Studies in Balance - Equinox/Libra Season practice

Moonday Greetings,

Thanks to everyone who joined me today!  Welcome to those joining from the future. I hope this week’s practice brings you into balance in ways that are liberating and harmonizing.

I want to offer today’s class as a LIBRA SEASON GIFT and hope that you will share it with anyone you think might enjoy this practice or be interested in attending Somatic Space in the future. The practice we worked with today is quite a download around Libra’s energetic patterns and my hope is that it provides a playful way to explore and support this season’s influences, which will definitely require us all to work hard for Libra’s ideals of balance, justice, and peace. This recording will be available to share through the end of Libra Season, October 21. 

USE THE LINK FROM THIS POST TO SHARE TODAY’S PRACTICE, so that anyone you share it with can see the notes I’ve included as well.

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We’ll have 5 sessions in Libra Season between today’s equinox class and October 20th. Over the course of these weeks I’m excited to continue the explorations that we began today with the energetics of balance, polarity, opposition, and duality. We’ll explore love, equanimity, and justice as somatic states and embodied ideals, and also continue with some work we’ve been touching on since Saturn and Neptune moved into Libra’s opposite sign Aries–experimenting with the power of our eyes and gaze. I’ll also be deepening and expanding on practices of self-touch and self-massage as support for one of Libra’s sites in medical astrology, the skin.

** special note that September 29th is also a special class, because EA’s community coordinator Alisha Mawji will be facilitating. Many of you know her from our chart reading study groups, but since June this year Alisha has also been co-leading a new Embodied Astrology space, At the Heart of Conflict which utilizes the emotionally expansive influence of Jupiter in Cancer, as well as natal chart placements, to help participants up-level their relational skills and conflict strategies. Next week’s class is an opportunity to experience some of what this series is bringing through for Alisha, and explore your own embodied pathways of conflict and its transformation.

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This week’s astrology score:

Sun enters Libra today, Libra Season extends through October 21. The first aspects the Sun makes upon entering Libra are an opposition to Neptune in Aries and trines to Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius, all of which perfect tomorrow. 

Mars entered Scorpio today where it will remain through November 4. Mars is in its watery home in Scorpio and this influence increases intensity on all levels. Use it wisely to intensify the transformative potentials of Libra Season’s work within the tension of opposition. Mars will square Pluto on Wednesday shortly after the moon enters Scorpio. The possibility for inner alchemy is heightened this week, especially when we apply our courage and energy towards excavating the depths and getting to the roots of larger collective issues we want to work with or are feeling impacted by. 

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Notables:

Click here to learn about the practice and benefits of meridian tracing

Click here and click here to learn more about the Organ Clock in Chinese Medicine, the meridians, their associated emotions and balance/imbalance symptoms, and suggestions for self-treatment.

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Coming up at EA!

I’m so glad that you got to meet Saed today in class and hear directly from him a bit about his practice, Dancing the Political. I am so honored to host Saed for this offering and feel that it will be an extremely powerful practice to engage with through the astrology that is situated within: Mercury’s retrograde form Sagittarius back to Scorpio, and a grand water trine stimulated by the inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars) contacting Jupiter in Cancer (stationing retrograde during the series) and Saturn and Neptune in Pisces (both are stationing direct during this series).  If you are interested in deepening your practice around embodiment, awareness, intuition, and communication, particularly in regards to more intense social and political points of focus, I hope you will join us.

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Outside of class:

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Studies in Balance - Equinox/Libra Season practice

[ chat transcript ]

00:05:48 agustine zegers: good morning <3
00:05:55 Jessica: Good morning
00:06:01 prudence: happy equinox <3
00:09:44 Asp: Orchard fruit is rotting… the frost is creeping in… the thawing during the peak moments of sunlight feel extra special
00:09:49 Rachel Jonte: Relief…sweetness of putting down some of the baskets of doing
00:09:49 Lovejoy, she / they: Waiting for our "second summer" to move into actual fall temps, will still be reaching 90 degrees F this week. Looking forward to the sun setting earlier. Yes @Haley O going into the inside work.
00:09:56 reg/ pru: lighting fires inside. an elemental healing having contained fire vs wild fires. tired. inner. quiet. hermit.
00:10:01 Sarah (they/she): Preparation planning awareness ….
00:10:12 noor / hasan: preparing to go more internal …. but also eclipse hangover …. 😅
00:10:15 Clara They/Them: I had very vivid dreams in relation to the anoretic degree of Pisces
00:10:33 reg/ pru: Replying to "preparing to go more..."
for reaaaal hung over :s
00:12:13 Elizabeth Morgan: This morning felt like a sudden cooling off. Feeling more tired earlier in the night. Mums are blooming. Smells like rotting leaves. Craving roasted, hot veggies
00:12:26 Rachel Jonte: Also been feeling a contrasting feeling of readinesss…the eclipse portal has felt like a liminal space of stall, eager to feel movement forward, in the slower way but with momentum
00:12:50 fritz: I feel overwhelmed and wanting to change everything -- I've also been having nightmares of scenes / events that I think my ancestors lived thru..
00:13:53 Laïla Breger: So excited about autumn. The smell of leaves, of decay.. the final flowers and fruits.. the focus on the inner… what I eat. Healing. the way connecting to others shifts in these times. More cosy
00:13:56 Asp: The season of scales, seeds & spiders… the winds of libra carrying them to their winter home, below the earth.
00:14:05 Frankie and Isabel: feels like the incoming balance after the eclipse and ready for some Venusian love
00:14:18 Poppy Y: the whole weekend was tiring, confrontational, also had many nightmares, last night I finally felt I was coming through and feel so grateful for Libra’s arrival :)
00:14:35 Sam: Replying to "The season of scales..."
Seeds and spiders! <3
00:16:04 Lovejoy, she / they: Replying to "This morning felt li..."
Especially root veggies and gourds!
00:42:33 Frankie and Isabel: every time I came back to center my legs felt stronger, except for the last time when we closed our eyes - the eyes feel like the legs of the head
00:43:57 camilla buzzai: I only connected 2 mins ago, I saw what you were doing and tried to lift my leg with my eyes closed. I struggled to keep the balance and was trembling, but when I shifted leg, I really fixed the sensation of both feet on the ground and I imagined I was still keeping one foot on the ground while I was lifting it…and felt a huge difference in managing to stay balanced
00:44:00 noor / hasan: I was surprised by how much I was able to balance when trying to fall out/moving around so much.
I noticed with eyes closed, I had to divert my attention much more expansively, to my breath, to steadying the ground leg, to using arms - a lot more environmental support outside of the central column also.
00:44:51 Lovejoy, she / they: I was trained as a classical ballerina, so I could not balance if I could not "spot" or lock into a place to look
00:44:53 Allyson, all pronouns: the tops of my feet are itchy now.
00:44:57 Kae Loah they/ she: When my eyes were closed I could feel my body pulling itself towards the non-balancing leg. I really struggled to guide my body towards a balance between the two sides.
00:45:01 fritz: it was funny how whenever I was trying to fall out of balance by getting my leg involved, it actually counteracted the top half of my body so it was harder to fall out of it. closing the eyes I had to just laugh because damn it felt like I was on another planet all of a sudden
00:47:23 Allyson, all pronouns: so many things need to work together
00:52:04 fritz: another projection tendency I've noticed is that even if im not necessarily like that person rn… i'm scared of being or becoming like this person and even the potency of that fear is enough to cultivate deeeeeep judgement
01:04:17 Alisha: https://www.embodiedastrology.com/drop-in-workshops/p/oct-19-dancing-the-political
01:05:29 Rachel Jonte: Love the insight around stretching ourselves out of bounds being beneficial for stability. 🤯😍
01:07:39 Allyson, all pronouns: Palestine is loved! <3
01:07:43 iPhone: Beautiful ❤️🇵🇸
01:07:57 Sarah (they/she): ☮️
01:08:33 Kae Loah they/ she: What a generous offering 🍉💜🍉
01:38:20 Sarah (they/she): That was awesome
01:38:32 Jen Murray, High Vibe Healing Collective: Can you share the times for each of the meridians?
01:38:45 Poppy Y: thank you!
01:38:50 nikki: That was fantastic. Thank you!
01:38:51 Allyson, all pronouns: thank you!
01:38:55 Kae Loah they/ she: Thanks ren and everyone!
01:38:57 Sarah (they/she): Is this a qi gong practice? Any resources to learn more about it?
01:39:08 madhvi (they//them): thank you for this sweet venusian gift <3
01:39:14 Haley O: Thank you for this wonderful practice and space holding and invitations for reflection!
01:39:19 Elizabeth Morgan: Wow thats a daily practice I can dive into 😌 so centered. thank you !
01:40:20 iPhone: Thank you Renee! Thank you Saed ❤️
01:40:28 Sifen (they/them): Thank you Ren looking forward to start doing this as a daily ritual 🥰
01:40:47 Jen Murray, High Vibe Healing Collective: Thank you~beautiful practice
01:41:55 CR Stocks-Rankin (she/her): Beautiful practice today Ren - thank you <3
01:42:40 Clara They/Them: If your poop floats I’ve learned that your Gallbladder needs love 🙈🙊
01:44:54 Sarah (they/she): Felt really good
01:45:25 fritz: yeah that was great .. wondering if folks would want to start a meridian group where we start practicing the tracing together?
01:45:36 Sarah (they/she): “Care is in your own hands” XOXO
01:45:47 camilla buzzai: Replying to "yeah that was great ..."
Like this
01:45:52 Elizabeth Morgan: Replying to "yeah that was great ..."
Yes
01:46:18 Jen Murray, High Vibe Healing Collective: Replying to "yeah that was great ..."
Love this idea…
01:46:20 Sarah (they/she): Im in fritz!
01:46:36 fritz: Replying to "yeah that was great ..."
ok i'll make a post in the community board! <3
01:46:47 Elizabeth Morgan: Thank you so much!!!
01:46:49 nikki: Thank you Saed!