Full Moon
in Capricorn
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July has arrived and everything is different. Whole new projects and jobs which means new neighborhoods and commutes. Agreeing to the randomness to keep things moving while also encouraging a spreading out while there’s more light and heat and too much energy. You barely have to finish the thought and the answer, the response rolls right in. This is the high time of Ask and You Shall Receive.
During deep pandemic times I went through a training/education process focusing on how to lead groups from a situation that is less like a pyramid or mountain—with the teacher or facilitator at the top with the knowledge—but more like a very long, sloping hill. Or maybe like a constantly, slowly, spinning möbius strip. Process as Guide does have a particular structure that is intended to be followed. When you are organizing a season of these gatherings, there are a certain amount and requirements about attendance, etc etc.
I enjoy that structure and have greatly enjoyed my experiences both in it and facilitating, but I’m also reflecting a lot on how to use the structure in an even longer slope-like way. Not to be cryptic, but Process as Guide only takes shape as the group appears, emerges, gathers. So things aren’t clear until the moment they are. And I think about this in terms of chosen information and how that particular information is shared in the world. I devoted a lot of time in my twenties to studying and practicing clairvoyance, telepathy, extra sensory perception, and astral projection. And I have to remind myself often that most people did not. Not because they can’t or don’t do these things, but because they are not aware that they are doing it and therefore have no control over the experience (which ends up affecting others and themselves. Mostly a lot of wasted energy, unsurprisingly.)
My half-thought is about clarity and communication. And also about what feels to be the missing piece in the education variants that I’m trying to set up and offer as a kind of training for what the future is bringing: there are the one on one sessions to be personal, the drop-in classes to be curious, the workshops to be intentional, but this other thing is the kind of practice that is pushing people to be more adept in their alchemy. To be able to look at it and improvise with it. I think I keep delaying because of what that asks of me as the facilitator and the silly idea of “readiness.” I think no one’s ready, but the whole point is the not knowing until we’re in it. Maybe I’m not so sure about willing. Who’s willing? Willingness seems to be one of the few things happily gate kept these days.
My qi gong teacher, as she was moving away from her teaching qi gong, came to develop Process as Guide. I have been thinking about her a lot recently as well as this Process as Guide knot I’m carrying around in my brain. I ran into another one of the trainees today, which felt good and right. Ask and You Shall Receive. I was barely even asking and there my answer saw me and said my name, taking me by surprise. I looked up and almost didn’t recognize, but still I chose to know and said hi back. G was with some kids, and one of them walked up to us while we were talking and asked me what I do. And I said, “What do you mean?” And he said, “in life. What do you do in the world?” Head cocked to one side, squinting. When I asked him the same question he said he was hungry.
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Energy Calisthenics (30 min; deep squat and lying down) is a practice to cool off, calm down, reconnect, and access easy energetic flow within the self as well as connecting to the earth energy through the pelvic floor to easily draw all the way up the body and out through the crown point. Could be used before sleep, as a rejuvenation practice, or as a way to warm up for a deeper yin or meditation practice.