Podcast Episode: Falling Back Into Relationship Connections With Libra, Full Hunter Moon, Mercury In Retrograde & A Tea Cup Of Celestial Seasonings Steeped In Autumn’s Ancestral Portals
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Falling Back Into Relationship Connections With Libra, Full Hunter Moon, Mercury In Retrograde & A Tea Cup Of Celestial Seasonings Steeped In Autumn’s Ancestral Portals
Energetically, Libra season officially kicks off on September 22nd, which is also the date of the Autumn Equinox. Libra’s seasonal imprint will last till October 23rd.
Coming right up, a Full Harvest Moon on September 26th honors sacred ancestral rituals like moon-viewing dinners outdoors, harvest blessings, candle-lit gratitude circles, and a Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncakes.
Looking ahead to the New Moon in Libra on October 10th, balance and harmony are dually noted.
Are you feeling driven to be nice rather than speak your truth authentically?
Are you taking an honest look at your deeper feelings and sharing them when the situation calls for it, despite of what is expected of us by others?
As we blaze trails further into this Year of the Fire Horse, ponder how the energies around the next Full Hunter Moon on October 26th may affect a personal sense of safety that could depend on the need for stability.
Remember that an awakening of Fire Horse’s archetypal energies reveal greater movement, decision, freedom and courage so that we can effectively explore unknown frontiers.
What old narrative have you noticed fading away into the rearview mirrors of yesterday?
Have you observed healthier relationships emerging and leaving you feeling a more perceptible sense of emotional, financial, and spiritual rebirth?
Do you see people embodying love, empathy, compassion and kindness?
Although this moon goes by many names, the name Hunter Moon was inspired by the hunting of game animals like deer, turkey and pheasants in mid to late autumn.
Cooler temperatures also make it easier for storing and preserving meat for the winter. Falling leaves and more moonlight allows for better vision to see and hunt animals at day and night because brush is not as thick, making tracking and hunting easier.
The energies of Fox are also associated with this time of year. Fox reflects the art of camouflage, which also reflects adaptability and shapeshifting. Meditation on Fox can help you fade into the backdrop, and blend into your surroundings without being noticed.
Around this full moon, connections with Taurus can be seen as a friendly reminder to accept that change is a natural part of life. Regardless of a Bull or Bear market, our own sense of self-respect does not really come from the coins we circulate in this world of 10,000 things, if you’ll pardon the animal spirited financial pun.
Truly, self acceptance for who we really are does make it easier to see peace and tranquility in the outside world.
In this blog, we have been exploring self-care rituals and strategies.
Full Moons are certainly a powerful time to reinforce self-care rituals and strategies.
Just as an example, consider writing down what needs to be released on a small piece of paper, and then burn it down safely outside under the moon. At this time, fire rituals can be a powerful way to release and let go of whatever we need to let go of in our lives that no longer serves us to clear space for what’s next.
Additionally, the last Mercury in Retrograde of the year will happen on October 24 to November 13, 2026
Mercury in Retrograde aka The Twilight Zone is a good time to look into the rearview mirror, and take a closer look at what issues we may not have resolved in the past yet.
Speaking of reviewing rewiring revolutionary energies, it’s always a good idea to check your own inner state of consciousness as you navigate life’s everyday aches, pains, pleasures, situations and moments. Remember that you can’t feel good when you’re feeling bad about feeling bad!
And then we can reexamine the direction we need to go so that we can move forward to see from new vistas. When we change the way we look at the world, the world changes the way it looks right before our eyes.
The Samhain will happen on October 31 to November 1, along with other thinning of the veils energies falling on All Saints’ Day on the 1st, and All Souls’ Day & The Day of the Dead on November 2nd.
This is a powerful time to honor our ancestors who have passed on and tune into the spirited energies that will be more perceptible during this time where the boundary between the spirit & material realm becomes less concrete and more permeable.
Meditation on the medicinal energies of Bat can awaken transformation through the dark cave of death of the old self, and resurrect the process of rebirth into who you are becoming.
What messages does spirit have to say to you about this?
Keep in mind that playing around with wearing masks can stimulate movement through portals into consciousness, and awaken sacred connections with animal spirit guides like Bat.
Are you aware that a growing body of brain science has consistently shown that brainwaves do change during this extra or non-ordinary states of consciousness?
People who become consistent meditators often learn how to change their brains, their DNA, and their general experience with life. That’s why it’s really hard to go back to the old ways once you awaken to these novel neuronal pathways. This transformation is Alchemy.
It can be enticing to get too caught up in the material world or the spiritual world. This is why our ancestors came up with the mantra of walking with one foot in spirit, one foot in ground.
Our ancestors honored the thinning of the veils; where the lines between the spirit & material realm can be perceived as thinner. That’s why it can be harder to differentiate between the 3-D & spiritual realms during this season.
Costumes, including masks are traditionally worn during the thinning of the veils period. From a consciousness perspective, wearing masks can awaken shapeshifting, transformation, and portals into other alternate or imaginative realms.
Meditation on the archetypal energies of the Shaman awakens new pathways revealed in our field of vision. The capacity to acquire and access novel ways of thinking are key dynamics of Growth Mindset. Meditation on shamanism reveals extraordinary, non-localized and linear free states of consciousness.
May All Beings Be Free Of Suffering and Awaken To Planetary & Universal Peace,
Ari
Hanging Upside Down with Bat
A New Moon arrives tomorrow
Reflecting new opportunities and beginnings
Bat’s energetic footprint is symbolic of metamorphosis and change
Colorful Autumn leaves are fading, falling and dying
A metaphorical death of the old self
Hangs on by a thread like the ways of a dying old world
Bat and New Moon hint at the rebirthing process
cross-pollinating the fruits of an Aquarian Age
Meditation on Rome, reveals Trump is like megalomania emperors of an old age
But the Eternal City wasn’t built in a day
Like overthrown dictators of past lives, his time is going to come
Out on the streets, civil disobedience inspires a rising tide
of waves of change that will inundate even the Buddha and Christ
from deeper and higher dimensions
Time to surrender to the will of the Universe
and let go of the pyramid and elitist rule by the few
Moving further into our mysterious feminine sides
awakens the power of water
Flow with the gentle, gradual and softness of yin’s momentum
Tis the season to turn our clocks back yinward
Use the energies of the New Moon and Bat
to release your old self that no longer serves you
and see yourself transforming into who you want to become
Till we meet again along the trails,
Ari
Hanging with Bat as a Spiritual Guide
Bat symbolizes a metaphorical death of the old self . . .
What black roots want to take root during Winter’s coming dirge?
Planet Earth and all of Her inhabitants are going through underground
transformation – as things heat up, c’est possible to make amigos with that?
A Full Hunter’s Moon gathers a thrill of the hunt perspective
Time to adjust spiritual preparatory flight zones to weather stormy wintry mixes
Other people’s opinions are not your business
Folks will have their own perspective, so don’t make enemies or fall prey to hatred
Will the Empire’s rule by secrecy approach paradoxically expose His new clothes?
Do we want to go to World War Three with each other over our cultural differences?
How low can we go in our vibrations, not without paradoxical paranoid escalation?
Might as well let go of what dies now . . .
Because It will be reborn in Spring again
Yeah, free spirits may be born to run . . .
But we can also benefit from standing still
Today’s falling leaves sometimes color a dark attitudes about waning light . . .
Consider lifting your spirits to take flight into internal shadowy caves ahead
A personal mutable metamorphosis awakens into our collective consciousness . . .
Deeper activation of acceptance beneath skin deep superficiality is personal power!
What can you adjust inside yourself to compost stale recycled repetitive tapes
that echo a big Skunk like stink about your Being?
Meditation on personal boundaries reveals a gentle and soft approach to
standing in your own personal authority by speaking your truth respectfully
See you further up the trails,
Ari
Tuning in to Soulful Echos with Bat
Gazing through a lens of a shamanic death of old self
We look forward to a rebirth with fresh new perceptual eyes
Are you using your talents to the fullest?
Facing our fears – even in our darkest hours
Beneath the deep lies a beacon of light illuminating the shadows of our souls
Are you working your orientation in the positive?
Remember hanging upside down on playground equipment of yesteryear?
A return to childhood innocence
and hidden caverns of unexplored Self are born unto us
Letting go of old habitual patterns of thoughts, feelings and behavior
Is a funeral procession that leads to a surprise birthday parade of novelty
Are you letting your dreams pass you by?
We are responsible for the business of envisioning seven generations ahead because we are the ones we are waiting for
Remember when smallpox was intentionally distributed to our
Native American brothers and sisters?
Oh rats, what about the European black plague?
And today we are hearing about a bloody red scare named Ebola
But facing our fears head on is less scary in long run than
identification with “better the devil you know” programming
Be mindful to give peace a chance amidst fascist undertones
among friends that are typically liberal-minded otherwise
Religion is as religion does
May we remember that at their core,
religions are inspired by Divine expression
Flowering snowball effect rippling through our mass consciousness
Changing leaves are eclipsing us in the Autumn air
Old bedtime stories are falling back
Birthing into novel ways of co-authoring our world
Right now, even a soliloquy is becoming a grand performance
Embodying our dreams and visions opens portals to Universal awakenings
Hearing echos of good vibrations amplifies ring tones of optimistic thoughts
Taking a deep breath of cosmic vastness illuminates
empathic heartfelt connections with our expanding and retracting Nature
Leaving behind a playfully light-hearted
and healthy sense of detachment in our wake
Breathe in fresh air to levy floods of stress and tension
See you further on up the trails,
Ari
With Bat Medicine, The Dark Night Walks In Sunlight
I remember when Mark Twain observed that “there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Here on Classroom Mothership Earth, we are living in a land of chaos, confusion and tragedy. If we look beneath the surface symptoms and acting out of our human family, we realize that our provocative behavior is clearly speaking to us. In the USA, our friends in Congress are still balking at leveling the playing field that promotes more equal access to concrete services such as affordable health care and housing. Further, a horrible massacre somewhere in Middle America took many innocent lives away from folks who merely thought they would escape for a spell by watching a film called the Dark Night Rising. Front and center of our planet’s hot mess, is the Middle East, where a Perfect Storm is brewing in the land once called the Fertile Crescent and home of Abraham–paradoxically the father of the world’s three dominant religions. Given all this shit hitting the fan, flying with bat is a good remedy for cross pollinating our transition into a New Age and Paradigm. Alas, the Joker in me notices that this town needs an enema.
I know times are tough and the tides are changing. And it is painful to watch folks make jokes out of anxiety with relation to tragedy. However, without that roaring laughter, there would be no Tao. So, why not stop the insanity by invoking the energy of bat to help us fly with our transitions during the process of becoming something new. Moreover, bat can help us effectively navigate the darkness by facing our fears and laying to rest the death of the old self. When we let go of who we were and accept what is, we then clear space for new energy to take flight into our being and prepare for changing tides. With bat, we are equipped to spread our wings and fly onward in our soul’s infinite journey through birth, death and rebirth that is akin to the Buddhist idea of reincarnation. As humans, we have not learned how to effectively emote. Rather, we tend to react to the weather outside instead of mastering our own internal weather patterns. In our outer directed culture, we have been well-trained to play the blame game and indulge in victim consciousness. But remember that as participatory audience members in the theater of life, we are all mirrors for one another that reflect back aspects of our one human family. Sometimes, we like what we see and are attracted to that. Other times, we do not like what we see and tend to react with an attitude of judgement and avoidance. Or maybe we become a martyr and carry a heavy ego-centered burden.
In our dying old world, we have trashed the beautiful park that was given to us by Creator. As humans, the time is now to take responsibility for our creative selves and for our shared land that we live with. The age of viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from one another is disappearing into the dead of the night. The New World will reveal itself when each individual sees the Light of Day in his consciousness. This is what god-realized humans have modeled to us in our human history. When enough of us reach this Critical Mass, we will come about by balancing our part Divine, part creature being into living authentically and respectfully with one another. In the meanwhile, we humans really need to heal old wounds and learn new ways to live in harmony with one another, our planet and Universe throughout. By listening to bat, we hear a callback that echoes a message that even in death, there is rebirth.
Stay True,
Ari
