Mindful Astrology: Aries Eclipse Season Edition
Mindful Astrology: Aries Eclipse Season Edition
De-Armoring The Ego
Eclipses activate parts of our Shadow that we can’t normally see with the Lights on and today’s Aries Solar eclipse which is square Pluto - lord of ShadowWorld journeys, who is initiating a decades long sailing adventure through the sector of Collective Activism: Aquarius - has the likelihood to feel like a power blip right smack in the Ego….
IF we’re not doing our own ShadowWork…
The folks I see out here actually moving the needle forward reducing harmful impacts are the ones who are CHECKING their OWN Ego. Why? Because we ALL have a Shadow, we live on a planet with a Sun. Pretending we don’t or trying to escape our Shadow is like thinking everybody else’s shit stinks EXCEPT ours.
When we feel the Ego get activated (the part that feels hot, quick, sharp or judgy), we can take a beat, check in with ourselves underneath the cognitive part of the reaction, feeling into the sensations that our body is experiencing to let us know something isn’t right, inquire with caring awareness to BEFRIEND our Shadow reactions (our hurt parts), then we are in power WITH our Shadow to also be able to befriend other folks’ Shadow reactions - their hurt parts. Or simply just choose our own nurturance. It’s enough to take care of our own system. Fighting & anger 24/7 isn’t the liberation we’re aiming for fam.
You wanna be radical?
Try the uncomfortable & ultimately rewarding work of de-armoring your own Ego to model how vulnerability & courage can be the vehicle for lasting & accountable solution.
Founder of Mindful of Race Institute LLC, celebrated author, life coach, and insight meditation teacher.
Aries is our cardinal (initiating) fire sign of the zodiac. When the Lights go out, instead of being caught up with a sped up reactionary nervous system, swinging wildly at everything & anyone moving in the Shadows, you can instead lean into the PAUSE to let your eyes adjust, and choose to traverse the Shadow, being a beacon & stabilizing presence to YOURSELF firstly, and all those others who are also there and lost and needing to feel their own way back to grounded, stabilizing, unconditional, self and collective Love.
“A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.” - Rumi
Light that shit up, burn baby burn, and transform by way of deep, compassionate, abiding Love.
Reflections for easing suffering:
How am I replicating systems of oppression in my own communities - dominance, control, force, judgment in the name of Love & Justice?
How am I deflecting & escaping my responsibilities to my own lessons of growth?
How are my assumptions causing more harm to myself and others and how can I lean into the discomfort of checking my own assumptions?
How can I choose a response FOR my wounded inner instead of unconsciously reacting TO my wounded inner?
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