Chakra Links to a Lunar Eclipse

 by Alijandra

There are usually a few lunar eclipses a year, according to the calendar. However, as with the solar eclipse, they may not be seen in your viewing area very well. You can still do a link-up at these times, however. The next one is June 24, 2002. 

What are the metaphysical reasons behind the lunar eclipse?

 The purpose of linking your chakras to a lunar eclipse is to connect deeply with any shadow or unseen energies which not only lodge within the chakra system, but throughout all of your bodies: cellular, physical, etheric, emotional, mental, and spiritual. There is a special emphasis on the feminine energies during these celestial events. What is the state of your feminine energy at this time? Is it in balance with the rest of you? Does it have free expression? Is it clamped down or dominated by male energy—be it your own and/or the male energy as it is expressed in your personal universe?

 ¨      Just prior to the expected event, balance all of your chakras using whichever number of rotations you wish. Just keep it the same for each chakra. See http://www.colorhealing.com/articles/majorchakras.htm    for instructions on where the chakras are located, and to balance, turn each of them 13 times to the left and then 13 times to the right, starting at the base chakra and ending at the black ray chakra..

 ¨      Run silver energy from Mother Earth up your feet chakras along the outside channels or meridians of your legs, continuing up the sides of your body, passing through the armpits and along the inner length of your arms and out your palm chakras. This particular channel opens up the kundalini flow in your body, with an emphasis on male/female alignment. Continue the stream of silver energy, feeling the female energy being anchored within you.

 ¨      Next bring forth the gold ray from Creation through the same kundalini channels as the silver. Allow it to run for a time until you feel balanced in the male energy.

 ¨      Starting at the base, use the red color of the chakra and braid in gold and silver. Send one braid of these colors to the sun, and another braid of the same combination to the moon.

 ¨      Proceed to the spleen chakra. Use orange, silver and gold to braid to the moon and one braid of these colors to the moon. Go through each chakra this way.

 ¨      Ask for your higher self to seat within you.

 ¨      Next, ask for all aspects of you at all dimensional levels and all parallel realities to merge as much as it is comfortable.

 ¨      Then request your oversoul to overlight or merge with you.

 ¨      Next, ask your monadic self to overlight or merge with you.

 ¨      Call your galactic self to overlight or align with you.

 ¨      As the lunar eclipse moves into alignment, feel the braids to the two celestial bodies combine into one space.

 ¨      Bring the eclipse into your body by overlaying the phenomenon over your essence. Feel also the Great Central Sun as shining through the lunar eclipse, exponentially increasing the intensity of the experience.

 ¨      When the eclipse is complete, dissolve all braids and release the higher level alignments and merges. Ground and clear.

Know that you will undoubtedly clear much debris following this experience. Be prepared for much processing, particularly in the arena of male and female issues.

©  1999, revised 2002   Emerald Star Publishing and Alijandra. All rights reserved.

The Transition We Call Death
by Flesymi

Death is not what we think it is. Death is a transition from one form to another, or better, from one dynamic state to another. In our incomplete mode of thinking and relating to ourselves and others, we think we are "alive" because we strictly identify with our current biological form; and we think of ourselves as "dying" when that biological form is nearing the end of its physical usefulness. This skin-encapsulated self-identity may be difficult to refute, but let us try.

Bring to mind some features of your own identity that are non-physical, or at least have non-physical aspects:

Love
Fear
Excitement
Gloom
Intuition
Creativity

While these aspects might currently require a physical body for expression in this particular timespace nexus, they are clearly rooted in a deeper part of our nature that seems to hover beyond the confines of our physical form. In short, we are not just our physical bodies; we are much more...but how much more?

Discovery of this is exactly our path now. We are discovering individually and collectively that we function within non-physical fields of living, organized information and energy. But we are these fields, and we are the condensation of these fields as they take the shape of our bodies, our families, our communities, our societies, and even the circumstances of our lives. We are all that we see around us. Even quantum physics tells us that the perceived and the perceiver – us and the world around us – arise simultaneously out of the "Big Bang" each and every moment of existence. We, collectively, are a perennially unfolding flower held in bosom of Existence Herself; that bosom we call NOW.

But before we can grapple with "death" let us first gain a clearer picture of what life is. Let us broaden our view from the tiny pinhole through which we are accustomed to looking at things. Let us look at the principle of life as seen through its operation in something other than us. For instance, a grove of aspens trees.

One of the largest living organisms in the world is a grove of aspen trees that spans the Colorado Rockies. Here billions of trees express the one life of the grove, all connected through the same root structure and that breathe the same air. Even so, each tree is unique…in fact each leaf is unique. Every tree displays the twists and turns of its penetration into this dense physical world: it leans toward the light, its roots are as different as the ground upon which it sits, it has scars and other memories within its inner rings that shows its living path through time, and these unique characteristics only happen in relation to the local and non-local environment in which the tree survives. If it is shaded by a larger tree, it will not grow as large, until of course, the larger tree dies leaving more light to fall upon the underling.

If each tree had a localized, personal awareness of itself in relation to the grove, no doubt it would perceive itself as separate from the grove. It would see other trees and comment: look at that ugly, bent so & so over there, how disgusting that it soils our nice neighborhood; or I wish I was as tall and white as that gorgeous hunk of bark over there. But examine this grove under time-lapsed photography where decades pass in a matter of seconds before our eyes…centuries and millennia pass in minutes and hours. What would we observe?

We would see the "life" of the grove rise and fall within each tree, within each grouping of trees in relation to the local "neighborhood", in fact within the entire grove. We would see one organism spanning an immense area, whose abode is an even greater living being: an orb, itself, throbbing and hurtling through a seemingly endless joy ride in multidimensional space. But through the trees we would see a living ebb and flow of the life force moving, twisting, contorting, expanding, contracting, and pressing itself into the biosphere. We would see the grove assimilating the elements and nutrients of the earth, reaching steadfastly for the light of the sun…and diving ever deeper into the earth for grounding, while inhaling and exhaling the air. Get a solid picture of this in your mind as we now embrace the "death" of a single tree.

Removing the emotion from this scenario, we find that "death" of an individual tree is simply the life force withdrawing from that particular form and re-emerging in a different one. It is a transition from one dynamic state to another. Nothing is lost, sure the shell or outer exterior is merged back into the local earth-based environment, but the deep and unique characteristics of the individual have now been embedded in the fabric – the field – of the "life" at large.

And so it is with the six billion "trees" manifesting in this most exciting time on earth now. View the past 20,000 years of human life on planet earth in a time-lapsed show over two hours. You will see the same smiling faces throughout time, you will see the same horror throughout time, and you will remember a particular person or group but might not quite be able to put your finger on why or how you know them. You will see the same life ebbing and flowing through all the individuals that make up who we are…you will see the same Being pressing itself into the conditions of this time-space nexus. And you will see it ever striving higher for the light, for more of what it can become. You will see that same bosom of creation cuddling its infant flower regardless of the horrors the flower inflicts upon itself. You will see that life cannot die, life always existed, always will, only the form it takes changes, and it changes, apparently magically, with our perception of what "it" is.

What makes us fear death and dying is too narrow a self-identity, for others and us. We feel that the loss of the outer form is the loss of the essence, the soul. Further, we seem to be lost in a very distorted notion of "time" where our loss apparently happened in a "past" that can not be reclaimed, and this immature notion of time forever separates us from a new relationship NOW with our loving friend or relative who has made his or her transition.

If you are facing "dying" yourself, endeavor to tap into the largest perspective of who and what you are as you make this transition, and do your best to stay aware and in a state of love and acceptance "through" the transition. If someone you know is about to make his or her transition, be the rock that grounds the experience in wholeness, respect, love and an honoring of the life of which you are witness. If someone you know has moved on in the past, gain a new relationship with the essence – the soul – of that being now; you will find that nothing has been lost but the outer shell; as always, the deeper, more meaningful things in life are still there.

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No Limit

by Virginia Marie Swift

A time comes in your life when you finally get it . . .

When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere, the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH!

Enough fighting and crying, or struggling to hold on.

And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and through a mantle of wet lashes, you begin to look at the world through new eyes. This is your awakening...

You realize that it's time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change, or for happiness, safety and security to come galloping over the next horizon.

You come to terms with the fact that he is not Prince Charming and you are not Cinderella and that in the real world, there aren't always fairy tale endings (or beginnings for that matter) and that any guarantee of "happily ever after" must begin with you and in the process, a sense of serenity is born of acceptance.

You awaken to the fact that you are not perfect and that not everyone will always love, appreciate or approve of who or what you are . . . and that's OK.

(They are entitled to their own views and opinions.)

And you learn the importance of loving and championing yourself and in the process, a sense of new found confidence is born of self-approval.

You stop complaining and blaming other people for the things they did to you (or didn't do for you) and you learn that the only thing you can really count on is the unexpected.

You learn that people don't always say what they mean or mean what they say and that not everyone will always be there for you and that it's not always about you. So, you learn to stand on your own and to take care of yourself and in the process, a sense of safety & security is born of self-reliance.

You stop judging and pointing fingers and you begin to accept people as they are and to overlook their shortcomings and human frailties and in the process, a sense of peace & contentment
is born of forgiveness.

You realize that much of the way you view yourself and the world around you, is a result of all the messages and opinions that have been ingrained into your psyche.

You begin to sift through all the junk you've been fed about how you should behave, how you should look and how much you should weigh, what you should wear and where you should shop and what you should drive, how and where you should live and what you should do for a living, who you should marry and what you should expect of a marriage, the importance of having and raising children or what you owe your parents.

You learn to open up to new worlds and different points of view.

You begin reassessing and redefining who you are and what you really stand for.

You learn the difference between wanting and needing and you begin to discard the doctrines and values you've outgrown, or should never have bought into to begin with and in the process,
you learn to go with your instincts.

You learn that it is truly in giving that we receive and that there is power and glory in creating and contributing and you stop maneuvering through life merely as a "consumer" looking for your next fix.

You learn that principles such as honesty and integrity are not the outdated ideals of a by gone era, but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon which you must build a life.

You learn that you don't know everything; it's not your job to save the world and that you can't teach a pig to sing.

You learn to distinguish between guilt and responsibility and the importance of setting boundaries and learning to say NO.

You learn that the only cross to bear is the one you choose to carry and that martyrs get burned at the stake. Then you learn about love. Romantic love and familial love. How to love, how much to give in love, when to stop giving and when to walk away.

You learn not to project your needs or your feelings onto a relationship.

You learn that you will not be more beautiful, more intelligent, more lovable or important because of the man on your arm or the child that bears your name.

You learn to look at relationships as they really are and not as you would have them be.
You stop trying to control people, situations and outcomes.

You learn that just as people grow and change, so it is with love; and you learn that you don't have the right to demand love on your terms, just to make you happy.

You learn that alone does not mean lonely.

You look in the mirror and come to terms with the fact that you will never be a size 5 or a perfect 10 and you stop trying to compete with the image inside your head and agonizing over how you "stack
up."

You also stop working so hard at putting your feelings aside, smoothing things over and ignoring your needs. You learn that feelings of entitlement are perfectly OK and that it is your right, to want things and to ask for the things that you want and that sometimes it is necessary to make demands.

You come to the realization that you deserve to be treated with love, kindness, sensitivity and respect and you won't settle for less.

You allow only the hands of a lover who cherishes you, to glorify you with his touch and in the process, you internalize the meaning of self-respect. 

And you learn that your body really is your temple. And you begin to care for it and treat it with respect. You begin eating a balanced diet, drinking more water and taking more time to exercise.

You learn that fatigue diminishes the spirit and can create doubt and fear.

So you take more time to rest. Just as food fuels the body, laughter fuels our soul; so you take more time to laugh and to play.

You learn that for the most part in life, you get what you believe you deserve and that much of life truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You learn that anything worth achieving is worth working for and that wishing for something to happen, is different from working toward making it happen. 

More importantly, you learn that in order to achieve success you need direction, discipline and perseverance. You also learn that no one can do it all alone and that it's OK to risk asking for help.

You learn that the only thing you must truly fear is the great robber baron of all time; FEAR itself.

You learn to step right into and through your fears, because you know that whatever happens you can handle it and to give in to fear, is to give away the right to live life on your terms.

You learn to fight for your life and not to squander it living under a cloud of impending doom.

You learn that life isn't always fair, you don't always get what you think you deserve and that sometimes bad things happen to unsuspecting, good people.

On these occasions, you learn not to personalize things. You learn that God isn't punishing you or failing to answer your prayers; it's just life happening.

You learn to deal with evil in its most primal state; the ego.

You learn that negative feelings such as anger, envy and resentment must be understood and redirected or they will suffocate the life out of you and poison the universe that surrounds you.

You learn to admit when you are wrong and to build bridges instead of walls.

You learn to be thankful and to take comfort in many of the simple things we take for granted; things that millions of people upon the earth can only dream about; a full refrigerator, clean running water, a soft warm bed, a long hot shower.

Slowly, you begin to take responsibility for yourself, by yourself and you make yourself a promise to never betray yourself and to never ever settle for less than your heart's desire.

You hang a wind chime outside your window so you can listen to the wind, and you make it a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting and to stay open to every wonderful possibility. 

Finally, with courage in your heart and with God by your side you take a stand, you take a deep breath and you begin to design the life you want to live as best as you can.