I heard some brilliant advice this week.
I hesitate to use the word “advice” - as my best friend Rachana once told me, there is no shortage of advice in this world - and at the same time I also appreciate how nurturing it is to receive the resonant gospel of those we love and respect. We don’t have to do all the thinking ourselves, and sometimes a question appears and answers itself before we even have a chance to realize we were asking it.
I spent many decades ignoring Q&A sessions, and I remember huffing in frustration at school / college / law school when my fellow students would prolong my classroom torture with their endless barrage of queries. I’d label these traitors as either stupid or self-interested as I packed up my bag and moved my feet into launch position, perfectly poised to bounce back into the comforting buzz of my chosen social hive.
I wonder what I missed all those years, and I can only suppose that I allowed all of that wisdom to flow past me because I wasn’t ready to receive it. As I have learned to appreciate that there is no separation between you and me and anyone or anything else, I recognize the students I judged as parts of me that I desperately wanted to shut up. So I’m grateful that things are different now, and I find so much value in the inquisitive interactions we permit on the edges of presentation.
This week, I was delighted when the brilliant Diana Cooper sprinkled Q&A gold dust on my soul. As she opened the Zoom chat window before our guided meditation with Pluto, I found myself enamored with the adorable curiosity that grandparents and small children bring to the marvelous maze of technology. She wasn’t reading the text on her screen through a veneer of professionalism, she was clicking and squealing with delight as she connected with people she’d never before encountered.
There was one person that especially spoke to me with an open-hearted inquiry about integration, a request for guidance on how we can move in sync with the ripples of change in the world around us. You might have noticed how the social, economic and political institutions that underpin our society are dissolving (!), and you might have felt these waves of evolution wash into your own life (lord knows I have). It can be a lot sometimes, and there are days when keeping yourself fed and watered feels like a full-time endeavor.
So what was Diana’s astute advice for smoothly navigating through turbulent waters?
TRY TO DO NOTHING.
Or more specifically, try to do nothing that involves thinking. Put your left brain on the bedside table and let it rest. Play it a lullaby. Show it some pictures. And if you have more energy, let your arms make music. Let your hands paint. Let your legs dance. Let your feet walk through the woods. Let your body show you where you are and let yourself listen to what it tells you.
Diana’s advice is, as always, impeccably timed with the heavens above. This next week, both seriously steely Saturn and notoriously nebulous Neptune will come to a stop in phantasmagoric Pisces. When planets “station” in the sky like this, their signals become sharper and stronger. A stationary planet has a cosmic exclamation point, and you will notice its presence whether you warmly welcome its wisdom or wait for it to scream in your face. So like it or not, this dynamic duo will make sure that we all revisit our notions of structure and flow.
In traditional terms, we have long held Saturn as the gate-keeper of reality. It’s the furthest planet you can see with the naked eye, and for this reason it represents the limits of our perception. Saturn is also associated with solidity and structure, and in our bodies it rules over the skeleton that holds us up and the skin that keeps us in. Saturn in Pisces has been showing us how our spiritual boundaries shape our life experience since it started swimming with the fishes last March, and I have been poignantly aware of how my perspective on what’s possible creates the container for my life to unfold.
Neptune stands proudly for the proposition that everything is possible. And not only is everything possible, it is already here. Particularly in Pisces, Neptune encourages us to drop the habit of distinguishing between our (day)dreams and our waking lives, and it has been showing us in its trek across the Zodiacal ocean these past 13 years that “reality” is imagined. The world can look so much lighter when we see “reality” as something that flows through us wherever we put our awareness, and love feels so much more accessible when we allow ourselves to relax into an awareness of infinite choice.
Saturn will station retrograde tomorrow, and Neptune will join it in backwards motion on Tuesday. I find it so illuminating to be with these planets at the same time, to embrace the apparent paradox that everything is possible in the ether and yet only one thing is here before my eyes. So I’ve spent much of the past year reflecting on how to more consciously project the movie that is my life, how to structure my days in a way that brings me into more seamless flow with Our Universe.
And now I’m wondering if I got it backwards. What if the flow is the structure? What if there is nothing that I need to do? What if my existence alone is sufficient for my life to occur? Maybe I can stop digging energetic ditches to irrigate the landscape of my soul, maybe I can let the river of my consciousness carve its own canyon in colors I have never before seen.
It’s not often in our busy world that someone advises you to do nothing, so I invite you to give yourself a moment to let this question answer itself: Where can you do less to let more happen? And as you let go into flow, you are welcome to tune into a couple of conversations I shared with some of my favorite people:
Energetics of Money & Abundance on the Finding Your Way Home podcast, where you’ll hear me and
talk about how we form (and reform) relationships with moneyExpanding Perspectives on the Better Beings podcast, where you’ll hear me talk about how life brought me here and the wonderful window that astrology offers to Our Universe
If you’d like to come play, please also mark your calendar for the next experiment in the Energy Lab on Tuesday, July 9 - you’ll find full details below.
See you here, there and everywhere -
Love,
Patrick
Energy Lab
Next session: Tuesday, July 9 @ 8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET / 4:00 pm UK / 5:00 pm Europe
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