Connecting with Your Higher Self - A guided meditation for the new moon in Sagittarius

Portrait of the Sagittarius New Moon by Renee

Today’s new moon perfects shortly after 10AM Eastern at 3º Sagittarius. The closest aspect the new moon makes is a trine to Chiron in Aries. 

The Sun and Moon coming together is one way to mark time passing and energy changing. This year’s November new moon is different than last year’s. Use this marker as a reminder to check-in. Life is fleeting and time passes so quickly. At any moment there may be a thousand endings and just as many beginnings. But, this moment is held with celestial rhythm, so let’s attune to its rhythm as ritual. Let’s honor the endings and open to the beginnings. 

When the Moon is dark it holds the symbol of fertility and transformation. The inky black of a night sky unpolluted by city lights is quiet and still at the dark moon – a contrast to the busy vibrance of full lunar illumination – and there is profound potential and deep unknown. This new moon arrives just days after Sagittarius Season begins. Sagittarius Season is one of shifting light and mutable temperament. It’s known to provoke personalities that question big questions, that travel far and wide, and are wild and free. What kind of endings could be inspired now? How might we put to some solid answers to rest and open instead to the unknown? What beginnings could be inspired now? The world is vast and the cosmos is omnipotent (omni: all things, potent: having great power, influence, effect). 

A trine is a flowing, lending aspect. There are no inhibitions or delays. One energy floods into another. The new moon becomes an open portal for Chiron’s eminence to channel through. “The Wounded Healer”, as it’s sometimes called, Chiron is a symbol of ancestral memory and intelligence. It shows us where and how we inherited pain patterns from our families, cultures, and any origins that sought survival at the cost of spirit. It wakes us up to the ways we’ve internalized self-negation, and how now we perpetuate suffering, inside and outside of our own skin. This energy illuminates the cracks and fissures in our psyches, leading us down and in to the trace memories of where it all began. Through Chiron’s tutelage, we learn to recognize the roots of our pain and distress. We learn to forgive ourselves and accept our limitations. We learn how to integrate our sore spots so that they become sources of strength and solace for others and the world around.

This new moon calls us to connect with the perspective of our Higher Selves. What is that? You probably have your own answer (or, I hope you have your own question). I imagine my highest self as my pure energetic vibration, untarnished by ego and free from my body. That means that (as much as I honor my ancestors and Earth-origins) my highest self is unbound by the memories of my flesh. It is infinite and timeless and belongs not to the Earth, but to the creation source of the universe. I feel my highest self as spirit-being that has always been. Unique but also infinitely connected within the subtle and energetic dimensions. It/she/he/they comes into body to learn about certain kinds of experiences and to learn to manifest, meaning, to create form in the material world.

Today I wish to connect with my highest self to gain perspective in my earthly experience. I call upon the symbol of Chiron the Wounded Healer so that I might see where and how to work with memories that have lodged in my body as fear, resistance, mistrust. I call upon the luminaries to help me see beyond the limits of my sight and reflect into the chasm of mystery. I call upon my highest self to guide me. Help me navigate the space between my spirit and my body. Help me learn to reconcile with my flesh so that I can resonate with my energetic potential more purely. Help me open myself to knowing and may my knowing flow in concert with our knowing as we open together.

What are your wishes and petitions today? Who and what are you calling in? What do you imagine your highest self to be? How do they vibrate? What songs does she sing? What colors does he shimmer? What messages does it offer in guidance for your earthly self today?

My offering for the new moon is a simple guided meditation to connect with our higher selves. It is a suggestion, a creative experiment and imagination request. It may or may not yield profound results. Remember though, the new moon is a time to plant seeds. Seeds are planted in dark soil and grow towards light.

Practice with the meditation here.

Happy new moon and so much love,
R

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