The Moon joins the Sun in an intimate embrace in the sign of Libra in the lunar house of Swati nakshatra, where only a few hours earlier Venus left the Sun to join Jupiter, Mercury In Scorpio forming a union of benefic planets called a Saraswati yoga, bringing infinite blessings to our Diwali new Moon, filling it with shakti and power to go deeper to find our footing.

In the western hemisphere as the days get shorter and the darkness of night is lengthens heralds a time where we can experience confusion, fear and overall malaise. A time of year when the Sun sits in his sign of debilitation the house of Libra delivering with its lesson in the practice self care, boundaries and borders.

The Sun is our strength and vitality and Libra is a sign of compromise the summing up where our resources and strength may have become diminished, where we may have over extended and spent too much time going outside of ourselves creating an imbalance in replenishing our resources.

Swati nakshatra informs the Moon with a lesson of individuality, selfish need to be ourselves a need to define what is our baseline, where we stand, even if we feel uneasy trying to find the stillness, we must find our individuality to stand on our own even in the forces of change and challenge, growing from our own roots.

The cycle of the new Moon reminds and encourages us to ignite our own inner light and life force every single day. As the light returns to us through our devotional practice and with pranayam and exercises/ movement (yoga), the force of life floods light though our entire being, where we become ignited and radiant with dynamic strength, the magnetic force of our being to co create with the Universe calling in what we desire through through our light and using it to guide our own individual way.

As we are in the season of Vata (Wind) energy due to seasonal change and the New Moon’s Nakshatra it leads to a tendency of drying out and spacing out. Contributing even further we are spending more time indoors which leads to increased time spent on our computers which is Vata activating and with the heat turned on it creates and fosters imbalances. 

To support our vitality and functionality nature comes to the rescue and provides us with foods that counter and help balance these energies.  Eat and drink warming, grounding sweet and moistening foods. Eat good oils and use body oils almond, sesame in combination with etheric oils, such are pure sandalwood,  frankincense which are great healers and protectors. Chywanaprash and amala are good to consume now.

Diwali is the victory of light over darkness, which is something to rejoice and have faith in. Actively creating positive internal changes is the best way to begin growing and spreading it externally. On this Diwali New Moon feel blessed and set intentions for increased health, wealth and happiness in your life and the lives of those you love. Cleaning your house and organizing replacing broken items and replacing them with new are good practices. Create your home space as if your were inviting God to live with you everyday.

We are only a few days from Jupiter saying goodbye to Scorpio and just over two months left in this decade don’t wait for change stand in your light and use the energy to make meaningful changes.

The Mantra for the Month is Ang Sung Wahe Guru 

This mantra expresses a universal truth. Repeating it creates a thought, which gradually guides the psyche to adjust itself. It reconnects every fragmented projection of the psyche, each separated part of the body, and synchronises the finite sense of self to the Infinite Oneness. This act of rejoining the separated parts is the quintessential act of healing. Under attack, under war, under the pressures of fear, this mantra keeps us together, conscious, and ready to act. It brings the inner peacefulness that comes only from the touch and scope of spirit.

Try it for 40 days 3-11 minutes a day and see what happens!

Yogi Bhajan said ‘’if you have put God outside of you, there’s nothing in you, and that’s why you’re suffering.”  “You need a reality that Ang Sang Wahe Guru, with every limb, with thirty trillion cells of you which change themselves every seventy-two hours, God is in you.”

embrace the creative power of this river goddess until the banks of your lives are overflowing and spilling with joy.

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The human spirit is strong and light always penetrates the darkness I send you love and luck during the new Moon cycle

Siriprakash