The full moon beckons me outside, where a light rain makes me grateful for beanie and gumboots as I set off toward the ponies. I can sense the Otherworld so close right now. The moon’s gentle light bathes me with light. Grandfather Healing Bear whispers in my ear, as small black kelpies dance around me and Clea the German Shepherd pads beside me like a gentle wolf. In the dark, a bird flies. It is indeed a time for Listening. This is the time of the eclipses – powerful, transformative, thoroughly exciting and hugely dramatic. There is about a six-week period where, if you use this time and journal, you will notice just how transformed you will become! A Period of Emotional Distress It began with a bang on June 1st, with a partial solar eclipse marked by an intensity of emotional distress unlike I have ever known. I called it a "tsunami of distress". After ten days of helping others, I reset my own boundaries, took the phone off the hook and shut down my email. I … [Read more...]