The Waning Bealtaine Window

Astrological Bealtaine was on the 6th or 7th, depending on your part of the world. And so now cross-quarter awakenings bleed into the Solstice approach. Feel into how changing tides blend. These are the high-frequency currents of the week.

Have you ever sat at the edge of the surf? As the waves come in, no matter how tightly fitted your swimmer bottoms, the sand just gets everywhere. Not the cleansing you had hoped for? This week’s energies can be a bit like that. Yes, things are washing away, and it can seem there is always more.

Some of what is shedding can grate like the sand. Some washes away so cleanly that not even its absence is felt. Much is moving. This requires us to be inwardly still, both to prevent further friction and so listen.

How deeply are we listening? Just when we think “But hey, I’m good at this,” life throws us a curve. Didn’t see that coming. But that isn’t true, is it? We always hear the warning, even when we would rather ignore it. Every. Single. Time. How much of our egoic will remains unconsciously aligned with control? We are being shown. What have we refused to see? Why not let seeing or non-seeing go as well?

What have we bought into and for what reason? Truthfully, the reasons and the stories we tell ourselves no longer matter. There is no need to stay in any kind of contraction and stare them down, try to control any kind of integration, or anything at all.

This week can be a deep breath of re-orientation before the Solstice plunge. We can pop our heads up and take a look around. Tomorrow is 9 May in the Western calendar. Buddha’s birthday. Does it matter? Could it be an opportunity to celebrate your own inner light and wisdom? Is there such an opportunity in each and every day?

Where are we choosing to focus, and how is that going? If great, then proceed with joy.

The Solstice wave is gaining momentum. It is about to wash away much of the remaining grit and ‘hospital corners’ of our lives.

Were ‘hospital corners’ ever comfortable? Have they ever brought anyone besides the perfection Nazis, joy?

These waters will carry us if we let them. Enjoy the Solstice prep!