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Astrological highlights this week include Neptune turning retrograde, Mercury moving into the sign of Leo, and a Cancer new Moon on Friday. With all the shifts occurring this week, we’ll want to practice higher awareness and pay attention as our moods and activities change daily. Luckily Monday unfolds under a Taurus Moon, which means it’s the day to get as much done as possible before blocks or reversals arise. Tuesday is when Neptune will turn retrograde and Mercury will enter Leo. Neptune is a subtle shift as it travels backward five months out of the year, so we may not notice too much under this influence at first, but Mercury’s move into fiery Leo will bring out our expressive and generous sides for the next three weeks. The Moon will travel through Gemini Tuesday through Thursday, bringing out our imaginative and social sides. We’ll be more prone to chatting than working, as we connect with others on an intellectual level. The Cancer new Moon occurs on Friday, promising new beginnings in our emotional lives and security; be sure to make a wish! Saturday and Sunday unfold under the easy-going Cancer Moon as well, turning our focus to home and family.

Just What Is Energy Medicine and What Can It Do For Me? by Linnie Thomas

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

When you took general science classes in school, your teachers told you that when electricity goes through a wire, a field forms around that wire. Something similar happens in and around your body. You have electrical, magnetic, and life force energy flowing through your body. Of course, the body is much more complicated than a wire. It has legs and arms and all sorts of things including a head, so the field has many forms.

Your energy field begins in the center of your body and radiates outward several feet from your physical body. Some people call it an aura, though it can be easier to simply refer to it as the energy field (people may be more comfortable with that). Within the energy field, there are seven major energy centers, often called chakras, that look like little tornadoes and are found at the top of the head, along the spine, and at the bottom of the spine. Each bone joint has its own minor energy center.

Pathways of energy called meridians flow within your body (with today's technology, scientists now have ways of following those meridians). The last major part of your energy system is called the "hara column," and it goes from above your head, down through the middle of your body, and continues on into the ground.

When you suffer from an injury, surgery, illness, trauma, or an emotional upset, energy can become congested and its natural flow through your body and field blocked. That's where an energy medicine practitioner comes in to help you heal; they remove the congestion and restore the energy system back to its healthy, balanced state.

It is important to note that energy medicine is not a replacement for traditional Western medical practices. It is complementary to it, another tool in the toolbox to help people get well. By balancing the energy field, the body does not have to do it itself. In some cases, the body doesn't get around to bringing the energy system back into balance. Congested energy can stay in place for years.

As one example, a man came into a clinic with an extremely bad headache. He was sent to the hospital for tests, at where the personnel there could find nothing wrong with him. A nurse who had recently taken an energy medicine course asked the man if she could try energy medicine to help with the pain. He was so desperate that he gave permission.

The nurse checked over the field. While doing this, she noticed a lot of heavy congestion around his big toe. "What happened to your toe?" she asked.

"I broke it and it had to be operated on to reconstruct the bone," he said.

"When did this happen?"

"About five years ago."

"And when did the headaches start?"

"About the same time."

The nurse cleared the congestion around his toe and the headache disappeared. No one had cleared the congestion from both the trauma of breaking the toe and the ensuing surgery. For some reason, the congestion was such that the body didn't clear it on its own.

Congested energy can show up anywhere in the body, even though physical symptoms may be found in another part of the body. It's all connected. While the above example is a little on the unusual side, it does show how energy medicine can be helpful.

Most practitioners specialize in one or more of the energy systems. Some practitioners work with the energy field and the energy centers. Others like removing blockages and clearing the meridian system (acupuncture is one such modality that specializes in meridian work). It depends upon which form or forms appeals to the practitioner as well as their comfort in using each.

An energy healing treatment begins when the client requests an appointment. When the client arrives, the practitioner works to make the person comfortable. An explanation of what is about to happen might be needed. The client may be asked to sign an informed consent form that states the client understands the type of treatment being offered.

An intake follows the initial introductions to a session. The practitioner listens to the client's issues and requests for services, and together they set goals for the session. Once that is done, the practitioner performs an assessment.

The practitioner runs their hands over the energy field and notes differences and similarities. Sometimes a practitioner will use a pendulum to assess what is happening in the energy centers. When open, an energy center spins clockwise. When it is blocked, it may stop spinning; swing perpendicularly, diagonally, or horizontally to the body; make an elliptical pattern, or even spin counterclockwise. Hand scans of the energy field tell the practitioner about differences and similarities in the field. Blockages in the form of congested energy may be found anywhere on and around the body. Removing these pockets of congested energy help to bring the field back into balance.

After the assessment is completed, the practitioner then performs techniques to clear and balance the energy system. A reassessment is done to see if the client needs more work. The end of the session comes in the form of grounding the client.

Stress is a big issue in our culture, and energy medicine is definitely good for relieving any emotional stress. Rare is the person who is not feeling stress when they come for treatment! A stressed person has a highly agitated energy field. Many forms of techniques can remove congestion and balance the field to relieve some of the stress.

Pain is another reason for seeing an energy medicine practitioner. It shows up during an assessment in a number of ways. Through practice, each practitioner learns how to recognize pain in the energy field. Most forms of energy medicine have techniques to help relieve pain.

Animals are interesting to treat. When an animal is in pain, it often turns the injured part of the body toward the practitioner. Once the animal feels better, it lets the practitioner know by simply walking away or maybe yawning. I have a dog who sometimes visits other dogs for a play time; they can run for hours. But, the next day I'll know when my dog has sore muscles. He'll jump in my lap and put his front paws on my shoulders assuming a pose we have worked out together. I do a pain removal technique and then run my hands over his field, while sending soothing energy into his muscles. He tells me when it's done by getting down off my lap and taking a nap. Animals don't sit around wondering if this type of treatment is going to help them; rather, they accept it without question. You don't have to believe in energy medicine for it to work. All it takes is a willingness to receive it.

Traditional western medicine and energy medicine work well together. As another example: a construction worker falls from a ladder, lands in the mud, and breaks his leg. It's a nasty compound fracture and a piece of the bone pierces the skin. Someone sends for an ambulance and he is taken to the hospital, where several forms of treatment occur. In the emergency room, the break in the skin is cleaned and sterilized. The emergency room doctor sends him out for x-rays. A surgeon resets the bone. Pins may be used to hold the bone in place while it is healing. Then the surgeon sews the incision together. A cast covers the leg. To prevent infection, a doctor prescribes antibiotics. In addition, when an energy medicine practitioner balances the disturbed energy field, they help the patient heal faster with fewer complications, lower pain levels, and ease some of the stress from the event.

Each of these treatments has a part in the healing process. They all work together to help the patient walk again and go back to work. Not one of them can stand alone to complete the healing process. Each one is a unique tool to help the person get well.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2023. All rights reserved.

I'm a Caucasian married mother of three living in the U.S. Last night I dreamed I was a little boy with dark skin and dark hair, living in a very rustic little house with dirt floors. I was about six years old, and the entire dream was experienced from this boy's perspective. While I didn't know anyone in that dream in my waking life, I felt I knew my dream father and brother as well as I know anyone. There was a feeling of political danger in the dream, like "they" were rounding up people and doing away with some of them. There was a lot of anxiety about whether or not my father should go into the village to see someone about something or not, because he may not come back. This experience was so vivid - I remember someone holding me because I was scared or upset, and it was raining so we were on this porch, tucked out of the rain. While I suppose this could have been a dream of a past life, it felt so current that I'm wondering if I dreamed the life of a boy who lives a world away, or even more far out, if I could be living more than one life right now. Thanks very much!

- Sheila

Dreamchaser:

What you dreamed about was one of your past lives. Genocide and war have been going on for almost as long as there have been humans on this planet, so lots of us have experienced them.

This may feel like a current life because of all the problems in various parts of the globe, but I feel very clearly that what you were seeing in this dream was your own experiences in a past life.

Our souls don't understand time; time is only relevant to living people. When we are in spirit form or on the Otherside, time has no significance. This is why your dream felt so fresh and current.

Quite often when we awake from a very vivid dream, we feel like we are still in it, or like the dream is in some way real or is going to affect us in our waking lives.

Further, in many lifetimes you have had the experience of being held by someone when you were afraid for a loved one, so this feeling may feel very fresh to you even though the experience you remembered was from long ago.

Your current husband will hold you when you are afraid, and you will hold your children when they are afraid. This may not sound like such a big deal, but feelings carry over from lifetime to lifetime, which can cause a bit of blending when it comes to our memories.

There is one life you lived that is jumping out at me in particular, and in it, you were a runaway slave in the U.S. before the Civil War broke out. You were actually a slave in what is now considered the North, and your family was trying to get out West so that you could all be free together.

You traveled the Underground Railroad and were put under houses through trapdoors covered by rugs, or behind fake walls of closets, etc. You would sleep in those places in the daytime and move around at night. You were terrified, and your mother would hold you on her lap and whisper for you to be brave and not be scared. You were constantly afraid that you were going to be caught.

You were a girl no more than ten years old when your family was on the run. For the record, you made it and so did the rest of your family. However, the fear you experienced at that young age never really left you, and when you got out West, you realized that you had a whole new set of things to worry about. So you basically lived in this state of fear for most of that life.

You worked REALLY hard, grew up, married and had children. You were a very loving person and a good, attentive mother. Despite all of this, you were afraid about something most of the time.

How does this life resonate with the life you're living now? Before you sleep, you can ask your guides to help you to KNOW you are dreaming so you don't wake up with that same icky feeling.

I wish you peace-full dreams.

*****

Astrea:

I've seen movies about women who are leading two parallel lives romantically, but I don't believe it's possible for you to be living in two physical places, or for one soul to inhabit two bodies.

The Universe is too kind to do that to us. To be that divided would be SO miserable, especially since you have children to care for. Though we may wish we could, we can't be two places at once!

There are many different explanations for what you're experiencing in your dream life. If this dream recurs, then it is most likely a past life experience, though it could be a scene from a FUTURE incarnation.

We don't know enough about time to know if the future is another dimension that exists parallel with the now. It seems highly unlikely. I think that time travel like Mark Twain wrote about in "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is also highly unlikely. The nature of our soul's connection to the God Force is too deeply imbedded in my psyche for me to entertain such a notion.

It could also be a past life that you share with one of your current children, and you're dreaming about it because there is something related to it that you're supposed to do in the here and now.

You might gently quiz the kids on whether or not they've noticed any dreams in which they "become" other people, or see through someone else's eyes. You might find your answer right there, and be able to clear up some karma from another life that relates to issues of abandonment.

Whether we are the betrayer or the abandoned, karmic abandonment issues are some of the most difficult to reconcile. If this is what's happening, don't miss this opportunity to clear them up!

It's also possible that you and this little boy were both traveling in the astral, and your minds collided. He had your dream that night, and you had his. He was "visiting" you even though he is a stranger because something about your spirit appealed to him. While you were dreaming about his life, he was dreaming about your home and children.

Personally, I think it was a scene from a past life. Sometimes we have very brief incarnations that we re-experience through lucid dreaming. When you get a chance, research Nicaragua in the last few years before you were born into THIS life, and see if anything or anyone jumps out at you.

Although information is pretty sketchy about that time and place, I have a strong psychic feeling of my own that you WERE that little boy, that your dream was a scene from that life, and that you died at a young age.

If that's the case, this is coming up for you now so you can heal it and let go of any issues you may have carried over from that lifetime, so you are wise to be exploring the deeper meaning of this experience.

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.