New Moon in Pisces this evening at 5:35 PM Pacific Standard Time. This Moon is a very watery, nebulous, dreamlike moon. Boundaries are fuzzy between the tangible and the intangible. Much of our dreams, energetic dynamics and intuitive emotional drive is ruled by this sign. Pisces is the deep deep Ocean floor of our subconscious, it is sensitive, imaginative, empathic and psychic. I like to imagine that the Piscean energy in each of us is manifested as those invisible tentacles or feelers we have out in the world that detect vibrations, subtle emotional shifts in a room or interaction, and the reality in our dream states as they inform our waking life.
This Lunar cycle for the next 28 days is a perfect month to dedicate to a meditation practice. These energies are a potent foundation from which to dive deep into the subconscious and transcend the chatter of the superficial day to day. Dissolving the boundaries of the mind by immersing into a mindful practice is a an interesting paradox worth exploring.
This year I have dedicated to the worship and study of MahaLakshmi the Hindu Goddess. I have set time aside each morning and meditated on Her aspects as well as incorporated a mantra practice into my days. I am able to meditate each day for a few weeks at a time and then sometimes I fall off and go to an every other day practice, depending on what I'm doing with my days. Its been a lose practice that has resulted in some profound revelations for me, but I have also reached a plateau and have been needing to take it up another level.
So recently, the group that I use to do my dance practice with in Orange County began doing Sadhana practices to deities that each student had made a commitment to. My teacher/sister/priestess shared with me what was involved in creating a Sadhana practice so that I may continue to shadow the work that the group was doing even though I have been unable to attend classes due to my move. So I have decided to begin my Sadhana with this New Moon.
Its a big commitment, and I have some anxiety about my ability to follow through with it, but more then that, my anxiety is about the transformation that will occur by doing such a practice. I'm always amazed by how I begin to feel the need for more, or for deeper, or bigger, and then when the path is revealed for me to do or have that, I get so anxious about it. I'm about movement, transformation, and transmutation these days, so I am diving in. I find comfort in the fact that I am aligning myself with the Moon. Having a starting point and feeling that I have a heavenly body supporting me gives me a surge of bravery and dedication. I like that.
I send each of you a potent month of dreaming, dissolving, meditation and Moon gazing.
Namaste.
