Personal
Peace, Collective Awakening
by
Sarah Varcas
This Full Moon could go either way. We may find ourselves mysteriously free of the troubles which have burdened us in recent weeks or increasingly weighed down by them. We may finally see their insignificance in the context of the vast universe or be unable to see around them in the context of our personal lives. This is a Moon of extremes and therefore of extreme possibilities. It could bring liberation from a viewpoint that has kept us imprisoned – mentally, emotionally, spiritually – or it could strengthen those prison bars with a dose of so-called ‘reality’ which tells us that nothing ever changes, life is a struggle and the sooner it’s over the better. It reminds us that personal experience and the collective energetic field are forever entwined and to step out of the former we can embrace the latter with reverence and awe. This Full Moon provides us an opportunity to shift perspective and consequently see things in a very different light.
Aligned with Black Moon Lilith, this Moon speaks of the
need to honour our instincts whilst recognising that to follow them takes time
and planning. If we have spent years building a life that meets egoic demands
for status, security and acceptance but which has little to do with what lies
at our core, merely deciding to change is not enough to make the past go away
and the future manifest here-and-now in a totally different form. We need to
exercise patience and collaborate with the new as it births itself. Many, these
days, are feeling the stifling effects of previous decisions made from a place
of unconsciousness and adaptation. Many live lives which do not feed the spirit
or offer fulfilment but which instead promise an increasingly stressed
existence that fails to honour the inter-connectedness of all things and its attendant
responsibilities and freedoms.
In a world where the distribution of wealth is shockingly
skewed and one part of the globe discards mountains of waste food whilst
another starves, balance is needed and a deeper resonance with the lives of
others must be nurtured. To do this we must begin with ourselves and a
resonance with our own spirit rather than the egoic demands that tend to call
the shots. Once we can recognise when our own lives are out of balance and have
the courage to act as necessary to re-establish it, we can better resonate with
the wider collective field that isn’t all about us as individual identities
fulfilling our dreams and getting whatever we want but which, instead, forms
the one life of which we all share a small part. And the better we can resonate
with that, the better we can relinquish egoic pursuit of personal gain in
favour of a compassionate connection with the myriad life forms on this planet.
There exists an unimaginable amount
of suffering in the world: wars and conflicts continue. Famine and drought,
natural disasters and plain old poverty mar countless lives. We cannot turn a
blind eye to this and judge ‘spiritual progress’ only by how we’re feeling, how
fulfilled weare, whether we are living the life of
our dreams. We must move deeper to see into the very nature of existence and
truly honour the collective unity which circulates through its energetic
arteries. The fruits of awakening ripen within the collective field, shared by
all things throughout the universe and beyond. It is this fact to which this
Full Moon points. The more we can put ego desires in their place, acquaint
ourselves with the nature of a healthy ego and call
ourselves on its unhealthy expression in our own lives, the better able we are
to facilitate the birth of the Aquarian Age which seeks to bring about equality
and justice for all: a global community which does not tolerate famine as a
by-product of greed, the atrocities of war as an acceptable form of conflict
resolution or the destruction of our planet as an unavoidable consequence of
‘economic progress’.
There is yet a long way to go. That millions on this
planet spend their day struggling to feed themselves and their families
inevitably impacts upon the collective potential for awakening into a new age,
and those of us in a position to embrace a path of awakening cannot simply turn
a blind eye to the struggles of others and proclaim unmitigated progress in
this respect. The biggest and most liberating change in our own life can indeed
be breathtaking on a personal level, but collectively it is a drop in the ocean
and we must not allow it to blind us to the plight of those who struggle merely
to survive another day.
This Full Moon may pre-occupy us with our own challenges
to the exclusion of all else, but it also contains within it the potential to
elevate us to view the bigger picture. We have the chance now to recognise the
enormity of the task ahead and the importance of every person who possibly can,
committing to walking it in a state of reverence and humility, recognising that
ultimately it isn’t about you and me and our own little lives, but about the
life of this planet and beyond, realigning it into a state of balance and peace
which can allow all of life to flourish and grow.
Enjoy the Full Moon everyone.
Sarah Varcas
