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We’ve all heard the phrase “don’t hold your breath.”
It’s a cynical jest meant to let the other person know that change isn’t coming anytime soon.
But what if the tone was shifted, so that the phrase came out as a command: “don’t hold your breath.”
As if to say that holding back from change will only make you pass out. And then you’ll truly miss your window of opportunity.
What we’re being given at this Scorpio Lunar Eclipse is a command to exhale.
Release. Shed. Switch gears. It’s not a suggestion. It’s imperative.
Because the more you hold back, the more the coal of resentment, regret and jealousy will smolder.
Exhale onto that pile of old sticks—those things constituting a backlog of pain. Let the wildfire rise higher as you exhale. Fan the flames of catharsis.
The danger now is a game of emotional chicken.
What will happen first: will you starve of oxygen and pass out—or will the coals of anger starve and extinguish first?
That’s why you get out in front of it, like a politician the day before a scandal breaks on social media.
Do the very thing that will feed the beast, bring it to a fever pitch and watch your fear extinguish because you’ve burnt through all the deadwood in a hot instant.
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Fever Pitch
The intensity of tension is the hero’s greatest challenge.
Something’s about to break: will it be him or the dragon?
All timelines are rushing towards a turning point, a penultimate action.
Often, the hero feels pressured because his present is defined as defending the story of his village, family, tradition.
Failure isn’t an option.
And so he strives to extend the NOW, stretch it out, to make sure that success and victory is written in history.
No one wants failure, loss, destruction to be the way things play out.
“The hero slayed the dragon, that was what happened.”
The problem with trying to project that future while dancing in the present is that legacy becomes a trap rather than an inspiring flame in our heart.
We hold our breath in the decisive moment, and the spirit flickers, starved of oxygen.
We’ve pressured ourselves to live up to and continue some legacy.
Breathe onto that legacy, feel the pain of perhaps failing it, losing it, not living up to its standards.
Bring it all to a fever pitch and witness through the alchemy of release how you will ironically carry it through to the end, after all is said and done.
As you feel pressured to defend the very thing that’s about to be taken away, because you’ve glorified and publicized its value to your ego, in front of the eyes of the world…know that there is no failure here, because you’ve now said you are worthy to carry the torch, even if the flame goes out while you’re on watch.
Fires of Forgiveness
Equilibrium returns. You’ve already forgiven yourself before the votes are in.
Win or lose, you say: “I want this. I am worthy of wanting it. I am worthy of having it.”
There is a sense in all this that the MIND IS OUT OF TIME.
In both senses. First, the mind is outside of time during this eclipse. We are looking beyond past, present, future to the beating heart of the individual will, forged in flames and adversity.
Secondly, in the sense that Buddha said (to paraphrase): “The funny thing is, you think you have time to become enlightened. You are already dead.”
Or, as existential philosopher Martin Heidegger said (again, paraphrasing): “Humans are like projectiles thrown into the stream of time.”
In any case, man is at war with time. Who will win? Can he hold his breath and let history expire before him?
We don’t have a lot of space to “figure things out” during this eclipse. They are just happening. History is being written NOW.
There is sound and fury around us, and in the middle of this storm is our willpower.
Gut instinct is raging to take the wheel.
But we cannot ignore the soul. This is not an argument to say, “Well, just fight like hell and hope for the best.”
You need to get right with yourself at this time. And one of the main ways to do that is ask: “What the hell am I fighting for? What flag am I fighting under?”
Because I can almost guarantee, maybe you respect that flag, have sentimental reasons for carrying it around—but will you really be all that disappointed if you don’t live up to it?
Let that flag be rocked by shells, shrapnel and the fires of war. It looks better with a few holes in it.
Tradition be damned, it’s not about virginal perfection from start to finish, it’s a question of beauty.
Do you hide your tatters or make a fashion statement out of your scars and pain?
That’s how you know an experience was yours and no one else’s.
That’s how you live up to your own name and not the name of the flag you fight under.
Pressure status: released.
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