| May Forecast 2008 |
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The main theme for May is TRUST with the main issue being learning to trust your instincts and the Instinctive Center.
Since this is non-intellectual, it is almost difficult to put words to what this energy and theme is all about. There will be times this month when all motivation, action, thought, and even emotion seems to go underground or take a turn into a direction consciously unfamiliar. Resistance is futile. If you resist, it will feel either insane or like something is really wrong. You will not be able to figure it out intellectually. However if you don’t resist, you could feel deeply supported by spirit and in a higher centered state. The key is being able to lose the mind. Losing the mind can be a frightening process for those who are overly attached to control, tracking their lives mentally and having to know. It could literally feel like losing the mind as in becoming mentally unstable. The mind is not able to track what surfaces in the instinctive center and the more it tries to understand the sequence of things, the more confused it can get. For example, your mind really believes that if you do certain things, you will get certain results. This may be the case in linear time. However the challenge these days is that linear time is changing to something more elastic, circular and non-linear, more like a pulse than a sequence. The pulse can be experienced now as fits and starts of energy producing events in life that do not make rational sense. Think of the tides and waves of the ocean. At times there is stillness and at times huge waves seem to come out of nowhere and can be very unpredictable, either washing something away or throwing new treasures up on the shore. And if you swim against the current, it will be an effort. If you let yourself drift, who knows where you may end up. Just because this is an instinctive centered month with a need to surrender into a deeper level of trust with it, does not mean you can just give up. There will be times when you find yourself in an energetic eddy necessary for some deeper process for letting go of controlling the outcome of things. Allow spirit to work you instead of you working spirit. However after a time even that process can become a dysfunctional pattern. There is still a need to swim back into the current at some point. Even an eddy when surrendered to will eventually spit you back out into the current. Your life jacket in this swiftly moving river of life is your trust in the outcome and direction of things as you allow spirit and your instincts to lead. The mind loves to judge. It judges events as good or bad, as successful or not, as leading you in the right direction or not. It judges based on past experiences having no points of reference for the present or the future. Your task this month is to practice being as present as you can without judgment of any situations, events and circumstances as being either positive or negative. This state of presence can feel devoid of passion, excitement, anticipation and dread. These are reactionary states. It takes some getting used to, not having these dramatic reactions to life and events. The practice of presence will move you into a state of equilibrium that feels peaceful and un-dramatic. Any thought or expectation you may have of any outcome ending up a certain way will pull you out of the present and into a state of mind where you can easily fall into judgment when it does not end up meeting your expectations. The best thing you can do this month is to keep a “don’t know mind” and to surrender to the eddies when you find yourself pulled down into that instinctive place. You have no idea of the level of inner work and change that is taking place. The mind is threatened by it and will try and feed you all kinds of reasons for resisting and keeping mental control. The same thing goes for the times when life seems to be moving so fast you cannot mentally keep up. This would be a time to practice acting by instinct instead of trying to think it through. If you are doing this successfully, there will be many times this month where you don’t know why you are doing what you are doing, you just know that it is right. One of the consistent suggestions has been to do whatever it takes to keep your frequency up. This month is no exception. As the instinctive center is going through its most dramatic changes, it is important that is reconfigures itself to a higher frequency pattern. This is only possible if you “lose the mind” and keep yourself from identifying with lower frequency patterns. Keep up your spiritual practice and stay away from that which does not serve your process this month. PERSONAL GROWTH AND WELL-BEING There is an opportunity this month to change your deepest instinctive patterns in such a way that you can eliminate false personality behaviors and eliminate the root of all your suffering. This sounds easier than it is in reality. The intention on a deeper level is definitely there, however some patterns have literally been rusted into place. Sometimes the only way to move a personal assemblage point is to give oneself a literal knock on the head. So if you find you have created an event for yourself that includes a physical shock, it may all be part of the program. Do not be hasty to bring yourself back to business as usual and your current story line. In fact it would be more fruitful to end up restarting from a different place altogether, a different position, a new story. RELATIONSHIPS Relationships may be strained as expectations are not met and people behave in seemingly erratic ways. Watch comments like” you are not yourself, this is unlike you, what’s going on, where is my …….?” Notice how attached others are to a certain way you show up. If your instincts are guiding you to be and act differently, the price you pay may be another’s discomfort with it. Just make sure that your actions are not based on a reaction or judgment of something. Do not use this instinctive time of change as an excuse to act out of integrity. There is a difference. PERSONAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING As the body needs to process, assimilate and eliminate by-products of change, you could manifest symptoms that do not make any sense for what you know to be your current state of health. At the same time, seemingly miraculous healing and elimination of illness could also occur as the assemblage point is shifted. The mind however needs to be disciplined to eliminate certain limiting beliefs about what is possible. A mantra for the mind would be “anything is possible”. This month it is more about eliminating all beliefs instead of changing them from one to another. Any new belief that becomes fixed too soon will end up as a limitation. Remember to keep a “don’t know mind” especially when it comes to identifying what might be wrong physically. It is sometimes a disservice to come up with a formal diagnosis too soon as it then feeds the mind with all the meaning it implies. CLIMATE AND WEATHER Erratic, unpredictable, instinctive, creating havoc with plans, forcing flexibility, and just when it looks like it will do one thing, something else will happen. Unpredictable is the operative word. This applies also to internal emotional weather, political climate, and environmental issues. The good news is that change is inevitable. Go with the flow especially with your plans. Don’t resist the weather just appreciate how it chooses to show up and change your plans accordingly. PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS, ECONOMY When one door closes, another opens. This should be the attitude and level of trust that accompanies changes rather than panic, disappointment, anger or blame. It is actually a great time to plant new seeds and start new projects trusting people you may not know well but your instincts tell you they are right for the situation. Especially beware of anything that sounds good, looks good on paper but your instincts tell you to stay away. Follow your instincts and not what the mind has manufactured. The economy will be unpredictable and fickle with opportunities for great abundance as well as many lessons of loss and change. Just remember to keep looking in front of you and keep the attitude and belief that where one door closes another one will surely open. If you stay present you will notice just where that door is. POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT Those who lead through proactive intentions and a commitment to change will have more momentum than those who are mired in the past and used to acting reactively. The planet is moving into a time where leaders who represent the light at the other end of the tunnel will promise more hope to those that seem stuck in the darkness. Whether we as a global community are at the point where the darkness has become tiresome and no longer acceptable remains to be seen. It may still take awhile for the eyes to open to even see that we are in the dark. The good news is that we cannot go back, only forward into evolution no matter how painstakingly slow this process seems to be. Don’t give up except to surrender your own judgments and attachment to suffering. Important dates: May 1-7: The instinctive center battles for the lead. The mind may become frustrated as outcomes are not what the mind is used to tracking. The body may respond with symptoms of aches and lethargy. The emotions may respond with anxiety or depression. Allow yourself to be present with all of it without judgment or attachment. On the other hand, you may feel a pull to surrender to spirit and to just let go of all the struggle. This is indeed the portal to wellbeing. Lose the mind. May 5: New Moon at 5:18AM Mountain Standard Time (6:18AM Daylight time) This new moon is an excellent time for planting new things. Since it is most likely you do not know yet the full extent of what is new in your life, do your planting symbolically. Work in the garden, plant seeds or plants. If you do not have a garden, “plant” something new on your altar, in your medicine wheel, or in a special place in your home. If all you have is yourself, plant or place something new on yourself, an intention in your heart, a new commitment to your body. May 8-15: A time when many new portals are available if you are paying attention and are not too attached to the way you think things ought to be. These portals are energetic and will take you into unknown territory that is unrecognizable to your mind and emotions. The guide is your instinctive center. Notice your dreams during this time. They probably will not make any rational sense but outside of time and space they will carry significance. You do not need to know or to understand except to sense into new directions with your instincts. Beware of others who may judge you as being irrational and acting out of character. They are reacting out of the fear of change. May 16-23: A time when unexpected things can and probably will happen personally and globally. This is the aftermath of moving in and out of the energetic portals available for exploration. There is a serious shift in the assemblage point of the way the universe has manifested itself up to this point. This can manifest in planetary upheaval of a physical, psychological or emotional level. Be prepared for twists, turns, changes, earth movement, storms, fires and floods, both figurative and real. The good news is that things will never be the same again. We have passed the point of no return. Your job is to trust, trust, trust, There are those that will not be able to hang in and will be losing their minds in a negative and painful way. Be in compassion but there is nothing you can fix for another about this except to offer another perspective for them to consider. Be very careful not to identify with the pain and misery that may occur from some of the shake up likely to happen. Keep in mind as well your own tendencies to judge the days when you are forced into the eddy as opposed to the days when you seem to be in the middle of the rapids. May 19: Full Moon at 7:11PM Mountain Standard Time ( 8:11PM Daylight Time). A time to definitely focus on what you have rather than what you do not have or what has not happened. Review your expectations and toss them out. Focus instead on the richness of what has entered your life, the opportunities that have washed up on the shore after a big unexpected powerful wave. Look around with gratitude and honor the community you have instead of lamenting the absence of certain past relationships or family members. This is truly a time of moving on without any regrets. Your glass is always half full and on its way to overflowing. May 24-31: An erratic time as adjustments are made to what is new in your life. Practice being present, living one day at a time without attachment to the future of how your life may look. Discipline the mind to follow instead of to lead. Trust, trust, trust, at the same time as being proactive with your life and moving ahead with actions led by your instincts rather than your thoughts. Have a great month! Lena |
