New Moon in Pisces

 

Pisces is Mutable Water...

Release control and trust where life is taking you 

Pay attention to your intuition 

Pay attention to your dreams 

Coalesce intentions around healing past wounds and spiritual growth

Release the need to over analyze and over control

Watch for wishful thinking 

Pisces is often depicted as Two Fish....

Random Facts I lightly researched today

Pisces is latin name for Fish

on fish gills:  
Most fish have gills. These allow the fish to breathe oxygen by extracting it from water.

From Google:

Fish take in water through their mouth, and it passes across the gills on its way out. When it does, oxygen gets diffused into the bloodstream and travels through the fish's body.

This got me considering how fetuses breathe in utero - it is not through gills... 

"the umbilical cord provides the baby with oxygen until the first breath after birth. Lung development begins early in pregnancy, but is not complete until the third trimester."

Most of us don't remember our very first breath, but how important was that rite of passage.  That marked the moment we went from swimming in an unconscious sea of creation to independently taking in the air of Earth's realm of duality.

Piscean energy is subtle, spiritual, psychic, emotional, imaginative, symbolic, dreamy... 

My intuitive impulse to research fish gills and breathing in utero was clearly telling me something about how important it would be to tune into our breathing apparatus for moon ritual class this evening...

In order to get into a Piscean state of consciousness, it helps to gently breathe your way a relaxed expanded field in which the small mind settles, suspends its judgments and analysis, surrenders its material concerns and merges with a larger sense of energetic presence... 

It is within this field we will dance.

Dancing with The World

 

This month we entered an exploratory creative zone in my dance classes, blending universal energies from the system of Tarot with belly dance movements and choreographic phrases.

The World is the last card of the Major Arcana, in which the Fool completes their journey, finding their magic, power and freedom within the wholeness of their own being. 

Here are the movement highlights from our latest class inspired by The World.

    1. We created spaciousness in the body by tuning into our breath and harmonizing it with movement. 

    2. Mel's creative "Dance of the World" in which we activated aspects of the card, setting energies depicted free within our movement.  We stepped into our safe wreath to celebrate our freedom of movement, to move in our authority.  We moved into the initial pose like the figure on the card, tracing the winding pathway of the flowing scarf around our body and lifted by soft breeze.  We felt into the four directions and danced the four elements of the four fixed signs pictured on the card -- Taurus (earthy sensuality), Libra (balanced mind), Scorpio (emotional watery undulations and eights), and Leo (fire essence - ruled by the sun - proud, bold, fiery movement choices and energies).

    3. When it comes up in a reading, The World card can mean travel is afoot.  Thus we practiced traveling steps such as 

•     "On the Prowl" - a heel to toe cougar glide experience and opposite arm and leg worked together to propel us along the dance floor.  
•     "Rolling Shoulders" - a toe to heel walk along where we rolled our shoulder which each gentle footfall.
•     "Triplet traveling textures"... There are a myriad of ways to travel your triplets .. we highlighted the "As Above, So Below" Variety where the "In the Clouds Triplet" step on relevé with arms flowing back and forth up high contrasted with the "Earthy Hips" Triplet step with grounded flat feet, hips swaying with each step.
•     "Two Worlds Meet" - We set up Two Worlds facing each other from across the dance floor - The "Step Hip" world and the "Tripleteers." They had to dance toward each other in their respective dance languages, circle one another in a friendly energy then keep moving to the other side of the room.

Here's another way I have interpreted The World Card- 

In her Book The Tarot Handbook, Angeles Arrien writes of The Universe (#21) (another version of the World Card):

"In order to make a contribution in the world with our inherent talents, we must trust our ability to express love with wisdom (the Empress). Love with wisdom can be expressed when we are willing to break limiting patterns (The Hanged Man), release old sorrows (3 of swords), be clear on our priorities (3 of disks), express our integrity (3 of Wands) and communicate respectfully (3 of Cups)."

If you are interested in bringing your energetic system into more harmonious balance through a Reiki session, Tarot or oracle card reading, guided journey or dance movement medicine, please visit www.moodystreetcircus.com/speakeasyreiki - enter the password "abracadabra" - and submit your interest form.

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All my best,

Melina

Whole Hearted

"When you are whole hearted about something, however, when you are where you want to be and are participating fully in the moment you are in - sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes mellow, you will experience a new sense of aliveness. You will experience a surge of energy, renewed vigor.  This is not because there is actually an increase in energy, but because you are not constricting it quite so much.  There is now a better energy flow. There is less conflict, less friction, less not wanting to be where you are, and therefore= for you there will be an experience of more energy."  -Erich Schiffmann.  Moving into Stillness.

Such a beautiful way of putting it, such a beautiful state to be in, and how I feel when dancing or teaching. 

Once we have laid out the pathways of movements for class, starting very slow to feel into the texture of transitions….

Once we come to know the music - its emotion and rhythms; 

After we practice again and again to lay down the groove, 

The dance becomes smoother and more subtle, it deepens within us and becomes our own unique expression, and we begin to flow more easily with our own life force energy, gently dancing our way to greater vitality. 

#reiki #bellydance #presence #practice #peace #vitality #wholehearted

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If you are interested in bringing your system into more harmonious balance through a Reiki session, Tarot or oracle card reading, guided journey or movement medicine, please visit www.moodystreetcircus.com/speakeasyreiki and enter the password "abracadabra"

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