While August lunar energies were chaotic, September Lunar energies are about the life-force, restoring the spent energy of dealing with the chaos. Let’s watch the drama of August and September and find out what it feels like to be at the mercy of Augusts chaos, to deal with the chaos, and then to feel the Life Force creating form out of the chaos and filling us with renewed energy after the struggle to bring order back into our lives.
For one thing, many of us felt a bit bruised by the chaos and unsettled by it, either physically, mentally or emotionally. Some people I know experienced actual physical injury, while others found their lives were “mixed-up”. Some people had readings to find out why they couldn’t make decisions or think clearly. Others struggled with too many things going on at once.
So what were the energies of last month ? Do you remember that the energies were like a revolutionary explosion which wants to tear down the established way of things and return to the chaos that is, in our world, the state that comes before creation. When we experience this energy in our time and place it is often considered bad and destructive. While indeed it has such an effect at the visible and physical level, it usually signals the coming of social or personal change desired by a particular person or aspect of society. This group or those individuals then must apply themselves to restoring order—a creative process. Consider the explosion of Mount Saint Helens with its major destruction of plant life, and remember how soon the restoration began and how wonderful we all thought the newly grown trees and the influx of new animal life were?
So, this month we have the possibility of living that kind of opportunity for ourselves. Were you an artist with a canvas upon which a lot of paint was accidentally dumped ? Chances are the chaotic colors had no relationship to any form you had planned for that painting. What was the result of your efforts to restore order? Certainly not what you thought it would be. Maybe you dibbed and dabbed here and there wherever you saw a possible form, until this month you can begin to connect the formed areas to each other. Eventually the whole canvas will contain an order that makes sense. But you will wonder if you really painted it—you didn’t plan it or think it up. It was completely unique, formed out of what is often called “the fortunate accident” and most mysteriously your own perceptions. That process happened through the energy of the life-force released in the August upheaval.
I moved this month and the chaos in my new space was numbing. There was nothing to respond to because everything I owned was scattered all over the floor. I began placing things around the room first randomly then next to things I thought would go together. Eventually after moving and re-moving things around, I began to see forms emerging—“Oh, I like this lamp here by the chair.” Later I could see all the objects in relationship to all the rest—the whole room had a shape! It wasn’t the shape I had originally planned on paper, but with help I now have an arrangement that is beginning to be pleasing to me. It is new and creative. I think I am going to like it! But still more boxes to unpack and I sense more overall re-arrangements.
I know what the energy of creation feels like. If you go back to August, you too may feel that incredible energy. I want to know what you are creating out of your August chaos. September will bring us a completion of the creative process. This, my friends is what the life force feels like, but each of you will describe it differently. Someone had a fire in their house and only now is ready to pick up the pieces; another one had their business go down the tube and with the new moon felt the new phase energy as a new direction they could take; a person exhausted with a lingering illness suddenly feels their vitality return.
I have been very aware of the process of this creative doing. As the New Moon somehow magically finds a way to pierce the kaleidoscope of the re-forming chaos with new ideas, my mind clears and I am receiving bits of inspiration about how I will use the newly created spaces and how I may begin new projects I had not thought of before. Today, I realized that I was using the same energy as the artist –the life-force energy moving from the Tohu Bohu of the Genesis chaos to that of creation itself. How magnificent!
If you are feeling lighter, more hopeful, excited about something new, you, too, are experiencing the Divine life force energy coursing through your life bringing order, reason, and clarity into your world. You may be tired from dealing with chaos, but with the new moon comes renewed energy, new birth of ideas, and a renewal at all levels.
Life Force is our vitality. It is particularly strong at the new moon and can lift you out of a depression or a sense of stuckness or a feeling that you cannot move from the spot you are in. It can heal illness that drags on and on, because it boosts the overtaxed body. On the day of the new moon, I walked out on a piece of grass under a tall tree and opened myself to the new energies and felt them coursing through my body. There is still time for you to do that if you wish to draw down the energies of Grandmother Moon.
As you follow the waxing phases, you can use their pattern to help you shape the steps to the Full Moon. Go out and open yourself to the moon at her phases. Every phase will send you its unique life force energy that is just right for what you are doing.
Namaste,
Grandmother Walking the Night Sky