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Mercury Retrograde in Libra – September 27 to October 18, 2021
Mercury retrograde is ON.
How are we doing loves?
As Mercury retrogrades in Libra, I feel somehow this is a sweet invitation to pause and enjoy the relationships in our lives.
Retrogrades are a good time to review, revisit, reflect, reimagine. Integrate. Move from a deeper grounded place.
Mercury is the planet of communication. When in retrograde, why not listen more than we speak.
In Libra, ruled by Venus, the planet of beauty, creativity and love, we can slow down to reflect on the state of our relationships, how we interact with the world with beauty, and we inject love in our interactions.
Although Libra is an Air sign, I really feel this one is all about, indeed, feeling. A huge invitation to open our heart and receive all there is to enjoy, all the love, the joy, the abundance, the prosperity, the beauty. And from that full, overflowing cup, give give give. As a spillover you can’t hold back.
Until October 18, that’s my invitation to you. Open the channel to receive. Wait until you’re so full to give. Then don’t hold back. Love your way through this retrograde. Because relay is a beautiful thing.
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Fall Equinox – September 22, 2021
‘Today is the day, today the Heavens are crossing’ – Yogi Bhajan
As the Sun and the Moon are in equilibrium today, the portal is open to call in your dreams and desires for the quarter to come. It’s not too late to use the energy of this 5 year to disrupt, break old patterns, say a big fat NO to what no longer serves you. Shake things up. Don’t follow blindly the old institutions holding on to the Piscean age. You got 3 months to make the changes necessary to align with your destiny and what 2022 will be calling you to act upon.
3 months is a lot of time, 3 months is the blink of an eye. Take a look around. Can you believe what the world has become? Are you sleep walking?
Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Set your navel point and speak your truth. Use the Mars energy of the 5 to get into right action. Fight for what matters. Don’t let your consciousness drift off. Humanity is on the edge, use all your power so we can tip over to a better future.
So. 3 months. What are you gonna do with this very precious time? The clock is ticking.
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Full Moon in Pisces – September 20, 2021
Full Moon in Pisces vibes.
Ruled by Neptune, Pisces is the last sign of the astrological wheel. In the mutable energy of this water sign, I always feel a deep connection to other realms. I often describe it as the moment right before we’re born, that liminal space where we still know we’re all united, all one big soul.
Then we come to Earth in Aries and we forget. Don’t worry love: we all have the capacity to remember.
Pisces is the sign of artists, sensitive souls. No wonder many tap into that infinite consciousness to create art beyond their human mind and self.
I feel the invitation of this Full Moon in Pisces is to take it all in. Welcome the ocean, the crashing waves of Neptune, the God of Seas. Yet use the power of the Full Moon to also bring to light what no longer serves.
Picture yourself on the beach, lying in the sun, daydreaming. As the tide goes up, let it be. Let it wash over you, bring you all the magic and power of the ocean. And once the tide goes low, see what’s left. Pick up the pieces you want to bring with you moving forward, making a conscious choice based on the high dream vision you got. And leave the rest behind. The next tide will take care of it, you don’t have to carry all the seashells back home with you, filling a whole bucket just in case (like I used to when I was a kid). The ones meant to come with you will be brought back by the sea once the timing is right.
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Fists of anger
Being human is frustrating. We got plenty of reasons to be angry: we have to wake up, feed our body, carry it around, sleep again, do stuff. It’s normal to be angry when our soul so big and bright has to fit into such a tiny vehicle.
Therefore fists of anger. Fists of anger has been part of my daily morning practice since 2019. Within a week, I saw tremendous change in my reaction toward other people, especially one co-worker I couldn’t stand no matter how much compassion and acceptance I tried to force in my interactions with them.
Try it for 3 minutes a day and notice the changes in your life.
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Cat-cow
Every day, I start my morning practice with cat-cow for 3 minutes. I also do it whenever I feel stuck in my shoulders or my back, or whenever I feel the need to move the energy, after a long day of working or a long drive for example.
Posture: Position yourself on your hands and knees.
Eyes: Keep your eyes closed, gently focusing up and in at the brow point.
Breath: Inhale as you stretch the chest open and lift your head, moving into cow pose. Exhale as you curl your back and pull your navel in toward your spine, cat pose. Repeat, continuing at a moderate pace and increasing the speed and power of your breath as you gain flexibility of the spine. Do not be afraid to breathe deeply and move quickly! The more quickly you move, the more antiaging benefits you receive!
Time: 3 to 5 minutes
To end: Inhale and stretch the body up into cow. Exhale and pull the navel in. Inhale to a neutral spine and relax the buttocks to your heels, bringing your forehead to the ground, stretching your arms on the floor in front of you, and placing your hands together.
Source:
Guru Jagat, Invincible Living, The power of yoga, the energy of breath and other tools for a radiant life, Body, Mind, & Spirit, p. 57
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Sat Kriya
I practice this set everyday and will for the rest of my life. It sets my navel point each morning, is great for my digestion and regulated my hormones. I started first with 3 minutes and I’m now at a minimum of 11 minutes. When I get to do 31 minutes, it feels wonderful.
Sat Kriya is essential to the practice of Kundalini Yoga. It is one of the few exercises that is a complete action in itself. It is a kriya: an action or series of actions that completes a process and has a predictable outcome. Most kriyas consist of a series of exercises that synergize. Sat Kriya can stand alone like a precious gem. Any serious student should master this kriya. A beginning student should start with 3 minutes every day. The time can be built up from that base.
The main impact of this kriya is to tone the nervous system, to calm emotional disarray, and to channel creative and sexual energies of the body. The entire sexual system is stimulated and strengthened. It relaxes and releases many phobias about sexual behavior, potency, and capacity.
If you have time for nothing else, make this kriya part of your daily promise to yourself to keep the body clean and vital temple of God.
“Sat Naam is the bij or seed mantra. It is small and potent. Great things grow from it. If it is not written in your destiny to be with God and know higher consciousness, this mentra engraves it in your destiny. Sat Kriya is to purify your being. Disease, ailment, weakness, impotency, laziness, and negativity – all improper things will leave you.” – Yogi Bhajan
Who is it for?
Sat Kriya is fundamental to Kundalini yoga and should be practiced every day for at least 3 minutes. Its effects are numerous.
People who are severely maladjusted or who have mental problems benefit from this kriya since these disturbances are always connected to an imbalance in the energies of the lower three chakras.
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Meditation for healing addictions
This meditation was one of the first meditations I started practicing daily. It is part of my fundamental morning practice. I practice it for 3 minutes every day since 2019, and I do 11 minutes whenever I can (instead of scrolling Instagram or playing on my phone, if I have a couple of minutes I’ll do it).
It helped me get rid of food cravings, addictive thought patterns and most recently, drop co-dependency tendencies I didn’t even know I had. I’ve heard multiple stories of experiences similar to mine. Try it for yourself, observe what pattern drops for you and let me know.
“There are two things – infinite addiction is love and addiction is habit. But your life runs by addiction, you are all addicted to one thing or another that’s why you repeat mistakes sometime because it is addiction. Anything in which your senses do not make sense and you do it is the outcome of addiction. And everyone is addicted, politician is addicted to politics, a holy man is addicted to religion, a man of God is addicted with God and a thief is addicted to thievery.” – Yogi Bhajan, April 12, 1989, Los Angeles
Who is it for?
This meditation is for anyone who ever struggles with addiction (pretty much all of us), which goes way beyond addiction to substances and includes addiction to our phones, certain thought patterns, eating, drinking, emotional love, rejection, work, etc.
“We are a nation in addiction, we are in bondage of addiction, we consume sixty percent of all drugs produced in the world, we do, we have laws, if all the laws are implemented seventy eight point three percent all citizens will go to jail for three years minimum.” – Yogi Bhajan, May 2, 1990, Santa Fe
If you’ve ever tried quitting smoking or any other type of addiction, you’ll know how difficult it can be to rely only on will power. Our addictions are deeply rooted in our subconscious mind, and trying to get at it using our conscious mind is a real challenge.
Imbalance in this pineal area upsets the radiance of the pineal gland itself. It is this pulsating radiance that regulates the pituitary gland. Since the pituitary gland regulates the rest of the glandular system, the entire body and mind go out of balance. This meditation corrects the problem. It is excellent for everyone but particularly effective for rehabilitation efforts in drug dependence, mental illness, and phobic conditions.
