Beginner’s Mind

Sunday, the last day of March, is Spring’s New Moon, beginning the festival cycle Navaratri, which is a ten day opportunity to re-condition body and mind.  This transitional time aligns with the Aires New Moon, the doorway into  seasonal new life.   Bodies often feel internally spacey or tired, especially in the dark of New Moons, but when we have multiple cycle shifts happening, and strong planetary line ups, like now~it is doubly so.  This week is a time to stop and care for the body, take time to assess how and who and what is important.

This is a moment for ‘Beginner’s Mind~Zen Mind.’ Stand wide on the mat, hang upside down, bring heart over head, and breathe into that heart, listen to it.  Feel the back of  the neck grow long, breath into the occipital spine.  This is the area that feeds vision.  Think about it.  When the neck tightens down, the head cant turn to see wider spectrums. While upside down, bend the knees and flop around, responding to a relationship with gravity, the give and take of earth.  Slowly roll back up the spine, see if heart has fed a wider vision. If nothing else, the brain has been bathed in fresh blood, preparing it for un-known territory.

We need rich red blood for the month of April.  We need to grow as luminously soulful as possible.  We have profound un-known territory this month.  We have transformative shifts moving the world into greater confusion, un-expected commitments, and very different trajectories.  As always, some with be in the audience applauding, others will be on stage trying to remember their lines.  The issue will be that the script has changed and no one told the actors.  Time to improvise and trust.  And as the Aires New Moon dictates, find and fund new ways to trust self and be courageous.