Spring Eclipse Season & Beyond: Meditations on Spiritual Service

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The first of 3 eclipses in the coming month is today at 4:08PM EDT! Combined with this eclipse is a stressful aspect between Mars, Venus & Saturn. Emotional patterning that has been blocking our progress has likely been rising to the surface the past two weeks. There is a sweet spot in that if you can rise to the occasion and use the higher spiritual vibration of Neptune to come to clarity anddissolve old habits, there is an opportunity for lasting and beneficial change. This seems to apply especially to one-to-one relationships & committed bonds, our own sense of belonging, as well as how we conduct ourselves in the day-to-day. Are we truly being of service to our partners, our coworkers, our subordinates, our customers? This is a question that can guide us through the profoundly emotional and transformative energies of the Scorpio Full Moon and the coming months. .

Additional Comments:  I've seen a few astrologers thoughts on this Eclipse, but glancing at the chart today I came to a message of spiritual service -- for this is the way out of the egoic push described by the influences most directly affecting the eclipse itself. The emotional experience of the past few weeks, for me, has been a realization that I am growing away from narcissism and into a natural state of impersonal love. The desire to take care of myself and do my work in the service of others has finally started to mute the ambition to achieve solely for myself. It's recognizing the responsibility one has to be their highest self so that we can give from the place of pure truth within our hearts. This is how we help others, every day, by working on ourselves -- not to be the best at some thing for the sake of it, but to cleanse ourselves of our own prejudices and fears so that we can accept life with openness, free ourselves from chains, and guide others toward a similar happiness.

Introduction

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Today's I-Ching Reading: HEX 39 "OBSTRUCTION"

Seems an odd, yet appropriate one to start with. As an astrologer, I always try to help people see the creative or higher use of difficult energies. This hexagram speaks directly to this.

*"All great achievements are attained through the positive use of obstructions."*

...In the process of growth, obstructions are met thousands of times over and usually generate great despair. One who wishes to move forward, but is unable to do so because of restrictions, can respond by changing direction and taking another path, one that goes inward and upward. Sometimes what appears difficult is actually a protection or an opportunity for growth.

During times of obstruction, one should be still. This opportunity should be used to gather energy, instead of complicating matters with impatience and struggle. When one has a positive attitude, the highest mountain seems lower and the deepest water more shallow. Inner strength can make obstructions less imposing.

Listing all the things you consider obstructions and frustrations can be beneficial. These are actually the tools that heaven has provided for your improvement, education, and strengthening. No great person has ever grown without such 'nutrition.'

- Ni Hua-Ching, The Book of Changes and the Unchanging Truth