Spring Equinox ~ Finding balance.

Tomorrow is a day when we celebrate the solar festival of the Vernal Equinox when night and day are of equal length. This is an opportunity to think about the balance within our own lives.

It is also the day of the sun entering Aries, a fire sign and symbolized by the Ram that represents male fertility and often the horned cornucopia of abundance. This is the first sign of the zodiac and begins a new cycle.

Nature is beginning to wake up after the dormancy of winter, flowers starting to grow and blossom. Birds busy nesting and egg laying. With the lengthening of days and more heat from the sun nourishing and giving energy to all things, including ourselves.  

This celebration is also known as Ostara the transitioning from dark into light sitting between the other two festivals of Imolc and Beltane. Ostara is a spring festivity that honours Eostre; according to legend she is the goddess of springtime and flowers.

She is also known as the goddess of the dawn, rising in the east, the direction associated with rebirth and of fire energy.  It has been said that it is also where the word Easter derives and maybe why we associate eggs and rabbits with this time of year.

With the emerging rising of the spring energy, now may be a good time to spring clean spiritually, emotionally and physically; bringing things back into balance.

We can do this in many ways and here are some ideas you may wish to consider.

• Plant some seeds that you can nurture and grow

• Walk and reconnect with nature

• Paint or decorate some eggs

• Construct a spring alter

• Light a candle and consider what you would like to rebalance in your life

• Wear a colour, associated with spring such as yellow or green  

• Make a crown or garland of flowers

• Declutter your home and have a really good spring clean

• Eat fresh seasonal produce

• Move your body, stretch, skip or dance

• Consider journaling, creative writing or maybe compose a springtime poem or song

• Spring clean your mind by working with your subconscious to clear core belief and emotions that are no longer serving you, bringing them back into balance  

Do what feels right for you, allowing this beautiful spring energy to renew and invigorate you.

I wish for you Ostara Blessings....

May you embrace the birth of all life.

May you nurture what you sow.

May you grow in mind, body, soul and spirit.

May you find balance within your own world.

Jane Taylor (Holistic Fibro Fighter)

Image credit ~ Amanda Clark

The Solstice and Exact Planetary Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter.

This phenomenon happens every 20 years. This year it may be considered more significant. This is the closest they have been in 800 years. You may also get treated to the Ursid meteor shower on the same night.

The pair will begin to shine brightly shortly after Sunset on December 21st being Winter Solstice, you can expect that at the extremely early time of 3.54pm GMT, continuing to shine for around two hours after 6pm when the UK's positioning on Earth will have turned away from them.

You could dowse to see if you are facing the correct way, (SW horizon) or look at the Moon, which will only be half full, and then for the bright object above it.

I am no astrologer, but I do feel that this is a significant moment in time.  Both are considered transpersonal planets, less associated with self but more involved with interaction with others

Jupiter represents the way we expand ourselves. This is often gained by the accumulation of experience, encouraging us to expand the horizons of the mind beyond limits. It is also indicative of our religious and philosophical beliefs. It traditionally influences laws, business, and financial affairs. Jupiter is the impulse for growth, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.  

Saturn represents authority. It is the planet of learning, to form structures and define limits to ensure lessons are well learned.  

This great conjunction sets the tone for the next 20 years, affecting almost everything. This also takes place in the sign of Aquarius, an air sign of innovation, humanitarianism, and independence, where it has not been since the start of the renaissance in 1405. For the past 200 years the conjunctions have taken place in earth signs which have been very grounding. 

Jupiter is related to growth, Saturn is about restriction, and Aquarius is invites invention. With all these at work, balancing life and the ability to be enthusiastic or restrained where necessary, I am remaining optimistic and hopeful that positive change is on the horizon.

Solstice Blessings to you all. xx

The Pyramid Lines

I recently went to Sally Free of Sounds of the Soul for a Gong Bath, I have not experienced the gongs since March and my body was starting to remind me with some gentle aches and pains. Sally has a massive copper pyramid in her therapy room where you can lie in the middle, whilst she plays the gongs, singing bowls and other musical instruments.

When I arrived, Sally was sitting inside the pyramid and I could see her aura shimmering by her shoulder to the edge of the nearest bar. I was curious to discover what was going on, so produced my dowsing rods from my bag and started to formulate some questions.  

Sally also has a new gong Sedna that she was eager for me to hear, the gong is connected to the water Goddess and linked to the Shamanic Animal kingdom, it relates to letting go of control and surrendering. If you stop hanging on, the magic can happen; this became apparent for me later in the evening.

There is such a beautiful energy in the room where the gongs are played, they are at one end of it and the other end is the large 6 ft copper pyramid, in each corner crystals of selenite, quartz crystal, and labradorite are placed with a large piece of pyrite outside the edge of the one nearest the gongs, with a large piece of labourite inside. There is also black tourmaline in the top corners, dowsing confirmed that these crystals were suitably placed within the area.

Sally and I were very curious as to what I could discover by dowsing the space. In the centre of the pyramid Sally has a amethyst pendulum filled with frankincense resin hanging down, that often when you look at it, it very gently moves sometimes bobbing up and down and at other times spinning very slowly clockwise or anticlockwise in a gentle arc. I dowsed to ask if this the most appropriate pendulum to have and most appropriate content held within it. I got a very definite yes.

I asked if there was an energy line present and the rods pointed towards the pyramid, I dowsed and discovered two male energy lines flowing through the pyramid. Further dowsing revealed these were lines of intention, maybe due to Sally’s intent to offer healing. The gongs enhance the intention and the pendulum swings to balance the energy within the pyramid, by removing the energy if there is too much or adding more if it is required. This is usually achieved when you hold a pendulum over something e.g water to energise it, it can spin anticlockwise to take it out and clockwise to put it in. I guess that is what could be happening here.

The two energy lines cross at right angles in the centre of the pyramid. By dowsing and asking appropriately phrased questions, I discovered the energy is the correct amount for the person or persons contained in the pyramid, this I worked out would be variable, depending on the energy of the client(s) in the pyramid. I dowsed the energy on outside the pyramid on the line from the gongs at 70% and inside the energy was an astounding 155% (Sometimes dowsing goes over 100% and as a dowser I just go along with that).

Sally told me that Tom the African Grey Parrot gets so excited when she plays the gongs making such a racket, that she must be moved into the garage whilst she is playing. I asked for permission to dowse Tom and then checked her aura before Sally played the gongs and then afterwards. Whilst measuring the lines it became apparent the Tom and her cage sit within the energy that flow through the pyramid and into the room next door, the two lines together are wider than the whole room and they narrow going into the pyramid and then become the same width at they leave it; maybe why Tom has started to grow a few red feathers on her chest, which is highly unusual.

I dowsed which entrance I should enter the pyramid through and which way to have my head facing, I guess I could have dowsed so many other things, but lying in the pyramid was like sinking into a hollow in the floor, incredibly holding and powerful. Once the gongs were being played, I noticed my breathing was in a very regular pattern of which I did not seem to have control. It was an equal in and out breath as if I were asleep, but fully awake, where I might have been afraid and panicked by this, I was able to allow myself to feel safe, secure and held.

Whilst the gongs were being played, I could see lots of colours and then through the centre of the pyramid an obelisk structure in dark blue appeared which seemed to connect to the universe. Which I have since discovered links to the third eye chakra and connection to spirit. I had a feeling of release in my wrists and hands and any pain that I have experiences over the past few months ebbed away. Towards the end of the gong bath, I took two small intakes of breath and was then able to control my own breathing pattern. I became aware having a gong bath in a pyramid was a unique experience and through dowsing have obtained further information to help me understand what is happening energetically.  

I measured Tom’s aura after my gong bath, and it had expanded by at least twice the distance. We woke her up as Sally had left her in the office, for once she was silent and then started her impressions of phones, answer machine, fish tank water pump bubble noises, before saying bedtime and goodnight.  I took that as my bid to head home, leaving Sally and the energetic confines of the pyramid behind, excited to have been able to dowse some of what was going on, there are still many more measurements and questions that can be explored in the future.

Whilst I dowsed to check if the gongs were in the most appropriate place to enhance the line of intention and got a yes, although in the early hours following my gong bath, I had a thought that two of the gongs were interpreting the energy flow from the others behind. When Sally sent me some photos to go with my blog, she told me that whilst she was playing the next evening, it suddenly came to her to move the gongs.

The new configuration seems to be more balanced, Sun and Phoenix in the east and Earth and Pluto (bass) in west. Cosmo in the middle to slice through, Sedna in now in front of Earth as its water. This is better as when right in front of Sun, fire and water give you steam. Sally says it feels lovely like this and she can move from two gongs around easily, to play them all.  I have since remote (distance) dowsed the energy lines following Sally’s reconfiguration and there is no change to the energy outside the pyramid but inside the energy had increased to 190%.

I have felt that during the past few months I may have been holding my breath, as I navigate this new landscape, caught up in a pandemic. Having experienced the beautiful gongs and pyramid, I realised my breathing was related to surrendering and letting go, along with the pain that I had been holding on to…….. ‘If you stop hanging on, the magic can happen’