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Thank you so much for being here for all of it.
This space, somatic space has been we just celebrated our
three-year anniversary. So it started three years ago in
2023 in Pisces season. And we're building resonance,
you know, we're building capacities, we're building
relationships with each other and with ourselves over this
time. And some of you have been here
that whole time, some of you have been here for big chunks of
it, and some of you are just coming in.
And I just really want to honor that.
Like any space, you know, this is a community and collectively
created space. And so for anyone to be able to
show up and hold a space like I get to do, it requires me to
have a reason. And that's you.
And whatever your reason is for coming here and for resonating
with me, that also flows in and becomes part of my reason,
whether or not I know it consciously in my own mind.
And so we're building connective tissues here.
We're building transmissive frequencies between ourselves,
and what you share with me becomes part of my heart, and
what I share from my heart, you know, becomes part of you in
some way. And so we're rippling in the
atmosphere together. And I just really want to honor
that as we move into this week of the Libra full moon.
So we're in airy season, and the full moons are always presenting
us with oppositional energy. And the opposite sign of Aries
is Libra. So on a symbolic level, Aries
represents the sense of self. And you don't need to have any
planetary placements in Aries to resonate with Aries energy.
Just take a moment right now and acknowledge your own existence.
Like, do that practically. Look, look at your body, look
around your space, take some breaths.
Remember your own history a little bit.
You were conceived, you were born, you've lived life until
now. You exist.
And just say to yourself out louder in your mind, I am.
And just notice how that feels. It's solar return.
Happy birthday. The world is a much better place
for your presence in it. Thank you for being here.
And let's feel that. Let's feel that moment of
celebration, right? Somebody exists here and this
beautiful being blesses our space with their presence.
And then let's let that come into our own body minds, hearts
and feel the joy of getting to be in existence together and
tell yourself again, I am. And then let's all just look at
on the screen and let's practice a very Aries Libra mantra.
And in our own body, mind's hearts, let's say to ourselves,
I am because you are. And this moment is created
because each of us are here, and if not a one of us was absent,
this moment would be entirely different.
And that's true for every instance, every circumstance.
Well, I am because you are this moment, this experience, because
all of this. Let's allow our eyes to soften
with that, and maybe even close. And if it feels good, let your
hands touch your body somewhere and feel the presence of your
breath. Feel the inhale and exhale of
your breath. And in the inhale, exhale,
notice the expansion and contraction, the taking in and
the letting go or giving back. And let's send some breaths to
any beings that we might want to dedicate this practice, knowing
that we've come to this space for reasons that probably have
something to do with our own well-being and growth and
purposefulness. Let's dedicate any benefits of
this practice and send them out. And you might call into your
heart and into your mind those that are experiencing not what
we get to have right now, the luxury and privilege of coming
together and relative peace, practicing together.
So many beings experiencing extreme and profound violence
and separation. There might be beings in your
life that you know are going through something really
challenging or hard, scary, painful.
And as we breathe in, let's breathe in the opportunity to be
here in this way today, knowing that this instance and this
opportunity carries so much inside of it.
The technology is an Internet that we use for connection with
each other, creating an enormous carbon footprint on the planet.
These technologies not available to everyone everywhere.
And also conduits holding space for connection with each other,
transmission of information, Co regulation and practice.
The relative piece that we may be held by so that we can be
here. In many ways upheld by violence
elsewhere. And see if you can just breathe
inside of duality and tension. And as you breathe again, tuning
in with I am, I exist and letting the I am and I exist
inside of this massive complexity, so many different
layers of existence and reality and history and ongoingness and
creation. And I want to offer an intention
that we could share. And so if this doesn't resonate
for you, feel free to recreate it in any way that does.
As we're here today, and as we continue to flow and move
through our days and weeks and months ahead lifetimes, may we
make good use of our time and all the complexities that we are
part of. May we not squander the
opportunity to be here in our hearts, our love as present as
we can possibly be, courageous and available for what is.
And then let's let any hands that might have found places on
our bodies reach for the ground and through your hands really
intentionally and energetically reach for the earth.
And you might have to reach down a really long way, and you might
have to reach through multiple layers of all kinds of things.
But imagine that your hands and the energy inside your hands can
penetrate easily through all those layers, through all that
distance into the soil and from the centers of your palms.
Imagine that you can reach right into the center of the earth,
and as you inhale, imagine drawing up heat from the fiery
core of the earth, through the centers of your palms, right
into your heart. And as you exhale, send the
message to the earth. I am because you are.
As you inhale, imagine life force and vitality flowing up
from the earth into your hands, into your heart, knowing your
own existence. As you exhale, know that you
exist because you are part of Earth.
Never separate. One more breath like that, OK?
And then let's bring our hands together and let's rub them
together and create some heat inside of our hands.
And as friction builds heat between your palms, feel the
left and the right sides both pushing against each other, and
push and build that heat and push and build the heat and
breathe into your heart. And imagine that the warmth of
your heart can flow into your hands.
OK? And then pausing and letting
your hands float away from one another and sensing energy
between them, maybe with your eyes still closed, allowing the
hands to feel and sense for each other, feel and sense the
magnetism between them. And then let's turn our hands
towards our faces, and let's bring our hands somewhere around
the fronts and tops of our heads.
And maybe your hands touch your head over your forehead or the
front part of the Dome of your skull, and maybe they just hover
and you sense into that energetic electric charge.
And let's imagine now that the centers of our palms can send
heat and light and warmth right into our brains.
And as you inhale, imagine your brain filling with light and
heat and warmth. And as you exhale, imagine that
light and heat and warmth emanating out, getting bigger in
the space around you. And for the next two breaths,
send gratitude and appreciation into your own brain.
May we be allies with our minds. And then allow your hands to
float down in front of your eyes so that the centers of your
palms can reach right into the centers of your eyes.
And maybe your hands cover your eyes, or maybe they just float
in front of them. And let's inhale and imagine our
eyes filling with light, and exhale and imagine that light
pervading through the skulls into the space around us.
And let's send some love and gratitude into our eyes.
May we see that which is truly made of spirit, true beauty
everywhere. And then let's allow our hands
to float over our ears to the centers of the palms, align with
the holes of your ears and send light into your ears.
And as you inhale, imagine that light getting bigger.
And as you exhale, imagine that light getting so big it can
spill out and ripple into the space around you.
And let's send gratitude into our ears.
May we hear the truth of love and clarity of spirit.
And then let's take our hands and cup our hands over our
noses. And again, you can touch your
own nose, or you can hover the hands in front of your nose.
And let's really send some intentionality into the nose.
And the nose has a special relationship with Mars and
Aries, the season that we're in, because it's so important for
following our instincts. And so as you send light into
your nose, imagine it lighting up like a cosmic clown.
And as you exhale, let that light pervade through space,
sending gratitude to your nose. Maybe we follow the instincts
that will lead us in the best directions.
And then just resting your hands a little further down so that
the centers of the palms face towards the mouth.
And as you inhale, imagine your mouth filling with light.
And as you exhale, imagine that light pervading, and we'll send
gratitude into the mouth. May this mouth be a gate for all
that is good to pass through. And then allowing your hands to
rest just a little further down so that the centers of the palms
face to the center of the throat.
And let's inhale light into the center of the throat.
Feel that light growing stronger with your breath, imagining that
light pouring into the space surrounding your throat.
Let's send gratitude into the throat and into the voice.
May this be a channel for healing and love and truth.
And then allowing one hand to float over the other so that the
two centers of the palm can both beam right into the center of
the heart. And as you breathe, imagining
light pouring up from the earth into your hands and then
directing it right into your heart space, the heart growing
bigger, receiving the light and then offering the light, sending
it out in all directions. And let's give thanks to our
hearts, giving thanks to their capacities to receive and give
life force and love force. And then allowing the hands to
rest a little further down over your solar plexus, the high part
of your abdomen, just between where your ribs come together in
the front. And again, imagining light
pouring through the centers of the palms right into the solar
plexus as you inhale that light getting stronger, vital,
vibrant, and as you exhale that light emanating.
And let's give thanks here for our will, our willpower, and
really tuning in with the I am the I exist.
Give gratitude to yourself for the choices you've made that
have brought you closer to your love and to your truth and
purposefulness. And then allowing the hands to
rest just a little further down now over the belly button.
And as you inhale, receiving light from your palms right into
your naval center, and as you exhale, imagining that light
getting really big, growing in all directions into the earth,
into space. And let's give thanks to all who
and that we've come from. I am because you are honoring
ancestors of all kinds. And then one more time, reaching
the hands towards the earth. And now, as you inhale, imagine
the center column of your body filling with light.
And as you exhale, imagine beaming light through your hands
and into the center of the earth, and send your gratitude
to the earth. You might imagine your favorite
places, the earth beings that have filled your mind with peace
or filled your heart with exaltation and filled your eyes
with wonder. The earth that creates all the
food that we eat, all the water that we drink, all that becomes
our bodies. And for the last couple of
breaths, continue to fill your central channel with light.
And as you exhale, send your prayers, your unique prayers
from your I Amness into the earth.
And after your next full exhale, turn your palms out and open
them up as you inhale and imagine gathering all the light
that you generated. And as you exhale, wash the
front of your body. Little chi bath.
Imagine you can wash the front of your body with that light,
letting it flow back to earth. We'll do that two more times.
As you inhale, imagine gathering up life force, spirit force,
creation. And as you exhale, imagine you
can pour all of that energy down and through and around your body
one more time. And at the end of that exhale,
allow your eyes to open and take in your space.
And as the eyes open, notice how your nervous system adjusts.
And then let's come back together.
How do you feel? Connected, deep belonging held a
warm glow, soft and sweet, grounded, connected, cleansed,
alive like a warm battery, in a good way, in touch with my
desire for belonging, in a roll. Oh, dizzy, frizzy and
electrified, grateful, earthling, calm, centered,
connected. I am, I am nice.
So that was maybe 10 minutes, somewhere between 10 and 15
minutes. So let's notice, let's just
notice together the impact, the, the consequences, if you will,
of, of practicing. And for me as a practitioner, it
feels really important to notice the outcomes of my practice.
And this is important because the nature of practice is to be
ongoing and incremental and to build something over time.
And every time we show up to practice anything, it's going to
change. So some of you know that I went
to Sword Camp last week. That's where I was, and it was a
thrilling time for me. And it was also incredibly hard.
We trained for 8 hours a day, which is nothing I'm used to.
We did Kung Fu drills every day. I was running.
I'm like not a runner, doing all kinds of things that my body was
like, what are you doing? And it was fascinating to feel
how every day was different. I could have a day where I felt
so good. And I was like, yeah, I'm
strong, I've got this. And then the next day I would
feel completely the opposite. And then the next day I would
feel different again. And part of noticing the
influences of practice is building fortitude.
It's building a consciousness of things change.
And in the changes there are fluctuations.
Things go up and down, so sometimes something is going to
feel calming and centering and connective, and sometimes it's
going to make us feel frizzy and dizzy.
Sometimes we'll feel so energized and sometimes we'll
feel depleted. Sometimes we'll feel so
competent, and sometimes we really won't.
And part of practice then is cultivating spaciousness and
even a kind of indifference as to how we're going to feel
inside the practice. So, OK, today the practice felt
hard. Cool.
I'm going to show up tomorrow and see how it feels.
And then I'm going to show up the next day.
And I'm going to show up the next day, and I'm going to show
up the next day. And for those of you that have
been part of this practice space for the last three years, at
some point you realize that there is a residual
accumulation, right? So not every somatic space
session that you've ever been to has been your favorite.
Some of them may have really felt agitating or boring or
ineffective for you. But those of you that have kept
coming back, I'm guessing you're coming back for a reason like I
am, because there's something that's building here.
And so that sense of fortitude and determination, I'm going to
keep coming back for This is why we sustain our practice.
It's like what sustains our practice.
And Aries needs that, right? That I amness, that I exist the
self we need that because life is like that.
You know, life will be lifey out there and some days you're like
chill, and other days you're fucking not chill, right?
Some days things are going your way and some days things really
are not. And so part of then the
tempering and conditioning of our human experience is to be
able to hold space around the experience and to be able to
remember the other sides of things, right?
And there's like, parables and fables out there about, I can't
remember. It's like a Chinese parable.
Maybe somebody knows that some guy is really lucky about
something, right? And then someone else is like,
wow, that's so great. You must be really happy.
And he's like, we'll see, you know?
And then he loses all his stuff. Like some tragedy happens.
And then some other person is like, oh, my God, you must be
really upset. This is terrible.
And he's like, we'll see, right? And then like something happens
in the loss that actually becomes a gain.
And then somebody's like, Oh my God, you must be so relieved.
It's going to be better now. And he's like, we'll see.
Because it just keeps going, right?
And so this sense of balance of fluctuation of a kind of like,
it's going to go this way some days.
It's going to go that way some days is part of how we might
think about the intelligence of the Aries Libra axis.
Just saying. He loses his only horse and then
the horse comes back with a herd.
Exactly. It's like you don't really know
what the outcome is going to be. You don't totally know what's on
the other side of something. And in our I am Ness, we're very
deluded a lot of the time. Like this is the human
condition, right? I exist and in my existence,
everything is about me and everything is about me right now
in the experience that I'm having, right?
I'm sure other people have this experience and it's not just me,
right? You're like, this is me.
This is my life. I'm the center character and
something's happening and that's the whole story.
And I'm, I really feel strongly about it.
Oh, my relationship is going through a really hard time.
This means XY and Z about me, which means XY and Z about the
future, which means XY and Z about everything on Earth,
right? Like this is what our human
minds do. We tell massive stories about
our own existence, and we get really deluded about the
meanings of them. And so Libra, as an air energy
comes in and says, balance it out.
Remember, there are other perspectives.
See it from a different side. Pace yourself.
Take a breath, take a beat, take a pause.
So this week we're in Aries season and there's a Libra full
moon on Wednesday. Today, moon day, Venus, the
planetary associate of Libra, is entering Taurus.
So Venus is said to rule both signs, Libra and Taurus.
Now Venus is coming out of Aries.
We're in traditional astrology, it's considered to be afflicted,
my favorite word for a planetary condition, affliction, because I
love to do this afflicted, right?
So Venus in Aries. Venus is a connecting, relating
kind of energy and it wants to help bring things together.
But Aries as an energy separates, right?
It's a fighter energy, it's a survival energy.
And so Venus in Aries can have a connective style that is quite
aggressive sometimes. Venus in Aries people are often
people who really love a chase and they're like, nothing gets
me going, like feeling like, you know, somebody's going to give
me a challenge. And I, I have been talking with
several people recently who have Libra placements and it's been
funny to have these conversations because a lot of
what's been coming up is how Libra as an energy also really
kind of likes to fight. And Libra gets this like pop
astrology, cliche, right? That is a people pleaser.
It's a peacemaker, it's a mediator.
And that's true for Libra placements, but there's also
this Libra and I think kind of joy around activation and
agitation and poking at things sometimes.
And this is part of representing the other side of something.
And so if you've ever been around a kind of agitating Libra
energy, or maybe you contain it in yourself, I know that I do,
right? When somebody has a really
strong opinion about something and you're like, well, maybe
there's this other side. Did you ever think about this
thing? And it can sometimes just be a
little pokey. I don't know, OK, you seem
really convinced, right? And there can be this kind of
Libra and like side eye, right? The Libra smugness.
That's like, sure, you seem really opinionated about that,
right, Which is agitating. And so that can, you know, it's
like this feeling of like, what did you say?
Oppositional energy. So Libra represents polarity and
opposition as well as the, the coming together of things.
And the thing about Mars and Libra energies or excuse me,
Mars and Venus energies or Aries Libra energies, is that they're
both really important for relationship.
So we can't have relationship if everything's the same, right?
Then we're glommy and murky and not, we're not differentiated
that there's not relationship there.
So if we're always in agreement with something for completely
enmeshed and codependent in all the ways that's merged, what
happens there? There's a loss of arrows,
there's a loss of interest, there's a loss of growth.
And so the friction in spaces of difference is also profoundly
attractive, right? It's really exciting.
And the feeling of where someone else's edges are is also the
reminder of where our own edges are.
And this is exciting. This is life affirming.
I see as comment in the chat. Nothing pisses me off more than
a dismissive indifferent sure, as says as a Libra Rising, I'm
always accidentally starting arguments by offering other
perspectives. Totally, Z says My Libra rising
partner loves debate and intellectual fights.
Yes, exactly right. So we need difference.
This is exciting. This is growth potential.
Now, last week the Sun in Aries was conjunct with Saturn.
Did anybody go through some days like towards the end of last
week where you were just like fuck all of this, I'm over it,
I'm done, I'm just going to bury myself in the earth now.
Extreme fatigue, irritation I see.
Laid in bed all week, yes, done. Totally.
So much agitation. Venus was also conjunct with
Chiron and Iris last week. So Venus in its afflicted state
in Aries just trying to be the planet of love out there in the
sign of fucking war with Chiron the wounded healer and Iris,
goddess of strife and discord. Did anybody have a a week last
week where you were like wow? I have a case of the
relationships. Hell is other people can't live
with them, can't live without them.
I guess I'll just go bury myself and end the whole thing.
OK, I'm seeing some agreement in the chat.
Are they even my friends? OK, so we're coming out of that
week and now we're in this week where there's going to be this
Libra Full Moon and we're in Aries season.
Luckily Venus is going into Taurus and it's bringing in a
little bit more chill, so we have that support at least.
But Venus is also moving towards a square with Pluto on Friday,
and the Sun in Aries will be squaring Jupiter in Cancer on
Sunday. And both of those aspects feed
into this full Moon week with considerable amounts of
relational tension. And relational tension with one
person is always bigger than that one person, right?
Like you maybe have a moment where you're like, it's that
person, they're definitely my enemy.
But then when you tune in with the actual feeling about it,
you're like, oh, this is bigger than that.
Or the grief of, you know, the loss of one relationship carries
the grief of the losses of every single relationship you've ever
lost or felt hurt by, as well as all the losses of your ancestors
relationships. It's like, wow, there's just a
lot here when we're working it out in our relational field and
dynamics And Pluto is in Aquarius and Pluto is recently
in Aquarius just over the last few years and it's a 20 year
transit that's there. And so wherever Aquarius is in
your chart, this is another air sign or relational sign and
energy that is a site of huge transformation for you as well
As for the collective that you're a part of.
So think about where is Aquarius in your chart and what is
happening for you in larger kind of multidimensional societal and
collective ways? How are your relationships
shifting in big picture kinds of ways?
This is Pluto and Aquarius. And Society, of course, is
always transforming and changing and massively right now with the
presence of Pluto and Aquarius. And so there may be things that
are happening in the world, right?
Lots of things happening in the world right now that are really
shifting your orientation to how you want to be in the world and
how you want to be a relational being in the world.
And that means in your one-on-one personal
relationships, but also in the ways that you move through the
world and the ways that you use your money and your body and
your time and your resources. And this is Venus and Taurus.
So last week with all of that energy, all of that, you know,
kind of intensity, right there was like one of the biggest mass
protests in history. And we're not quite at the place
of 3.5%, which is what some people say it takes to really
create massive change. But we're getting closer and
closer. And not everybody, of course, is
able to get out into the streets.
There is so much that's shifting right now, in these times of
absolute tragedy and devastation and senseless, egotistical,
narcissistic war. There's so much that's changing
as we're living through a time of religious extremism and
fundamentalism, realizing its own prophecies of Judgement Day
and Armageddon, right? There's so much that's shifting
inside of consciousness of the people that is actually, in my
opinion, really deeply empowering.
And the feeling that I have, which one of my beloved's
reminded me of, they were telling me about their teacher.
They just come back from retreat and they were sharing the
sentiment of their teacher who is saying that the freer they
get inside their body. And this is a teacher who is a
trans person and a black person, and also a person who has lived
on a path that has always been outside of the status quo.
And this person is saying it, the freer that they get inside
of their body and inside of their lived experience, their
own embodiment, the less afraid they are, the less afraid of
violence, of imprisonment, of conflict.
And my friend told me this and I was feeling the resonance inside
of myself because I also have that own experience.
And then I was thinking about Audrey Lawrence quote, probably
some of you know this quote. When I dare to be powerful, to
use my strength and service of my vision, then it becomes less
and less important whether I'm afraid.
And so this feeling of really taking up our own space, being
who we are boldly, courageously. And that word courage, right,
it's full of heart. That is so liberating, that's so
freeing. And inside of that, we might
come to the recognition for ourselves that freedom is a
choice that we get to make. That inside of these existences
that are so profoundly encumbered by the material
aspects of life on Earth in states of extreme oppression,
that actually we're always free. Inside of these existences where
freedom is threatened constantly on so many levels.
The choice for me to love myself right now as I am here and now,
is my choice. And nobody can take that away
from me. And this is part of what
internal space gives to that sense of self.
So Libra, the breath, the inhaling, the feeling, the both
end of things. OK, this moment is really
intense. This thing really hurts.
I feel super activated right now.
I really want that. I really don't want that.
This is the I Amness, the impulse and activation of Aries
energy inside of extreme I Amness.
There's actually not a lot of freedom, right?
That I am can get very easily diluted and attached to its own
existence and existence and survival is often really
pleasure oriented, fight flight oriented.
If we're really in deep states of fight flight, attachment to
pleasure, aversion from pain, that's not freedom.
So that balance point, Libra and the big breath, I'm going to die
someday. This moment's going to pass.
There's something else that's happening here that's bigger
than I can see. Maybe there's another
perspective I can hold that gives us choice, and choice is
freedom. So the other thing that's
happening this week is that Mercury is trying with Jupiter
on Friday on Venus's day and over the last while in somatic
space we've been talking about this trying because this has
happened three times because Mercury was retrograde.
So this started in February. So I've been talking about this
since February and some of you probably have been working with
it. So the first time Mercury was
trying Jupiter was on February 16th and that was was when
Mercury was direct in its pre retrograde shadow.
The second time was on March 8th and that was when Mercury was
retrograde and that was the day after Mercury made its inferior
conjunction with the Sun, a big kind of moment of consciousness
shift potentially. And then the third time is this
Friday and Mercury is now direct in its post retrograde shadow.
Now I was really taken with this three time situation because you
know that I love to work with the Sabian symbols.
And I was also really taken with this particular situation
because Jupiter is at 15° of Cancer and it has been there the
entire time. So all of these aspects, these
trines from Mercury have been from 15 Pisces to 15 Cancer.
And there is a chart called the Sema Mundi, the birth chart of
the entire world, that is a mythic chart that is said to be
passed down from Hermes Trismegistus, from the Great
sage who delivers the celestial languages to human beings.
And in this chart 15° of Cancer is rising and the moon is there.
And Jupiter, symbol of the great teachers in the great teachings
in the Great Benific is situated there at 15 Cancer this whole
time and 15° of Pisces where Mercury has made these three
trines and also where Venus and Mars will make trines and the
Sun or have made trines to Jupiter as well, 15° Pisces.
And the Sabian symbols is a place that really talks about
the flow of inspiration. When we tune into stillness and
quietude, when we TuneIn in alignment with faith that we are
part of something bigger and we open ourselves to listening, is
when we are blessed with the guidance, with direction, with
the muse. And this is 15° of cancer, the
Sabian symbol of someone sitting very quietly, receiving a
divination, receiving inspiration, 15° of cancer, the
birth chart of the world or the birth place of the world in the
Sabian symbols is represented by a mandala and talks about the
profound self understanding when we embrace the practices that
are required to understand and acknowledge and willingly find
connection between all parts of our natures.
And a mandala is often a constellation of hard angles, of
squares and oppositions that then also become soft aspects.
And this practice of working with symbolism is a practice of
integrating difference in separation and a meditation on
unity. So really powerful symbols to be
working with this week as we head into this week in this time
of war and this time of great transformation and awakening and
longing for new worlds. And new worlds are being born
all the time, and they're often being born inside of
destruction. That's how the Earth was
created, massive chaos and destruction, things pounding
into one another that then release life force.
So here we are at a moment on earth when life is lifing and
there's so much that's happening and a lot of it doesn't make
sense. And each of us are inside of our
own unique I Amness. And the Sabian symbol for the
full moon, 12° of Libra is children blowing bubbles.
And the Sabian symbol talks about the way that blowing
bubbles brings peacefulness to the mind.
It's a state of playful meditation.
So let's let's do that right now.
Let's just imagine we've got our bubble wands and we've filled it
with, you know, cosmic soap, and we're going to take a deep
breath in and then blow bubbles and do that two more times.
And last time, I want you to watch the imaginary bubbles
you're blowing. Oh, that has blubbles.
I love it. OK, did anybody feel the residue
of taking deep breaths in and then blowing out through your
lips? Did you notice that that did
something to your brain? Maybe just like a little bit of
a regulation, just a little bit of softness there.
If you imagine, like watching the bubbles, they're so pretty,
They're so fragile. They popped, right?
This kind of like awareness, right?
Suspended, just this one moment, really subtle.
Oh, it's gone. So I want to invite us to feel
into this week as a time to practice blowing bubbles, right?
And we might show up to the relationships that we're in, to
the struggles that we're in, to the efforts that we're making
and approach them like blowing bubbles.
Like I'm going to fill up the wholeness of my being, my
amness, I amness, and I'm going to blow it out.
And in this moment of potentiality, it's real.
And in another moment, it's going to change a playful
contemplations, playful meditations.
So thank you so much for being here today.
I hope that this practice feels supportive for your full moon
week. There's definitely a potential
that this week will bring up some tension with this full moon
and everything around it. So if anything that we did today
felt like it was balancing or regulating or strengthening for
you, please keep practicing it and maybe share it with somebody
else and blow some bubbles this week.
And think about blowing bubbles, especially in moments where you
feel like a strong, like I am kind of activation.
If you're really in that place, you know, be playful about it
and blow it into some bubbles and let the temporality and
ephemerality of things hold space for you and for your
choices. I just wanted to share that this
past week I was visiting a friend who has a young baby and
as a way of connecting with them, the baby's name is Zen
which I feel like is pretty significant.
And I became the bubble lady because they had bubbles and
like my friend didn't like like she had the bubbles, but you
know, young baby, if she starts doing it and the baby asks for
it all the time. So I became the designated
auntie who will blow bubbles. And it was so meaningful to have
this image show up because part of the most like beautiful
experience of being the bubble lady was seeing Zen like this
tiny little 1 1/2 year old literally being so delighted and
full of joy. Like I just have this image of
him looking up with the most, you know, curious, precious eyes
and just like trying to grasp the bubbles as I'm blowing them.
And I just wanted to share that image because it was such a
experience of like innocence and wonder.
And especially thinking about it in the context of like the I am
and how you're like reminding us to grasp again for that
playfulness. It just makes me think of like
young life, which is very Aries and like how, yeah, that
rigidity sometimes comes like with age.
But if we can return to that playful, curious self, Yeah.
I don't really have anything else to say but just wanted to
share that. Thank you so much for sharing
that. I just, I, I love that image and
I feel like you in that story channeled the symbolism of the
full moon and, and the importance of your role.
First of all, just thank you, bless you.
It's like such an important role, you know, to be stewards
of wonder for each other, right? And like that gift that you gave
each other, that you and Zen gave each other, right?
That Zen's fascination and awe and delight and like playfulness
then draws you into the presence of creation, to me feels like,
oh, that's actually like if I feel into the highest vibration
of this full moon, like what I would pray for.
Thank you and I hope that is for me, for you, for everybody.