Surrender means to stop resisting, fighting, judging and being stubborn about the inevitable. The “inevitable” in this case is the change, opportunity, loss, expansion, lessons or path that spirit is putting in front of you for a reason. This is the month where the intellectual center recognizes that it can no longer run the show;  the mind needs to give up and surrender its hold on how things ought to be based on old dreams, plans, goal sheets, strategies and wishes. The old strategies are no longer working. Trying to keep your reality glued together through the limitations of the mind simply will not work. A tremendous leap of faith is needed this month to support this daunting task of surrender. Even the word surrender has connotations of failure and of not having accomplished some important goal. The priest casting of the year as well as the spiritualist attitude will be very helpful in infusing surrender with compassion and keeping the experience on the side of inspiration rather than depression.

Stubbornness is up this month as it is the resistance towards change. Watch for stubbornness of the mind as it struggles to let go of old strategies and attachments to old dreams and wishes. Stubbornness will lead to self-destruction (the other obstacle) as it eventually creates a brittleness that will break instead of bend. Stubbornness can cause literal cracks and breaks in the psyche, the physical body and the emotional makeup of a person. You will notice that many around you will be “losing it”, as in being unable to cope with the stress of change. This is due to resistance and the inability to surrender and simply give it up. Because the mind does not have a clue as to how to create the next viable step in your life, the surrender needs to be a surrender over to spirit. Giving resistance as well as that which you cannot figure out rationally over to spirit will produce amazing results. However this process will take courage and trust.

This is also a month when the second and third chakras need to make peace with each other. This is a masculine year as opposed to last year that was largely feminine. This means that the third chakra, which rules the masculine force within each one of us and governs issues of will, determination and how we show up in the world energetically, is being stressed with this new way of being in surrender. The healing of the masculine demands becoming vulnerable through the surrender of an overly rigid and attached will, that eventually can lead to a greater and deeper power. This does not mean giving up your intentions. It means allowing your intentions to be given over to spirit so that they may manifest in ways that your mind cannot yet imagine.

The second chakra being more feminine is also affected this month, as it is the creative force behind manifesting. The second chakra has an old and deep mistrust of the demands, limitations and rigidity of the third chakra. On the other hand, the third chakra  greatly mistrusts the second and the tendency towards uncontrolled chaos, greed and creativity gone bad. It is the old story of the feminine not trusting the masculine and the masculine not trusting the feminine. One of the opportunities this month is for re-harmonizing and balancing those two chakras and those two very important energies so that they can learn to trust each other and work together instead of against each other. It is time for them to go into partnership instead of being at odds. This theme is likely to play out in real relationship issues as well. Because of the instinctive center of the year, these issues will surface from a very deep level which can be confusing and disorienting especially when the issues seem to be surfacing out of this time and place. The opportunity, however,  will be to make deep and lasting progress on how your own masculine and feminine relate to each other, trust each other and work together.

Part of this month will be an assimilation of the intense power and influences of the last two months. By this time there is at least a familiarity if not a comfort level of this year’s influences. Some of you who have really made big bids for power in your decisions and personal growth last month may need to take some time to dwell in an abbreviated and assimilative state. This means rest, integration and some down time. Be careful not to misconstrue low energy, a need to sleep, and a feeling of overwhelm as negative. If you think that way you may find yourself depressed and in judgment about your state. On the other hand, for some of you this may be a month of great manifestation where some of the hard and courageous decisions you made in the past two months will really pay off. The month for you may be energetic, exciting, inspirational and full of movement. The important thing is not to judge, compare, resist or wish it was different than it is. Adventure is one of the needs for the year. Whatever this month dishes out for you, see it as a grand adventure rather than a challenge you wish you did not have.

Compassion is a state of higher frequency. Compassion will bring you out of judgment and into acceptance. Compassion will connect you rather than isolate you. Compassion will cloak and support your vulnerability with unconditional love. Compassion will help you tell the truth to yourself and others about what is really going on. This is not a month to “save face” by pretending things are one way when they are just the opposite. This does not, however, give you license to whine and complain and be in Martyrdom about the state of your life. Tell the truth, give up the struggle, give it over to spirit, and then trust with strong intention that everything will turn out as it is supposed to and for your highest good in ways that your mind cannot imagine.

Opportunities: 

• To experience a harmony and balance of well-being that comes from a place of non-resistance.
• To witness your life unfolding in new and exciting ways when you get the attachment of your mind to the way things ought to be out of the way.
• To make great and deep progress on the partnership between your own masculine and your feminine energies as well as your relationships.
• To experience the higher centered state of compassion and unconditional acceptance.
• To be inspired by your own change and transformation.

• Irritation that comes with the resistance to ”things not working”. (Beware of areas of the physical plane such as electronics, phones, vehicles, communication. Since the gap is widening between people and how they experience life, you will find that the same event can be experienced very differently by different people resonating at different frequencies. Literally people will be living their lives in slightly different realities and this will become more and more apparent.)
• Depression and despair.
• Resistance to letting go and giving it up.
• Identification with others misery. This is not compassion, it is identifying and going to their level which will only drag you down.