It is possible to be really upset and to do nothing.
To sit on it.
To go back to sleep. For one hour, two hours, three, hours. Half a day. Until KNOWLEDGE. (Sleep is a metaphor here. Or not.)
In personal training/fitness circles they talk about exhausting a muscle until failure. You lift that weight until you no longer can, rather than planning a certain number of repetitions.
I want to suggest that some of you try something similar with your emotional life alongside the coming FULL MOON ECLIPSE IN ARIES.
Do nothing. Say nothing. Tell no one.
But not until exhaustion. Instead, until knowledge.
And the only way you reach this knowledge is by being quiet, going within, as long as it takes.
THE HERMIT. Mars is in Virgo now.
See the pot? Do not stir it. Not even your own. STOP.
A friend gave me this timely advice the other day and I’m trying it out. I think she’s on to something.
Now, this may only work if you’re the type to… NOT hold it in—
If you are the type to emote and expel. Exorcist style.
It’s an exercise in patience. An exercise in trust. That what you need to know shows up. That you have a core stability (and solution center) of feeling, being, and and action beneath the ferris wheel of emotional possibility, disappointment, and rage.
And that, my friends, is my Full Moon Eclipse intention.
Love, MP
P.S. Advice for people who tend to repress and hold in the truth, keeping it from themselves and others, supposedly to “keep the peace” and other lower vibration Libra machinations? Well, time to tell Libra to fuck off and GO ARIES on it. LET IT OUT. Be selfish. Be honest. Be above board. Be BRAVE. Break down to break through. Everyone will be grateful that you’ve finally admitted what we’ve known all along.
10 thoughts on “Help For The Emotionally Intense As The Eclipse Approacheth”
“If you are the type to emote and expel. Exorcist style.”
Yup. I didn’t talk about stuff till the day was over, but I didn’t really keep it inside. One thing I learned from high vibration Libra is my emoting and expelling tends to torture others
Or maybe they are just shallow and weak. And your emoting and expelling is perfect. But perhaps not for them!
I have been trying to do just this. It’s what I’ve done my whole life, but I’m not getting any answers – at least, as far as I can tell. I used to be good at keeping things to myself, but not anymore – it is difficult.
Your PS was EVERYTHING (that is definitely me)
Also, congrats your wedding!! 🙂 To surprising, silly, deeply nourishing, fun love. Which is exactly what yours feels like from your posts.
Thank you, Idalia xoxo
Fabulous advice. Thank you! I am one of the emotionally intense (Sun Pluto conjunct) and nearly always find it difficult to sit in my own stew. The “tell no one” advice is particularly difficult to follow! But I get it.
Ending a brief (although multiple lifetime) affair with a Libra, who needs also to do as prescribed: go Aries and let it out!
Your intuition is off the charts in the past few posts. I know you’re speaking to the collective. And it’s just what we need to hear.
Pema Chodron’s mailing today —- I think i’m getting the message. All blessings
October 16, 2013
HOW TO SIMMER
Not acting on our habitual patterns is only the first step toward not harming others or ourselves. The transformative process begins at a deeper level when we contact the rawness we’re left with whenever we refrain. As a way of working with our aggressive tendencies, Dzigar Kongtrül teaches the nonviolent practice of simmering. He says that rather than “boil in our aggression like a piece of meat cooking in a soup,” we simmer in it. We allow ourselves to wait, to sit patiently with the urge to act or speak in our usual ways and feel the full force of that urge without turning away or giving in. Neither repressing nor rejecting, we stay in the middle between the two extremes, in the middle between yes and no, right and wrong, true and false. This is the journey of developing a kindhearted and courageous tolerance for our pain.
hahaha that p.s is totally for me….
Great blog. Thanks, Aliza.