Heart Turned Inside Out

If anyone is feeling heart pain today, you're not alone. With Mars in Leo, making a tense square to the Full Moon and planets in Scorpio, there's a bulls-eye on the heart. And if you've got planets around 7 Leo, you might feel it in a stronger way. I've been feeling this pain of heart opening today, and my friend Elizabeth Jones of Star Pathways had some right on suggestions. They included telling your heart it's ok to open; releasing any negativity to spirit; sit in the Sun and let the light come into the heart; rub oil on, or put Rescue Remedy onto the heart area (the 4th chakra). "And most important," she said, "take it easy today. Nothing confrontational or harsh or difficult or intense."

Elizabeth, an astrologer based at Mount Shasta, California, reminded me that it might not be just mine, but something stirred up in the collective heart. The intensity of the Full Moon heightens the sense of opening, which today with the grand cross felt like growing pains for sure.

In his November Cosmic Weather report, Mark Borax writes about this period as an initiation into thinking and feeling as one. Though it's overwhelming, he writes, "The new is a multidimensional way of being, based on the idea that we are all completely intertwined with each other, with the living, the dead, Earth and Cosmos. This unitive consciousness is arising now to replace the obsolete consciousness that has kept our species back from fulfilling its bright potential." The pain coming through is part of the healing process, and is taking us where we need to go in our evolution. Writes Mark, "Even though things are tough in many people's lives right now, the toughness is there to make you clearer about what you're really here to do. Places where you're not living up to that inner clarity are the hurdles you have to cross in the initiation." That kind of perspective helps me deal with days like these, so I wanted to pass it on to readers and friends.

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