Day 332 of 365 - It's September!

It's hard to believe that it's September already.  The angle of sunlight and the length of our daylight has changed so much lately.  Evenings, and even some daylight hours are getting cooler, making me wonder how much longer I'll be wearing sandals and Capri pants.  The season is changing before our eyes.

This post will be a sort of omnium-gatherum, a 'word' meaning a miscellaneous collection, which showed up awhile back in my word of the day from Merriam-Webster.  My hope is that I'll be able to pull the various ideas together in some meaningful way.

It started more than a week ago, but for most of September we are in the zodiac sign of Virgo, my birth sign, and an earth sign.  It just so happens that there are six planets in earth signs at present, giving us lots of support in getting grounded.  This is a time of harvesting, both literally and personally.  On a personal level, it's related to healing of the body, mind or spirit by getting at the root of things and being prepared to move forward.

As a Virgo personality, I tend to be a problem solver.  I give undue amounts of energy to trying to figure things out in my life and to try to fix what I see as faulty, whether that be by practices I engage for myself or advice I give to others.  This can be on a concrete, emotional or spiritual level.  I work, work, work at something which feels important to me.  Sometimes, it feels like I succeed, and others it seems futile when little or nothing has changed, especially in my body.

In my times of discouragement, my tendency is to 'escape' into the spiritual.  That's why I love my meditation options so much, especially the brain entrainment audios which actually change my brain waves and take me out of my busy, thinking, 'beta' brain.

A few things I've read in the past few days reminded me, again, that it's not all separate.  Astrologer Donna Woodwell wrote, referring to the perspective of an alchemist, that, 'it's our Great Work to materialize spirit and spiritualize matter'.  She also wrote, and I include my own words in brackets, 'the material world (including our body) is a spiritual place because there's no such thing as an absence of Spirit.  Earth (and body) are merely an expression of Spirit that is slowed down and experienced as matter, space and time.'

Then, Lori Wilson, of Inner Access 101, my mentor and teacher of intuition-based training, shared in her monthly focus from her spirit guide, Grandmother,  how this Moon (September) is a time for us to shift from focusing on saving others to being held by the Earth and growing in new ways ourselves, focusing on what we need to do.

The icing on the cake is the oracle card I drew this morning.  Since it's a new month, I've decided to choose a different deck.  It is simply called Wisdom Cards, and is based on the Heavenly Code, a sacred text of ancient Korea.  The creator of the cards combines calligraphy with wisdom messages.
Here is the message from the card I drew this morning:  Choose completion, not success.  Your soul is completed only through internal growth.  This growth is obtained through love and harmony, not through success secured through competition.

Bingo!

The more involved meditations which I'm using these days, from Joe Dispenza, in a way, encompass this philosophy of soul growth through love and harmony.  They do take us way 'out there' to the vastness of unconsciousness, to the source of all energy and creation.  Then, they bring us back into time, space and the material world to integrate our experience into the lives we live in the here and now.  The connection to both is the heart, and love.  The coherence we have created during the practice changes us, for the better.

Harvesting from that miscellany seems to have given me some direction for the month.  As we wrap up this holiday weekend, I wish you a fruitful September in the coming days.




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