Full Moon Polarities of Heart & Head

January 27-February 2

We are expanding breath and asana to support a mind that is being tested, and struggling with resistance, or dissolution in some form. This last week of Mercury’s Retrograde asks if we are ready to move forward from a new, expanded POV.  Have we release stale perceptions, especially old thinking on what constitutes relationship.  The upcoming Full Moon in Leo ~Aquarius stand off asks we integrate thinking with feeling, that we open our eyes to how we love both individually and collectively.

This week opened with many layers of energy, not all working  smoothly with one another.  We have the demand of a First Quarter Moon to put muscle into all plans.  There is Mercury’s on-going confusion of retrogradation that requires re-configuration and re-do.  Pluto and Uranus remain in their square, pushing one another, and us, to change, destruct and transform. Adding to this muddle, we feel limitations imposed by Saturn, as well as the confusion and loss Neptune offers.  All of this affects the electro magnetic field of the body and the conscious and un-conscious layers of the mind.

What to do about it?  What do we need?  Clarity for one, courage for two.  Both may be in hiding.  Let us stand the mat to twist our way in, ridding the body of toxins that obfuscate.  Let’s heat muscle and tendon to become more supple so we move into unknown territory with greater equanimity.  We can solidify support structures to assist in overcoming the low grade anxiety that keeps us from risking.  We can strengthen the inner core so we face the world from a power-base of intuition.  And we shall call spirit to lay its quiet balm over the un-easy lay of the land.

Using the mat as a magic carpet not only strengthens and lengthens the body, but we move onto it as a home where we face ourselves in kindness.  It is a small island of rubber where we can:  Acknowledge early conditioning, insecurities, motivation, angst, and anger.  It is a place we practice courage and compassion and begin to acknowledge the Self as sacred.  It is what we make of it, and never more so than now.  Use this time of ‘cosmic swirls and whirls’ to guide yourself well and true, remembering…”all you do is sacred,” even the mistakes, and wrong turns.… especially those, for they are what create the sacred fire.