😬 Navigating our global 🌚 Dark Night & how to reach our new dawning 🌝

Welcome to Autumn! Yesterday we enjoyed a particularly potent Fall Equinox, a point of equal balance between dark and light, and couched between two intense eclipses.

🍂 🍁 Check out this complete guide to the Equinox and the crystals, rituals and magic to use to keep building its energies in your life and manifestations.

In today’s issue, we’re going to delve a bit into how to navigate the collective energies that are massively shaking up this season.

Perhaps you’ve felt the intensity seeping into those cozy fall vibes. Change is afoot. And ironically, at this time when our planet rests briefly in a perfect balance of polarities between the dark and the light…

Many are feeling a sea of intense energies cast new light and new shadows on our lives and inner landscapes.

Know that it’s okay. Even when things do not seem okay… it’s okay.

Embrace the nudges for what wants to change. Honor the cravings for balance, too. We are in paradoxical times.

HOW TO DREAMWALK THE COLLECTIVE AWAKENING 🌗👣🌟

Like any good movie or story, the hero’s journey toward that happy ending must eventually escalate to crisis and breakthrough before settling on the golden road into that bright new dawn.

The Divine tells us that collective awakening IS happening. 👁️

And it’s escalating and speeding up. With it, however, are all the negative forces and old energies that must get shaken up, broken apart, and released so that collective consciousness can rise.

How to navigate the collective upset and surf those waves with ease and grace?

TO ACTIVATE THIS POWER: Consider dreamwalking the collective unconsciousness to assist what must become conscious - for you and for us all. Jungian psychologists have their approaches to dreamwalking.

🧙‍♀️ Here is how witches do it.

And this Tibetan monk discusses how to use lucid dreaming to navigate between realities.

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HOW TO USE YOUR FIVE EVERYDAY SENSES FOR TRANSCENDENT EXPERIENCES

Unlocking altered states or spiritual experiences doesn’t always require a sixth sense. Being here now, in the present moment, and truly opening to your normal five senses… can send you down that rabbit hole, Alice. 🐇

TO ACTIVATE SENSE AS POWER: Try these options…

SMELL: Aromatic use of essential oils (aromatherapy) can alter your mood and consciousness via their effects on your nervous system.

👉 These scents are perfect for assisting psychic or transcendent experiences.

SOUND: The rhythmic pulse of a drum or the gentle hum of a Tibetan singing bowl can synchronize your brainwaves, and are traditionally used by tibetan and shamanic masters to achieve altered states and divine messages.

👉 This shamanic breathwork video with tribal drums can help you enter an altered state.

TASTE: Mindful eating can transport you into altered states. Explore eating for pleasure and joy, 🐀 Ratatouille style! Certain botanicals, herbs and ingredients can also directly alter your consciousness, like aphrodisiacs.

👉 Plus, the best foods to alter your state of consciousness.

WHY IT’S DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN 🌑🌅

Most people are interested in spiritual awakening for two reasons: 1) mystical experiences and 2) a sense of peace in a world rife with anxiety.

Yet, if you’ve been on the spiritual path for more than a minute, you’ve likely discovered that to reach that dawning of magic and peace… first you have to weather the night - the infamous "Dark Night of the Soul." 🌚

This phase, marked by confusion, despair, and disconnection, can feel like the opposite of enlightenment.

Yet, it’s often what actually gets us there. In a world where ‘normal and sane’ includes epidemic levels of anxiety and violence, waking up to a better way can feel like going crazy.

And if you’ve been on the spiritual path for a long time, it can get exhausting. Why is the night so long? Why are the dawnings so brief? How often are you going to have to revisit the same devastating feelings and memories you were so certain you already healed?

There are no easy answers. As the Mandalorians often say, “This is the way.”

But, perhaps, acceptance is power.

TO ACTIVATE THIS POWER: Whether you are in the midst of a full-blown Dark Night of the Soul, or you’re hitting a downward turn on the spiraling path of spiritual growth, your greatest power is your awareness and how you apply it.

IDENTIFY, ACCEPT, EMBRACE & THEN LET IT GO: A GUIDE

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GLOBAL DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL? 🌑

2024 has been a transformative year for the collective. While many can feel the positive realities coming in from the Light and the Divine… it can be hard to hold faith when we are pummeled with appearances that look dark, frustrating and scary.

Please remember that any dark energies that oppose our joy, light, evolution and awakening MUST use our own consciousness and focus against us. We are the ones who hold the power.

And so the more we invest that consciousness in anxiety, worry, negativity and belief in the apocalyptic narratives, media and appearances out there… the more we are supporting the very things we do not want.

They cannot come to pass without majority consent by humanity. Right now our majority consent is on the side of Light, awakening and divine healing. Let’s keep it that way. :)

To help: See how you, and each of us, can tackle this global Dark Night of the Soul for ourselves - to stay in faith and alignment with the Light.

Spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle, discusses how any Dark Night of the Soul can be an opportunity for spiritual awakening.

There is also a new dawning…

Soon, our global Dark Night will break into a new dawn…

WATCH THIS INSPIRING VIDEO ABOUT HOW OUR GLOBAL DARK NIGHT IS BREAKING INTO A NEW DAWN - BY PHARRELL + MUMFORD & SONS