If your consciousness was a camera, this next few weeks is prime time to put on a wider lens… maybe the widest one you have.
At midnight on Sunday the 24th (L.A. time) we’ll have a lunar eclipse. The beautiful blue-green Earth will pass between the sun and the moon.
Then, around 11 a.m. April 8th we’ll have at total solar eclipse; and the beautiful moon will pass between us and the sun.
The weeks in between these two cosmic events are known as an eclipse season. (In 2024 we’ll have two eclipse seasons, the second set arriving with its first eclipse on Sept. 17 and its second on Oct. 2.)
This time around, the lunar eclipse on the 24th is the “softer” of the two; and in my opinion, the time to start watching and listening to life carefully, separating the signal from the noise. We’ll have two good weeks of perceiving all events from a metaphorical bird’s eye view. Then, the total solar eclipse on the 8th is going to signal the time to start acting on what you learned (and what the world did) within the eclipse season.
After many years of studying and teaching about eclipse seasons, I have a deep understanding that by the time we pass through any eclipse season, we are new and the world is too.
Which is why I also believe eclipse season is not the time for big divination or spellwork or any other activity where we are “telling the world” what we want it to do. Eclipse seasons can be erratic, and their surprising nature is a big part of what makes us (and the world) “new” when we get to the other side of them.
So if we start “manifesting” within this transition portal we might be aiming our arrow in the “wrong” direction for that person we will be two weeks from now (or for how the world will be two weeks from now).
Instead, the magically skillful approach to these seasons is to view it as a gateway, an in-between-time, a liminal space that more often than not surprises us somehow.
Eclipse seasons are transitional portals. I don’t mean “portal” in an airy-fairy way. (sidetone - I really hate how Instagram mysticism has reduced this concept of portal until it means nothing and is applied to everything.) When I say this time is a portal, I mean that if we engage with eclipse seasons as spaces where we can consciously access the energies of new wisdom and quantum leaps, we ignite the potential to come out the other side truly upgraded.
Another way to say it is that eclipse season is like a two-week computer re-boot; where new software is installed and once we turn it off and on again, the computer (life) works in new ways (perhaps beyond what we ever imagined the computer was capable of doing).
These seasons are a time when the landscape can change in surprising ways and new truths become suddenly known and/or accepted. Quantum leaps and new timelines becoming available can be great, but even in that case it can give a discontinuous feeling that can feel de-stabilizing.
For those of us who can maintain the bird’s eye view, we can get true Eureka! Flashes within this two-week window.
We may also notice humanity having to evolve very quickly.
We may also notice a heightened level of disinformation, or being too “in the head” trying to make sense of things or gaslighters (inner and outer) having a heyday.
Some say that human beings are becoming more “crystalline”; meaning that we can anchor more and more light within ourselves and experience/embody higher frequencies. With that, there is the understanding that anywhere there is a bright light, it reveals a sharper shadow. Sometimes, these eclipse seasons will show us more vividly what is in that shadow.
So what are the Eclipse Season protocols?
look, listen, and learn as much as we can about the current/incoming landscape from our bird’s eye view as we fly above the grand theater of life on this planet
separate the signal from the noise as much as possible (be clear about your values and be clear about what information is “for you” and what isn’t)
up your “spiritual immunity” by meditating often to “clear the decks” of your energy and consciousness so you remain clear
see ourselves as “mythical beings” in a mythic world where strange things can and do happen
let go of the “how” things will happen or turn out, because in eclipse-land things happen in unusual, unpredictable ways
alternate action with non-action wherever possible, and reserve any really big actions (or reactions) until after the second eclipse (in this case on April 8th)
Eclipse seasons are times when doors open or close and cosmic pivot points reveal themselves. Let’s stay clear and calm and awake (and with our bird’s eye view vision activated) as we cross this special landscape.
Friday people - now 53 of you! - I love you so. Here is the full audio of our classic Eclipse meditation, which I believe gives us the “felt sense” of how to make it through the season in an elevated, expansive, magical way.
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