7 practical ways of connecting to Your deepest desires
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung
On December 1, 2021, Neptune, the king of illusions, delusions, highest spiritual ascendance, and dream fulfillment, is moving from the retrograde period to direct motion. What does it mean for you? For the last few months, since June 2021, after Neptune moved retrograde, you might have had strange dreams, or possibly some premonitions that did not make sense at the time. Now get ready to move your subconscious thoughts into consciousness and start changing your desires into reality. If your chart is heavy in Pisces and any Piscean connections (aspects to your natal planets in Pisces, 12 house planets, aspects to 12 house), the reconciliation with your consciousness is not optional. The fate mandates you to look inside yourself and make sense of your hidden aspirations. Do you have to do it? Absolutely not! But then Universe will push you to learn your lessons though painful events - just as a kind and wise parent nudge and pushes the child, who does not want to do homework, to be successful in school. On the other hand, if we do our internal work ourselves, without external interference – then our wise Universe won’t have to force us to improve our lot!
Now, how do we go on this journey of connecting to self? There are quite a few ways of going about it, but here we’ll discuss a few straight -forward ones, so you can start using them right now:
1. It’s a great time to start a practice of meditation – just a few minutes a day of dedicated connection to self creates a compounded effect over time.
2. Incorporate any type of mindfulness practice in your routine. During Neptunian time, one of the most easy and helpful self-guided practices can be connecting with your feelings as follows:
a. Name the feeling
b. Identify how it feels in your body (temperature, texture, colors, etc.)
c. Fully “feel the feeling” by turning into your bodily sensations
d. Stay with these sensations, without pushing them away, for 5 to 10 minutes.
e. Ones you practice step d. several times and feel comfortable with it – try to “increase”, exaggerate the sensations and let them float around you and through you on their own. And observe what happens! Warning: if you have mental illness, high anxiety, or in early stages of addiction recovery, don’t attempt to do part “e” without a supervision of qualified professional psychologist or therapist.
3. Yin yoga or qi gong practice are amazing for connection to self, gathering positive energy, and for releasing of feelings that no longer serve us.
4. It’s a great time to start or re-start Spiritual practice – any religious or spiritual calling is great as long as it truly connects to your soul ‘s desire. I recently felt compelled to re-start and deepen my study of A Course in Miracles.
5. Connect to spiritual literature that aligns with your worldview – or expend your horizons and read something that is outside your comfort zone! My usual goes to are: “The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself” by Michael A. Singer and “Letting Go: The pathway to surrender” by David R. Hawkins. A wonderful research- based study with many helpful exercises is “A Liberated Mind: How to pivot towards what matter” by Steven C. Hays, the father of my personal favorite Acceptance and Commitment therapy.
6. Now is the excellent time to connect to your life path and understand how your subconsciousness can advise you on the best ways to fulfill it. Study your Nodes, Sun and Saturn – I really like “Astrology of the Soul” by Jan Spiller, “Saturn: a new look at an old Devil”, “Astrology of Fate” by Liz Green (absolutely anything by Liz Green is worth reading!), and “Dynamics of the Unconscious” by Liz Green and Howard Sasportas.
The short cut would be to contact your favorite astrologer for a reading – this way you can put the revelations of your subconsciousness into consciousness and then into actions right away!