LIFECYCLE
FORECAST 2012
THE YEAR OF THE MIDDLE WAY:
Practicing Heartfelt Honest Communication
"In
such a period of growth,
emergence is often experienced by the individual
as emergency with all its attendant stress."
Rollo May
Welcome
to 2012 and all that will emerge. Communication is the golden ticket
and our 'tools for change' are: Review, Change, Peace. Jump right
in and embrace expansion. It's time to be honest and communicate all
that you've learned about living from your heart over the past twelve
months.
We
have arrived at the mid-point in our nine year pattern. This is an
unsettling and tricky zone to traverse. It's years that carry this
energy field that help us to learn, again and again, that arrogance
will not be tolerated... we're all in school. The twelve months/moons
before us are going to be teaching us the next steps so that by September
we'll recognize more about the deep meaning of the Middle Way. There's
a good deal of peace to be found within this space yet we have to be
willing to move through inner chaos and outer clamor to reach it. Fifth
level energy is not for sissies. This is bound to be a year of huge
adjustment so decide now to make change a joyful adventure within...
then notice with enthusiasm what emerges from your choice.
As
we are well aware... 2012 has been anticipated by some and dreaded by
others. Let's not subscribe to either polarity. In fact we could be
so bold as to suggest that the best place to be, this entire year,
is somewhere between black and white... good and bad... up and down...
rigid and limp. In Buddhism we're taught to integrate perspectives
applying wisdom and compassion to cultivate relative Bodhicitta, in
storytelling Goldilocks visits the Three Bears... and experiences "just
right". Jacquelyn
Small equates this level of energy to "hanging in the dangle,
suspended by the hand of God".
As
an assist, the year will prompt you to be in sync with your throat chakra.
Open the ears, nose and throat allowing them to act as your 2012 personal
GPS, setting your direction and keeping you on course:
Ears:
What do you hear that soothes?
Nose: What aromas comfort you?
Throat: What do you swallow that nourishes?
Conversely:
What
sounds discordant?
What stinks?
What can't you swallow?
Start
with the way that you speak to yourself, notice what you're communicating
that sucks energy out of your Art/Life. Get more honest about what it
is that reeks in your personal world and what you can no longer stomach.
There's a need for courage when we move toward deeper levels of the
honesty that the fifth level requires. Caroline Myss in her Energy Anatomy
work equates the fifth chakra with the sacrament of confession and she
reminds you need to be confessing to yourself not something outside
of you. Stay honest.
This
halfway point in the nine-year pattern is about learning your next level
of balance. Balance is a powerful commodity; when we lose it we can't
function. There's no denying that a majority of humans are out of balance
and as a result the scales are tipped dangerously and in a minute we
may slide over the edge.
The
following wise words are from Carl Sagan. Enjoy the video. Sagan
communicates a wisdom that inspires change. Since time began we have
journeyed to the stars in our imaginations. We're compelled to adventure
by our creative connection to the bigger wider world and yet it's only
within the recent history of our travels that Wayshowers such as Sagan
and Steven Hawking have helped us to recognize what's at stake if we
don't broaden perspective... "we float like a moat of dust in the
morning sky" serves as potent frame for this walk around the wheel.
Listen.
There are twelve months before you to devote to the creative task of
your emerging Art/Life. 2011 held difficulty and challenge. For many
of us it was just plain hard. We were learning to engage in the work
of the heart and clearly that is a job that requires vision and focus.
Let's imagine that you accomplished the task. Bravo. Now it's time to
listen to the Inner Directive of 'what now? what next? what matters?'
Hear.
Whatever transpired in your life this past year provided friction. Friction
is necessary. Friction is the dynamic that tempers and hones a deeper
awareness of what you're here for. Take a moment right now and honor
whatever has transpired for you throughout the last twelve months. Review
the past year through the practice of Inner Listening. Once you've completed
a brief appraisal turn and face the coming 13 moons.
Speak.
Connect with the Change that you sense is approaching. Take a deep breath.
The Mystery will magnetize your growing edge. The direction in which
you Art/Life is growing indicates what you are here to share.
"The
words we need will come of themselves.
When the words we want to use shoot up of themselves,
we get a new song."
Orpin Galiz
Communicate.
In 2012 you are being asked to find your Middle Way. Listening to the
Middle Way requires that you negate negativity wherever it arises. As
you begin the New Roman Calendar Year remember that bouncing back and
forth, jumping the track, doesn't help you. It doesn't help the world
or anyone or anything here at this time. Balance is required for the
future to unfold in a way that allows all living beings to experience
the freedom to simply be. Stay the course. Don't bounce about.
Share
your genuineness. This year you have the opportunity to align with
the peace of deep inner space and to then articulate with integrity
what you find there.
In
2012 the energy is set, on the global stage, to assist each of us to
create small changes and to witness small wonders as we walk onto the
Art/Life stage willing to COMMUNICATE who we are in our deepest most
inspired truth. Deep truth is not negotiable. You and I each birthed
ourselves in, baggage and all, so that we could have our say and play
our role in the unfolding story of love and service.
"...the
Middle Way is a life lived between the extremes of self-denial and
self-indulgence..."
For,
as the Buddha so wisely taught all those centuries ago, it is in the
walking of this Middle Way that one discovers Nirvana, releasing the
pain and anguish of the ego into the serenity of our Buddha-nature.
Stay
on course with what you have invested in over the last four years (2008
- 2011). It's time to be communicating deeply. Pay particular
attention to what you were up to in 2009. With this conscious connection
you can advance more smoothly into the areas that the fifth year in
a nine year cycle offers.
2012
let's you review what you've visualized, created, expressed and developed
over the past four years. The Tarot
offers a richly creative way to explore life's journey. The Hierophant:
Key #5 is our primary archetypal guide this year.
The Hierophant symbolizes the law of life-mastery. Through a
Buddha-like meditative awareness and philosophy that views every
experience as a lesson-learning opportunity for growth, the
Hierophant passes the steps or tests of life.
Life is your teacher...
As the Buddha-Hierophant, transmute your earth faults into
the philosopher's stone... a solid understanding that rifts
and conflicts are openings for new life to take seed.
The Hierophant is represented by the number five, which stands
for Humankind. Five symbolizes the human state of consciousness
that is higher than the animal realm but lower and less perfect
than the gods. Your opportunity is to use the human situation
of evolved qualities in order to transcend your unevolved aspects.
2012
will highlight the challenge to 'being peace'. In 2011 'the way in'
was to create the work of the heart. The physical spotlight this year
is on the throat chakra, the fifth of the seven major power centers
in the body. In the chakra
system this fifth level area is referred to as the "Heart's
Accelerated Path".
Now
we're building off of the preceding 48 months (2008-2011). It's wise
to recognize that no matter what you've been through, no matter what
the world at large has weathered during that time, you are still here
and the 12 months ahead are favored as a period of change and communication.
Make your throat zone a center of attention... visualize your words
as gorgeous perennial flowers blossoming forth from your mouth.
2003
was the last Level Five year. You might find it of significance to take
a look back, like a pendulum swinging, to reconnect with your Art/Life
journey from that point in time.
2003.
Where were you? What were you doing? Review allows for Inner Listening
and deeper communication with the self helping us to welcome and remember
that the personal journey is an integral part of the collective journey.
2003 was a different world. Any one of us could have gotten stuck in
the politics and terror of that time. Where were you? What were your
experiences? What did you want? This is a good time to quietly look
back to your own journal before you reflect upon 2003
in review... this time in list fashion.
Reading
the works of Wisdom Teachers and contemplating their gifts can give
us a view point that expands the ability to stand in the Midpoint and
teaches us to communicate compassionately.
Here
is William Martin's poetic contemporary translation of the fifth verse
of the Tao Te Ching from his book, The
Sage's Tao Te Ching:
OUR HEART HAS EXPANDED WITH COMPASSION
As we grow in age
we grow in acceptance.
We see shades of gray
instead of black and white.
We become slow to condemn
and quick to forgive.
We do not rant and rave.
We do not complain and gripe.
Our heart has expanded with compassion
and is open to all people.
Bitterness and cynicism abound
but you do not have to partake.
Think of an individual or organization
whose actions have upset you.
Write them a letter thanking them
for the benefits they provide
and encouraging them
in the difficult work they do.
Tell them you understand
how difficult it is to satisfy everyone.
Notice how such an action
will make you feel.
Take
a deep breath. Now take a moment and review the touchstones that have
occurred in this precious experience called your life over the
last 48 months. Within this time-line notice how trials and challenges
have helped you grow in your ability to express the Art/Life that you
choose.
During
2012 strengthen your ability to see life as an adventure. Adventure
means: To take a risk; dare... to go in search of. To go in search of
what? The next phase of your Art/Life experience... take a risk. Dare
to powerfully express.
"The
emotions are not always subject to reason,
but they are always subject to action!"
W. Clement Stone
A
NEW WAY TO SHARE
The
work this year is freeing and non dualistic. That means: review your
emotional experiences for the past four years and make a commitment
to free up emotional energies that have been taking you in a direction
that does not serve you. You know when you're emotionally balanced and
when you're not. Listen to your internal guidance system. To be non-dual
means don't be jumping about. Calm down. Learn about polar opposites
such as the traditional Buddhist 'Eight Worldly Dharmas'.
In
her pithy and profound book When Things fall Apart, Pema Chodron writes:
The irony is that we make up the eight worldly dharmas.
We make them up in reaction to what happens to us in this world.
They are nothing concrete in themselves…
In meditation, we can notice how emotions and moods are connected
with having lost or gained something, having been praised or
blamed, and so forth. Gradually our practice evolves. We start
understanding that, just like us, other people also keep getting
hooked by hope and fear.
Everywhere we go, we see the misery that comes from buying
into the eight worldly dharmas. … [This is] the beginning
of growing up…
When we begin just to try to accept ourselves, the ancient
burden of self-importance lightens up considerably…Having
compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all [the]
unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we
don't even want to look at.
Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal
that we're trying to live up to.
There's a slogan in the Mahayana teachings that says, 'Drive
all blames into oneself.' The essence of this slogan is, 'When
it hurts so bad, it's because I am hanging on so tight.' What
it implies is that pain comes from holding on so tightly to
having it our own way and that one of the main exits we take
when we find ourselves in an unwanted situation or an unwanted
place, is to blame.
Express
your true voice using an adventurous, dynamic, and unexpected approach.
Think zip lines. Mountains to climb. This is a sky's the limit, possibility
year. Convey that.
Listen:
for clarity
Listen: for wisdom
Listen: for 'light'
Listen for growth.
Listen: for trust
Listen: for love
Listen: for experience
Listen: for death and Listen for rebirth
Listen: for strength
Listen: for purification
Listen: for renewal
Listen: for integrity
The Universal Year (UY) for the previous twelve months (2011) brought
the energy of Level Four. It was about the heartfelt process of building
a foundation. If you gained a true sense of your heart's work bringing
it into form for the world… then welcome in 2012! It's a communication
year …and this ever changing and newly developing world needs you!
In
addition to reviewing the past four years and recharging your balance,
this 2012/5-level of energy also provides the opportunity for you to
promote your ventures... it's a very good year to sell your ideas.
Without
judging the means by which some have and some have not,
you can simply imagine how you might enjoy living so as to enhance the
environment in which you dwell. Experiment all year with being on a
grand adventure to create the Art called your Life.
In
2012 you will continue to learn much about the need to balance the forces
of light and dark. This past year most certainly helped you to endure
challenges regarding the heart work you wish to express. These challenges
presented you with additional 'power tools'.
Gaze
out at the blank slate of the 12 months/13 moons before you, and ask,
'Am
I ready to take a risk?'
'Do I own my own emotions?'
'Do I listen to Inner Guidance?'
'Am I capable of expressing my vision?'
'Do I meditate?'
Most importantly this year:
'Do I see life as an adventure in making peace?'
Maybe.
Maybe not. And certainly no one is at 100%. Yet in asking these questions
you can calm down, moon by moon. You can look toward a deeper spirit
of 'we're all in this together'. You can open your mind to the present
moment.
This
practice of reviewing and risking is admirable, provided that while
on this adventure you don't ignore or deny the shadowy parts of yourself
ever calling to be illuminated. During this past year many discovered
or uncovered aspects of the fear-filled dark-side. All people have monsters,
dragons and strange beliefs that are found lurking and hidden in the
physical/mental, emotional or spiritual zones. These collective shadows
and forces of nature continue to escalate in their dance on the world
stage. In truth the world is reeling in a dance of terror. Political,
financial, climatic terror visit the planet as we continue to move deeper
into this new millennium.
The
twelve months before us will offer people globally the greatest chance
within the context of this current nine-year cycle, to communicate a
peaceful world view. In fact, this is a perfect year to also notice
if your best traits sometimes get buried in the basement covered over
and out of sight... invite them to come to live openly as you give them
voice.
The
Lifecycle Forecast is representative of the Universal Energy system
that acts like an umbrella over the globe. Realize that whatever you
were learning to accept nine years ago is energetically matured now.
It really is time to evolve. Learn what that means for you.
2011
was the year to practice getting the hang of living from your heart.
It is from this place that we can truly learn the secret of creating
a world that supports all living beings with compassion and care.
I value
the adventure that unfolds year to year. I have tested this work with
true discipline for more than three decades and ask that you do likewise...
keep notes.
I thank
my many amazing friends, teachers and tools for helping me to hone my
communication skills. I'm deeply indebted to the exchange of ideas handed
down by the Master Artists and Teachers whose words have buoyed my interaction
with life.
For
a delightful 2012 change you can imagine that your Higher Self is singing
you a beautiful love song... here's one...
Listen:
You can emancipate yourself. You can hear a better way this year.
You can listen, hear and speak to the heart of it all. You can be the
peacemaker in your Art/Life. Whatever you choose to share this year
realize that the subtitle for 2012 is 'Honest Communication'. As a gift
to yourself listen to everything that comes your way as though it's
the soundtrack of your Art/Life adventure.
IT'S
ALL IN THE NUMBERS
By
reading the vibration of energy fields, for the year ahead we find 2012
to be Universal Year # 5. The universal quality of any given
year points in the direction of how best to align with the role of being
a conscious Planetary Citizen. The UY also lets us see, sense and feel
when we miss the mark.
In
the Fifth year of a cycle you are asked to practice moderation and notice
the peace that results from the freedom of that choice.
All
over the globe this will be an action packed year. We will collectively
create, travel, change, express, adventure, and promote in whatever
fashion our collective goals requires. As we move into the Fifth Year
the momentum of the Nine Year pattern has hit its mid point. As Planetary
Citizens we can discover new ways to exchange ideas. We can consciously
generate healthy outgoing achievement.
Here
we go:
ARE
YOU WILLING TO LISTEN?
This
is a year to pay attention and expand. Benefit will come by being adventurous.
Listen for opportunity. A fitting mantra: 'detach from negativity'.
2012
has the capacity to set us on a decisive course of action. The first
action is to review where you've been physically, emotionally and spiritually
since 2008. Make a list of what has come and what has gone. Reconnect
to what you're intention is for your Art/Life. Think change. Think exploration.
Think escapade.
Some
keywords/phrases that encourage throughout 2012: acceptance, adventure,
calm, change, choices, enthusiasm, ecstasy, encouragement, expansive,
freedom, guidance, happiness, healing, individualism, intuitive, imagination,
journey, navigate, promote, respect, surrender personal will to Divine
Will, syntax, visionary.
Take
any of these words or phrases and look them up in the dictionary or
thesaurus. Do the same with the words listed in the individual monthly
moon listings below. Don't judge the word, rather learn how it's being
experienced by you and whether it brings balance or discord within.
Ask for insight and guidance to tell you about the way in which each
quality lives through you. Journal, draw, paint, dance, sculpt or craft
your responses. Gain awareness as to how to move forward being peaceful,
being balanced and stable. Listen for clear guidance in relation to
your goal.
"Keep
your eye on your inner world
and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars."
Dorothea Tanning, Artist
LISTEN,
HEAR, SPEAK
Homework
for the year ahead:
review the last four years (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
make change happen
meditate
decide what your adventure will be
engage
people who express balance
hang
out with adventurous, creative people
cultivate
your voice
walk
in the direction of your emotional freedom
be
willing to surrender to something Greater than yourself
take
note/express/make a statement
grow
from the experience of the last four years
trust your 'central', your deepest stillpoint
These
can be intuitive/active indicators that may also inspire those whose
lives you touch. You could teach a class on any one of these. You could
begin to design a community outreach today.
THE
UNIVERSAL YEAR: 2012 MOON-BY-MOON
Throughout
this Year
of the Dragon, at the beginning of each monthly post, I'll insert
inspirations and insights from a collection of varied Wisdom Teachers.
The Fifth Year is meant to be filled with healthy risk and exciting
adventure. Keep anger directed toward constructive action and let your
soft spot hold compassion for all living beings.
In
the book Emotionally
Free, Dr. David Viscott, addresses the topic of blind spots. He
writes:
True
strength of character depends on understanding the weaknesses
that are potential spoilers of your talents. Believing in yourself
enough to get your weaknesses out of the way of your strengths
is often enough to carry the day. Our blind spots reflect a
lack of awareness of our weaknesses...
Blind
spots can keep us from seeing either the bad or the good in
a situation. We can believe all is well or all is lost just
as easily (and unrealistically). Their purpose is to weight
the scales so the conclusion we draw is slanted to give us comfort,
to make us appear right, good, or smart. This prejudiced point
of view also causes us pain because it delays our dealing with
reality.
To
assist you on your journey look at how you might align your self-expression
through each progression of the moon as she cycles through the Universal
Year # 5. Keep in mind that the descriptions offered here are referring
to the umbrella-like energetic qualities that affect us all. Additionally
there are Personal Year Energy fields that are unique to each of us.
If
you've read this far... thank you! I send you all best wishes for a
grand adventure in 2012. My gift to you at any time this year is your
2012 Personal Year Energy descriptor.
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I wish
you a year of emotional freedom. Moon by Moon let's hone our communication
skills so that we're realistic and balanced helping to transform the
suffering where we see it.
I
look forward to seeing you December 24, January 23, February 21 as we
walk the Natural Wheel through the Winter Quadrant of the Mystery.
First
Lunation: The Cleansing Moon
December 24, 2011 - January 22, 2012
A
Prayer for the New Millennium
May
All beings everywhere
be awakened, healed,
peaceful and free;
May there be peace in this world,
and an end to war, poverty,
violence and oppression;
And may we all together
complete the spiritual journey.
Welcome
to the first moon of the Winter Quadrant, the Moon/Months of January,
February and March take us through the Mystery. Now is the time to set
intentions and goals for the 90 days of this quadrant. The Mystery Quadrant
brings you into contact with the secret, ambiguous, and hidden aspects
of your creative nature. We're intrigued by the unknown and the obscure,
aren't we? We're magnetically drawn toward the concealed and disguised.
Now we can take advantage of delving into this area of our own deep
within. Set an intention to mine the gold of the year. In this Mystery
Quadrant we can discover the treasure that's unfolded since last Spring
Equinox.
One
of my teachers talks about the importance of being an "existential
detective". Look at how life and others are presenting data. Existential
detective is a fitting way to frame a relationship with yourself during
this time. Mystery is aligned with uncertainty. There's a requisite
trust during this 90 days that carries us deeper and deeper inward.
We continue to move toward the hidden veins of gold that have been revealed
since internal exploration began on September 23 at the Autumnal Equinox.
Each year at Fall Equinox we circle back toward death to the material
world so that we can begin to calm down and turn Within.
Calming
down is not an easy thing to do. Six months annually for travel to the
underworld delving into the subconscious is infinitely useful. No hurry.
Every year we enter a never before visited realm. Being a detective
and studying the Mystery of our mining process is an exhilarating uplift.
Four weeks from now we're going to be feeling a strong pull toward 'getting
on with it'. For now... relax a bit deeper. Sense into ideas and
inspirations. Begin to set an intention for the gold coming up to
the surface in spring.
December
24 through January 22, cleanse the emotional body. The reason why this
is important is so that you free your feeling nature and begin to release
toxic build-up. Once this is accomplished, you'll be able to devote
the twelve months ahead to on-going review, change and peacemaking.
This
year's energy is bringing an exhilarating adventure. Consider what you
need to cleanse away so that you feel balanced. Change that which feels
defended and brittle.
January
2012 is for addressing the masculine/feminine relationships in your
life. Imagine this cycle as a time of first connecting to the male and
female balance within. Be creative. Meet each of these parts. Give them
names. Know when you're being active/masculine and receptive/feminine.
Feminine relates to the left side of the body, ancestry and the past.
Masculine relates to the right side of the body, moving into the world
and the future.
How
terrific that the first step onto the yearly calendar provides room
for each of us to make a commitment to nest, turn inward, make a home
for our balanced self. This deepening relationship with self then makes
it possible to connect with others by creating a sense of stability.
We'll be learning all year long the default of inner balance between
the active and receptive parts as they relate to change and to our ability
to communicate the Middle Way.
KEYWORDS
for attuning to this cycle: accommodating, artist, balance, be a
true friend, cheerful, discriminating, equilibrium, feng shui, harmonize
the home, intuition, love of nature, new, poise, stability, steadiness,
trust, truth, understanding.
KEYWORDS that take energy away: arrogant, bossy, distrusting, eco-phobia,
emotionally unbalanced, sad, under nourished, war, wobble.
HOMEWORK: Communicate with your inner masculine and feminine
each day during this cycle. Journal their conversations. Make a home
for these 'doing' and 'being' parts. The year's emphasis is on knowing
how to bring yourself back to center. Spend time getting to know you.
Second
Lunation: The Renewal Moon
January 23 - February 20
The
World is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e.e. cummings
Welcome
to the Year
of the Black Water Dragon and to the second moon of the Winter Quadrant.
The Moon/Months of February and March remain as we traverse the Mystery.
February is the time to renew your relationship with the breathtaking
and succulent. On February 2 the ancient cross quarter day of celebration
reminds us of the Mother and the maternal ancestry that allows us to
be here in our one precious human life. It is also the place on the
Natural Calendar where we can begin to feel the Earth stir as she prepares
to wake us up.
The
Renewal zone of the Mystery Quadrant brings you into contact with confidence.
You are born and a dream is stirring... soon it will be time to wake
up from winter's sleep. Yet we are still drowsy and often uncertain.
February's moon cycle is then the opportune time, while it's yet so
quiet, to engage in the mystifying facets of your imaginative and resourceful
nature.
As
creative beings we're fascinated by the new and the unseen. This is
a fabulous time to delve into the ways in which you are like Dragon.
"The
Dragon Personality
The Dragon is a creature of myth and legend. A symbol of good fortune
and sign of intense power, the Oriental Dragon is regarded as a divine
beast - the reverse of the malicious monster that Westerners felt
necessary to find and slay. In Eastern philosophy, the Dragon is said
to be a deliverer of good fortune and a master of authority. Therefore,
those people born in Dragon years are to be honored and respected."
Now
you can take advantage of delving into your Dragon nature renewing your
awareness of the good fortune and intense power that is waiting to assist
you. In the Renewal cycle reconnect to the dreamy yet strengthening
characteristics that may be resting deep within. Your energy is stirring,
can you feel it? Time soon to bring the fresh new you out into the increasing
light.
Candlemas,
the midpoint between Solstice and Equinox, falls on February 2 and aligns
us with awakening:
"The
promises of the return of the light and the renewal of life which
were made at the winter solstice are now becoming manifest. It's the
dawn of the year... It's time to creep out of the hibernation of winter,
cautiously, like the Ground Hog who supposedly emerges on this day
to check his shadow. It's the time of germination. This is a traditional
time for new beginnings."
As
you move through this time of renewal and rekindling of your creative
potency, it's beautifully regenerative to take some deep time for yourself.
The particular quality of February 2012 is excellent for making time
to step away from any confusion and clutter in your Art/Life.
You
have a space, a place within you, the seat of your power and possibility.
It is found deep in your gut. This area is referred to by many names.
I love the Lakota term of Orenda. This word points to the creative universe
within.
Go
inward this Moon/Month. Not to rest and recalibrate but to Renew your
willingness to bring forth what is yours to share. Sink in this Moon/Month.
Be pregnant with the miracle of coming birth. What does this new, yet
unseen child of your imagination, look like in your deepest vision?
Can you feel the stir? Was that a kick? It's time now to Renew a commitment
to showing up and being the good mother to the ideas and inspirations
that have been gathering since Solstice.
One
of my teachers talks about the importance of being "ferocious".
I was startled and resistant to letting this view in. Then I began to
open my heart/mind to the reality behind the word when applied to the
willingness that a healthy mother has regarding the safety and well
being of her child. I began to research the beneficial and wholesome
way in which nature provides this quality. I specifically choose this
vigorous descriptor for our current Renewal Moon/Month. Ferocious is
a fitting way to frame the opportunity available now for protecting
that on which nest. You must protect that which you anticipate giving
birth to. You must be alert. The Renewal of your creative gifts is coming
closer to their birth during this time...vigilance is useful.
Mystery
is aligned with uncertainty just as Renewal is aligned with deep Trust.
Trust lives half way round the Natural Calendar in August. Imagine that
what you are ferociously willing to Renew now is going to be well worth
trusting in by mid August. There is, as you may now see with clarity,
a requisite trust required during this 90 days that has continued to
carries us deeper and deeper inward. Something stirs now. Tend to that.
Continue to tend to the treasure coming up to birth at Equinox.
Were
you able to cleanse your emotional body during this last Moon/Month?
Can you feel the balance point between your ability to BE and to DO?
Great. With this accomplished, you'll be to able to clear away energy
spills that will inevitably occur as you're moving forward. With a recognition
of your balance point you'll be free to devote the eleven Moon/Months
ahead to the Natural Calendar's assignment for 2012 which is on-going,
Moon by Moon review and change leading to peace.
2012
is bringing an exhilarating adventure. Consider what you need to Renew
so that you feel ferociously balanced. Nest and tend and Renew your
commitment to bring your Art/Life out to meet the returning light at
Equinox.
February
2012 is for addressing the higher relationship with your life. Imagine
this cycle as a time of vision questing. Be creative. Set aside the
space to nest and listen to Inner prompts and intuitions.
How
sobering that the second step onto the Natural Calendar provides room
for each of us to make a commitment to be responsible for ferociously
tending to that which is coming closer to being born. In the January
cycle you took care of making space for stability. Now we'll be remembering,
all year long, the default of inner balance between the active and receptive
parts as they relate to change and to our ability to communicate the
Middle Way. This Moon/Month be the fierce mother tending to her yet
unborn.
KEYWORDS
for attuning to this cycle: boldness, deep thinking, dignity, independent
action, initiative, intuition, intense, meditation, natural, persistence,
powerful imagination, problem solving, reflect, regenerate, renew, self
examination, studious, wild.
KEYWORDS
that take energy away: aloof, bored, depression, deprivation, dread,
dull, fearful, mild, secretive, suspicious, tamed, tepid, unapproachable.
HOMEWORK: Be on your vision quest. The year's emphasis is on
knowing how to renew your balance and stay connected to your Orenda,
your creative center. Spend time tending to your Art/Life dream being
passionately Renewed and readied for rebirth.
I
look forward to seeing you, Monday, February 20 for the Purity Moon.
Next
installment:
January 23, 2012 - Second
Lunation: Renewal Moon
Visit my blog each Monday (Moon day) for weekly posts
on 'Following
the Moon'
Donna
is an accomplished artist, author, teacher and the creator
of LifeCycles,
combining numerology, graphology and intuition to create
a picture of you. She has worked with moon phases and medicine
wheels since 1989.
Curious
about your personal cycles through the year and month by month?
