Strategically Holding Space – Day 586

Posted on June 20, 2020June 20, 2020 by Lisa Weikel Leave a comment

Nighttime Messenger – Photo: L. Weikel

Strategically Holding Space

There’s so much happening in the cosmos this weekend. Well, not just this weekend; we’re not out of the thick of things for quite a while, actually. But this weekend feels huge to me, and the best recommendation I can make (that I will be following as well) is that we engage in strategically holding space. We must hold this space for each other and ourselves. Our country and our planet.

There’s no other way to describe what’s happening in the U.S. right now but to say we’re being bombarded. Information, revelations, lies, conspiracy theories, a pandemic, isolation, fear, sickness, death. We’re being confronted with irrefutable proof that people of color do not share the same freedoms as white people. And we’re seeing a huge majority of our brothers and sisters (or perhaps for a lot of us, our sons and daughters) stand up and say, “The system is broken. It doesn’t stand for what we’ve been taught it does and we won’t pretend or allow it to persist any longer.”

Some of us will join in the protests continuing to unfold all across our nation in support of Black Lives Matter. Some of us will lend our support in other ways. Each as they are able, as they say. But as we witness injustice, as we begin to see with clear eyes the ugly parts of our history that have conveniently been left out of most of our educations, I do believe we will unite to create the ideal we all, deep down, want to believe is possible.

New Moon

We have so many indicators of a new paradigm coming to the fore, and a new moon (coupled with all the other major aspects) is, as we know, the time to set in motion the dream we wish to manifest.

As a result, I feel in my heart and soul that we are also being confronted with radical hope. Deep within our souls, thousands – perhaps millions – of people of all skin pigmentations are resonating with a seismic shift that will change our country forever.

Perhaps, just maybe, we are witnessing the birth of a new world.

Opossum Reminds Us

This opossum was just visiting me only minutes before I sat down to write this post tonight. I felt like its appearance was fortuitous. It’s urging us to use strategy to accomplish the change we demand. We need to expect the unexpected; be clever in seeking our goals. And above all, we’re being reminded to use our brains and sense of drama and cleverness to change the world.

We don’t need to stoop to the level of violence. We’re smarter than that. All of us.

We need to strategically hold space for each other to get this done. We can do this. It’s time. Time for an evolution.

A Heart in the Center of the Fire – Photo: L. Weikel

(T-525)

Big Week Ahead – Day 581

Posted on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 by Lisa Weikel Leave a comment

Photo: L. Weikel

Big Week Ahead

We have a big week ahead astronomically and astrologically. Our week is going to culminate with the Solstice (Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter in the Southern) and a Solar Eclipse.

Technically, for those of us on the East Coast of the U.S., the Solstice will occur at 5:43 p.m. on Saturday, June 20^th, 2020. Of course, for us here in the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year, and is considered the first day of summer. Conversely, it will be the shortest day of the year and considered the first day of winter for those living in the Southern Hemisphere.

The solar eclipse will occur at 2:41 a.m. EDT on Sunday, June 21^st. Obviously, due to time zone differences, some areas will be able to say these two significant events will be taking place on the same day (Friday the 20^th).

Regardless of whether they technically fall on the same calendar day, the significance is that they’re taking place only six hours apart. In cosmic timing, that’s nothing; and the confluence of these events will undoubtedly be powerful and have long term and far-reaching effects.

Some Links

I’ll probably write about this again in the next few days and provide you with some interesting links to perspectives on what you might encounter this week on a mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual level. For instance, Kaypacha’s Pele Report for June 10^th (which takes us into the middle of the coming week) gives us some insight into what the entire world is confronting – as well as some helpful suggestions for what we might want to focus on to learn more about ourselves and how to navigate through it.

As I come across other interesting perspectives, I’ll share them with you. If you take the time to read or listen to them, notice what aspects resonate with you. Simply recognizing how the ‘big picture’ of what’s going on in the sky is affecting how people are acting here on Earth can be remarkably soothing. Even when we’re living through hellacious experiences, having even the inkling that there’s a much grander scheme at work influencing the way people are reacting, etc., can give us the perspective we need not to take it all too personally.

Different for Everyone

While these planetary aspects are obviously affecting all of us – it’s important to realize that they tweak us all in different ways because of the unique location the planets were in at the time of our birth (our ‘birth charts’). Where they were located in our chart when we were born dictates where they are now (in our unique charts) as they make their journeys around the sun.

Into the Weeds

It’s funny. When I started this post this evening, it was my intention to pick a couple of cards for us to focus upon and use for guidance as the week unfolds. It feels important for us to engage in some reflection as we approach the solstice and eclipse because, chances are, some big stuff is coming our way. Clearly, though, I got lost in the weeds of astrology again.

We’re in the midst of major upheaval and transformation. We can either go through it consciously or have it broadside us and send our lives into even more disarray than we’ve encountered already this year. Given the choice, I’m always interested in navigating life’s storms with as many maps and tools as possible.

Obviously, instead of just choosing a couple cards and talking about them, I wanted to explain why I felt it was important to for us to be especially aware right now. But alas, I’ve run out of time.

Stay tuned. Tomorrow’s another day.

(T-530)

Summer Solstice – Day 222

Posted on June 22, 2019June 22, 2019 by Lisa Weikel Leave a comment

Summer Solstice

Seems Like a Lucky Number

And so, it would appear, it is. Or was? (Not that I even recalled during the day that tonight’s post was #222!)

The luck and the grace of ‘Day #222’ manifested when Karl and I managed to take a phenomenal walk early this evening. Quite unexpectedly, late this afternoon, the humidity level of the atmosphere dropped significantly. That meant we could walk and feel a cool breeze ruffle our hair. We could walk and not feel like we were going to keel over from heat exhaustion.

Best of all, it meant we could thank our bedroom air conditioner for its service the past few nights – and then promptly and almost joyously turn on the whole house fan again, throwing open the windows and opening the front door to allow cross-breezes galore.

A Solstice Stroll

The canvas of the sky seemed irresistible to the clouds. They created unbelievable landscapes and played hide and seek with the sun as it set on the longest day of the year: the Summer Solstice.

Considering I wrote a post on the shortest day of the year, I just want to say how boggled my mind is to realize I’ve been writing posts through two solstices now. (I’d also like to parenthetically comment on how grateful I am that I didn’t have another intense encounter today like I did on the Winter Solstice.)

And I know; I can do the math. Obviously, since I’m on Day 222, I technically passed the “halfway through the year’ mark back when I was at Amadell. In fact – and WOW, I did not realize this until this moment – the halfway-through-my-first-year of my 1111 Devotion was Mother’s Day.

Somehow that seems appropriate. That ‘synchronicity’ makes me smile.

Alas, No Fire

I’d love to say that Karl and I had a Solstice fire this evening to honor and celebrate this longest ‘day’ of the year. But we didn’t. It was a long week. And the best we could muster was hauling our bones around the ‘walk-about’ (the four mile version of our countryside excursions) and simply delighting in the rays of sunshine slanting through cracks in the clouds and listening to the scratchy gratch of red-winged blackbirds that seemed to be announcing our passage beside their meadow homes.

Silly, I know, but I feel a tug in my heart revealing my truth: I don’t want the days to get shorter again. “Not yet,” I hear myself whispering.

But that’s the way it is. That’s the way life is: a series of never-ending cycles, changes, and moments.