Saturday, February 9, 2008

full eclipse coming this 2/20 - we can see it!

"The full Moon is going to get totally eclipsed on the night of February 20–21, putting on a gorgeous show as it glides through Earth's shadow. Skywatchers in nearly the entire Western Hemisphere will get an excellent view.

In the Americas, the eclipse happens during convenient evening hours on Wednesday, the 20th, when people are up and about. In the time zones of Europe and West Africa, the eclipse happens during the early-morning hours of Thursday, the 21st.

Earth’s shadow will totally engulf the Moon from 10:00 to 10:52 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, or 7:00 to 7:52 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, as shown at lower right. The partial phases of the eclipse last for about an hour and a quarter before and after totality.

Unlike a solar eclipse, each stage of a lunar eclipse is visible to everyone on the Moon-facing side of Earth at once; we’re all looking together."

sky and telescope

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Water, Energy Medicine and the Spiritual Influences of Neptune Part 1

It was raining big fat wet watery drops this morning at 8am as i presented The Aquarian Hour at the community, non-profit radio station where i host a weekly Tuesday morning program. I was totally unprepared in any way for this morning's show.

Then again, other than finding the most beautiful music to air, the less preparation for my radio program, the less preset-info to distract from a free-association-platform.
Some programmers account for every minute and present a very polished show.
Winging it entirely is like invoking the Muses as soon as i begin to say,
"Good morning, this is Forest, and you are listening to The Aquarian Hour."


:)


ABOUT THE WATER
Ok so this morning, we have rain instead of heavy snows and ice, and so naturally the topic opens to a fairly unknown process of absorbing the qualities of water.

A discourse begins on the ancient methods of DzogChen, a highly evolved metaphysical Tibetan spiritual path that i had studied years ago. i had sort of forgotten about this practice until reminded by a sweet passage in a book, "Eat, Pray, Love" where a medicine man in Bali employs a similar method of contemplation every evening.

For cleansing, nourishment and renewal, this ancient healing practice is designed to allow the practitioner to merge with the essences of each of the elements on earth, one at a time - including, wind, water, earth, fire and the 5th element is typically defined as either - space or ether or light or metal.

The DzogChen teachings also include chanting the Tibetan names for each element while absorbing their qualities. The belief is this practice is a way to achieve an internal/external balance, and a mystical spiritual unity through a blending of one's consciousness into the subtle vibrational frequencies of elements found within our natural universe.

New Water Meditation, by Forest

......as we inhale and exhale slow and deep, we imagine clearly our floating on our backs easily as though like a dream, floating down a river, splashing waters, and now we are allowing the waters to the touch us inside and we feel a lively spiraling sun-lit river vibrantly coursing through our systems, and see how it is replenishing our blood and ionizing our organs with fresh sparkling happy water, ...................................
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..............and now.............we enter another dimension in consciousness...
we are merging into tiny particles of water.....and now

we are liquid!

we are mist

we are the moisture in the atmosphere!



we can actually feel our dna strands spiraling brighter


a new reality has been created with an over-the air meditation on The Aquarian Hour and all the while Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", a magnificent work of violin music totally dedicated to the glory of nature, is playing softly in the background.


more on Vilvaldi and Neptune to be continued next post!

water blessings

forest