Moving Forward

Well, full moon and lunar eclipse day really got me going on Monday! A wise astrologer once explained to me that lunar cycles are about 28 days, during which we each visit each sign of the zodiac, but that when an eclipse comes, we have a whole month in one day. Did I ever. rnOn the way to an appointment with a magical bodyworker, Nancy Web at Visions Medical Center in Wellesley, I was going down the back stairs of our condo as I often do, when . . . rnI went ass over teakettle down the eight steps, leaving plenty of skin cells on the carpet and banging my face down three steps at the bottom. rnI had just finished a book on Hawaiian healing techniques that really stood me in good stead. I lay still at the bottom of the stairs, and tapped my face gently against the door threshold, speaking words of power, “I am well. I am well. I am well. This has not hurt me. I am well. I am well. I am well.” rnAfter a few minutes, I got up, a little shaky, and we got in the car to go to our healing appointments. I was alright, fine, even. The bodywork went well. If one has to go flying down a staircase, the day to do it is the day one is seeing a healer. rnBut there’s a bigger thing to note here. I believe that everything happens for a reason. Everything, without exception. What did I need to know from the incident? The whole left side of my body is scraped. I’m pretty sore today (Tuesday), most especially my quadriceps, the muscles on the tops of one’s thighs. rnIn meditation, I got that the eclipse had something to do with it. I needed a jump forward, to move forward, quickly, to allow a whole month of emotional cycle to happen in one day. So where was I that I created this fall? rnTelling myself I was surrendering, but instead becoming resigned. I was surrendering my deepest desire, or so I thought, and instead, I was really giving up. Aha. And what I needed was to integrate more feminine energy with regard to my goal. More allowing, more yielding, more receiving. rnI created the fall so that I would become more aware of my feminine self, who is needed more in the forefront, to allow my fondest dream to come true. I had to move her forward, and balance out the doing with the being. rnIt was interesting to me that I visualized that sky from The Wizard of Oz. Surrender, Dorothy. Dorothy means Gift of God, and that’s what I got when I fell down the stairs.