October 2023 Week 4

We are coming to the end of our month and our intention is lining up perfectly with this weekends moon cycles.

(Taken from notes in Yoga Journal)
We end a two-year cycle with the partial lunar eclipse and full Moon in Taurus taking place on October 28, 2023. Eclipses signify significant periods of change and transformation. These shifts do not take place all at once. They may start or continue on the date of a specific eclipse, but their work continues throughout the time when eclipses are occurring in the same signs. This lunar eclipse brings a strong energy of closure to the last two years.
What a Lunar Eclipse Means:
While a solar eclipse opens the portal for new beginnings and change, a lunar eclipse help us complete a journey or shift our course in some way. Lunar eclipses, like full Moons, are revealing. They convey the truth in an often dramatic way. They are also much more emotionally charged compared to a solar eclipse, as they affect the emotional body to a greater degree.
A lunar eclipse is an opportunity to create significant change in your life. Not all of the information is negative. Some of it may be positive and bring you inspiration along with encouragement to shift your life.
Old energies may rise to the surface of your conscious mind to find understanding and closure. Even if you thought some of these had released from your field, you may find yourself facing them again as they make their final exit from your consciousness.
Sometimes this forward motion can feel disruptive to your nervous system, and you may even resist it initially. There is no moving backward on the lunar eclipse. You cannot fight this knowledge. You can only take it in and ask yourself what you can create with this. If you attempt to cling to energies that no longer serve your evolution, you will be met with frustration and misalignment. If the lunar eclipse reveals something in your life that needs to be released, it’s best to find the least dramatic way to move on.
It’s important to understand that a lunar eclipse occurs to move you forward. It is a push from the cosmos to take you out of stagnant energies and old patterns. Hold space for yourself and give yourself time to process the information revealed on the eclipse. Do not rush into any decisions, but rather let the energy settle and then make whatever moves are needed to propel you forward.
The lunar eclipse and the month that follows it are an opportunity to detach from energies, emotions, and even people who do not serve your evolution. Eclipses are the time to break through the barriers, in whatever form they take, that prevent you from reaching your potential.
Give yourself more time to sit with your feelings about these energies and your observations. Feel the stillness within you. Feel your connection with nature and your part in the vast Universe. Breath deep and know that the Earth is supporting you, and trust your life course. Trust your ability to rely on yourself. You can survive any storm, and you don’t even have to know it’s coming. Let go of the need to project the future to control it. Instead, feel your stillness, resilience, and ability to feel creative solutions when needed. Your instinct is strong. Resist the urge to overcomplicate or overanalyze it because it makes you feel more in control of the world around you. Instead, look for the simple connections that remind you of your strength.

Now that’s a lot to take in! Our intention - “I choose to forgive myself, let go and I move forward with more peace” has given me the opportunity to once again do some internal digging. I love that it states we have a choice. I am choosing to use this energetic time of the moon cycle to uncover, let go and as it says above move forward, which I pray I will do with more peace.

Here is Your Invitation:
Eclipses bring intense energies in the cosmos and in your energetic field. You will feel the effects of this lunar eclipse a few days before the actual event, and they will continue for a few days afterward. You can choose to struggle with the energy of the lunar eclipse or you can harness it to shift your life.
Give yourself extra time to connect with your body and mind during this period. Meditate each morning, practice yoga, and connect with the outdoors leading up to the eclipse. Remember to focus on the simple things in life and allow any chaotic energies to settle by setting an intention to remain grounded in your body.
A lunar eclipse will eventually bring needed changes. Remember that this eclipse completes the energies put in motion two years ago with the first lunar eclipse in Taurus in this set of eclipse cycles that occurred on November 19th, 2021. Let the eclipse be a soft landing place for your emotional process in the previous two years. You may have experienced great upheaval in your life, or you may be feeling changes starting to stir. The eclipse is a time to center yourself and feel your inner stillness and strength.
This eclipse is your chance to transform and shift old patterns into new ones that allow you to heal. It’s your chance to simply let go. Not because some significant event has occurred, someone is forcing you, or you feel you have no choice. It’s an opportunity to release energies that no longer serve you without struggle or effort. Let go the way a petal drops from a flower—because it’s time. Feel the simplicity of this eclipse and let it shift your life away from chaos and into harmony as you come home to yourself. (Thank you yoga journal.com for all the insight). What an opportunity we have!!! Together lets choose to forgive ourselves, let go and move forward wring more peace in our hearts.

“Silence is an empty space, Space is the home of the awakened mind.” Buddha - lets stay awake.