Coming Out of Hiding

This morning, Jimi's line came to mind, "So let us stop talking falsely now. The hour's getting late." And how at this critical moment, it's vital that we crack open, shake out of the trance, and live as powerfully as we can. The themes of the Full Moon in Taurus have hit on digging in for what's fertile in ourselves, what we can build on. It's taking the dead stuff and composting it into something alive. I see the next two weeks as a potent time of churning and releasing, as the Moon wanes and we enter the death portal of the New Moon in Scorpio (Nov 16).

In her refreshingly sharp post, Dances with Chickens, Michelle Lessirard of the New Moon Journal, looks at how we play small out of fear. It's what she calls the chicken mentality, a kind of shrinking that leads to setting a low value on what we offer. I have hens, so I had to laugh at this analogy. We were joking the other day about how anything sets them off, and they run screaming or hide in the cozy coop. I can see how a chicken mentality can keep us from digging in to what can expand into abundance and true wealth (Taurus). It can be embedded in entire friend circles, or healing communities. Michelle calls it, Dances with Chickens, and she invites us to break free from it!

Michelle writes, "Your playing small is not helping the community you serve or Mother Earth." This hit home for me, because recently I spotted one way I was dancing with chickens in a friendship. It lead to a hard decision to dial down a friendship that had become heavy and flightless. It's a subtle thing that had to do with a feedback loop of disempowering stories. I found myself constantly trying to show her it was just a story. But like an insidiously debilitating virus, those stories started to seep into my own sense of what's possible. Letting go of the cold comfort of commiserating with this one friend has left me feeling freer. Not cutting off the friend, just the pattern....whether the friendship can evolve, that remains to be seen. But it's felt like after a break-up from a psychically draining situation, when you are set free, and can soar with a sense of possibility!

Right now, as many of us are dealing with money issues and 1st Chakra survival fears, the Taurus-Scorpio energies can re-anchor each of us in our physical-psychic substance. We can discover what we're really made of, so we get a handle on what's possible. From one of Michelle's earlier posts: "Taurus/Scorpio Polarity: Money is an energy, it's an exchange of energy representing abundance, earth/matter (Taurus and Capricorn). Earthy Taurus represents issues with self-esteem, self-worth, abundance. Earthy Capricorn represents the structure (father image) we rub up against in our quest to become grounded and responsible adults. Our task "How am I building a structure to manifest my creative inspirations (dreams) into matter (Saturn/1st chakra)? How do I make it real?"

So let us stop talking falsely now, and get the metamorphosis started in earnest. This might mean looking at the company you keep, and the assumptions there about what's possible. It means putting a value on your own natural talents and resources (Taurus), as tools to create wealth with. As we let go in the dying time, we can break free of the cages -- some of them quite comfortable -- that keep us lazy with our potential. We can take these flabby un-exercised wings and learn to fly. We can become the majestic birds we're meant to be.

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