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N E W M O O N I N L I B R A
Oct. 14th 2023
5:55pm UTC
It is a favorable day for purification, ascesis and offering assistance to others.
Complete unfinished work, do not start new projects. Reap the fruits of your labor.
This new moon is unusually harmonious. Turn inward and balance yourself. Sum up and reflect the past lunar month and plan ahead for the next.
Come to quiet as this is a day with very subtle energy. Physical power is low today. This is a period of self-renewal, recuperation.
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Some suggestions for today's practice:
- energetic cleaning of self and living spaces
- casting protection spells, using talismans
- ablution
- fasting
- silence
- meditation: breath work, visualisation, purification with fire
- outdoor explorations
- only light housework: create a positive atmosphere with gentle arrangements, don't start big tasks, don't fuss, don't exert yourself.
This New Moon teaches us not to betray ourselves, our aspirations, and our principles.
It encourages us to calmly assert our position without disputes, reproaches, conflicts, and aggression. It helps us strive for perfection in our choice of priorities.
N E W M O O N I N L I B R A
Oct. 14th 2023
5:55pm UTC
It is a favorable day for purification, ascesis and offering assistance to others.
Complete unfinished work, do not start new projects. Reap the fruits of your labor.
This new moon is unusually harmonious. Turn inward and balance yourself. Sum up and reflect the past lunar month and plan ahead for the next.
Come to quiet as this is a day with very subtle energy. Physical power is low today. This is a period of self-renewal, recuperation.
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Some suggestions for today's practice:
- energetic cleaning of self and living spaces
- casting protection spells, using talismans
- ablution
- fasting
- silence
- meditation: breath work, visualisation, purification with fire
- outdoor explorations
- only light housework: create a positive atmosphere with gentle arrangements, don't start big tasks, don't fuss, don't exert yourself.
This New Moon teaches us not to betray ourselves, our aspirations, and our principles.
It encourages us to calmly assert our position without disputes, reproaches, conflicts, and aggression. It helps us strive for perfection in our choice of priorities.
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S O L A R E C L I P S E I N L I B R A
Oct. 14th 2023
6:00pm UTC
Annular eclipse visible in USA, Central America, Colombia, Brazil.
Effects of the eclipse will be noticeable starting around 3:00pm UTC, peaking at 6:00pm UTC.
This eclipse plays out on the south node, which is in Libra from July 2023 through January 2025. The south node functions as a karmic release valve, a parting point for shadows, selves, and history. In those uncanny moments of the eclipse, the sun’s fire acts as a seal, binding something dark and abject, giving it shape and contrast through which to emerge.
Eclipses are not necessarily times for manifestation, but rather, reshufflings of the cosmic decks. The currents and culture around us are shifting.
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S O L A R E C L I P S E I N L I B R A
Oct. 14th 2023
6:00pm UTC
Annular eclipse visible in USA, Central America, Colombia, Brazil.
Effects of the eclipse will be noticeable starting around 3:00pm UTC, peaking at 6:00pm UTC.
This eclipse plays out on the south node, which is in Libra from July 2023 through January 2025. The south node functions as a karmic release valve, a parting point for shadows, selves, and history. In those uncanny moments of the eclipse, the sun’s fire acts as a seal, binding something dark and abject, giving it shape and contrast through which to emerge.
Eclipses are not necessarily times for manifestation, but rather, reshufflings of the cosmic decks. The currents and culture around us are shifting.
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What this means is that this eclipse will aid us in integrating shadows in Libra's domain.
Libra rules our relationality, objectivity, relative perspective:
How do others reflect back what we wish to see in ourselves?
How do we reflect back on them?
Are we skillfully partaking in a balancing act or is it just pretense? Keeping up appearances?
Not every balance is worth preserving.
Note that preserving = stabilizing.
Libra (lat.: scales)
Looking at an old, traditional balance or set of scales ⚖, note that this thing is specifically designed to be instable. Rigid and "stable", it would be rendered absolutely useless as a weighing tool.
⚖ Remember that balance is not static, but a deeply interdependent fluctuating motion between opposing forces. Invite movement. ⚖
Are you a people-pleaser?
It's time to tell the truth at all cost.
Do you bend over backwards to fit in?
Learn to be authentic, and learn to stand out.
Do you exist in the estimation of others?
How do they see you?
How do they see themselves?
How are you unconsciously reacting to that?
What are you projecting?
Scrap that. Burn it all. Lose your flimsy concepts of social standing and renew yourself.
This is an ideal time to experiment: Flip your image. Openly say no to things you don't want. Understand discrepancies between authentic relationships and calculated connections, and equally see how a relationship has the potential to be both authentic and calculated.
Relish in disappointing others and find out who really has your back.
This eclipse is especially auspicious for breaking your paradigms around relationships and roles.
Take off the glasses distorting your view and get your eclipse goggles ready.
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Libra rules our relationality, objectivity, relative perspective:
How do others reflect back what we wish to see in ourselves?
How do we reflect back on them?
Are we skillfully partaking in a balancing act or is it just pretense? Keeping up appearances?
Not every balance is worth preserving.
Note that preserving = stabilizing.
Libra (lat.: scales)
Looking at an old, traditional balance or set of scales ⚖, note that this thing is specifically designed to be instable. Rigid and "stable", it would be rendered absolutely useless as a weighing tool.
⚖ Remember that balance is not static, but a deeply interdependent fluctuating motion between opposing forces. Invite movement. ⚖
Are you a people-pleaser?
It's time to tell the truth at all cost.
Do you bend over backwards to fit in?
Learn to be authentic, and learn to stand out.
Do you exist in the estimation of others?
How do they see you?
How do they see themselves?
How are you unconsciously reacting to that?
What are you projecting?
Scrap that. Burn it all. Lose your flimsy concepts of social standing and renew yourself.
This is an ideal time to experiment: Flip your image. Openly say no to things you don't want. Understand discrepancies between authentic relationships and calculated connections, and equally see how a relationship has the potential to be both authentic and calculated.
Relish in disappointing others and find out who really has your back.
This eclipse is especially auspicious for breaking your paradigms around relationships and roles.
Take off the glasses distorting your view and get your eclipse goggles ready.
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A new set of affirmations will show particularly strong results if implemented starting today. ⚡️
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Forwarded from Esoteric Dixie Dharma
Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
— Yukio Mishima
— Yukio Mishima
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Forwarded from Da’at Darling Feed
Are you living your religious principles or are you living as an atheist? Your behaviors are a macrocosm of what is going through your internal microcosm. If your life does not align with your ideals, it is critical to turn inwards, remember your path, and realign with truth.
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Yesterday's new moon solar eclipse was a big deal spiritually, and its effects have the potential to carry over into a new state of the world and of being in the world.
Make it so.
Allow its impact on your development to be significant.
Use this cosmic alignment as leverage to greater power.
I trust you've reflected well and have reborn yourself in the roaring fire of the symbol of singularity.
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Make it so.
Allow its impact on your development to be significant.
Use this cosmic alignment as leverage to greater power.
I trust you've reflected well and have reborn yourself in the roaring fire of the symbol of singularity.
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BUILD A POSITIVE SELF IMAGE AND PROMOTE PERSONAL GROWTH
1) KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS AND PRESS INTO THEM
Max out whatever it is that you naturally do best.
What comes easy to you?
What do you get joy and energy from that others would consider laborious?
Get good at it, then get better. Your strength is the characteristic that makes you unique. It's the one thing that people come to you for, that you can always assist with. It's the quality that plays a huge part in defining your role in your social circle. Your major strengths are your potential to greatness.
THEY ARE ALSO THE ENTRYWAY INTO ANY AND EVERY HEALING PROCESS, PERIOD.
You're good at writing? Write more, broaden your vocabulary, perfect your grammar, read what others authored and present your work.
You're physically strong or well coordinated? Train, enter friendly competition, find people to work out with and set a new personal record.
PUSH YOURSELF. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE TO YOU PERSONALLY, AND HAVE FUN.
Strengthening strengths raises your energy levels across the board.
2) KNOW YOUR WEAKNESSES AND IMPROVE THEM
After finding your strength, it will be easier to accept your weak points while remaining determined, because you already know that you're really good at something. Having raised your energy across the board, your weaknesses enter into the twilight zone between conscious and unconscious mind, making them accessible.
WE ABSOLUTELY NEED TO ACCESS OUR WEAKNESSES.
If we keep neglecting them, they will keep us running in cycles.
What are your stumbling blocks? Be honest.
Like there is the ONE major asset, there is also the ONE major recurring cause of failure.
This can run very deep, so you may have to do some digging.
You'll find it if you observe the patterns that occur on the meta level behind every annoyance, frustration, every flop.
First, accept that there IS a pattern to EVERYTHING.
Discover correlating phenomena.
Then realize WHAT the pattern is.
Find the starting point of the unwanted chain reaction, including choices and actions that effect your non-success.
What are you occupying yourself with that's keeping you from doing what's necessary to succeed?
A PATTERN IS ONLY A PATTERN IF YOU REPEAT IT.
Integrate your shadows.
3) INTEGRATE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
With time, whatever weakness you have, when raised out of the unconscious into the conscious realm, will grant you access to an entirely new and very different set of tools compared to what you normally use to function in everyday life.
FOR THIS YOU NEED A RELENTLESSLY OPEN MIND.
Reframe weaknesses (that which you don't like or don't naturally excel at) from "bad, undesirable" to just "unfamiliar" approaches.
It can feel quite strange, possibly even "incorrect" or alien, when you manage to leave your comfort zone and explore your new-found set of skills.
It is like dropping into the bottomless pit of unfamiliar ways of doing things.
Scary at first, then weird, then exciting, then fun, easy and maybe even relaxing.
Making the shift from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence, skillful means.
The new perspective gained will allow you to apply the skills you have in the realm of your major strength INNOVATIVELY. It's a process of synthesis, increasing your potency.
Your weakness will always be some kind of a wonky part of your personality, yet, it is the key that opens the potential to exert phenomenal influence, BECAUSE it often feels so foreign and wild.
Integrating strength will give you the courage to face your weakness, integrating weakness will provide you with new approaches to supercharge your strength while removing obstacles.
1) KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS AND PRESS INTO THEM
Max out whatever it is that you naturally do best.
What comes easy to you?
What do you get joy and energy from that others would consider laborious?
Get good at it, then get better. Your strength is the characteristic that makes you unique. It's the one thing that people come to you for, that you can always assist with. It's the quality that plays a huge part in defining your role in your social circle. Your major strengths are your potential to greatness.
THEY ARE ALSO THE ENTRYWAY INTO ANY AND EVERY HEALING PROCESS, PERIOD.
You're good at writing? Write more, broaden your vocabulary, perfect your grammar, read what others authored and present your work.
You're physically strong or well coordinated? Train, enter friendly competition, find people to work out with and set a new personal record.
PUSH YOURSELF. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE TO YOU PERSONALLY, AND HAVE FUN.
Strengthening strengths raises your energy levels across the board.
2) KNOW YOUR WEAKNESSES AND IMPROVE THEM
After finding your strength, it will be easier to accept your weak points while remaining determined, because you already know that you're really good at something. Having raised your energy across the board, your weaknesses enter into the twilight zone between conscious and unconscious mind, making them accessible.
WE ABSOLUTELY NEED TO ACCESS OUR WEAKNESSES.
If we keep neglecting them, they will keep us running in cycles.
What are your stumbling blocks? Be honest.
Like there is the ONE major asset, there is also the ONE major recurring cause of failure.
This can run very deep, so you may have to do some digging.
You'll find it if you observe the patterns that occur on the meta level behind every annoyance, frustration, every flop.
First, accept that there IS a pattern to EVERYTHING.
Discover correlating phenomena.
Then realize WHAT the pattern is.
Find the starting point of the unwanted chain reaction, including choices and actions that effect your non-success.
What are you occupying yourself with that's keeping you from doing what's necessary to succeed?
A PATTERN IS ONLY A PATTERN IF YOU REPEAT IT.
Integrate your shadows.
3) INTEGRATE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
With time, whatever weakness you have, when raised out of the unconscious into the conscious realm, will grant you access to an entirely new and very different set of tools compared to what you normally use to function in everyday life.
FOR THIS YOU NEED A RELENTLESSLY OPEN MIND.
Reframe weaknesses (that which you don't like or don't naturally excel at) from "bad, undesirable" to just "unfamiliar" approaches.
It can feel quite strange, possibly even "incorrect" or alien, when you manage to leave your comfort zone and explore your new-found set of skills.
It is like dropping into the bottomless pit of unfamiliar ways of doing things.
Scary at first, then weird, then exciting, then fun, easy and maybe even relaxing.
Making the shift from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence, skillful means.
The new perspective gained will allow you to apply the skills you have in the realm of your major strength INNOVATIVELY. It's a process of synthesis, increasing your potency.
Your weakness will always be some kind of a wonky part of your personality, yet, it is the key that opens the potential to exert phenomenal influence, BECAUSE it often feels so foreign and wild.
Integrating strength will give you the courage to face your weakness, integrating weakness will provide you with new approaches to supercharge your strength while removing obstacles.
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Radical Middle Path pinned «BUILD A POSITIVE SELF IMAGE AND PROMOTE PERSONAL GROWTH 1) KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS AND PRESS INTO THEM Max out whatever it is that you naturally do best. What comes easy to you? What do you get joy and energy from that others would consider laborious? Get…»
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“Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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We need daring minds and the courage to take up a role that actually influences the direction we're going in as a population.
No shift in the work we do >> no shift in the results we get
Look within your reach.... 🔥🔥🔥
No shift in the work we do >> no shift in the results we get
Look within your reach.... 🔥🔥🔥
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