Stabilize – Polarize – Challenge

Scorpion

What is my challenge?

The Lunar moon is the second of thirteen in 365-day solar cycle that begins each July 26. In the first, Magnetic moon we discovered our purpose for the entirety of this 13 Moon year. We magnetically attracted it – found it pulled in at full force and maybe we were even buffeted around by its weight, bulk. A year’s worth of work presented itself and probably felt overwhelming on many days.

The hard part of the Magnetic moon is that our purpose is not a pre-packaged, showroom-ready enterprise. Our purpose is an act, a quest and journey, and it’s dropped into our lap as a map, a sword, some trail mix for the time we will spend on the warrior path fearlessly, and sometimes fearfully, putting it into effect. The Magnetic moon holds an intensity of the preparation and first steps of our divine mission, and it also has premonitions of what sort of challenges we will face in the moons to come as we move over the varied terrain towards realization.

If you reflect on the last four weeks, you will have a fast clear answer to the Magnetic moon’s opening question, What is my purpose? Your guides and gods gave you the clues or direct answer. You can notice, too, that the absence of some activities or interests in the past moon means that they are not very purposeful for you now and have fallen away. Hint: your purpose is something that will lead you into a specific form of service, as this is the theme of the Yellow Self-Existing Seed year – focused intention to give of yourself to the greater collective, to help plant new possibilities for growth. To that end, take this revealed purpose seriously, gratefully, with dedication, and write it down somewhere – post it on your refrigerator or bathroom mirror – to keep it in consciousness.

When we open the Lunar moon, we move from the numeric ‘one dot’ of the Magnetic moon to two dots, like a pair of eyes. The one dot represents totality, unity, the original initiation point of all that follows. Two dots are a division of sacred wholeness into two parts, what we routinely call ‘good’ and ‘bad’ but would better simplify as ‘this’ and ‘that’. Like the yin-yang white-blackness, the Lunar moon and its polarization from one to two is testament to the differences in life, a celebration of separation.

We don’t like to be apart, about half the time. This is the crux of the Lunar moon. Its difficulty is that for 28 days we are experiencing the nuances of division, the difference between the poles. Its liberation is that we also get to separate from things that have hurt or haunted us, and in fact, that needs to be the faith for this passage. All we are pulling away from is what has felt harmful in such close proximity. What we need close to us for support, empowerment and comfort will not be torn away.

The arc of the 13 Moons is a wave’s surging ascent and breaking open into liberation. We do not out run or overlook what hurts early on in the Magnetic and Lunar moons as much as gradually integrate it into a wholeness that marks the end of this year’s journey. In the Magnetic moon you probably noticed gaps and losses, these old wounds, newly reiterated. Whatever felt hard, hurt is going to be healed over this year and held as ritual scar tissue by the conclusion, a memorable transformation of pain into a cherished part of you. But the initiation of these first two moons is tremendous; we are facing what still aches and its overwhelm.

In the Lunar moon, though, the situation becomes clearer. The two dots resemble eyes because we are allowed to see, understand and distinguish the challenges from the strengths that will allow your purpose to unfold and manifest. In other words, in the Magnetic moon you received a purpose and within that were challenges to integrate and transmute, but they arrived without any explanation, a messy hardship resurgent once more. In the Lunar moon there is the relief of identifying and naming what is challenging, rather than just being buried by it. The work of getting through (not around) the tough stuff can then be organized and begun.

In many ways the Magnetic moon is more challenging than the Lunar one, when the challenges rear up without clarity. The Lunar moon has its own struggle built into it, though, which is to not try to fix, eradicate or ignore the challenges we are asked to see, identify. We have other steps, more dots, to help pace us on the journey in the moons to come.

Enjoy the separation of self from hardship as it now arrives. Notice the resources that are not being pulled away from you at all, are still magnetized, even securely sewn into your being. Identify the challenges, from the center of your storm and not the dangerous, chaotic edges. Remember the sacred journey of earth’s Turtle Island that we are following in the 365-day 13 Moon year, and go as slow as we see turtles crawl, as graceful as they swim.

The Lunar moon is a moment when we polarize, but also stabilize our challenge. Let this divinely offered stability calm you, create a balance between opposites and incongruities. And realize that in nature, creation comes from the separation, and reunification, of the sexes. Invariably, the Lunar moon is also a key moment for pairings, twosomes, twin flames and mirrored reflections. We all are identifying challenge at the same time, our own and even each other’s. In this commonality comes deep connection.