Spring into an Eclipse Season of Renewal

Written by: Amy Lo, Somatic Practitioner

As Winter’s shadow gently sheds, we enter the awakening spring. We can smell it in the air, see it in the trees, and hear it in the songs of awakening animals. Days stretches longer and life blossoms–this is a time of renewal, new beginnings, growth, and deep transformations.

Eclipses happen when the Sun, Moon and Earth fall perfectly into place in
alignment. This alignment occurs every 6 months and always occurs in pairs. A Solar eclipse can only occur during a new moon, while a lunar eclipse can only happen during a full Moon. We have just passed the first set of the eclipse season for this year.

On March 25th, we witnessed the first lunar eclipse of this year. Symbolically, the March full Moon, the first spring full moon, represents renewal, growth and the transition from winter to spring, thus bringing a sense of awakening and rejuvenation in the natural world. Energies around the full Moon are heightened, such as how tides are affected. Eclipse seasons are a powerful time for transformation, introspection, and change.

This is the perfect time to set an intention to release old habits, patterns, and perspectives that no longer serve you, connecting you to the divine, making room to receive new energies. Due to the potent energy released by an eclipse, emotions (both positive and negative) can be extremely heightened.

Personally, I felt an enormous amount of deep shadow emotions--despair, lack of hope, lack of motivation, and a sense of feeling lost, that have been stagnant in my body right before the lunar eclipse happened. With the passing of this last lunar eclipse, I've felt these emotions passing through. I didn’t realize what was happening and it wasn’t until with each passing day of the full moon, that I started to regain clarity, energy, and power to be able to move forward. Since then, I’ve felt a strong need to cut ties with what has been sitting stagnant inside of my body, cutting ties with memories of old patterns and ways of being. I realized how powerful the energy of the eclipse was. 

“During a lunar eclipse, the Sun, representing ego and heart, sits opposite the Moon (they are away, but aligned), which represents emotions and desires, putting them at odds with one another. The March eclipse is about reflecting on your personal struggles and relationships ahead of your chance to take decisive and direct action during the solar eclipse in April.” 

“During a solar eclipse, the Sun (ego and heart) aligns perfectly with the Moon (emotions and desires), fusing their energy. It's a time to summon courage even in the face of doubt.”

It may seem like these eclipses stirs up a lot of craziness, but it is not all
negative. Oftentimes, they help bring us back to our destined path when we veer too far off course. They help us to connect back to the divine, fulfilling our true purpose and destiny.

“The emotional journey embarked during the lunar eclipse in March, will pave the way for the action you take during the solar eclipse in April. So, embrace the shifts and trust in the cosmic flow.”

In recent years, I started exploring and practicing healing modalities that require both movement and stillness within myself. Somatic and movement-based healing help bring attention and awareness to our bodies. Trauma and stress are held in the physical body--this means that. no matter how much thinking or self-talk is done, our bodies require physical somatic connection in order to regulate and become soothed. On the other hand, I practice Vipassana Meditation for the stillness that my body needs. It is a body scanning approach meditation, that asks us to be aware and observe the sensations we are experiencing, acknowledge them, and let them go, practicing non-attachment and non-reaction.

Both of these 2 types of practice—moving our bodies and allowing our bodies to be still, provides immense healing. I feel with each passing year, I’ve started to gain even more self-awareness, and conscious connection between my mind and my body. I would have never noticed my emotions or made the connections of what was happening in the past because of how out of tune I was within myself. Things are always happening inside us, seen and unseen. The answers we look for come so naturally and effortlessly when we are in deep connection with ourselves.

If you feel resonated with this and want to learn how to feel and connect deeper with yourself, I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to join me for two somatic release sessions in April. We will connect with our body, allowing our bodies' own natural movement to guide, discover and transform with music & sound. Allowing ourselves to use our senses and feel all those deeply tucked away emotions; holding space and allowing them to be present, then letting it go so it no longer weighs us down.

Please join me on April 23rd and April 30th at 5:30 pm on Zoom for A+Somatic Flow. 
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With Mettā,
Amy Lo

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