“BETWEEN THE TWO MY LIFE FLOWS”

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing.  Love tells me I am everything.  Between the two my life flows.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The constant swing from human to divine is the ebb and flow of ocean tides washing flotsam and jetsam.  Only essential Self remains when we have been pushed and pulled back and forth between endless demands of relationship polarities.

Learning to respond rather than react to polar swings hones edges, awakens sensitivities, and grinds grain from the chaff.  In the dark of a New Moon birth, we prepare for Full Moon revelation. In summer’s richness waits winter’s barren bones. In the storm’s center, lies its stillness.  As we dance between contrasts, growing consciousness from un-consciousness, we deepen the response between fate and free-will.

This emerging free-will creates new mind/body/spirit pathways.  It is a magical endeavor where we are able to heal psychic splits and divided selves. In the willingness to struggle with and against polarities, to risk wild swings, and manipulate multiple relationships lies the opportunity to enter new realities.  This can be a space where what was invisible- becomes visible, and what was previously impossible – manifests.

It doesn’t always work that wonderfully, but at bare-bones bottom, that flotsam-jetsam bald and bold place, we might become the best and brightest of who we are.  Having swung back and forth not only between wisdom and love, but more likely, fear and anger, selfishness and generosity, even Revelation and Armageddon long enough, wisdom teams with love to open the listening heart. Ain’t nothing better than that, eh?

POSE WITH SEASONAL ENERGIES

Asana: Eka Pada Galavasana-Crossbow Balance: A great pose of strong polarity where we are tethered to earth, yet lift off and ‘fly high’ through the power of holding the center. You can come at this from Utkatasana, (or tripod headstand.) The easier is from Utkatasana:  Feet together, extend arms up, bend knees, lift Bandhas, lengthen back, drop tailbone. Now, lift R shin across L thigh, R knee opens to the side, flex R foot. You are in ‘Number 4.’  Reach both arms forward until hands are on the floor, elbows parallel. Bring the R shin across back of both elbows, (R toes pointing same direction as hands). Release your weight into the arms and begin to extend and lift L leg back. If this is too much, keep L leg bent and close to torso.  Release, by bringing feet to floor, or jump back into Chaturanga, or slowly tilt forward into Tripod Headstand, and lift both legs up.  Yogi’s choice.

Health Notes: This pose is good for abdominal muscles, and it massages internal organs. It strengthens wrists, arms and neck, and as always, being up side down, or sideways, is an opportunity to change a POV. It is a pose that challenges most bodies, and can swing us between feeling hopeless, or accomplished.

Astrology Notes: We are in an Astrological time warp of magical thinking, and spiritual ‘Oneness.’  Neptune, ruler of oceans and seas, loves mix-ups and mysticism, and for the first time in over 160 years has moved back into its own sign of Pisces, making it incredibly powerful.  (Neptune is also the ruler of ‘Yoga.’  Have you noticed all the Yoga articles, and gossip- good and bad, surfacing at this time?)Whether you are a Piscean type, or not, believe in your magic, make your dreams manifest, feel yourself at one with –the night, your charismatic Self, your friends and lovers.  Pisces knows that only love is real.

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Ayurvedic Notes: The magic of and in Ayurvedic ‘medicine’ is that it works through polarity.  It understands that what the body needs is the opposite of what it is, or has.  In winter, Kapha energies tend to be slower, even depressed, stubborn to move.  To balance out that part of ourselves we need an invigorating Practice, perhaps going upside down more, with strong motivational poses to conquer.  The fire in the Practice helps balance the polarity of strong earthy/watery Kapha.