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How we express ourselves this week will reveal whether people are listening or not, as Monday and Tuesday's Aquarius Moon encourages us to be more assertive and clearer in our communication. We all have different styles, but if you're feeling like no one is hearing you, this is the time to explore alternate ways of getting your message out to others. The Moon cruises through Pisces Wednesday and Thursday, encouraging us to go deep within to evaluate our spiritual lives. As with our communication styles, this deep dive could reveal some changes we need to consider making. Our most productive days of the week will be Friday and Saturday under the Aries Moon, when our energy returns and our determination expands. We'll have to move with caution, however, as the planet Saturn will turn retrograde on Saturday. Typically cited as the planet of boundaries and restrictions, it tends to promote the opposite when it is retrograde. So for the next five months, we'll experience more freedom of movement and fewer blocks to our dreams. Sunday's Taurus Moon encourages relaxation and a somewhat lazy day. Let's keep our plans simple and just go with the flow.

How the Mind of the Soul Establishes Wellbeing, by Neale Lundgren, PhD

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The soul is always open to reveal itself to the sincere seeker. And because the soul is naturally positive and unpretentious, it projects a receiving spirit to all. As such, the soul can help us maintain not only a physical, mental, and emotional sense of wellbeing, but when operating at a high level, can also be a powerful force for the world.

This is because the soul is who you really are. The soul is a finder and revealer of universal truth and mirrors the highest principles of human existence. A universal truth is knowledge that transcends doctrine. A Hindu can find benefit in a Hebrew proverb and a Christian can be inspired by a Sufi poem when viewed from the unifying perspective of the soul.

Only the soul understands how to love the self as the other, and the other as the self. Whether one is an atheist or a theist, in the right circumstances, silence is golden when compassionate action is implemented.

The moment we embrace a path guided by the light of a universal truth, life then becomes more than a mere system of thought. Life becomes a way of soul seeking, a way of soul finding, and a way of soulful living with soulful others in the material world.

Although immaterial, the soul gravitates to all things of true substance. Anything that has integrity and coherence, an inherent wholeness about it, the soul's intelligence recognizes as a reflection of its own nature. This intelligence is the mind of the soul, located at the deepest center within every human being and within the being of all living things.

When we discover our soul mind, we awaken to a level of consciousness beyond ordinary awareness. The soul mind sees all things as part of an interrelated web of a greater wholeness. The soul mind has this capacity because it is an open systems intelligence. The material, or "closed systems," mind, on the other hand, is made up of inherited beliefs, opinions, or any limiting model of reality that we take for actual reality.

There is a relationship between close-mindedness and mental dullness. A material mind is shut off from the light and spaciousness the soul mind by its nature produces. Enclosed within its own boundaries, the material mind tends to be narrow, rigid, and oppositional.

Accessing the soul's intelligence can both refresh and strengthen the material mind and yet expand its horizons. An open mind tends to be porous, flexible, and strong, as long as it stays rooted in the fertile soil of the soul. A closed mind is like a hard stone at the bottom of a dried-up stream. An open mind is like a flourishing tree near the bank of a flowing river.

Mysticism, a frequently misunderstood term, is really nothing more than an open systems approach to spirituality based not upon a belief or a concept, but upon actual experience. Mysticism is the treasure house of spiritual technologies, providing the seeker with maps for the journey of consciousness as well as means to reach higher states of awareness and love. Spiritual experience at its best, both expands and stabilizes the material mind by rooting consciousness in the mind of the soul.

The soul's intelligence encourages thought, including every one of the physical senses, to stretch beyond the consensual grids of ordinary cognition and perception, but not as a way to abandon the world and daily responsibilities. The soul mind connects the material mind more intimately and meaningfully with others, with the earth, and ultimately, with the entire universe.

This high-grade connective capacity of the soul enables consciousness to enlighten the material mind because the soul's intelligence at its core is a substance of light, a luminous being of affectionate awareness. Although the soul's intelligence is by nature empathic, its structure is its own strength. Inner poise and mental sharpness are essential characteristics of the soul mind and formulate its energy "backbone." While the material mind tends to be anxious and neurotic and easily drained of energy, the soul mind is able to connect and resonate empathically with other minds in its vicinity and abroad, yet without being easily exhausted.

Because the soul's intelligence is intimately connected to the heart of being, it resonates more immediately with love than with any other emotion and has continual access to its wellspring. When we strive to connect with others from a higher frequency of non-judgment, for example, we sense others with more clarity and understanding. Understanding is empathy with boundaries and instrumental in the maintenance of the soul's hygiene in the material world.

A healthy state of mind is re-energized and refueled not only through sleep but also through the practice of meditation. Unlike sleep, meditation has been clinically found to produce a coherent brain state of relaxed alertness. Relaxed alertness gives the mind entry to presence.

Presence, by its very nature, is a positive energy state of being. When the mind is in presence, it looks neither forward nor backward. Only the regretful past and worrisome future is able to create negative stress upon the mind.

Being in presence helps to shift awareness into a new key. As the material mind learns to open up to the expansive and fecund field of the soul mind, the result is that something gets quickened in us beyond our physical senses. We awaken to the grander senses of the soul.

How do we know when we have experienced the soul's senses? Every time we are touched by awe, enthusiasm, attunement, and resonance, for example, we experience life with the senses of the soul.

In my book, Meditations for the Soul, I provide meditations and awakening exercises to activate and strengthen these deeper senses that can help us access and maintain presence. This is why every moment is potentially a soulful sense experience. Only when our mind is fully and freely present to being, are we then more alive.

Think of these moments: a sunrise or sunset, a gaze into the eyes of a beloved, a moonlight-drenched earth awash in softened hues, the birth of a child, the peace-filled dying of a seasoned soul. Even a seemingly ordinary moment can trigger a soul-sense experience: the smell of rain, the dance of light's shadow through a gauzy curtain, a moment of thoughtful silence. These and so many other tastes and glimpses of soulful reality, that seem to suspend the self in time, would seep into our very pores if we would but allow them entry.

Our soul mind also makes its journeys into "darkness" when the tides of the ocean of light momentarily recede. All of us from time to time have been drawn into those dark nights of longing and sorrow. These slower movements of the soul have their own rhythm. Their cadence resonates with the moon's waxing and waning phases and with the daily rising and setting of the sun.

In our soul's dance with love in any one of its forms, love can seem to move toward and away from us, bringing us happiness one moment and sadness the next. The soul mind has the ability to contain both extremes and all that lies between in a spacious wholeness of acceptance.

This continuous cycle of darkness and light, empty and full seen now in the larger context of wholeness, reveals the rhythmic patterns occurring within our soul mind throughout the inner seasons of our lives. Knowledge and acceptance of these cycles has a great capacity to stabilize the material mind as it calibrates to the frequency of its true center. The soul mind is the true center of the self, as instanced in the wise saying, "And this too shall pass."

Everyone has the potential of companionship with one's own soul and the soul of others. In essence, the soul is the inner physician that heals all ills and bridges all distances. For it is indeed the soul and its perpetual breath of life that makes each of us whole, moment by moment, day by day, and life by life.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2021. All rights reserved.

In meditation or sometimes when falling asleep, I often see faces of people I don't know. They only last a few seconds and are presented like photographs, though they are photographs that are living and breathing but not moving. There is no sense of communication from them, and I don't think these people are aware of me. There have been hundreds over the last few years. To give you an example, the most recent were two small boys who looked like they lived in the early 20th century, and were perhaps eastern European, and a young beautiful woman who looked like a 1960s fashion model. I have also seen Asian men meditating more than once, and these seemed more aware of me, though they weren't really focused on me.

I have only had identifiable intuitive experiences for the past three years, or perhaps I've only been open to them for that long. I tend to dismiss such experiences as "all in my mind," but these people are always surprising to me, and very real. They're not at all the kind of people who would populate my day dreams or fantasies. I'm very interested in your take on what is happening here. Thanks!

- Sarah

Dreamchaser:

When you are meditating or falling asleep, you are not just in one world, but rather in both worlds. Part of you is here in this physical world, while your soul is in the Otherworld.

Since you are still awake in both cases, your human/logical mind is still at work, so you are going to remember things that happen with your human memory.

These people you are seeing are people from the Otherside. Some may be just people passing through your consciousness. Some may be guides. Some may be messengers of some kind. Some may be other souls that you interact with while you are on the Otherside.

There are all kinds of different beings and souls there, and there are all kinds of different variables under which we make contact with these souls when our soul is on the Otherside.

As I have explained here before, this sort of thing happened to my best friend. She was sound asleep when something woke her up with a start. As she opened her eyes, she was laying on her back, and approximately two inches from her face was the face of an incredibly ugly, scary looking Native American man.

He was looking into her eyes, and when she jumped, he grinned and then vanished. She later learned that he was a spirit guide. For some reason, he wanted her to see him that night, though it scared the wits out of her when it happened.

There are things that happen for our souls' sakes that our human minds can never make any sense of. You can bet your soul knows exactly who these people are and why they are coming into your line of inner vision. Because you are still conscious, however, your human mind is saying, "Who is that? Why am I seeing that person? What do they want?" etc.

These beings you are seeing are very much aware of you. The two Asian men meditating were "joining you" in your meditation. They knew you were there, just like you knew they were there. They were just busy at the time.

You said you have only had intuitive experiences for the last few years. I say you were born this way and have always been this way. You have always had intuitive experiences.

While you may have only started recognizing that you were having these experiences over the past few years, you have always "just known" things. If someone told you something happened, you would think, "I knew that was going to happen." You would see situations unfold and think, "I knew that was going to happen."

You are "coming of age" spiritually, in that you actually realize what is happening now.

I wish you many more adventures with your psychic abilities.

*****

Astrea:

Like the boy in the movie The Sixth Sense, you see dead people. This is nothing to worry about; it's just a result of your meditative state.

During meditation, your mind relaxes enough to see these people as they pass through or visit our plane. You're passing through and seeing them at the same time, so at that moment, you're together.

This happens to people who meditate quite often, whether they have been doing it for a short time or a long time, and it usually comes and goes.

You won't see them every time or all the time, but when they appear, it's always going to be fun to try to figure out who they are and where and when they came from.

Once you understand it and are able to control it most of the time, this can be a wonderful and fascinating experience! I think it's extra nice for you that you're able to see these people so clearly. They aren't your imagination or people you would "dream up" - they are real people who happen to exist in another dimension.

Of special interest are the Asian men you see, who are probably monks not just meditating themselves into Heaven, but helping their fellow monks get there too! They are much more aware of you than the others because they were more spiritually aware when they died.

They choose to stay in that space to help others. You'll see all types of clergy there as you go deeper into the practice of meditation. All religions seem to have certain people who choose to help others transition. It's an interesting place you're traveling through.

Sometimes when people die, they instantly cross over to one of the heavens, but the people you see are either taking their time or wandering. Once in a while (as in the case of the two little boys you mention), they get stuck between here and there. They may stay stuck in transition for some time - sometimes even years.

The people you're seeing aren't seeing you because they're not asking for your help. They're being observed by you as they move along, and sometimes you're lending them a little energy too.

You don't see people you know who are dead because they wouldn't come to you like this. The people you're observing don't have any kind of personal relationship with you; your loved ones would come to you in a more powerful or meaningful way.

Whether you were aware of it or not, you've been having intuitive experiences all your life. I'm glad you've chosen to practice meditation and welcome experiences like this. As long as you aren't afraid, your intuition can grow and begin to help you in wonderful new ways.

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.