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The second eclipse in a series occurs on Wednesday under the Libra new Moon. Once completed, we'll be ready to set a focus for the next six months. Because we're being influenced by both a Libra Moon and Sun, our goals for the next six months should involve building stronger relationships and bringing more beauty and balance to our worlds on all levels. Monday is the day to tackle major projects or chores under the Virgo Moon, as the rest of the week will take us on an ethereal ride through the days. Tuesday the Moon moves into Gemini, making us more prone to chatting than acting, and when the solar eclipse/Libra new Moon occurs on Wednesday, we may find it easier to talk about our plans for the future, rather than immediately putting them into action. Balance will be a theme on Thursday, as we stop to look around and assess what needs to be taken care of to clear a path for new beginnings. The Moon will be ensconced in Scorpio for the remainder of the week, shifting between ethereal movement and intense focus over the weekend. We'll just have to pay close attention to what our intuition is telling us to maneuver through these days with ease.

Living Love Daily, by Jennie Lee

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

By what measure do you love? If you are like most people, you probably keep some score of reciprocity, monitoring whether or not others are giving as much as you are in your relationships. Granted, no one likes to feel that a friendship or partnership is one-sided, but this typically self-referential approach to love does not really serve our highest good, and keeping score never feels good.

It is true that the feeling of love we have will fluctuate based on how balanced the giving and receiving is between us and others. But if we instead approach love as an action rather than a feeling, then we can be grateful, either for what we may be receiving, or if we are not, then for the opportunity to practice stepping deeper into love. If we take the perspective that loving is a spiritual practice, it changes the measure by which we love.

The Energy of Love
The key to making this shift is recognizing that there is only one energy of love. It is not mine, or yours, or hers. Divine love is radiating to us and through us in a million different disguises, through every human expression of loving that we share with partners, relatives, friends, and even strangers.

Love is the universally harmonizing energy that draws all things together. It is the uniting principle of the cosmos. When we see it as such, rather than a limited personal commodity that we may or may not be getting from another person, then we can start to create divinely loving relationships.

We can see one another as love channels and appreciate every moment as an opportunity to dive deeper into loving action, offering kindness and compassion to each person we encounter, rather than selfishly looking for what they can bring to us. If we are not watching to see what someone is giving back, then we are free to expand our capacity to love.

This is certainly not the world standard for loving, is it? And if someone is unkind, or even hurtful to us, how can we be loving then? This is when our practice is most essential! Rather than react in a similar way, we need to pause and breathe. We can bear witness to the purity of the person's soul behind his disagreeable exterior and choose to drop into the energy of love that lives in our own hearts.

Although it is not easy to keep our heart open in this way, it is possible if we allow conflict to be the catalyst for our spiritual evolution. Our challenge is to return again and again to the essence of love itself, not as an intellectual exercise but as an embodied meditation on our shared oneness, twenty-four hours a day, every day.

Of course, we will feel challenged by the painful limitations of our ego at times, but if we attempt to spiritualize every moment of our lives by living the principle of love, we create a purposeful connection to all beings and to the Source of love itself. Any small gesture of love moves us in a positive direction and eventually we experience a newfound freedom in all of our relationships. This practice also keeps us from drowning in the worldly fear and outrage that threaten daily to rob us of our inner peace.

Love Is Always the Answer
By making our engagement with conscious loving, rather than the scale of reciprocity, our measuring stick of success, then whether the world responds or turns away we are able to carry on with passion and purpose. Love becomes our guiding philosophy, sustaining us during times of sorrow and discouragement, and giving us meaning and joy. There is no more powerful or constructive force for positive change.

Every moment becomes different when we approach life through divine love. We see more possibility, more compassion, and more potential. We feel more expansiveness in every moment as we grow beyond our old personal limitations until the whole world becomes our beloved. By consciously loving, we remember the truth of our being; that we are love and that love is the answer to everything.

Meditation Opens the Door to Divine Love
The best way to develop a strong connection to this energy of love is through mediation. Daily stillness illumines the ways in which we may be blocking Divine love in our hearts or minds through habitual reactive responses, or the tendency to fight or flee if our ego feels threatened. It calms the body and the mind and creates the foundation for a deeply peaceful life and more harmonious human relationships. It also connects us with our innermost soul, which is love, and this makes us feel joyful and eager to extend that universal love to all those around us.

Daily Practice
Beginning meditation is not difficult and requires no special techniques. The first step is simply commit to some time to be still. Begin with just five minutes each day. Turn off cell phones and other distractions and sit down somewhere quiet. Feel your breath moving in your belly and chest. Notice any thoughts, feelings, or physical sensations, but do not engage with the story. Instead, direct your mind to something that inspires the feeling of love for you. For some this might be a religious teacher or symbol. For the non-religious, it could be your spouse or beloved pet. However you initially connect to love is fine.

Train your attention completely on the energy of love and breathe into it with your whole being. Eventually, with deeper and deeper concentration on love, you will feel a merging into the energy of love itself so that you perceive no separation from it.

If you are in intimate relationship and would like to experience a connection together in Divine love, try an open eye meditation with your partner. Again, be sure to eliminate distractions and commit to a period of quiet time together. Sit in close proximity to one another and hold eye contact without talking. Take slow, mindful breaths for at least two minutes. See the essence of love within the eyes of your partner. This will create a profound feeling of togetherness and deeper intimacy.

Studies by Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education have shown that meditation increases positive emotions and decreases negative communications. As a result of seven weeks of loving kindness meditation, reports show participants felt heightened love, joy, contentment, gratitude, pride, hope, interest, amusement, and awe: all factors for relationship longevity. And it only stands to reason that people who are happier and experience positive emotions are more likely to form stronger, deeper bonds.

Devotion to Divine Love
To experience the full measure of Divine love, a total commitment to it is required. The same is true for meditation. Spiritual practices, both meditation and conscious loving, evolve with time and patience. Unfortunately, too many people throw in the towel because results are not always immediate. But this is just like the worldly, self-centered love that we stop offering because we are not getting it back in the way we wish.

The more we choose to focus on Divine love, the more profound our devotion becomes. And as we become saturated with loving devotion, both our meditations and our relationships deepen. Our consciousness blooms in empathy, compassion, understanding, and ever-deepening love and we no longer feel limited or motivated by personal agenda or feelings. Instead we feel the bliss of oneness and unconditional love.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2018. All rights reserved.

I've had lots of interesting spiritual experiences while fully awake, but the ones I really want to understand are those that happened at night or early in the morning, when I was falling asleep or just waking up. When I was really young, I had a number of interesting experiences. For a while, every morning around 5:00 a.m., I would wake to see a cloud rise up out of the floor, hold its position next to my face, and then after a while, lift up and go through the ceiling. Once it was red in color, but usually it was gray. It seemed to be a cloud of energy. At first I thought these may be dreams, but I knew my eyes were open, and I sensed that this thing had awakened me. At this same time in the morning, I would also be asleep when I felt something move in my room. I'd wake up and see something that looked like a huge cluster of fireflies. This felt like it was alive, and it was moving very fast. It was beautiful - it's hard to describe. It looked like little gold lights that were zipping from corner to corner in my room, stopping in places and moving again. I still see this sometimes, though not as often as I used to. Despite how strange these experiences sound, I remember that I would usually think to myself that I just wanted to get some sleep! I would love to know what was happening, and what these encounters might mean.

- M.

Dreamchaser:

I feel the gray cloud that would hover around you while you were in that state of being half awake/half asleep was some type of alien being.

You have been taken at night while you sleep since you were born. When this happened early in the morning, you were being brought back from spending the night away with them.

The fireflies were not insects flitting around your room. In fact, this wasn't even your room! It was what APPEARED to be your room so that you wouldn't freak out and try to run away. You were actually in another place when you saw these things that looked like fireflies.

This was some sort of star system or star structure - that's why you've never seen anything like it and can't fully describe it. The word fireflies is just the best word you have for what this looked like.

I was one of those people who was scared to death of aliens, and thought that they would only come to kill us. I too have been taken by them since I was a child. I believe that's why I was so scared of them. I have spoken before of my alien spirit guide named Oz. He has helped calm my fears and explained a lot of things to me.

There are also quite a number of people who have firsthand knowledge through direct contact with alien beings who are coming out, writing books, going on the lecture circuit, etc. Some of these people were involved in various government agencies.

For example, there is a man named Donald Ware who is a former high ranking military officer. He speaks of Area 53 and 54 as top secret landing bases for aliens. There, aliens are taught how to blend with humans. You can search for him on the internet.

I have heard him speak in person, though he is just one example of many people who are now telling us that these things exist. Alien life exists! Aliens do come and take us to help fix us.

Some of what they are doing to help us is changing our DNA structure; we are being upgraded to 12-strand DNA. No one is really sure why this is happening. I personally have heard from Oz that it's to prepare us for a New World, and that the changes are all designed to be positive and helpful to us.

These aliens are not harming us. The New World is supposed to come some time after 2012, and then aliens will emerge in a more obvious way. They will definitely come in peace.

May you heal your instinctive fears via the higher spiritual knowledge within you!

*****

Astrea:

The alpha state has been described in different ways. Ray Yungen, author of A Time of Departing, says it's like putting the mind in neutral. Classical meditation teaches that it's more a matter of tuning in to a different frequency.

Others say it's a thin place, a sacred place, ecstasy. Both New Age and Christian leaders say that it can be a way to speak to God, and in most religions, quiet reflection has always been used to access the divine.

To some, God is a cloud of energy without a human face. God may appear as light in bolts and flashes, and at the last, what you describe as fireflies when you were returning to full consciousness.

Many believe that the alpha state is the springboard for all psychic and magical practices. During meditation, information enters our consciousness through the third eye, and we become more imbued with Light energy. Since most of the information in the universe is carried by light one way or another, it's reasonable to think that alpha experiences are Light related.

Almost anyone can learn to use an alpha state experience to their advantage, but it takes care and lots of time. To one degree or another, we all enter the alpha state every day. While many pursue it via focused spiritual practice, it can also happen when we simply sit down to relax after strenuous exercise.

Excluding the use of psychotropic drugs, most of us can learn how to have visionary experiences via trance through various forms of spiritual practice and contemplation.

I think what you're describing as this cloud followed by fireflies is something that many of us see, and your description is a pretty good one. My fireflies vary from purple to green when I see them. I like seeing that energy cloud, and I reach for it and try to experience it as much as possible.

Children see this sort of thing naturally, but as we get older, we tend to forget that we have to practice to keep our psychic abilities working smoothly.

If you'd like to have these experiences come to you more frequently, you'll have to learn to quiet your adult mind, which is no doubt filled with everything you have to do each day for survival.

Cultivate peace in your life, stay away from anger and discord as much as possible, and find a teacher who can lead you into alpha without endangering you before you strike out on your own to explore this other dimension.

You won't have to be with the teacher for long before you regain your ability to put yourself into the quiet state of mind where that cloud of energy comes to you. Usually, it only takes about three months for people to reawaken their psychic abilities.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.