My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.
Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one
and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner,
only that
breath breathing human being.
:: Rumi ::
Gemini rules the lungs & hands
clear the body of
deep seated
– mental, emotional, spiritual –
toxins
with each breath
Pranayama – The Art of Yoga Breathing
Mudras to assist Pranayama
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peace
GMA
Strings are wound pretty tight out there, yeah..?
I am getting that from my circle, and I am feeling it myself. Where I am (central US) the heat is rising along with the humidity as the astro square of Uranus and Pluto grows tighter. Cranky and bitchy is a common commodity these days.
Patience is a little harder to come by, exquisite and golden.
Keep this in mind: as the date grows nearer to exact, the aspect is stronger.
June 23 – Uranus square Pluto exact 10:19pm, CST, USA.
So in the interest of keeping the astro distilled to the finest essence …
let’s acknowledge what we can do to relieve the pressure. I have got a simple solution, free ( we love free, yes ? ) and easy, can be done anywhere.
Here it is : breathe.
That’s it.
I told you it was simple.
Think of it this way – and Gemini house loves to think – and will from every angle.
Gem house is soon to be packed – as I write this Moon is at 29 degrees Toro nearly into Gemini to join Jupiter, Venus Rx, and Sun.
Sun, Venus and Jupiter are the benefics, the fortunate planets.
They are ALL in Gemini.
Gemini rules the lungs. and the nervous system :: our key to chill is breathing.
They (Moon, Jup, Ven) however; are in square to Neptune Rx and Chiron Rx in the healing sign of Pisces. (Sun trines Nept and Chiron.) Squares are an obstacle, needs to be solved – we yearn to know how to heal the macro and micro.
Retrogrades indicate a searching within for knowledge and revising the energy output it signals a chance to re-invent the way we express that energy in our lives.
Neptune is the higher octave of Venus, it is divine love for all life big and small.
It is where the macro and micro meet as ONE.
Chiron is the wounded centaur who explores remedies and ultimately gifts his knowledge to heal self and others via natural methods.
Yes, heal self – for the healer is also healed – it is an energy exchange.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. – Gandhi
Start small.
Inner world, then outer world.
In the airplane you put the oxygen mask on yourself first, right ?!
The micro universe of cells within our bodies needs fresh oxygen that only comes with deep breathing. Most people take 13-20 breaths per minute. Try to take 8 or fewer. Relax the pace of your respiration.
….slow down….relax…breathe deeply…..bless your body as you do so….
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Benefits:
Diaphragmatic breathing helps control the nervous system. Breathing slowly and deeply brings a sense of peace, relaxation and focus. note: Jupiter in Gemini scatters, lacks focus – diaphragmatic breathing will help ! Deep breathing stimulates the lymph system, it helps relieve hypertension and migraines. As oxygen goes into our blood stream, our cells excrete toxins, deep breathing helps our lymphatic system expel these toxins.
Pranayama is : Prāna, which means life force, or vital energy (for the breath) and “āyāma,” to suspend or restrain. Often translated as control of the life force, when used as a technical term in yoga, it is interpreted, more specifically, as “breath control.”
I’m going to visit the universal breathing room, maybe you will see my little breathing bubble pop up, it’s cool ! The link is on the sidebar (or click above) – you can see who is also coming from around the world to breathe together…..
om mani padme hum
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I Aear cân ven na mar.
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The Houses of Healing.
The Grace of the Valar
Breath of Life
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Immen dúath caeda
Shadow lies between us
Sui tollech, tami gwannathach omen
as you came, so you shall leave from us
Lû ah alagos gwinnatha bain
time and storm shall scatter all things
Boe naer gwannathach, annant uich ben-estel
Sorrowing you must go, and yet you are not without hope
An uich gwennen na ringyrn e-mbar han
For you are not bound to the circles of this world.
Uich gwennen na ‘wanath ah na dhín.
You are not bound to loss and silence.
Boe naid bain gwannathar
All things must pass away
Boe cuil ban firitha.
All life is doomed to fade…
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Arwen’s Song, sung by Liv Tyler
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Welcome to the House of Healing, Neptune is in Pisces
ohm mani padme hum
namaste
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New Moon in Capricorn December 24, 2:06pm CST, USA.
New Moon brings a fresh cycle, increase of light and energy.
Set intentions for your future according to the moon in Capricorn.
Capricorn is eons of earth (material world) crystallization.
Honor yourself, others and the Earth with Moon in Capricorn.
Make long-range plans, practice ritual, conserve and be disciplined.
This moon favors business and career, workings that will produce at a delay or long-term.
Capricorns Use their Time wisely.
What does the phase of the moon at your birth tell you..? click here.
The breath is a mantra spoken 26,000 times a day.
The past is behind us, the future is unformed and the present unfolds quickly.
Detach, accept the impermanence of all things.
The breath is born (inhale).
The breath lives (oxygen in our blood).
The breath dies (exhale).
Each inhalation is cleansing, each exhalation a release of the old and impure.
The old gives way to the new.
This is nature’s way.
Envision your life renewed with each inhalation of breath.
namaste~
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Ammonites are fossils, previous homes to cephalopods that lived in the seas between 240 – 65 million years ago.
The name originates from the Greek Ram-horned god called Ammon.
In the Middle Ages they were called ‘dragon’s heads’ and worn for protection. The Blackfoot tribe also wore them to ward off evil spirits as ‘buffalo stones’.
Ammonite is a powerful re-birthing stone; it represents the sacred geometry of the golden mean and the cyclical nature of life.
It is excellent for centering, and relaxation through calming the breath, and pulse. It can awaken the kundalini and foster harmonious energy flow throughout the body.
If you are very Earthy, or just simply a lover of stones, you may like to find a pocket totem to carry as a reminder to vibrate high energies during the Uranus oppositions to Sun, Mercury and Venus.
Venus is also conjunct Saturn. Pluto is squaring the above, and Uranus too.
There is energy pushing and pulling in the sky in many earth signs.
…so I am making friends with the Earth energies via ammonite…
Capricorn rules Saturn, Saturn rules rocks , they are made with pressure over eons of time ~ very Plutonic.
Saturn is my chart ruler, both luminaries are in Earth, so I dig rocks.
They help me focus my energies and practice patience, with myself and others.
….may they help you as well…
namaste~
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Odd that after my ‘breathing‘ post the other day, I was wondering why I didn’t think of including info about how the Earth breathes….then the US gets earthquakes. She has been breathing for millions of years; very slowly, and at a lower vibration than humans, but breathing nonetheless.
See Pangea at left for a visual of how the continents looked millions of years ago, before plate tectonics moved the earth by the addition of new ground rising up, and older pushing below.
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From Aug 22-24, several earthquakes hit regions where they do not normally occur. Several small pre-cursor quakes out in Cali– nothing new there, they take their juice shaken most days anyway–then a 5.3 near the Colorado/New Mexico border, a few small ones near the New Madrid fault, then soon after a 5.8 in Virginia.
(Click here for USGS, then click animation to view the sequence of recent earthquakes)
I have been reading Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home by Rupert Sheldrake. In his book, he mentions earthquake prediction via animal behavior, also known as Etho-Geological Forecasting.
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Chart for the time of quake indicates chart ruler, Pluto (earth shifts) in Capricorn (material world), in square to Uranus (vibrations,quakes) in the 4th house of home and property, in square to Mars (energy) which is in opposition to Pluto. Mars (activity) square Saturn (bedrock, Earth), which is also square Pluto. Be aware these aspects are in cardinal signs (crisis, activity, action).
(see big red square)
There is also a grand Earth trine involving Jupiter (expansion), Venus (sensations) and Sun (government buildings) with metamorphic Pluto.
How to reduce earthquake dangers.
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namaste~
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“My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconscious is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.” – D. H. Lawrence
Spoken like a Virgo with Scorpio rising, Pluto (chart ruler) conjunct Neptune. D.H. Lawrence has Virgo Sun conjunct Jupiter, Uranus, North Node in the 11th house (natural house of Aquarius). He was visionary; a very creative thinker, writer.
I find it so interesting that by following my heart, I have perfectly played my astrological hand, walked my astrological map- including the pitfalls, without consciously doing so. What I love about learning astrology is it has explained so much about my habits and tendencies. Astrology has given me the tools to be pro-active in charting my own course to physical and spiritual healing. I am hoping through reading this site, I can help you do the same.
My friend Rhonda introduced me to Craniosacral Biodynamics, and having Moon opposite Neptune in the 11th, and Sun conjunct Uranus, I find this fascinating.
Body fluids are ruled by Aquarius and Uranus
movement of the body fluid is ruled by Moon and Neptune.
The intention of craniosacral work is to encourage the cellular breath to move freely, without restriction, thereby allowing the life-giving oxygen, ions, and vital fluid to flow thoughout the body.
The cellular breath, or The Breath of Life produces a series of subtle rhythms (rhythms are Moon and Neptune ruled) that may be palpated in the body and which make up an integrated physiological system. At least three subtle rhythms have been identified in this “primary respiratory system”, each having a different rate and producing rhythms within rhythms.
These three “tides” are referred to as: the cranial rhythmic impulse; a more superficial rhythm expressed at an average rate of 8-12 cycles per minute, the mid-tide; a tidal rhythm that carries ordering forces into the body expressed at a slower rate of approximately 2.5 cycles per minute and the long tide; a deep and slow rhythmic impulse expressed about once every 100 seconds. The long tide is considered to be the first stirring of life and motion as the Breath of Life emerges from a deeper ground of stillness at the center of our being.
This same ‘breath of life’ takes place on a larger scale in the oceans of the Earth via thermohaline circulation. It is like a giant ocean deep water conveyor belt transporting enormous volumes of cold, salty water from the North Atlantic to the Northern Pacific, and bringing warmer, fresher water in return.
Salt water oceans make up 71% of the Earth’s surface, the human body is more than 60 percent water. Blood is 92 percent water, the brain and muscles are 75 percent water, and bones are about 22 percent water.
Scientific studies cannot prove the rhythms of the Moon influence water in the human body, or that the Moon has an influence on humans at all, for that matter; but they cannot prove astrology either, and I know it works. I know astrology works because I have seen it working in the charts of myself, my family, and those people I admire.
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Look for any aspects to Mercury, Gemini, or Jupiter to indicate the quality of your breathing. Look to aspects to Uranus, Aquarius, Moon and Neptune to indicate the rhythmic movement of blood, or water in your body.
I have Neptune both opposite Moon, and square Leo meaning in my chart I may have to watch for heart trouble, as Leo rules the heart, and Neptune bodily fluids. I have also learned to be attuned to emotional balance as my Moon is in the 4th house (natural house of Cancer- rules the stomach) and can cause vague (Neptune rules the hidden) stress induced illness. I have Saturn (restriction) in the 3rd house (natural house of Gemini).
Mercury, Gemini and Jupiter rule breathing in the astrological chart.
I spent many years smoking on and off, and haven’t smoked now in several years. My Saturn placement is a red flag for lung issues, so good thing I quit. (not that I recommend smoking for any placement, I don’t)
The first step to health is prevention.
Like the Bene Gesserit from Dune, I know humans can bend the life force towards health and well-being through concentration and will.
In the Bene Gesserit tradition, Sisters received many years of training in prana/bindu body control. They were capable of entering a trace-state, altering metabolism and slowing heart rates to neutralise toxic chemicals in the body on a molecular level. Bene Gesserit are trained in “the minutiae of observation”, noticing details that the common person would miss in the people and environment around them. When combined with their analytical abilities, this “hyperawareness” makes the Bene Gesserit capable of divining secrets and arriving at conclusions that are invisible to everyone else.
It’s no surprise I love Dune and reading of the Bene Gesserit, as I have a Virgo stellium and giant Neptuner, both leading me to be conscious of physical and spiritual health.
The first step to balance is awareness.
May the road to health rise up to meet you…
Namaste~
If you can control the Prana you can completely control all the forces of the Universe, mental and physical. The Yogi can also control the Omnipresent manifesting power out of which all energies take their origin, whether concerning magnetism, electricity, gravitation, cohesion, nerve-currents, vital forces or thought-vibrations, in fact the total forces of the Universe, physical and mental. *
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Two Vayus (air) : Prana (sun-inhale) and Apana (moon-exhale)
Astrologically
Sun = life spirit, ego, the conscious
Moon= soul, instinct, emotions, the unconscious.
Astrology is the study of the relationship between the macro and microcosmos. Hermetic law of correspondence states, “As above, so below, as within, so without.” As vast as the numbers of stars in the sky, are the number of atoms in our bodies. Concentrate and focus on the manifesting power you hold in each thought and breath and use them wisely.
“You will know… when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack. ” ~Yoda
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm.
He blends everything into a harmonious whole. ~Chuang Tzu
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The study of traditional Chinese medicine centers on the concept of the vital force or Qi as being not only within the human body, but in all living things. This Qi flows through the meridians of the human body to exchange, via the acupuncture points, with the Qi in the environment. Thus, the Qi of humans (the human energy field or HEF), and all living things, the earth,and the unified field are constantly exchanging. **
*source: http://www.yoga-age.com/asanas/prana.html
**source: http://twm.co.nz/energy2.html
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