenges that are keeping you from manifesting your self fully and abundantly. Working directly with pelvis/pelvic bowl, and the expressive arts will be a primary resource for unlocking creative potential. Assignment #1: Jyotish Basics Homework: - What are the significant houses for dharma and career? What are the body parts connected to these houses? - Locate your 9th house. What sign is there? What planets, if any? List at least four qualities of each of these layers: The 9th house, the sign located there, the planets located in your 9th house. - What is the planetary ruler of your 9th house sign? Where is it located in your natal chart? List the qualities of these layers: Your 9th house planetary ruler, the house it is located in, the sign it is located in, any other planets sitting in that same sign/house. - Identify what planets are in your 9th house (if any). What sign(s) does this planets rule in your chart? What are the houses these signs are in? List the qualities of these layers: The planets in your 9th house, the signs they rule and what houses these signs are in. - Repeat this process for the 10th and 11th houses. Creative Embodiment Homework: Create an image of your pelvis using paint, craypas, collage or any other medium that inspires you. We will have some time in our weekend workshop to work on this image, but starting this process will give you more time for the creation process. Assignment #2 -Identify a key learning that occurred during your movement exploration/drawing your image. -Identify a challenge that may have arrived during your movement exploration/drawing your image. -Identify any resources that you discovered during your movement exploration/drawing your image. -Identify any themes from your personal mythology that you encountered during your movement exploration/drawing your image. *It may help to answer these questions from the point of view of the Pelvis. Let your pelvis answer the above questions. -Bonus Question: Does your Pelvis have any insights to share with you about your purpose, your path, your dharma? Take an action step this week that helps you create more money. What action step can you take that will help you long term or short-term create more tangible money in your life? Dharma Awakening Mentorship {Group Class #3}
October 22nd, 2015 Module 3
Module 3: Listening to the messages of Nature and working with courage.
This week we focus on the planets more specifically and also the role of the nakshatras. What do your natal stars say about your dharmic path and the offerings you are here to give to the world? How do the lunar constellations express themselves through you and what deities are assisting you and your work? Nature is here to support you, but only if you know how to work effectively with her. The nakshatras are expressions of nature and help us refine the messages of the natal chart. What is your chart asking of you and what are you missing about your life path without even realizing it? Our Saturday workshop session will address chakra three which puts us in touch with our courage and passions, as well as our intuitive knowing and assimilation of life. To fully realize your unique gifts and talents, you must have potency and power enlivened within you and your body. This week we work directly with stomach as means for digesting, assimilating and nourishing our lives more fully and powerfully. Assignment #1 1) Choose your 9th or 10th house to work with specifically. Identify the house you are working with and the body part connected to it (it will be thighs or knees but you can use legs/first chakra for this). Next, identify what sign is in the 9th or 10th house of your chart. What body part is connected to this sign? (we will call this Body Part #2.) You will now have two specific body parts to work with- the legs and body part #2- whatever body part is connected to the sign of your 9th or 10th house. List at least five functions for each of these body parts. For example legs/feet might connect to the functions "stepping forward", "standing" or "leaping". 2) Movement exploration. Take at least ten minutes to do a movement exploration, though I challenge you to do this process every day for the next week to increase your sensitivity and awareness. Using your legs as the primary resource, add the resource of body part #2. Begin by pulsing, sensing through the feet, bringing your attention to how the sensations of feet feel in connection to shins/calves, knees, and thighs. Explore the sensations in your legs as you continue to pulse. Self track rising up through the feet, up through the legs, and into the pelvis. Continue to pulse, but now add body part #2 to your self tracking. Notice how this body part responds to your pulsing. Notice how body part #2 moves in relationship with and to your thighs/knees/feet as you pulse. What is the function of body part #2? How does this function come into your pulsing movements? (Revisit our Module #1 Workshop if you are feeling the need for some assistance.) 3) Harvesting. After ten minutes of your pulsing movement exploration, come to a pause. Answer these questions: I sense, I feel, I imagine. Ask your legs to answer this question: What am I stepping towards? What am I stepping away from? Extra Growth: - Identify your Moon nakshatra. What nakshatra is it in? What is its ruling deity and the ruling planet? Where is this planet located in your chart and how does it express itself? (If you have a copy of your chart that is from me, you can locate your Moon nakshatra to the right of your natal chart, in the second box down from the top labeled "Planet Nakshatras". Within this box, you will see planet abbreviations in the far left hand column. Locate the MO for Moon and note the nakshatra written on the same line, next column over. This is your Moon Nakshatra. Do the same for all your planets.) Dharma Awakening Mentorship {Group Class #4}
November 1st, 2015 Integration Week:
Assignments:
* Please have these assignments completed and ready for our one-on-one session. Create your 1, 3, 5, 10 year goals. Create legacy goals. What are you leaving for others? Make sure you are adding support needs into your goals! Assistants, marketing help, new website etc. Financial Goals: Annual income for this coming year. Chunk this down into quarterly and monthly goals. Use these numbers to find your weekly and daily goals for each month. These will fluctuate, but it's important to know what you're aiming for. Scoring: What is your first offering? Class, products, performance etc. Create a Score for your first offering. (Details given in November 5th live class below). You may end up with two scores. One for your company, business, etc. And one more specific score for your first offering. See what arrives as you work with this process. Looking forward to hearing about all your amazing offerings!!! Swati* Dharma Awakening Mentorship {Group Class #5}
November 5th, 2015 Module 4
Module 4: Unraveling your obstacles and setbacks. Dancing with your shadows.
We will be using your weaknesses and challenges to move you forward with awareness- specifically focusing on the purpose of Rahu and Ketu. What are your greatest challenges to achieving your dharma? What is holding you back and keeping you from fulfillment? Using your chart for guidance, we will address setbacks, challenges and the detriments of your birth chart in order for awareness and guidance, as well as for best practice with these karmas. The power of the fourth chakra ignites our ability to expand into our gifts with compassion, openness and healthy boundaries. Through the body metaphors of the ribcase, arms and hands, we will work intimately with this powerful region of the body to awaken and open us, as well as close and let go. Finding a more seamless dance between expand and contract, we encourage our brilliance, clarity and focus, healthy and awake boundaries, while letting go of perfectionism and attachment to the critic. Assignment #1:
- Locate Rahu in your chart. What house is he in, what sign, what other planets are with him if any? Where does he throw his shadows via drishti (aspect/gaze)? - What nakshatra is Rahu in? What is the deity and ruling planet of this nakshatra? - What can you identify about your shadow self as a result of this identification process? How does this relate to your personal mythology/woundology? Repeat these steps for Ketu. Assignment #2: - Make a list of all your questions, challenges, confusions, obstacles and issues that you are confronting in your chart and through the Dharma Foundations process. - Make a list of all your positive, helpful, illuminating resources that you are identifying in your chart and through the Dharma Foundations process. - What are you moving towards in your life? What are you moving away from in your life as you look at these lists? - Create a mission statement for your path that feels authentic to your process, your unfolding, and what you are awakening to. * We will be working with your creative map in the coming modules, so have this available for our final weeks of class. Dharma Awakening Mentorship {Group Class #6}
November 15th, 2015 Module 5
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