Oh mistress, mistress moonsilver, silver blueReaching down tobrush the mist awayeyes bewitched,that shards of lightmight pierce the heartreleasing swells,of Lovewe glow.
The glow of the moon, the brilliance, the shape, the images, the poetry written for the
satellite of Earth that was formed some 4.5 billion years ago--a long relationship of synchronous rotation; companions in a dance, gravity is the music, creates rising and falling of the ocean’s tides and some say influences physiological functioning.
It is a long time that we have kept company with a celestial body that often guides us to deeper places within our hearts and connects us as human beings to the essential aspect of the cycles of our existence. We may even love the moon as a representation of the relationship we our selves have with the planet we inhabit. Think of the moon and a tugging is felt right in the center of the chest calling us home.
When we stand transfixed by the moon through its various phases, we see not this or that but a mirror that, with perfection reflects to us a deep and utter truth of being here with the ‘same’ brilliance, perfection and clarity. I am that clarity to which I am drawn night after night, year after year, century after century. On any given evening, as we are bewitched by the presence of a shining orb that travels faithfully with us we have the potential for realizing that our body is a temporary form, gives expression to eternal and infinite presence that is the nature of all things—omnipresent.
Swept away by the yearning for ‘that’ we follow the call of the moon. In deep meditation we pierce the illusion of separation that denies us freedom and access to liberated experience the beauty of which melts bone and rigid thoughts that perpetuate feelings of being alone here. There is the moon! Glorious and embracing. A reminder that I am that which I seek.
June begins with a mighty conjunction of the moon in Aries and Uranus an energy that has the potential to shake us to the depths of our emotional being. Moon in Aries people, as one astrologer expresses, “react at the speed of light and the word restraint is not in their dictionary.” (Ganeshaspeaks.com)
Add to this spontaneity and passion the influence of Uranus the awakener and this is a moment of explosive reaction that can lead to emotional freedom down the road and liberation from instinctive patterns that produce habitual responses. It may not be comfortable, in fact this could have us raging with discomfort but this too shall pass!
Specifically the storm begins to dissipate as the morning of the 2nd is dawning. We will be left with nerves tingling and an exhaustion that often follows intense release work.
If this is not enough to rattle foundations, the conjunction of moon Uranus is in exact quincunx (150 degrees) to the black moon Lilith, the point in deepest, darkest space that represents our liberation from suffering and our most tenacious fears.
The suggestion for riding this wave of unpredictability is sinking deeply into the still, clear waters of pure being; a place that we inhabit whilst moon gazing and the precious moments when we are carried home. Then come what may, I am peace and not attached to the story that continues to run this show.
The Moon XVIII of the Tarot deck is a card of journeying without fear, into the shadowy areas of human nature that represent repressed and stifled aspects that we prefer not to recognize. All of this domain is our truth and until it is embraced and loved into existence along with those human characteristics that we find acceptable we will remain as a part of something rather than subsumed as that ‘something’. In numerology to understand the meaning of the number 18 it is reduced to a 9 and defined as the number of human evolution and service. Our service here, to which we continually aspire, is freedom to be Truth and to share this with our brothers and sisters so that all may live in realization of this Truth.
Number 9 in the Tarot is the Hermit who travels with wisdom and the silent knowing of Being here as service. He needs nothing and expects nothing for what he shares--the grace of eternal peace.
The four 9’s of the mundane Tarot represent a high level of attainment where knowing precedes thinking so that our awareness is advanced and we stand in comfort and confidence in the area represented by each of the four suits.
The 9 of Pentacles is earth and our experience in physical reality. The awareness that my needs are met always and security here is the result of this understanding not by the acquisition of more and more on this material plane.
The 9 of Cups is water and the realm of emotion. Having conquered insecurity we dwell in a place of stillness where happiness and a sense of fulfillment are no longer a goal to be reached but an inherent state.
The 9 of Swords is air and the intellectual world. Though appearing quite grim this card informs us that it is our thoughts that imprison us—worry that leads to depression and desperation is a product of the mind and is not Reality.
The 9 of Wands and the element of fire is knowing, beyond thought, that life here is ease and grace once ‘our enemies or fears’ have been vanquished. Then we stand with confidence immovable or unshaken by any further external expression.
June is a month of particular natural beauty, the blossoming of summer and those days of pure joy instilled by the knowing that being here is a gift and wanting to experience and explore all the marvelous opportunities presented to us—the universe giving ceaselessly and receiving in return the myriad expressions of all the many forms that grace this duality.
Thank you for your presence…enjoy!
i want to be in love with you
the same way i am in love with the moon
with the light shining out of its soul.
~Sanober Khan
