it’s tuesday, november 24, & moon is in pisces in the starspace called uttarabhadra. pisces is the cosmic sea, & invites us to surrender into its buoyant, liquidy vastness, to be held by its mass, gently lullabyed on its undulating waves, to totally let go. & while this is a lovely idea, while there is plenty to be said for surrender, we have to remember that we are not fish, that we live on land & breathe air, that the ocean of devotion is there for us to dip into, to remind us that we are spiritual beings. but we have to remember that we are also human beings, that there is a time & place for surrender. our work is to use that experience in our unsurrendered—i.e., walking about, going to whole foods—state.
uttarabhadra is the counterpart to purvabhadra. in purvabhadra we catch a glimpse of our eternal nature; in uttarabhadra we commit to unpacking it, to doing the really deep dive, going way beneath the surface. there is fierce & transformative energy combined with humility here, for we have to be humble in order to receive wisdom & then share it.
it’s the tenth lunar day (see yesterday’s post) until just after lunchtime, then the eleventh. the eleventh tithi is related to spiritual practices, especially fasting, & it is called ananda, which means bliss. what does bliss have to do with fasting? well, bliss is a state of fullness, of not needing anything. & when we fast, we’re saying, i’m full, i don’t need anything; in fact, i’m so full, i can’t possibly take anything else in, i’m going to leave what i might have taken in for others. where in your life do you feel so full that you have something to give, to donate, to offer to someone else?
mars rules tuesday, so tuesdays are good days to tackle challenging tasks, to do heavy lifting, whether that means actual heavy lifting—anyone still going to the gym & hitting the weights?—or the metaphorical kind, like dealing with onerous to-dos or emotional gunk.
& that’s your daily bliss! which is a kind of lunar weather report. it is my hope that the daily bliss can help you align with the day’s cosmic energy & find a little more bliss; that it inspires you to enlighten up a little more each day.
jyotish, vedic astrology, is the science of light. if you want to shine more light on your life, please contact me for a session. ~.~
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