Full Moon in Taurus & Lunar Eclipse
Is it just me, or has this particular Eclipse Season gotten people into more of a tizzy than usual? As one client put it, “Fuck this eclipse season for being what I need.” In recent memory, I can’t recall a time between eclipses that has been filled with so much hardship for so many people on so many levels.
This “Blood Moon” as it’s called, which happens on October 28, 2023, is the last eclipse to happen on the Taurus/Scorpio axis, and very often we feel the beginnings and endings of these cycles more intensely than at any other time. It’s like in the beginning they’re making themselves known, and in the end they’re saying, “don’t forget about us!”
So… What were you doing in October/November of 2021? Whatever major themes you were working with (especially having to do with relationships, self-worth, finance, power and surrender) are at the forefront now because there is some sort of ending to whatever was brought up or started 2 years ago (eclipses happen between two signs for approximately 2 years and that is when we entered the Taurus/Scorpio axis). This could be something major like a relationship with someone else or your relationship to yourself, or something that doesn’t seem as weighty like finally admitting your favorite sweater has seen its last good days.
My guess is that for many of us, it will feel more like the former than the latter.
As I do when trying to understand something, I asked God what is the main takeaway I should share, and this is what came through:
Ultimately, letting go is difficult not because we may love what we have but because we are afraid to be without it. What needs to be released is often something that an individual doesn’t even like or want, but if this giving up of the thing isn’t 100% of our own volition, it feels like an assault to our sense of self-determination and privacy. It feels unfair.
I want to clear that up.
What is unfair is thinking we can hold on to anything simply because we want it.
What is unfair is giving ourselves such little credit that we’d rather continue to suffer with what isn’t meant for us than be in pain while waiting for what is.
What is unfair is the audacity we embody when we are in a state of clinging because we think we know better about how things should unfold than how they are naturally unfolding.
What is unfair is to use the language and energy of resistance against God’s desired evolution.
Every time we lose something, on an unconscious level we get scared because we experience a little bit of death, but I’m reminded when Ram Dass shared a great lessons from one of his guides. He said that he asked his guide what it was like to die, and his guide responded, “It’s like taking off too tight of a shoe.”
So take off the shoe. There might be an experience of numbness or pain as the proverbial “foot” comes back to life, but the spaciousness and release will be well worth it.
