Illuminating the Shadow: New Moon Solar Eclipse

Greetings Luminaries,

We are days after the solar eclipse and new moon in Aries. The time is ripe with massive opportunity. We have entered a portal of retrospection, introspection, and visioning. Days before the eclipse on the 29th, I felt the need to regroup and assess. I had this feeling of completion and that I needed to take an honest look and get clear about where I was and where I was going. I’ve been doing just that. Taking a deep look at where I’ve been, what mindset and behavioral patterns led me here and where do I want to be. This is the energy of this new moon. It is initiating us into a new paradigm of how we want to show up in the world, and how we want to relate to others.

Questions bubbling up right now are what do you most value right now? What do you want to cultivate? I implore you to answer the call. Get crystal clear about your intentions and as Melanie Beckler says, surrender to the divine flow of possibility for your life.” Just sit with that for a moment.

An eclipsed new moon is a super-charged new beginning, so expect the unexpected and be open, adaptable, fluid, and flexible. Really allow yourself to be divinely guided. Slow down and listen. Get out in nature and listen, truly listen to your powerful heart and to the wisdom of your effervescent soul.

Another major theme of this eclipse season is stepping away from the persona of Aries that modern culture promotes. This obsession with competitiveness, individuality, being the best, constantly striving, never failing, and exceptionalism. Now is the time to move away from patterns that no longer serve and come home to ourselves so we may connect to our center, and bring in more life and creativity.

When we illuminate the shadow and allow the radiant truth of where we truly are at, we can begin to answer important questions like; where am I out of alignment and not living my full potential? Where is growth needed and what tools and resources are required in order to grow? Having the courage to step into the imagination space and hold a vision for your life is truly powerful and transcendental. All that vision space holding and processing needs a lot of integration time. Allow yourself space and grace.

Divina Elvene,

The Stellar Mystic

Bubbling Up From The Deep Down

Greetings my Lovelies,

we are in the new moon energy of Leo. The moon enters the sign of Leo on August 4th. When I think about Leo energy, I think about the heart and what it wants, and what it needs. So, I ask you, are you listening to your heart? What is it saying? What is it asking you to do or not do? Are you letting it lead? Is it heavy or is it light as a feather?

Presently, my heart is full. My cup runneth over. I am still in the flow of the 2nd Annual Aje & Olokun Festival held on Ay Ay, St.Croix, Virgin Islands of the United States. This festival is the love of dynamic duo Iya Omisegun and Baba Kolade of Idinleke Temple Atlanta. There are no words to describe the authentic community, family, love, and healing that encapsulates the gathering of souls to honor the Spirit of the Ocean, King/Queen of Waters, and the Orisha of Wealth. The festival takes place during the last week of July. If you would like to know more please visit www.idinlekeatl.org. To be fulfilled. To have that feeling of being content, whole, and complete right here, right now, is a feeling like no other. It is my prayer and wish that every human know it.

The heart is an electrical organ, producing the strongest source of rhythmic bio-electricity. This energy goes to every cell in your body. Your heart produces enough electrical energy to create a magnetic field surrounding your body 360 degrees beyond the skin, out into space measurable about 3 ft. outside your body. When the heart, brain, body communication is working we can enter a state of being in sync with ourselves.

Coherence is the cooperative alignment of the heart, mind, and emotions. It is what we as human beings need to maintain optimal health. When we are in a high coherent state all the major body systems are synchronized to an ordered rhythmic beating pattern of the heart. Powerful! Coherence is triggered by regenerative uplifting emotions such as love, care, kindness, appreciation, and compassion. An elevated emotion plus a clear intention is the formula of connectivity for creating a new reality.

The new moon in Leo calls us to release outdated identities and old versions of ourselves. It is asking us to let new identities bubble up from within, to give ourselves the grace to explore new skin. Explore, explore, explore. Try new things, different things, or return to things that make your heart sing. Let your courage carry you into your own authentic beingness. Something special is there for you.

The Stellar Mystic

Who is Caring for You?

New Moon in Aquarius

It’s the new moon in Aquarius and well I am feeling fulfilled. Yesterday I spent part of my day creating; singing and dancing to jembe and dunun drums with some of my favorite people, Dembaya. I left there feeling fulfilled and I am still on that frequency. What a wonderful experience of freedom when one feels fulfilled. When you KNOW that you are safe, secure, blessed, supported, heard, and loved. When you are content and don’t need anything else because you have received and are truly grateful. I can feel the energy of the divine active in my life. My cup runneth over.

New moon in Aquarius is all about opening to innovation, new ideas, and new ways of expressing life. This a great opportunity to explore new ways to release trauma, pain, and suppressed or repressed emotions. What has been working for me lately is working with my fascia (connective tissue) by using my mind, hands, and intuition to explore my body by firmly pressing into parts that speak. Once you set your intention and open to the wisdom of your body, it will be easier to comprehend what your body is saying. Our bodies are always communicating with us. Many times we ignore the information we receive or are too busy to stop, pay attention, and listen. You can use your breath to release all that energy that may have been sitting in any part of your body waiting to be expressed and can meet it with tenderness and compassion. It is a beautiful and sacred practice whose benefits are long-lasting and plentiful.

Being in community is on repeat in my prayer rotation. To be surrounded by like-minded, and light-hearted people that value the whole and everyone and everything connected to it is priceless to me. In Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey, she talks about the necessity of community care. Sit with that for a moment. Community care. We hear a lot about self-care but we hardly hear anything about community care. Why is that? There is power in numbers. “We are stronger together than we are alone.” -Walter Payton. As humans, we need connection and physical touch to grow and be strong and healthy. We need each other. I am reminded of the famous Zulu proverb “Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu," which means a person, is a person, through other people. It is here that the Zulu concept of ubuntu originates, I am because you are.

Who is caring for you? Who are you caring for? Who are you in community with? I encourage you to find your tribe if you don’t already have one. Find the people that bring out the best in you. Put out that call and you will receive an answer. When you receive your answer trust what you are receiving and I pray that you move forward with purpose. Until next time, maintain your frequency as you center love, peace, pleasure, joy, and rest.

Shanarae, the Stellar Mystic

Imagination Space

I’m firmly planted in imagination and the beauty of my own liberation. I’m laying down and dreaming.”

Tricia Hersey, Rest is Resistance

I join you too sis. This is my politics of refusal as you say. I choose to rest. I choose me. I choose to be the superhero, the avatar of my own life. The Dreamspace is one of my favorite places to be these days. I can access it anytime, wherever I am in this world. There are no borders, there are no antagonists. I am free. I can create whatever I desire. I can manifest at will without the 3-dimensional lag. In the Dreamspace I am as my creator made me to be; a luminary, a divina, a multi-faceted creatrix. I know in my heart of hearts that intentionally accessing this third space is the medicine we all need. All of humanity. Less time doing and more time being. Instead of exerting so much energy physically working, how about slowing down, and creating an environment for our bodies and minds to rest and recharge so we are aligned to visualize and imagine what is to be manifested?

Everything in the physical world has its origins in the unseen world of energy, a creation in the mind, a thought transmuted into solid matter. If we truly grasped this and applied this practice to our lives, we could improve the experience of life on this planet for all. I invite you to activate your courage to claim the rest that is your birthright. Amazing things can and will happen for you, once you surrender and fully trust. Imagine what it would be like to move through the world fully rested and with a powerful imagination creating the life of your dreams. Imagine!

NuNu, the Stellar Mystic

Womb Phases Queen Bey Style

We are cyclic women. Our bodies hold rhythms, patterns, cycles and circles. We wax and we wane just like the moon. Moon phases, womb phases. One of the keys to understanding our dynamic nature is to grasp the role our hormones play in our feminine ecology.

Menstruation

The uterine lining is released/shed from the body and the pituitary begins making FSH and LH begins to stimulate growth of new follicles (eggs).

Dominant Hormones: Follicle Stimulating Hormone and Luteinizing Hormone

Season: Winter

Moon Phase: New Moon/Shadow Moon

Energy: Inward

General Feeling: Respect my need to rest.

Follicular Phase

One of the follicles becomes dominant and begins to produce more estrogen. The uterine lining thickens and cervical fluid increases.

Dominant Hormones: Estrogen

Season: Spring

Moon Phase: Waxing Moon Phase wihich includes waxing crescent moon, first quarter moon and gibbous.

Energy: Extroverted

General Feeling: I have all these ideas and goals. I’m ready to jump in and get started.

Ovulation

LH surges to trigger the release of an egg. Fertile cervical fluid increases and the cervix is open.

Dominant Hormones: Luteinizing Hormone and Estrogen

Season: Summer

Moon Phase: Full Moon

Energy: High and apexed

General Feeling: I am the Goddess incarnate! I can do anything, achieve anything, be anything!

Luteal Phase

The corpus luteum (shell of the egg that’s released) begins to release progesterone to change the uterine lining. This change makes they body’s temperature higher through the time the period starts. The egg travels down the fallopian tubes.

Dominant Hormones: Progesterone

Season: Autumn/Fall

Moon Phase: Waning Moon Phase which includes third quarter moon, and balsamic moon.

General Feeling: I’m tired.