
Initiations
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Initiations
PISCES FULL MOON & LUNAR ECLIPSE NOTES
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Hi, welcome to another week on Planet Earth. How are you all? It's nice to be here. It's a Sunday when I'm recording this, and our full moon and lunar eclipse in Pisces is in one week on Monday, the 8th of September. At least that's the day it is here in Australia. So I want to speak about that now in this episode because with all the full moons, and this is really for people who are sensitive emotionally and energetically, intuitive people who are probably you listening to this podcast. We can often feel these, how do I explain this? I don't know if it's because I'm an astrologer or if it's just because of my makeup, but usually I go through the journey of the full moon in the days, sometimes weeks preceding it. But mostly it's in the days. Before it, and you can really feel, the buildup of energies. The full moon on Monday, the 8th of September is in a water sign, Pisces, so it's playing out in the emotional and energetic realms. The moon is related to our emotional and energetic and intuitive realms, so there's a doubling of this energy, and then it's a lunar eclipse as well, so it's strong and. It's worth talking about because you'll likely begin to see it and experience it and feel it, throughout this week, and certainly over this coming weekend. But, I wanna preface this by saying that my experience is mine. Yours is different. You may have your own rhythms. You know, these are collective experiences, so there often is a through line. But I also know, I have a family friend who has studied ish for a long time, and the last time I spoke to him, he said that he always goes through the. Let's say the doorway or the initiation of the full moon after it's full. So within the full moon period, those three and a half days that start on the full moon. Whereas for me, it's like the lead up. And so this is the only full moon and lunar eclipse that we have in Pisces in this set of eclipses that started. With the north and south nodes moving into Pisces and Virgo. In January of this year, and that will be there until July, 2026. I have several, I think there's like three episodes about these eclipses already. If this is your first episode. Listening to me chitchat, then I would go back and listen to those as well. I'm really excited about this full moon because it's the north node and eclipse and a full moon all in beautiful Pisces. This is the higher, more conscious, more elevated, the higher reaches of the possibility of Pisces, swimming in these very liminal lunar realms. So it's such a confluence of our own symbolism, our own dream world, and dream scapes. An incredible time to be doing any sort of dream work, and hopefully you've listened to my, interview with Marie and McKenna, that absolute legend and her dream work. I highly recommend following her. She's a total ledge and so our dreams, our visioning states are very alive right now. You know, Pisces, to me is. A combination of Clair sentience, so clear feeling and what I refer to as Clair visioning. I don't call it clairvoyance for whatever reason. I call it Clair Visioning, which is clear seeing. And this is our capacity to receive images in our dream states, both waking and asleep. All of this is emphasized during this time in a very beautiful way. So what are these higher echelons of Piscean experience? Well, it's transcendence. It is being beyond the realm of time and space. It is transcending. The physical, it is transcending time through being in deeply the expansiveness of the present moment. And that can sound really abstract and in a way, verbally, intellectually it is because it goes beyond the mind. But you've all had these experiences, you've all been in these states, whether they were fleeting or lasted for a period of time. I'm sure you've all had them numerous times. And this is a water moon again. So we wanna be, you may want to be in bodies of water or around bodies of water. Look, I still have my. A lot of my training was Vedic from when I lived essentially at a monastery. In India, I was studying the vaders very, very intensely and living within that world, very extremely. And so. In the Vader, there are, and within that system of operating, there are times when you don't go outside where it's not recommended to go outside. You know, dusk is a time where the rock shushes are alive and well, these more sort of like demonic beings, let's say. They, they, you would never, ever go out into a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse, within that world as well. And so I just want to say that,'cause I just said you might wanna be in bodies of water. I don't know if this is a full moon that you'd wanna be in a body of water for. So you make up your own mind. But just to give you an eye into other ways that, different pockets of culture and history have played with eclipses. It's not necessarily a time to, be drinking the moon water, you know? I'll just say that. So yeah, with this, there is several things. So the sun is in Virgo. It's been here for just over a week now, and. That means that the sun, which is consciousness, is bringing to life the archetype of Virgo, where the south node is. So it's also bringing to life these less conscious or lower states of this archetype, which is stress. Stress enough, like busyness. It's where it feels like we, there's a constriction of time. I don't have enough time in the day, to do X, y, z. It can be a level of great disorganization. It can be where we mask, silly habits as being productive when really they're not. It is an incredible time, and maybe it's a symbolic time while we're in the eclipses to certainly be cleaning the house. But to, get rid of items and gifts from people that. Don't serve you or don't feel resonant. We wanna remember I was just writing this, this is a year of the snake energy and what isn't palpably humming in harmony with you will really stand out as being discordant. And I mean that. In a mundane sense with objects that you might have in your house. I just had the great pleasure of moving and getting to pack everything and then unpack everything behind me, I have many boxes of books still to unpack, but the ones that I've unpacked, I've been going through and just very consciously editing. You know, it's like if something sits at about a six or a seven or a, I should read this. It's like, no way you gotta go. Same with, objects from Xs. I just got rid of a whole bunch of those things, even like bedding. And it's felt incredible the last few weeks to be in a space that's more resonant mine because the things within it are. There by my conscious choosing and what I'm bringing into my house, the colors, the forms are so deeply resonant with who I am. That it's like my house is humming. You know, and that's something that I would just highly recommend for all of you if you have the time. You know, it is Virgo season. This is a time of. Cleaning of energetically cleaning, but of physically cleaning. You know, I've spoken about this ad nauseum, but the cleanest that I feel energetically is after the showers that I have where I wash my hair and I do a salt scrub. It's like there's a whole new layer of skin available. It's like all of those new senses, my hair, everything is just cleaned out and it's me. That's when I'm most me, and this is going to be great as we lead into this moon space, which because it is an eclipse, yes, there can be. To me, it doesn't feel like the classic lunar eclipse of even having to release things. I guess I'm gonna have to see how the week plays out for me personally. But you know, classically, the full Moon is a great time to write, write a list of what you want to let go of. But for me, I'm more inclined to write down my visions and to land them on paper. You know, this feels like a visioning moon. We're forming this incredibly strong. Physical planetary bond between Earth, sun, Virgo, moon, Pisces, they're coming together. That bridge, that axis will be exact, which is why we'll have the eclipse. This is a incredible doorway into what's possible with this bridge, you know, and to me, this is. The vision and the vessel are coming together, and that's you. You are this meeting place of spirit and matter as is this planet. You know, I was so excited a few years ago when I saw that the north node was gonna be here in Pisces, to me it just felt like we were going to release the grip on. tension, stress, doing, doing, doing must do, should do these south node Virgo energies and opening up to more of being and transcending and the liminal and what's possible and magic. The magic of our intuition. A deep honoring and opening and widening of that aspect of ourselves. And if we are to look at the weaving of the astrology, we would say that releasing the grip on what we think we should do. And tapping into more experiences that are transcendent is the medicine. That is the curriculum. Whatever is for you will arrive through those two gateways, you know, un unfurling, your grip on what you think life should be and making it busy and making it. I don't know. Something I've been saying to my friends recently is like, if I don't have that capacity to do the things that fill me up, it's like my life feels dehydrated. All of my life juice feels dehydrated and I don't, that's not what I want. I've certainly noticed more agro and I think that's having the sun in this realm where the south node is. Within myself, but within people like it, I notice it while driving. And it's funny'cause I usually notice that around a full moon or particular full moons. So, but here it is with the sun and the south node joining forces. There is this release of stress. I don't know what is possible. With a new influx of Piscean energy, so many of us have reengaged with fantasy over the last several years. I grew up reading, reading a book. I read it this time. Of year, every year, for a long time, for many years, a beautiful book about Merlin called The Crystal Cave. Highly recommend, and so where we've been engaging with magic and what's possible through the realm of literature, through the realm of movie for many years now. My invitation is to engage with this aspect of yourself in your own life. It's not something that exists outside of you. There's many places that you can go to, within your own mind, within your own being. I would prioritize as much as you can, transcendent experiences, and this can be mundane or magnificent. It's whatever that is for you. Like for me personally, for certainly being in my favorite art gallery. The Art Gallery of New South Wales, unbelievably serene, beautiful temple. It's lying atop the water in an ocean pool. Being held by the giant ness of water. I went old school during the week and somehow happened upon. A podcast episode with Deepak Chopra. It was like so, so two thousands. It was kind of awesome. And he was talking about stress and he said that stress is a resistance to existence. And he said that he got that from, the Maharishi like some 45 years ago. It's a resistance to existence and this is so perfect in terms of illustrating the south node in Virgo. And then he continued. He said like, when you resist the present moment, you create tension that is literally the south node in Virgo. It is this. It is these bodies of stress. It is this tension that gets stored within the physicality. Even if intellectually you've moved beyond the thing or you've understood it and you've passed on, it's what still resides within the body, the body's memory. It is our capacity to stress about what may be. If I do this thing, how will I be X, Y, Z, whatever that is. It's roadblocks that we put in front of ourselves when we're trying to bring beautiful things into the world and into life. And the north node in PIs is the present moment. It is that feeling of. Flow. It's the timelessness of the present moment. Again, this sounds abstract, most likely, and it is to our minds. We are not playing in the realm of the mind and rationality and logic. That's not what we're being asked to open towards. Transcendence isn't something that you can pinpoint on a map or a chart. It's not meant to be. It's beyond the known, but it's like the ultimate knowing, if that makes sense. So my recommendation is to certainly tune into your own knowings this week. There is an amplification of our clear scene. And our clear feeling, and then however that plays out. However, your intuition is attuned, but that's where there's a lot of oomph this week. And with this full moon, Pisces is the end sign. It is this embryonic fluid of the Cosmo. It's that sense of belonging to something much larger than the self, which we all had the experience of in the womb. And you know, we can access those states all the time. So being held by something that's bigger than the self is very womb like. You know, again, for me, it's being in a hammock. It's being in a big body of water, a safe body of water. Tune into your knowings and play with this realm. You know, I'd love for you to think about the most mystical experience you've ever had. That might be a great way to start your week. Like, let that set the tone to your week. What is the most mystical experience you've ever had? Are you available for more of that? I mean, hopefully, yes. I have created a workbook. I'm just finishing it off right now for the eclipses. It's fun. It's gonna look very pretty, which is so important to me. And if you haven't signed up to my newsletter, you can do that below and you'll receive it probably on Tuesday and everyone who's already signed up to my mailing list, you'll get it on Monday, Tuesday. And yeah, I hope it serves you well. I would recommend. You know, something I'm doing this week is finding a Q gum class on YouTube that I can do with my son before bed. I've been doing it in a class on a Friday, and I love it. Anything that's like an energetic practice, whatever that looks like for you, I recommend implementing more of it. And then as always, offering yourself pockets of space to tap into yourself and check how you're feeling, what needs processing. Clear your field as much as you can. So that. What needs to be felt and seen is right there and obvious and doable. This is a time of opening to being in the most mystical, magical, excellent sense. Releasing the grip of what we think life should be. Our life should be, what we think we should be focusing on or doing, and just see what comes in, what taps you on the shoulder and says, good day. Please do tell me your most mystical experiences. Maybe I should put that up as a question box on my Instagram tomorrow. I think I'll do that'cause I want to hear them. I think it would be a great way to set the tone for all of us. Ciao.