LION’S GATE AWAKENING

SACRED RECOGNITION

The western wind drops away

Carrying her last exhale out to sea

Subduing blue-black chop,

Prostrating cliff-grasses,

Now the horizon can marry the sun

As light lies horizontal

In breathless pause

Between day’s end and one to come.

Here, we greet first stars

Dropping through incoming shadow,

Calling to Sirius ‘The Spiritual Sun’

Alchemical guide of latitude and longitude

Imprinting awe, opening harmony, offering wisdom.

Osho wrote, “The word enlightenment has nothing to do with genius, has nothing to do with intellect.  It has something to do with discovering your real, authentic being.  It is discovering god within you.”

Calling our ‘authentic being’ front and center in ‘Sacred Recognition’ is a wise and wonderful mission as we now are under the influence of Lion’s Gate, peaking at its portal, August 8.  This is one of the more intense cosmic blasts for awakening to our true spirit, to discovering the power within. Astronomically, Lion’s Gate takes place when Earth, Sun, Orion’s Belt, and the fixed star, Sirius, align, Sirius becomes visible as the Sun takes its yearly pass over it. It is known as the Alpha star/the brightest of the Canis Major constellation. 

Astrologically, many ancient cultures considered Sirius their ‘spiritual sun,’ and as such a conduit to higher wisdom, and a healing agency for releasing old trauma. It is known to activate abundance of every desire as it releases hidden issues holding back attainment of that abundance.  Let us join the Ancients in their ‘lionizing’ of this magic Portal of healing, of deeper love and care of one another, and of gifts we long for.  If you have been feeling open to some of this energy, good on you as it began the flow into alignment July 28, it will ‘portal-peak’ on the 8th and be leaving on the 12th.  The symbology of the eighth month, on the eighth day, and this year, 2024, totaling to the number eight, makes this moment particularly powerful, a time when we can ask favors of the Universe and be answered with abundant gifts of insight, and transmissions of intuitive clarity. 

The Astrologer, Stephanie Austin, writes this about Lion’s Gate:  “The number 8 symbolizes the interconnectedness of the material and spiritual realms. When turned 90º, it becomes the symbol for infinity and the eternal flow of creation. Its scared geometry is found in many cultures: in Islamic art as an octagonal star pattern called the Breath of the Compassionate representing harmony and unity, in Native American myth as the eight-legged Grandmother Spider weaving the web of life, in the Eightfold Path of Buddhism, in Hindu Yantras, and in the Celtic, Druid, and Pagan Eightfold Wheel of the Year.”

My heart joins yours in harmony to not only create what we personally desire, but to visualize this great light, the power of Sirius feeding the world with abundant harvests, joyful connection, and peaceful manifestation.   Samantha