Shamanic Dreams And Margaritas May 4~11

Cinco De Mayo, celebrated with a sassy Margarita my enliven this week for you. As you sip, ask the Agave-nectar-Gods for a dream. This can be a powerful time for life-changing dreams and visions. As Shaman’s do, be alert to words from other worlds. The veil is thin. This is not a practical time to do the ‘to-do-list.’ Rather, sit softly and listen to your inner life, fertilize it with silence and solo time. New growth is coming, but like the cold of this New England spring, it’s slow to arrive. More time to immerse in the unseen tides moving through us. Come summer we can begin to decide how and where we best move on, as we slowly leave five retrograde planets now dominating May’s landscape.

We will have a Super New Moon in Taurus May 6^th. Taurus, ruled by Venus, makes this New Moon about values, substance, practicality, and beauty. There are four Taurus planets, plus a Grand Earth Trine, connecting Sun, Moon, Jupiter and Pluto, all aiding a needed sense of grounding and stability. A Grand Earth Trine can also support potential in better use of money, or a stronger flow of self worth and power supporting our work, adding to a greater sense of value, which in the end –creates more money. Earth trines, like Taurus energy, can be extremely resourceful and persistent. It wants to use and to use well.

Working with the cosmic flow is always easier than fighting the current. This is a powerful time to listen to what you most value, to dream your beauty as you wish to re-create it, to re-commit to what’s really important to you, letting excess and dead ideas fall away.

Practice This Week

Sit in Sukhasana, holding a Lotus Mudra in front of your heart. Plant your New Moon seeds of intention deep into the luminous heart of the Lotus where they can be nurtured not only with your intention, but by desires to re-define your value. Time spent with the inner landscape is pure gold now. Don’t bypass the opportunity to re-shape your future, and the future of earth. Use this quiet time to re-structure your Practice in simple, practical, and beautiful Taurus-ways.

My classes this week will re-work well known asanas using some of Doug Keller’s practical and beautiful anatomical tips. (Yes, he’s a Taurus!) Plus dancing the lovely spring Shakti Dance, “Earth Dreams” ~two very Taurus approaches to the Practice. Looking forward to seeing you on the mat for renewal, and perhaps a moment to sit with Buddha-thoughts. Yes, he was another Taurus.