We are entering a pretty potent portal.
We have the solar eclipse happening today which is in the cardinal fire sign of Aries - the one that’s not afraid to jump in without a plan, the one that knows sometimes you gotta be the first one to leap. A new lunar cycle flavoured by Chiron. Who is that wounded healer within you? What is that deep sacred wound within you that wants to be transmuted, that’s ready to be transmuted?
We are also in the liminal space of Jupiter-Uranus conjunction - the expansiveness of being in physical form mixed with sudden insights and epiphanies, perhaps? Taurus, the material plane, the body, the throat and our voice - a meeting place for Jupiter and Uranus, the expansion of our nervous system, perhaps? Embracing the importance of calmness and stillness. Embracing our capacity to trust in our body wisdom.
As a sidenote, perhaps it’d be fun to look back on this Jupiter-Uranus cycle and see where it all began. All the way back to the beginning of 2011 when they met up in Pisces. What seeds did you sow back then? And then fast forward to the opposition of Jupiter-Uranus in 2017. What blossomed during that time? And fast forward again to this moment here. What’s the new seed that is ready to be sown?
Lately, in my breathwork sessions, I’ve felt more present than I have before. I’ve welcomed feeling into the various sensations of my body. I’ve felt and embraced the life force energy that’s in my blood. I’ve cherished some deeper and slower breaths for more presence - presence in this beautiful imperfect body that allows me to embrace all that life has to offer.
At a quick glance of this Jupiter-Uranus cycle through my own life, I see how cultivating my body’s capacity for trust has been the main theme: the absolute low point during my Saturn Return around 2011-2012 with really bad social anxiety and comfort eating, to cultivating a consistent fitness practice around 2016-2017 to help build up my confidence, to now, cultivating a new practice of presence through the body and its Felt Sense and leaning into a deeper sense of trust.
Our beautifully magical imperfect bodies that allow us to embrace all that life has to offer.
When I sit with this question that Jennifer Racioppi posed in her Eclipse email today - what’s rising from your soul? - I am instantly transported to my graduation breathwork session that I am currently dreaming into being. This morning, a slight insight emerged from the depths of my soul.
A word appeared.
PRESENCE
That is what is rising from my soul - this deep desire to be more present to life, to invite others to be more present to life, to loosen the grip and allow more ease to come in, to surrender what this untrodden path has for me and let go of conscious control, to show up in my devotion to my passions and invite in support from the seen and unseen guides.
Ultimately, what’s rising from my soul is this deep desire to allow life in.
To bask in my own presence.
To follow the rising and falling of my chest and belly as I breathe more deeply in devotion to life.
To courageously step off the path of tight grips and concrete plans and invite in more wonder and awe and curiousity.
To trust the path and embrace the journey with its meandering twists and turns.
To yield to time and take in every single moment for it is the presence that is the most precious gift of all.
JOURNAL PROMPTS FOR THIS CHIRON-FLAVOURED ARIES NEW MOON AND NEARING JUPITER-URANUS CYCLE
How can I cultivate more presence in my life?
What practices allow me to feel more present in my life?
What old wound is ready to be nourished with my own breath and presence?
Where am I holding myself back from jumping?
Whose story is it that I’m living?
What old story is holding me back from that leap of faith?
What practices can I lean on to cultivate more capacity for trust in my body?
How can I devote more space in my daily life to these practices?