Inner Changes at the Inner Equinox
Published: Thu, 09/22/11
September 22, 2011
How does your path of self-development change with the Equinox?
The Solstices and the Equinoxes are turning points for the work of self-knowledge. The Inner Year is a cosmic organizing and nurturing principle for your inner life just as Nature's Year organizes and nurtures life on Earth.
If you think of your Higher Self as your Inner Sun organizing the process and nurturing the progress of your inner development, you will want to follow its seasonal directions in your attention to finding yourself, knowing yourself, becoming yourself. For a brief imagination of the Inner Year,go here.
For your inner development, spiritual and moral, Autumn is the time of the cosmic inner year when your Inner Sun directs your focus to your relationship to your moral development.
- First, in October, it directs you to the counter forces or challengers and the need to understand evil and what lives in the darkness of earthly existence.
- Then in November, you are asked to engage more consciously with spiritual beings - those invisible companions guiding and supporting our lives.
- Finally, in the last month of the year, December, you review your Inner Year and examine your own growth and fulfillment.
Inner Autumn begins in the shadows of your self-awareness, where you find the challengers that distort your development. These challengers grow their strength in darkness. This is why, counter to the diminishing light of Autumn in Nature, your Inner Sun glows with more light following the Equinox, illuminating the darkness and your hidden challengers, allowing you to call their names, contain and limit their power, and develop your inner courage.
Your Inner Sun sits at the horizon of your consciousness. Only your inner work can move it above the horizon so it can enlighten and empower your sense of self and form the right relationship to spirit and matter.
As you contemplate on your Inner Equinox, take heart, and look into the shadows and encounter the challengers. You might want to post your thoughts to share with others on the Inner Year blog. Click here.
Inner Autumn
Confronting Your Challengers
To support your spiritual and moral development over the course of your Inner Year, I offer autumnal wisdom in the webinar "Confronting Your Challengers." This webinar takes a practical and personal look at evil in our daily lives.
The
maturity of the soul is not its ability to avoid evil, but its ability
to confront evil - to face those beings and forces that challenge the
meaning, the authenticity and the well-being of ourselves and our
relationships in the present, and our ability to evolve into the future
and nurture the world.
How different would your life be if you had a clear concept of evil and its challenges to your thinking, your feeling, your will to act?
This is not a preaching about sin and damnation. Quite the contrary, it is an illuminating education about all the things that thwart, distort, threaten and overwhelm you sense of selfhood.
The first and most important step in winning any battle is to understand your enemy. This webinar guides you to this invaluable understanding.
To learn about this course, the content, the benefits and the logistics, click here.
FYI: My personal changes. I have moved to Chapel Hill, NC after 36 years in New Jersey. 26 of my 36 NJ years were spent in Princeton, so I feel very much at home in another academic community. If you live in the area, please send me an email.
FYI: My personal changes. I have moved to Chapel Hill, NC after 36 years in New Jersey. 26 of my 36 NJ years were spent in Princeton, so I feel very much at home in another academic community. If you live in the area, please send me an email.
Please let me here from you. Share your questions, your process, your surprises. Please post your comments on the blog. http://www.theinneryear.blogspot.com
Can I Listen ?
Are you living with questions about who you are and
what you should be doing? Do you seek to find what meaning lives in
your sorrows, struggles and suffering? Do you wonder how to develop a
new relationship to your life so far that opens up desirable
possibilities for your life to come?
You may want to
give yourself the gift of personal coaching or counseling. A good
counselor will provide the elements of warmth, containment,
encouragement and creative review and reflection. Each of us needs a
rhythm of sacred conversation centered on our own path of
self-development. If you would like to have sacred conversation with me, please email. Contact me.
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UPCOMING INNER AUTUMN - BEING HUMAN PROGRAM
ENCOUNTERS - PART ONE
Confronting Your Challengers
Thursdays 8 - 9PM Eastern, September 29, October 6, 13, 20
Sundays, 4-5PM Eastern, October 2, 9, 16, 23
$47
Register here.