Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
On the night of the recent lunar eclipse I was tired, nearly exhausted…but I had set my heart completely on staying up to see it. I put on a warm coat, as the nights have been cold this summer, and walked into the blackness of the street and then the woods under the already-eclipsing moon. I sat by the ocean near my house and listened to the sounds of the night and the water under the most dense sea of stars I have seen in years.
I could have been the only person in the world at that moment.
I became deeply altered in the midsts of both my soul and bone weariness, and the magic of the experience overtaking me completely. A shooting star went by. All around me the scene became darker, and darker, as the last of the moon was nearly covered and just a sliver of her light remained. She seemed far away this time, and in black-and-white instead of color.
I was reminded of the last time I rallied all my strength in a need to gather faith. I was recalling the bitter cold and the almost-unbearable pain of that pre-dawn morning in Tibet. I left my husband unable to get out of bed on our last day before we would fly out, but I knew I had to visit Nechung. I knew if I did not visit the temple of the Oracle I would leave Tibet with a broken heart, and a broken body. The body would be broken, but I went to heal the heart.
I went too to the ocean that night to restore my heart. The energies of the last few weeks have been almost brutal at times, even when everything has looked fine on the surface. And coming up to the days of the eclipse things intensified to a fever pitch. I have received many hundreds of responses from all over the world about the writing I did regarding these energies, as so many people related to it…a testimony to how much this has been a shared experience by such a large number of us.
As the moon finally eclipsed completely it answered my strange prayer and began to blush, with that familiar orange-red color that has always meant change. Mars may not have straddled up next to her, but there was surely a Red Moon that night just the same.
My eyes filled involuntarily with tears, as I remembered the coming of the red moons before, so many ages in the past. I remembered the falling worlds and the promise of the new ones when the Red Moon came, and I felt the significance of this one more deeply than I can say. Old friend, I thought…you have returned again to release us.
And so I asked for release. I asked that as the moon eclipsed it was also eclipsing me, and removing anything I was ready to let go of from my former life as it had been before that moment. I asked that as the light returned, a new self be born. A self even more free, and more at peace. And for the seeming eternity of the time it was shadowed red, I felt the transformation occurring, for myself and the rest of the world, as yet again a new world was born.
As you can read in my eclipse writings, we have entered a special time, like the alchemy of the red moon passage that night, through the eclipse window and the “eye of the needle” between now and the solar eclipse on September 11th.
This is a very special time to become more clear on what you would like to let go of, change, and become. It is a special time to rewrite your story and your future yet again, and to, once more, remember who you really are. This can mean taking time to reflect, to nurture yourself, and perhaps to create or express. All of these things can help us remember.
It also means it is an incredibly important time to be aware of the “guardians at the gate” as Joseph Campbell calls them. He says that in every mythic journey, right before the heroine or hero makes it to the completion or sought for outcome, there are final trails, voices, warnings or doubts that try to convince them that they are on the wrong track. He says this is what the gargoyles represent on churches as people are about to enter the sanctuary or holy place.
Be mindful now of the people, places and things which are coming forward to challenge you to doubt yourself and your path in a non-helpful way. Ultimately they will still make you stronger and wiser, but trust your heart and its great compass above all. If situations are coming up that ask you to doubt yourself and everything you think you may finally be arriving at, know that they may just be the sign that you truly are that close, and don’t let them throw you off your course or out of what you know is your center and your source.
Soon the craziness of the energies will soften…it is happening even as I write these words. As it does there will be a sense of settling…the way leaves arrange themselves after falling. It will give us time to reflect and get new perspective, which will then help us direct our sails to take new flight into our coming joy. Listen for the winds, and know that you are loved and supported in each moment.
Love,
Jennifer
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