from the chair: 6th October 2016 Mercury moves out of shadow retrograde, 7th October Mercury moves into Libra

Hi everyone!

Well here we are in the beautiful energies of the Libran New Moon carrying us forward for the next lunar month. The crazy disruptions we’ve experienced over the last month eclipse energies are now beginning to settle within our metabolism and our psyche.

In the post-eclipse recovery: Restoring calm, balance and equanimity!

We’re in the post eclipse recovery energies as we adjust on all levels to what’s been happening. Our most important focus now is to restore balance, calm, equanimity and to embrace ourselves with loving acceptance, reassuring ourselves that all is well. The reverberations and ongoing changes emanating from the eclipses will continue to manifest in the physical.

Clarity and insight being gradually restored...starting this week!

Clarity is gradually returning and this week promises even more of that mental clarity which has been so elusive as Mercury comes out of shadow retrograde and moves into Libra the next day.

We’ll be grateful for that mental clarity to be coming in as we approach the Aries Full Moon on 16th. This promises to bring in big emotional releases, emotional power and sudden insights!

Recovering from the past 9 months:

Relaxing the nerves and letting go of anxieties, fears and insecurities held in the body!

In the recovery ward!

We’re actually in the recovery ward after the past months, the best part of this year, as Mars travelling retrograde and in shadow for such a big part of the year put the focus on our physical body energies along with our fire and drive. For many of us it has manifested as all manner of physical challenges as the body experienced a recalibration as the cell memories, ancestral DNA and planetary forces were being released from within and without.

Ongoing release and recalibration of the physical body:

The primal energies we carry within us could be called memories, aspects and/or archetypes or sub-personalities. These are just some of the names given to those energies we hold in our bodies. We are still releasing these old energies as we accept the peace, karmic re-balancing, harmony and love being brought in by the Libran energies. We need to make the concerted effort to believe that everything is being put to right in line with our own divinity and fulfilment.

6th October: Mercury moves out of shadow retrograde!

Clarity being restored!

The White Rabbit transformed into Bugs Bunny!

Until 1st December

We followed the White Rabbit of Mercury down the rabbit hole of the eclipse energies. He was nervous, anxious, chasing time and looking very worried and distressed. That was the manifestation of Mercury in shadow retrograde in Virgo. He was desperate to control, organise and analyse the situation.

Although Mercury went direct on 22nd September, he was still in shadow energy taking us over the steps we walked over a month ago. Now, he’s out of shadow and he’s looking very much like he’s had a makeover too!

From a time obsessed, anxious White Rabbit he’s transformed into our very own Bugs Bunny who is full of confidence. cheek and smart thinking! This is the transformed Mercury in Virgo energy which we get to experience for a day until Mercury moves into Libra. Make the most of the insights coming forward on this day!

7th October: Mercury moves into Libra at 6.55 pm AEDT...test driving the newly minted mind!

Until 25th October

Art: Dominic Liam Photography

Mercury, our mind manager, moves into the sign of balance, harmony, equity and love. What a great gift that Mercury moves into a sign that gives us the perspective to be able to weigh up alternatives, opposite perspectives and duelling mental constructs.

Weighing up the pros and cons:

Libra is a dual sign which constantly calls us to come into balance and harmony. When Mercury, ruler of our mind, enters Libra we may find that we feel a little like we’re between a rock and a hard place mainly because we take more time to make a decision while we’re weighing up the pros and cons. We’re feeling our way forward!

Test driving our new balance and mental clarity:

Mercury in Libra is going to give us the opportunity to test our clarity and mind powers after its extended stay (thanks to the retrograde period) in Virgo. In Virgo, we’ve been healing the mind through the purging, purification process, releasing those energies of worry, anxiety, nervous tension and over analysis mentally. We’ve been in a state of mental confusion as Mercury retrograde worked in tandem with the eclipse energies.

Now we’re on the next step to recovery, rediscovering the harmony of the mind. We won’t really know how far we’ve come until Mercury moves into Libra and we accustom ourselves to a natural balancing and harmonising of our mental processes.

Let’s not forget that Libra is about partnership and the partnership now happening within our mind is the coming together of the masculine/feminine polarity, the outer action oriented energies in balance with the inner reflective energies. We need both sides of our minds working in harmony, knowing intuitively when to take action and when to be still and consciously allow our divinity to bring to us that which we need.

Golden Oldies:

‘Two different directions’ John Denver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMXs1C434B8 Yes, I’ve had this one before, but it says it all!

‘The Two of Us’ Jackie Trent and Tony Hatch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdZFxU2no8

‘The Ugly Duckling’ by Hans Christian Anderson, Disney version of the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafXdmFsTbE

‘The Ugly Duckling’ Song by Danny Kaye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwqmlrVGa54

Upcoming Dates:

16th October: Full Moon in Aries

18th October: Venus moves into Sagittarius

19th October: Mars meets Pluto

That’s it folks!

Just a short update. The energies are settling somewhat from now until the end of the year. We’ll have plenty to go on with as any fall out from the eclipses begins to manifest in our lives. Think positively with respect to these changes as we are making huge strides in accessing a more evolved consciousness. The more we accept this growth and embrace the bigger vision of love and unity, the more the world will come to join us.

The big one for this month is coming up on 16th October. The Full Moon in Aries will flush out any fiery emotional energies with respect to our sense of self, place in the world, entitlement to a fair deal and equitable outcome. This could well be a karmic readjustment as well as relevant to our lives now. Between now and then we are very much working with the swan energy ‘discovering the beauty and power of our true self’. Then we’ll be ready to own the Aries Full Moon ‘I am’ energy which will call us to acknowledge and own our inner ‘God, Goddess, all that is’ energy’.

As always, love and blessings to us all as we float on the waterways as the swan who is discovering the beauty of the self and in so doing finds fulfilment through her soul family and a divine partnership.

The Swan The elegant Swan is an ideal symbol of beauty and grace. Its flowing curves and fluid movement give an ethereal air of perfection realized. The Swan's beauty embodies the feminine (Yin) qualities of intuition and sensitivity. But The Swan does not begin life as a creature who appears to be the creation of divine inspiration. Indeed at birth The Swan is an ungainly creature that lacks any indications of the magnificent being it is destined to become. The Swan's transformation from ordinary to extraordinary have made it an emblem of discovering the beauty and power of your true self.

From: http://www.e-tarocchi.com/Ancient-Symbols-Oracle/index.php

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