Nurse your Spirit

Rev. Lori Daniell., R.N., M.Div., Ph.D., Certified Practitioner, Reiki Master Teacher, is the founder of Nurse Your Spirit, LLC
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To nurse is to care, to protect, to nurture; it is a lunar word. This verb belongs to the domain of the Moon and this luminary invites us to 'feel' our protecting, caring, and maternal instincts. It is imperative that we all set out intentions to 'nurse our spirits' during 2011. Allow me to elaborate, in astrological terms, the reason why we need to be re-minded to nurse our spirits so that we can keep our energies balanced.

As the expansive and benefic energy of Jupiter enters fiery Aries on Saturday, January 22,2011, we'll all feel that our pioneer archetype is activated. We'll feel motivated to enjoy the freedom of our spirit. The spirit is the spark of the divine that decided to separate from the whole and spiral down to experience life as human being. The spirit needs to be cared, protected, and it needs to receive the proper nourishment so that the four bodies, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual find their center.

Jupiter enters pioneer Aries on Saturn's day. The earthy energy of karmic Saturn teaches us to become more self-disciplined and responsible for our life decisions, Saturn re-minds us to narrow our focus and to consciously make a serious commitment to manifest our heartfelt desires.

Saturn symbolizes "contraction," it teaches us that there are no shortcuts in life. Jupiter, on the other hand, symbolizes "expansion," it teaches us to go beyond and to transcend our Saturnian self-imposed limitations. The balance between these two opposing energies would be the pulsing, the rhythm, the breathing of the universe and our own personal way of breathing life into our bodies.

Let me invite you to take a deep cleansing breath so that you are able to "expand" you unique spirit, and then breath out so that you are able to "conserve" and focus your inner energies on your task at hand, and again in-spire, in and exhale, out......

Prominent Buddhist monk, poet,and pacifist, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote this beautiful poem that reminds us to keep our 'spirit' in present time:

Breathing in, I calm my body and mind.
Breathing out, I smile ;-)
Dwelling in the present moment I know
This is the only moment.

The spiritual warrior in you will be eager to emerge sharing pioneering ideas with the rest of us, please take the time to listen and to 'nurse your spirit.'

~Maru Dana, Ph.D.
Philosopher of Holistic Life Coaching based on Archetypal Astrology~

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