Blood Flower Moon Total Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio

Dear Soul Family,

Check out tonight's Blood Flower Moon (Total Lunar Eclipse) in Scorpio beginning in its partial phase at 9:28 pm central and ending at 1:00 am. The peak is at 11:11 pm. 

 All Lunar Eclipses operate as Super Full Moons and time accelerators helping us face and heal the shadow and as this one is in Scorpio with the South Node featuring Venus with Chiron.  

We've been feeling this one coming from a mile away, haven't we?  Oof!! If you're anything like me you might feel like crawling out of your skin.  This is just the time my dear friend Intuitive Julie Brown would say something like “you're feeling these difficult emotions right now because you are clearing them.”  Be gentle with yourself."

I always feel something in me unlock when she says this, a part that's been fightning, struggling, locked up tight and in deep contraction.  To recognize there is a process at work that is ultimately working toward my wholeness and peacefulness and inner congruence is a great relief.  And when I feel that relief suddenly my heart opens. 

And ultimately that is the benefit of shadow work.  Our hearts open to meet ourselves, others and our lives with more softness, more presence, more grace. 

So if you've been feeling exhausted, heavy, low on energy and just wanting to nap all day it's no wonder.  If you've felt out of sorts, cranky or like there's a pressure cooker living inside your guts you're not alone.  Know you are in a process of being “cooked” from the inside out with all of the pressure and intensity helping you become more of a well seasoned and delicious human.

I love the work of psychological activist David Bedrick and recently came upon his wonderful description of Shadow Work as follows: 

"A person tells me they're too judgmental. 

I hear a person ready to become more discerning, to have clear opinions, or who feels inferior and needs to be lifted up.

A person tells me they're a procrastinator.

I hear a person who is trying to do something that is somehow not right for them. 

Or a person who is ruled by an unfriendly type of discipline, an inner criticism, whose self-love won't let them proceed under that inner tyranny.

A person tells me "I STILL haven't resolved my trauma, attachment issues, dependencies."

I hear a person needing to be closer to their humanity and the humanity of others. 

Or a person who needs a more forgiving attitude towards themselves. (Perhaps that even helps the road to their healing become more pure and clear.)

A person tells me they need to learn to trust. I hear a person who is not quite at home in being closed, having boundaries, or simply needs to listen more closely to their own counsel and heart.

A person tells me that they can't RELEASE their anger. I hear a person who has an unfriendly relationship with a kind of power that rises up in them.  A person needing support to not only deeply feel their anger but to embody it, express it and enjoy the way it feels. (by the way, that smooths out anger, making it more able to do its job and not unwisely injure).

When I hear the voice of the divine singing in my ear, it says, "Listen carefully to the complaints people make about themselves. When they are mixed with comparison, critical self-evaluation, even self-hatred, slow down and bring some grace and love to what they malign, marginalize and push away. 

Don't support the creation of more shadow. Help them come home to themselves - the magnificent self they already are.