Are You Still Bound by an Old Promise? Astro Mindfulness 🌙 Lunar Decan Walk - Libra II

Welcome to a session of mindfulness for the Deccan of Libre II, the Living Chain.

This is a space to slow down, to breathe and to listen.

You always step into sacred time together, tuning into the rhythms of the heavens

and the way they echo quietly through our own lives and through the turning of the year.

This practice is here to help you come back to yourself through the breath, through awareness,

through a gentler kind of attention.

It's take a moment now to get comfortable.

Your body be supported if you decide to sit, light down or you may even decide to walk

by you through this meditation.

If you're sitting, let your spine be straight and your feet feel the connection with the

earth or the floor beneath you.

If it feels right to you, allow your eyes to close or you may prefer to just soften your gaze.

Bring your attention to your breathing.

Bring your awareness as you take a sip of breath in and then let it go gently.

And again, watching as you breathe in and noticing as you breathe out.

No need to force anything, you're just arriving in the stillness of the present moment.

And now as you breathe out, allow your shoulders to drop and relax a little.

Soften your jaw, relax your face.

See if you can release a little bit of the tension that you've been carrying from your day,

your week or your months, you don't need to keep it with you.

It's okay to release it now.

Sometimes we need to give ourselves a moment just to land.

And as we're paying attention to our breathing, to noticing the rise in the fall,

follow the path of your breath through your body.

Where does it enter and how does it feel?

Maybe it's cold or tickle slightly.

And how does it feel then as it follows its journey through your body?

Maybe there's a pause between breathing in and breathing out.

And do you feel the breath then leave your body warmer?

Then it was when it entered.

Notice if there's a part of your body where you feel the intensity of that breath,

a little bit more strongly.

You're a little bit more aware of it than you are in any other place.

Maybe it is at the tip of your nose when it first enters.

The back of your throat, your neck.

Down in your chest, your lungs, your heart center.

Maybe lower down your abdomen, your diaphragm.

Doesn't matter where that place is, it's personal to you,

but in mindfulness we call this place our mindful anchor.

And for the next few breaths, just practice breathing.

So you are breathing in and out of only that place.

Bring your full awareness to your mindful anchor.

Just notice the breath entering and leaving that place.

And if ever your mind drifts and it will, because that's what minds do,

you can just gently redirect it back to your mindful anchor and to my voice.

And it will come back here.

Now we keep practicing and that's what mindfulness is.

And it's enough.

Now more we practice than all your body knows what to do.

And your mindful anchor is always with you.

You don't need to remember to take it with you.

Whatever you're doing in your day, if you need to take a moment to yourself,

you can just take a breath into your mindful anchor and your body will know what to do from there.

Maybe you'll have time for three breaths or five or even ten.

However long you've got, just take a couple of breaths into your mindful anchor

and allow your body to do the rest.

The more you've practiced it in a calm, quiet space,

the more your body will be able to help you.

One may be there's noise around you, one may be you need to release some tension or take a moment

to yourself to think.

When you feel settled, fully relaxed,

and you're confident in your mindful anchor, prepare to join me in a visualization.

You find yourself in an open space.

As you look around you, you realise that it's not fully open.

It's a orb.

It's very spacious.

But there are pillars, a great sense of air and of light.

Maybe it feels familiar to you.

Maybe you've been here before.

Notice those tall pillars that are rising around you.

They're evenly spaced, balanced, almost quietly precise.

You notice that there's a calmness to this place.

It feels more like something that's been carefully planned and made.

You begin to walk and wander through this place.

Noticing how light it is.

So the air itself is carrying you a little, helping you move forwards.

What else do you notice?

In case all of your senses,

in terms of what you can see, smell, touch on other pillars maybe.

Are they cold or warm?

And sometimes air can taste differently in different places.

Is this a dusty place?

Or is the air fresh?

As you're moving through the space with careful exploration,

you sense a shift in the air.

You're not quite able to name it at first, but you feel some responsiveness.

Almost as though the space is aware of you.

And you start to think about Venus.

At first you imagined that maybe she's here as a statue.

Made in stone, but it feels like more than that, a quality in the space itself.

In the air that's moving around you, it's feeling softer and more connected.

There's so everything that you're meeting and moving through is in quite relationship.

You're not just moving through this place, you start to understand that you're actually part of it.

And now you begin to notice something you didn't see before, between the pillars,

something's catching your eye, glimping in the light.

There are fine links.

There's a chain, it's delicate, but it's steady.

And you move closer, reaching out your hand.

And as you touch it, you realise that each link is holding something.

As you make connection with it, it lights up, gently.

And a memory reaches you, a moment when you follow through.

There might have been something that you said you'd do and you did.

Might have been small, it's coming back to you now.

Just notice that.

Maybe reflect on the question, where have you already shown that you can

be trusted?

The finance doesn't come, don't worry.

Let it arrive in its own time, maybe as you continue forward,

or maybe after the meditation, perhaps in a dream or in your mundane life,

moving through the world, doing every eight asks.

The answer may just come to you later.

You move to another link, this one feels different.

A little bit heavier maybe, something that took more from you.

More time, more effort, some patience, but you stayed with it.

And here it is, a strong link held in place.

And now you feel, yes, another shift.

You feel a better unsteady on your feet,

or you notice that your lifting is like the end of the air.

It just feel like you're leaving this place, more than your gaining perspective.

You're looking down on this place from a different angle.

You can see more of it now, you can see a pattern,

a connection in the way that these links are connecting together.

It's not random at all, but there's a shape to it, a structure that's been forming over time.

You reflect and ask yourself, what kind of patterns are my living inside of?

And maybe have I chosen them?

You spend a little while enjoying this new perspective.

What else can you see here?

Your senses notice anything different from this perspective.

Take your time, notice everything that you can.

When you're ready, return back down into the space where you were before, and continue on.

As you do, you notice that there's someone or something across from you.

You couldn't see them from the other perspective. They're not sharply defined,

but they are present and recognisable in some way.

You're aware of them, and there's a quiet moment when you realise that you've been

seen too. You haven't been alone here, but you don't feel the need to perform or go through

social niceties. But you do feel acknowledged, and you begin to realise that this chain doesn't belong

only to you. There exists between others as well. It links you to many others.

And as you have this realisation, you notice many other people.

That you hadn't seen before, either from the other perspective.

Well, when you were in the space, you just were, and you realised that you've had yet another shift.

You go back to the first person that you noticed, and let your attention move along the links

that stand between you. Some feel steady, easy, comfortable. Others not so much,

some a bit stretched or quiet. Venus isn't fixing anything here, but she is guiding and

showing you gently. You feel her concerned eyes on you, and you feel a question rising,

where does this feel mutual? And where does it feel out of balance? Allow yourself just to notice

without needing to change anything yet.

And then you begin to see it, a gap in the chain. It's not broken, it's just open, waiting.

There's no pressure here. Everything is okay, everybody is safe and well, but there is

possibility, something is beginning, or asking to, what is starting now, what is shifting into

something that's more defined. You realise that Saturn is here now.

You feel the difference straight away. There's a solidness, the presence, a cleanness.

There's no disruption of what's here, but he's giving it shape.

He's asking for honesty. He's asking you, what are you actually ready to sustain?

And he's asking what needs to be clearer.

And a question which might be hard to answer, what are you not willing to carry anymore?

If answers have come up, that's great, but if they haven't, that's okay too,

just allow them to stay and settle and see if any answers come up as you move on with your day.

But don't worry about what has or hasn't come to you.

Now you begin to reach forward to move into that open space.

There's no rush, but you begin to form a new link.

This one isn't going to be tied to the past. This one is a decision we're making here in this place.

I've ingrained all the perspectives that you have.

This is something simple and specific, something you know that you can actually follow through on.

What are you willing to commit to, consistently, maybe not perfectly? Let it take shape and then

place that link. You might feel it, a small shift, but it feels real.

For a moment just notice, you can feel this clearly here, now, and also since the wider pattern

that it belongs to, both are true. You can hold the perspective of both views.

You don't need to figure it all out, just this next step.

Breathe in and know that you're forging a new link, intentionally with perspective,

and breathe out, releasing any links to all patterns from the past.

Breathe in as you commit to this new link, this simple specific decision.

Breathe out as you release all patterns from the past.

Breathe in as you commit to this new link. Breathe out as you release all patterns from the past.

And when you feel ready, it will be time to leave this place, but you can always return whenever you

want to. This is your inner world. But when you need to make decisions,

if you need to make a commitment, you can always return here and explore the links in your chain

from your past and your present and consider what links you want to make for your future.

You can gain perspective on them.

And see what people they link you to.

But for now, it's time to return back to your breath and your mind flanker

as you inhale and connect with your body again.

Bring your attention back to the room that you're in and the noises that surround you.

And allow the whole and the pillars and the chain with the links to slowly fade.

And allow your awareness of your body and your breath.

To bring you back into the room.

Maybe move your arms and with your fingers,

stretch out your legs and move your toes.

When you feel ready, open your eyes.

Thee bute who has reminded us that connection matters, but that not all connections

there are ours to hold, and not every promise needs to be made even.

The ones that we actually do, the ones that are built slowly over time through what we actually do.

Maybe not perfectly, but honestly, one link at a time.

I hope you found this helpful and I'll be so grateful for your comments, your likes and

subscribes. Thank you for joining me, several alphorns.