New Moon / Solstice / Annular Eclipse: The Portal, the Protectress and the Path

To You Protectresses and Protectors of the Path:

We’ve all met face-to-face with Suffering in its limitless shapes and forms.

We may call it Karma, our History, our Childhood, our Conditioning. We have named it our Family, our Government, the Authorities, our Religion, our Relationships. We label it our Fears, a Pandemic, our Ego, our Personality. Some might experience it as Racism, Oppression, Injustice, Addiction, Loss, Betrayal, Rejection.

God knows that humans know the path of suffering.

So it is in times like these when so much pain and confusion have been released on this planet that we are graced with this singular opportunity to remember who we really are and what our purpose is.

In the skies Alchemy is afoot, a significant Portal opened.

The annular solar eclipse this weekend will activate a Ring of Fire with the Sun and the Moon in Cancer coming together to provide the alchemical heat needed to transform what’s awaiting to be transformed within our Inner Cauldrons.

Mass pain and confusion can be transmuted if we allow it, but we must take this brave step of asking the question of the Wise Woman within:

Are you willing to do the emotional excavation to see where the suffering on this planet lives within you?

As we embody all the energies of all the archetypes and astrological signs, the Cancerian Mother in us knows that birthing a new path can be painful as there’s much conditioning to unravel and trauma to heal.

But we can no longer resist merging into collective awareness and quantum love.

The Cancerian Protectress in us must let go of the past, walk through the Portal that has been opened for us, a lit-up Path that reclaims wide expanses of Peace.

To continue to grow and to spiritually transform into our Wise Medicine Women ways, each of us is presented with the metamorphosis our souls are ready to claim.

Caterpillar. Cocoon. Butterfly.

We came for this time, as Ram Dass points out–that those of us who have even the slightest degree of equanimity could participate in this great shift:

… we who might possess a tiny bit more consciousness, who may be a little further along on the path of self-realization, who may be a touch more willing to let go of the fear and the pain that we’re experiencing right now.

But walking on a path that involves quantum levels of consciousness requires our sacrifice that seems great at the time but is so little when we see what’s on the other side after allowing the death of our conditioning, our bypassing, our fragility and our privilege to take place.

So to expedite the process, we do the shadow work, calling forth the parts that we don’t accept, we don’t like, the places we’ve repressed, we’ve denied, we’ve hidden. We lay them all on the table, digesting the hurt before the hurt digests us.

If we refuse to understand that the pain outside of us is the pain that is taking up space within us, we continue to inflict suffering by laying blame through those projections.

Then we do not grow, we fail to live up to our great human potential—all because we dared not to look, refusing to acknowledge the past, to witness the pain, rejecting a love affair with our Divinity and at the core—our Innocence.

The Leaders in all of us will be called to do just that–lead. We do not wait for anyone anymore.

We are the ones who take the deep honest self-inventory, so we can see what to transform, what no longer serves, stepping into a way of being we’ve always dreamed of, that we know is possible if only we would walk all this talk.

Illuminating and transmuting these shadow patterns is arguably the most important work we will do.

And we must be kind in the process. Self care as self-preservation as Lama Rod Owens reminds us in his revelatory new book Love and Rage.

Ruling our digestive system, the Cancerian energies swirling around in our skies and in our bodies might make us increasingly sensitive to the words we hear, the words we speak. The Intuitive and the Empath may experience a heightened awareness of our thoughts and our feelings (and others’ too), our dreams (the ones we’ve lost, the ones we’re claiming) landing in our bodies.

Deep self-care is a must as we do this shadow work and process all the trauma in our cells and residing in our bones–more rest, nourishing food, time in nature, our bare feet on the ground, casting spells, singing songs, writing stories of love as we feel our feelings and share our thoughts.

We’re not alone in this love work and in this letting go. To release the old ways while we usher in the new, we surrender to wiser energies and higher vibrational frequencies to lift us up and unfold within us what wants to unfold.

Through our devotion to this planet and each other, we can more easily feel the profound support through the Divine Mother who has many names: Isis, Mother Mary, Ma Durga, Magdalene, Kuan Yin, White Buffalo Woman, Green Tara, Ixchel, Brigid.

The Protectress in us cannot and does not create alone, so call for the support–loudly and often.

And if this Solstice/Eclipse/Moon time is calling you to retreat and reflect, go for a while and nourish yourself, dear heart, but also come up for some air and return to the Sun and the Moon and the Light and the Love.

For this is what Wayshowers, Medicine Women, Mothers and Protectresses do–for the Love of All Her Relations.

Are you ready? Me too. 

Love Jenn