Composting Your Past, Enriching Your Now
If you’ve followed me for awhile you know that I look to nature as a guide and move with, not against the rhythms and cycles of life.
Today's Lunar Eclipse is in Scorpio, and I'm feeling it.
A total lunar eclipse is a time the Earth moves in between the Moon and the Sun, casting a shadow on the moon.
It’s possible that you may be feeling or seeing the emergence of hidden things, in your life or in your surroundings. We are certainly seeing that on our collective world stage.
This week I’ve felt down a few days, shaken-up and I couldn’t figure out why.
I tried to track it to something that was currently occurring in my life – couldn’t find it
I tried to ignore it, dismissing it as not getting enough sleep or not enough exercise – didn’t work
This feeling was railing inside me, and I knew it was time to tend to it because my experience with myself in these moments is that the “messages” become louder and louder. A tap becomes a shove.
What I found was some “old” emotional material, stuff that I dismissed as having already worked through it.
With the deep assistance with a trusted Practitioner, I was able to see those last vestiges that needed to be forgiven and composted in my life.
It wasn’t an acute sadness I was experiencing but rather a dull ache in my emotional body that was asking me to do the final steps to let it go, and to re-open those deep inner recesses of my heart.
And this is what I mean about moving with the cycles of life. It’s not that the eclipse is “making” me unearth shadowy material.
But rather, it’s a celestial time, when there’s an energetic influence that allows for things hidden to be seen.
I choose to work with it, and you may too.
Whether a relationship, in your vocation, with family or a part of your identity - if it feels like something from the past, or a type of discontent is surfacing “out of the blue” it may be an indicator that there’s some vestiges of an old experience still hanging on, it is the perfect time to tend to it by clearing things out.
The natural law is, “energy is neither created nor destroyed” so whatever the experience – the energy of it is simply changing form.
Let It.
Just as plants need the rich soil to thrive, and that soil is composed of decayed material – we all need a fertile environment to grow and thrive.
The richness of our life is drawn from experience, including what we release and compost.
Journal about it, empty out that ‘junk drawer,’ take an Epsom salt bath, take a long walk, cut the dead leaves off your plants, talk to a trusted Practitioner/Advisor – whatever your practice - hold the intention of “clearing out”
I’ll be in the Garden of my Soul this week, adding to the compost heap and preparing for the blooming to come.
Join Me?
Let love guide the way,
Angela