Hello and welcome to this mystical meditation.
As always,
I invite you to find a comfortable seat or position,
Allowing your body to just be at ease here.
Maybe even resting on your back or letting the body just be.
Closing the eyes if that feels good to you or finding a soft focus.
Letting go of the chatter,
Whatever came before this and whatever might be coming after.
There is no need to hold or listen or grip,
Just letting it all go here.
There are two eclipse seasons in a year.
One from April to May and another in October.
An eclipse is the partial or full blocking of light from one celestial object by another.
It could be a solar eclipse or it could be a lunar eclipse.
There are many different beliefs surrounding eclipses and often the overall message that it's a time of trouble,
Hardship,
Pain even,
But eclipses are a bit misunderstood.
Yes,
They can bring a time of discomfort,
But in discomfort we grow.
Eclipses are an opportunity to see things shake up almost like a snow globe and in this process of this shake up,
New pathways are revealed to us.
Like that snow globe,
There's no way of having every piece find the same place as it was.
You can't go back,
But you can create something even more beautiful.
Feeling into all of this eclipse energy in this moment.
Maybe you've been feeling the discomfort,
The chaos,
The loss,
The hardship,
The sadness even.
Maybe change has been coming from all different directions.
Feeling it here in this space now.
Allowing it to come to the surface and be felt fully.
How does the body feel in this moment?
Is it tense?
Is it sore?
What emotions are present?
What do you feel?
Allowing yourself to hold this,
To notice it,
To experience.
Giving it a space in this moment to be seen and heard and felt,
Acknowledged.
Feeling this fully,
Not shying away from it.
Connecting with it,
Hearing it,
And now imagining all of this energy,
All of this eclipse,
Shake up energy,
Beginning to settle within you.
The little snowflakes within the snow globe,
Falling to the bottom now.
All of the thoughts,
The emotions,
The physical sensations,
Softening and releasing.
Falling to the bottom of the snow globe,
Taking a deep full breath in through the nose and exhaling out of the mouth,
Imagining the weight of the eclipse energy being put down.
Letting it all go.
Inhale and exhale,
Release.
One more big breath in and a long slow breath out.
Noticing any shifts or changes within you.
The beautiful thing about eclipse season is that in the shake up,
We start to see things differently.
A new view,
A different perspective,
Clarity that otherwise would have been missed.
So in this place of calm and peace,
What can you see here?
What has the shake up energy revealed to you?
Reflecting for a quiet moment.
Eclipse season is powerful and it's potent.
It challenges us in ways we can never anticipate or imagine.
It's a beautiful time to work with the discomfort and allow new pathways to be revealed.
Remembering that all discomfort is temporary and on the other side of this is infinite growth.
Spending a moment thinking about your growth and the opportunity that is within this eclipse season for you.
Bringing the palms together in prayer position for our final closing.
May you be well.
May you have the love and light of support around you and may you be peaceful and share that peace with the world.
Thank you for this practice.
