The Solar Eclipse: Truth, Courage, Faith

It’s an important day today, the solar eclipse is a symbol of it. “As above, so below,” the astrologers teach us. You could draw a similar parallel between your internal reality and what you encounter or create in the outside world. Perhaps in the coming weeks I’ll be writing about the insights that this eclipse brings me and I’m hoping my friend, astrology blogger, Hitch will do the same.

But I’m writing this now to share a poem that astrologer Ellen Longo sent me. It’s called The Sun. As I read it and felt my body relax, I realized I always have my stomach clenched, putting pressure on the solar plexuses. Why? Because I’m afraid. Of what? Of telling the truth. Of financial destitution. Of deaths of people who light up my world. Of offending others. Of not being liked. Afraid to be myself.

Truth. Courage. Faith. I want to live with truth, courage and faith and let the chips fall where they will. The poem Ellen sent me touched me very deeply and I want to share it with you:

The Sun by Mary Oliver

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone—
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance—
and have you ever felt for anything

such wild love—
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed—
or have you too
turned from this world—

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

Yes, the sun was eclipsed today. I saw it. But I also knew that its light would return to the world. That everything was all right. And even when things are not all right and never will be, we endure. We live, we work and we tell our stories. When the time comes, we will become one with the Universe again. Till then, how hard can it be to live our lives by looking our fears, our shames, our weakness and our enemies in the eye? Truth is always the better option. Because it heals. I was going to title this post “I am afraid.” But as you can see, I’ve changed my mind.

That’s all for me. If you want to read about the astrology of the eclipse, why not do what I did and head over to Julie Demboski’s blog? Here’s the link: http://juliedemboski.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/15-jan-2010-punch-drunk/

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