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🌕 Friday, March 14 at 2:53 a.m. ET: Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse Uttara Phalguni 29°44 Leo: Conscious Attention / Conscientious Alignment

Eclipses are considered to be powerful revealing events that shine the spotlight on areas that have been hidden or are ready to be seen. They can make secrets public, as we always see in the news the days immediately surrounding an eclipse. They highlight our karmic connections and give us opportunities for further engagement or release. They can usher in massive change, especially if there are connecting to planets or degrees in our personal birth charts. Eclipses spotlight areas of our personal lives based upon the eclipse sign, the house highlighted in our birth charts, personal planets being affected by the eclipse, and planets in the same or close degrees as the eclipse. When an eclipse comes around, we get to do a deep dive into these highlighted areas as eclipses unveil and unravel karmas ready to be faced or released… or we can create deeper karmas during these times. How we engage right now will have a stronger influence than other times. This eclipse in Uttara Phalguni is highlighting our alignments, our actions and our intentions, asking for us to give conscious inspection, attention and alignment to these areas. (Long post with specifics below…)

The Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse “Blood Moon” on March 13/14 will be in “sandhi” end degrees of sidereal Leo called Uttara Phalguni, doubly ruled by the Sun. It’s a charitable sign with healing and humanitarian inclinations, and a strong sense of honor and duty. When prominent in the sky like it is now, it gives us the impetus and strength to face adversity, especially if the support is for the greater good. Uttara Phalguni strives to bring spirituality into daily life, so this eclipse brings the focus on our personal practices and actions, and asks that they be highly aligned and geared towards supporting causes beyond ourselves.

As the star of patronage governed by the deity Aryaman, this eclipse has us look to our agreements, our legal contracts and our personal commitments, and whether or not we are in integrity and honoring them (*but do not sign contracts on an eclipse). The symbols of this lunation are the legs of the marriage bed (representing stability and lasting relationships), and the hammock (reflecting the importance of rest and healing).

Since eclipses shine a super-powered spotlight on things connected to the eclipse sign — in this case 29°44 Uttara Phalguni — it’s important we look at these areas of our lives and make sure they are receiving proper attention. Even the translation of the name “Uttara Phalguni,” meaning the “latter fruit of the tree,” refers to the quality of the product (or the karma) that we create from our actions (or intentions): the fruits of our labor, whether they are in the material realm or mental/emotional/spiritual. Uttara Phalguni is always striving to merge the spiritual with the physical.

Because of this Moon’s strong drive to care for and uplift others, the Lunar Eclipse is bringing our attention to our relationships, our alliances, and our commitments. There’s a purity about this sign and so asks us to look at the underlying drive and motivation we have in the actions we’re taking. This is a sign that wants to do good and to be good.

But its shadow side can be neglectful of its relationships and commitments, or it can be controlling or dismissive. It can be so focused on its responsibilities that it can forget about joy and creativity. These shadow sides could easily get augmented now because the eclipsed Moon is literally in the shadow of the Earth; the material plane could override our deeper more genuine intentions.

Questions in the spotlight:
🌕 Who or what are your strongest commitments and duties to?
🌕 Are your personal health and practices included?
🌕 Are any relationships or responsibilities being neglected?
🌕 What’s asking for healing in your relationships, commitments or contracts? What is coming to an end? What’s asking to be released?
🌕 What’s driving you right now?
🌕 What are the “gunas” or qualities of your motivations and actions? In Vedic thought there are 3 main gunas: sattva (pure, light, peaceful), rajas (passionate, energized, agitated), and tamas (heavy, inertia, lack of thoughtfulness). We need all 3 but some can be more prominent. For ex: tamas helps us sleep, but can also bring about depression; rajas gets us excited but can also make us impatient; sattva supports spiritual practice but can also become sanctimonious.

General Eclipse Suggestions
To utilize this time and energy wisely, it’s recommended to go within using guidance from the nakshatra (Vedic sign) prominent during the eclipse. As eclipses have a magnifying effect, the suggestion is to not treat the time around the eclipse like any other day but rather to engage in spiritual and personal practices. For ex: doing yoga, journaling, grounding breathwork, intention setting, and focused visualizations before the eclipse followed by meditating around the height of the eclipse are recommended.

This Lunar Eclipse’s counterpart is the New Moon/Partial Solar Eclipse in sidereal Pisces Uttara Bhadrapada on March 29, which will undoubtedly be intense for many as Mars connections can create heightened anger and explosive energy. Since this Lunar Eclipse is ruled by the Sun, which represents the “king” and leader, this eclipse will likely be intense for people in prominent positions. As with all eclipses, be prepared for revealing bombshell stories to be made public.

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Diwali (Deepavali) is the Vedic Festival of Lights which will occur for several days and nights this year from October 28-November 3. This magical holiday is celebrated by those who follow India's Hindu/Vedic, Jain, and Sikh cultural traditions. Diwali is celebrated annually around the New Moon in Libra, which this year will occur on November 1.

One of the most important days of the Diwali festival is Dhanteras (Dhanatrayodashi), which will occur on October 29 this year. This festival marks the beginning celebrations of Diwali. It commemorates the god Dhanvantari who imparted the wisdom of Ayurveda for the betterment of humankind, and to help rid humanity of the suffering of disease. Dhanteras and Lakshmi, Ganesha, and Kubera are all propitiated for good blessings at this time.

The main day of Diwali is the Amavasya day of the Lakshmi Puja, which will occur on October 31. This event celebrates Lakshmi’s birth and all the blessings of her love, wisdom, beauty, and abundance.

May your light shine brighter and brighter with each coming day, and may all the devas bless you and yours now during Diwali and always and forever.

Oct 17 at 7:26am eastern time: Full Moon 00°22 Aries Ashwini: Where to Breathe New Life

The Full Moon will be in the early degrees of sidereal Aries, in the healing sign of ASHWINI: the Physician to the Gods, the Miracle Healer, the Heroic and Tenacious One. Its symbol is the horse, connected to pure Prana: our breath and vital life force. Thanks its governing deities, the Ashwin Twins, this Moon is directly linked to Ayurveda: the Science of Life and Mother of All Healing. It’s a powerful Full Moon, the 3rd supermoon in a row (!), and follows a pair of intense eclipses… all of this urging us to fearlessly forge a new path ahead and to focus on the healing the comes from this.

Being ruled by Mars and Ketu, this Full Moon has Mars’ sharp, direct, courageous take charge tendencies, mixed with Ketu’s spirituality and trust of its inner guidance. When we are able to balance and merge these energies, we are then open to receive inspired insight and move forward on it.

Some questions to consider:
•Where are you feeling this kind of self trust and courage right now?

•What areas of life are feeling full and supported?

•What areas are lacking in that vital Prana, motivation or exuberance? Is it because the connection is complete and it’s time to move on? Or does it need healing and revitalizing?

•Are you able to harness your vision?

•What paths are you breathing life into?

Support during this time of transition:
We are in a time of transition: with the seasons, with the eclipses, the many retrogrades in the sky, and even planets shifting this week. Ayurveda says: when life gets hectic, go simple. An easily accessible way is to look at our diet and lifestyle:
•Keep the diet simple and grounded. Kitchari is an easy to digest meal that is also nourishing.
•Spices to boost agni (the digestive fire) are supportive during times of change as we can need extra help processing all that is on our “plate” (not just food).
•Guided breathwork and visualization are especially powerful with this Full Moon time as the sign and symbol of the sign directly connect to prana: where we are focusing our breath and our attention.
•Links for all are on mt resources page: https://www.lexneon.com/resources

Today is the ninth and most powerful night of Navaratri, called Maha Navami, when the ninth avatar of the Devi, known as Siddhiratri, kills the demon king Mahishasura. Tomorrow will conclude Navaratri on the day called Dussehra, the Victory Day of the Goddess.

In ‘Devi Bhagvata Purana’ it is mentioned that after Lord Shiva worshiped Siddhiratri, He was blessed with all siddhis (supernatural powers). By Her blessings, his half body became female and the other half male in the avatar of Ardhnarishvara.

Siddhidatri is one of the most powerful forms of Devi Durga and is believed to give true happiness and peace to Her devotees. She is also the bringer of miracles.

Namashivaya! Jai Maa! Jai Bhagavan! May we all open to see and experience the true miracle of our divine Being which is being shown to us all the time in a myriad forms. Ask, open and receive! She is always flowing for us and especially this day.

Love and light,
Juliana
(See Durga Ashtakam chant in comments section below)

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