 Full Moon is at 08:53 am MST while Moon transits Leo and Uttaraphalguni, the constellation of the ancestors and powerful creative life force energy. Aryaman rules this portion of the sky, offering resources like love, marriage, family, children, and that which perpetuates the ancestral line. Life force energy is enlivened here, which brings to life desires and helps them arrive into manifest form. What seeds are you planting right now? With three planets in gandantas (powerful gaps of uprooting and change) there is much to be released before your seeds can truly take root. Saturn is transiting Mula, Rahu is transiting Magha and Mars is in Ashwini until March 19th. These gandantas notoriously cause knots in the mental and emotional bodies to be removed through transformation, upheaval and change. Often uncomfortable, these are portions of the sky that open new doors, slamming old doors shut. As we linger here in the in-between, physically and within our shadowed self, there is an opportunity to also stand in much greater possibility and potential. >> Read the full article + Creative Ritual << Love what you're reading? Appreciate the daily guidance and support? Please make a donation to keep these resources available. Donate Now Did You Miss My LIVE
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 This Week's Intention: Find your balance point. The stillness within. Get embodied. Let your body be the resource for connecting and finding the calm within your storm. The Moon is waxing this week, becoming full on Sunday- coinciding with the Vedic fertility festival, Holi. This is a seed planting time. At the same time there is great turbulence and tilling of your inner soil. Find your ground and get embodied so that deeper roots can grow. Mercury moves to its debilitation sign this week, coercing the mind to a more inward state for the coming weeks. Money, communications, relationships, creativity and commerce will require your attention and re-evaluation. Monday, March 6th Moon in 9th tithi Navami Monday begins with powerful momentum and change as Ardra nakshatra arrives. Moon moves through this constellation, sparking the powerful forces of Rudra, the storm god. Notorious for swift, powerful action, Rudra brings guaranteed changes. What type of changes? This will depend on your relationship with your inner power and purpose. Ketu and Saturn continue to give their gaze to the Moon, which can make for painful and uncomfortable emotions and experiences. Are you disconnected from your First Chakra? Use this easy test to find out how embodied and connected you are to your First Chakra- and why it matters so much for your health and vitality. Watch My Short Video Now *All timing is Mountain Standard Time Zone Did You Miss My LIVE
Embodied Chakra Class?! {LISTEN *free* for A Limited Time ONLY} What You'll Learn: - What is embodiment and why does it matter so much? - Clarify exactly where you are disconnected from your first chakra. - Gather resources, tools and guidance for deeper body wisdom. - Strengthen your manifestation skills. - The one thing you need for lasting healing. - Identify and release blockages keeping you from fully embodying your full inner power. - Understand what your jyotish chart shares about your personal trauma and disconnection. LISTEN NOW  This Week's Intention: Notice the inner swells and find your grounding, your connection to Nature and her wisdom, as well as your connection to spirit. Surrender to the immense fertility being awakened in the environment- enlivened through potential and possibility. Allow the emotional body to move, change, transform and heal you. The week ahead brings a full Moon in Virgo with a penumbral lunar eclipse. The Vernal equinox has opened the door to spring in the northern hemisphere and the Holi celebrations spark the creative life force energy- inner and outer. Mercury is now debilitated in Pisces and Saturn will go retrograde this week as well. Be gentle with your emotions, mind and body. Monday, March 21st Moon in 14th tithi Just as Monday begins, Moon shifts to Purvaphalguni nakshatra, increasing creativity and life force energy. As the Moon moves through Leo, it is conjunct retrograde Jupiter and Rahu. All three planets receive drishti (gaze) from Venus, Ketu and Saturn. The emotional body is being asked to respond to complex energies. Find ways to ground into the body and spirit in order to awaken from repressed or contracted emotions. Emotional body tides are high now as Moon enters the 14th tithi (phase), nearing complete fullness. Allow your feelings to move through you and attend to your emotional body wisdom with care. Tuesday, March 22nd Moon in 15th tithi As Tuesday begins, the Moon moves to the final phase of the waxing cycle, Purnima- the 15th tithi. Just as the emotional body moves into fullness, it changes into the latter half of the Phalguni constellation, Uttaraphalguni. Aryaman rules this domain and provides creativity, fertility and sustainability for connection, creation and relationship. He's especially associated with the ancestors and sustaining one's lineage through marriage, children and dharma. The Phalguni stars are particularly potent and creative. It is said that even the gods get married during the time of Phalguni- which honor spring, awakening and fertility and celebrations like marriage. Wednesday, March 23rd Moon in 15th and 1st tithi The full Moon is March 23rd at 05:00 PDT while Moon is in Virgo and Uttaraphalguni. This full Moon coincides with a penumbral lunar eclipse, closing the two week eclipse portal that has been invoking challenging shadow work for many. The eclipse begins at 02:39 PDT, with the maximum eclipse being at 04:47 PDT, and ending at 06:54 PDT. This full Moon marks the closing of the eclipse portal (the two week period between solar and lunar eclipses). It is now a better time to begin new projects, make decisions or start anything important. Read more about the full Moon + Eclipse in the March Moon Wisdom post. Thursday, March 24th Moon in 2nd tithi The Moon continues through Hasta until late morning. Let Savitr support your awakening and increased light as you begin your day. Recite the Gayatri Mantra for gaining his guidance. As Moon shifts into Chitra, Vishvakarma arrives with an action-oriented agenda. His creativity and the action he puts behind it, can support great strides. He is considered "the divine architect" who created the zodiac. Friday, March 25th Moon in 3rd tithi Saturn goes retrograde in Scorpio at 02:50 am PDT and will be moving in reverse until August 13th, 2016. Retrograde planets act like the nodes Rahu and Ketu, which adds to the intensity of the planet and how they will express themselves. As the slowest moving planet, Saturn causes the most prolonged challenges. It's important to play by his rules and honor his requests for slow, steady action, simplicity and alignment with nature's rhythms. Saturday, March 26th Moon in 4th tithi Moon continues through Libra and Swati nakshatra the majority of the day. Mind your breath, your life force energy, and notice if you are using it intelligently or squandering it. Be in right relationship with your inner life and let this spark increased energy and enthusiasm for living. Seek balance between inner and outer, polarities and conflicts. What parts of your being need resolution and more harmony? Let the breath help you find this union. Sunday, March 27th Moon in 5th tithi Vishaka continues to rule the day, provoking unification and increased harmony within. Challenges are a reminder to make adjustments. Ask for support, call in new resources, gather your team of guidance. Where are you resisting the support you need? Where are your actions out of alignment with your inner knowing? Reach out, connect and receive. You can not thrive without increased support. Monday, March 28th Moon in 6th tithi Moon continues to transit its debilitation sign, Scorpio, while moving through Anuradha nakshatra. Anuradha inspires growth from one's depths, rising from the mud and blossoming into wisdom and beauty- as is symbolized by the lotus flower. This constellation can bring precision and exactness, as well as inspiration and growth.  The Thing Is The thing is.. to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hand, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you again. ~ Ellen Bass Renewal, awakenings and beginnings arrive with the Vernal equinox on March 19th at 21:00 PDT. The length of light and darkness is almost equal on this day, which marks a turning point. For the northern hemisphere, days will be getting lighter (longer) as we move into spring and summer. This is the beginning of more light, more life. Shakti is stirring, inviting in more creativity in the coming days and months. This sense of opening moves us towards completion as the eclipse portal closes. Fertility and creativity are enlivened with this full Moon, as it coincides with the Vedic Holi festival, also known as "the festival of colors". Holika Dahan (the night before Holi when the fires are lit) is on the 22nd this year, followed by the Holi on the 23rd. This celebration in the Vedic calendar which roughly coincides with the vernal equinox and the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, sparks creative potential, increased love, beauty and creativity. It takes place with the Phalguni Purnima as the Phalguni stars are ripe with sensuality, love, beauty and abundant resources. No matter the hemisphere you are in, both spring and fall are considered "sandhi" times of year- or in between seasons. These are sacred times, when the veil is thin, sensitivity is heightened. In Ayurveda, we attend to necessary physical rituals that help the body cleanse and purify. Holi comes at this sacred junction and is a time to "plant seeds" so to speak. It is a celebration of fertility, abundance and the awakening of Shakti within Nature. It is the marking of the gap, which is ripe with potential and possibility. The full enlivening of Ma is celebrated during Vasant Navaratri- the nine days of Mother Divine, beginning on the 7th of April this year. Consider Holi the "kick off" celebration in many ways- a time to plant your desires and create your fruits for the coming year. Let this Full Moon enliven a sense of spring and possibility. Use this week's Creative Engagement activity (below) for your cultivation process. The full Moon is March 23rd at 05:00 PDT while Moon is in Virgo and Uttaraphalguni. This full Moon coincides with a penumbral lunar eclipse, closing the two week eclipse portal that has been invoking challenging shadow work for many. The eclipse begins at 02:39 PDT, with the maximum eclipse being at 04:47 PDT, and ending at 06:54 PDT. Creative Ritual My Creative Rituals are intended to support your transformation and healing process in the cycle to come. Each ritual is in alignment with the cosmic tides- in order to help you adjust, shift and move more fluidly in balance with Nature's rhythms. Recycle this ritual more than once for added benefits. * For the full version sign up for my membership. This week's Intention: Expand, merge and co-create with the creative pulse of life, the nourishment that is all around you. Moon transits through its own sign of Cancer, Leo, Virgo and into Libra this week, continuing to wax until the full Moon on Thursday. On Monday the Moon is in the 13th tithi as well as Pushya and Ashlesha nakshatras, transiting through Cancer, conjunct retrograde Jupiter. There is a certain expansion arriving with the day, a swelling. Move towards the nourishment and gather resources you need. Notice the feelings that support your experience of nourishment- even if the mind tells you otherwise. This theme carries us through the majority of Tuesday until the Moon jumps into Leo and Magha nakshatra in the evening. Shifts, changes and power struggles surface. Relationships and their intricate dynamics come out to play, offering us the chance to look at our challenges and vulnerabilities. Simultaneously we may fill a surge of strength and inner power arrive. For some that will mingle with the ego, for others this will be a welcome relief of hope and possibility. Stand in your life force energy and let it offer resources to you. Be bold and powerful! As the Moon ripens into the 15th tithi on Wednesday, the fullness propels us into our day with themes of personal power continuing to surface. Not until late in the evening when the Moon shifts into Purvaphalguni nakshatra do we feel a sense of change arriving. Shifts, endings, restructuring and releases are happening with all of our relationships- with ourselves and with others. What needs to be released? What is no longer serving you? Challenges are an opportunity to look at where we are blocking our creative life force energy. What is hindering you from feeling fully alive? The full Moon is on Thursday, March 5th at 10:04 pm PST whil in Leo and Purva Phalguni nakshatra. This full Moon is an especially passionate one, offering extra creativity and life-force activation. It also coincides with the Vedic fertility celebration of Holi. Powerful connections to the life force are moving within us now, so surrender to them. This immense creative potential is like a seed: how we plant our seeds, and how we nourish them, determines what will grow. New forms of support and resources are arriving today. Are you open to receive? Want to know more about this full Moon and the themes for the coming waning Moon cycle? My 2015 Moon Wisdom Calendar is here! Get in on the special price + bonuses this week. Details here. Friday, the Moon moves to Virgo, joining the shadow planet, Rahu here. Both receive direct gaze from Ketu, Mars and exalted Venus. Themes around restructuring our relationships continues. These relationship themes will connect to our sources of love, money, creativity and femininity. We may feel the pinch or a flood of awareness shedding light on our desires and needs. Dance with your shadow and light very consciously today. Saturday has us working with shadow and light more directly. Where are you seeing the light? Where are you still in the shadows? As Moon separates from Rahu, we begin to feel some new dawning emerge. Let your light shine. By Sunday, a certain strength and resilience sets in. Determination and demand will help us take bold and necessary action steps. Get clear on what you want. Keep building your life and let your dreams become real. As Moon slips into Libra Sunday evening, increased creativity and connection is possible. Stoke your passions and light your inner flame. Daylight savings begins on Sunday at 2 am in the USA. Remember to set your clocks ahead one hour. Mercury moves into Aquarius on Sunday at 17:44 PST until March 27th, and is conjunct Sun until March 14th. With Mercury now out of the gaze of Rahu and Saturn, we may begin to feel more clarity in mind, focus and intention. Now is the time to get organized, focused and clear. Set goals, take action and achieve the aim. This will require your ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit, but it will be worth it. Timing is everything. Are you working with Nature or against her? Use my 2015 Moon Wisdom Calendar to help you align your actions, intentions and goals. Get the details. My Jyotish Basics Classes have begun! Don't miss out on these transformational and healing classes. Sign up for details.
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