Stillness 7-3: Tomorrow night we’re going to experience the third (and final) eclipse of this intense eclipse season. It’s a full moon lunar eclipse, in the serious constellation of the sea-goat Capricorn. Before any eclipse, it’s a good time to be calm. Don’t try to plan, or change your life dramatically, much less to have a show-down with someone. Don’t insist on something or decide on anything. It’s a good time to feel a summertime mode of quiet and tranquility. Listen to passionately sweet birdsong. Feel firm as a rock and yet soft as water falling and splashing. Be like a jaguar dozing by the quiet pool in the heart of the jungle. Feel a lush hush—the power of steamy stillness. Let an inner strength grow from inside you, like steam. You may not be able to see through it, but you can sense it.
Feel the darkness descending, the mysteriousness you experience when you grow so consciously aware of being a tiny aspect of a vast outer space. Eclipses do that to us. The awed feeling doesn’t have to be terror—equally intense can be your fierce serenity and calm. It’s not that you have to brace yourself, it’s that you have to let it go by.