Turmeric is a spice that warms deeply and has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Known for its intense orange-yellow colour, turmeric has played an important role in many traditional cultures for thousands of years and is highly valued in the practice of Ayurveda. The true value of this medicinal root is only beginning to be understood in the West, thanks to new research that reveals the depth of its healing powers.

The Autumn Equinox is the date that marks the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. Called Mabon in the Wiccan tradition or Alban Elfed in the Celtic/Druidic tradition, its name means Water Light. The Autumn Equinox is the signature of a period of fulfilment during which the Sun begins to fade, it is the end of the reign of Light. The wise man collects the crops that will allow him to cross the coming winter.
The 2021 Autumn Equinox follows by just a few hours the Full Moon of the month, which multiplies the energy of the first as well as the energy of the second. (I invite you to also read the article on the Full Moon of 21st September.) As the Aquarius Era began astrologically at the Winter Solstice 2020, the whole of Humanity has entered - with more or less awareness depending on the personal inner work of each - in the new paradigm, which will require long years of transition in order to set up and - perhaps - achieve a complete overhaul of society and its way of functioning.
This 2021 Autumn Equinox therefore proposes us to definitively leave the collective hypnosis charged and nourished by fears and constraints in order to free our freedom by agreeing to leave the sacrificial pattern transmitted by the model of Christ who died to save Humanity. The Aquarius Era reveals to us the mystery hitherto hidden: Humanity - composed of billions of individuals - will be saved if each individual saves himself by becoming autonomous and fully assuming responsibility for each of his acts.
Those who are already on a spiritual path have intimately understood that the Heart is at the centre of everything and that the Heart is the expression of Love. But while the Pisces Era had transmitted to us that Love is only possible by sacrificing oneself, by forgetting oneself, the Aquarius Era teaches us that Love is only true if it is free, without hindrances, without blackmail, without pressure, without expectations.
I wish you an aware and happy 2021 Autumn Equinox.

A Full Moon in the sign of Pisces. A moon that is full just a few hours before the Autumn Equinox. The energy which is working now started at the Winter Solstice 2020 continues and we have one quarter left before making a first assessment of the individual positioning that everyone chooses to adopt in consciousness to address the new paradigm that Humanity is beginning. (I invite you to also read the article on the Autumn Equinox.)
Spotlight on the energy of the sign of Pisces in this Full Moon of September. As Pisces are a sign of Water, they speak to us in the positive of Universal Love, while in the negative, they reveal to us how capable we are of drowning ourselves, of forgetting ourselves, of covering our faces in this same Universal Love. It is then a question of self-sacrifice, of fusion with the Other, of total loss of autonomy and individual responsibility.
During this lunation which is in the perfect continuity of the New Moon of 7th September, Mars - planet of the Masculine - is in Libra - feminine sign, while Venus - planet of the Feminine - is in Scorpio - masculine AND plutonian sign. Mars - lord of war - is therefore invited here to experience gentleness and harmony at the service of peace. In the same time Venus - lady of love - is encouraged to explore with implacable logic the depths of mysteries, of hell, of darkness that is revealed only to seekers of truths.
This Full Moon - added by the Autumn Equinox - offers us to seize the key that opens the door to the transmutation of our personal Pisces energy: how will each one renew his mystical emotional energy by coming out of the sacrificial energy initiated and conveyed for 2,000 years by the Pisces Era? In other words: how will each one free his freedom and repair his broken heart in order to be able to love and love himself in all intelligence? Because if the heart opens, Aquarius Era reminds us that it is also important not to overlook the mind. There is therefore no choice between the two, but rather to unite them as Mars unites while developping its feminine polarity while Venus develops its masculine polarity. This is the emotional axis on which the passage from the Pisces Era to the Aquarius Era takes place.

by Marushka

Autumn equinox will be there soon and I invite you to make a cycle assessment through cards reading. I remind you that the autumn equinox marks the preparation for the period of introspection that will begin in the new Celtic year of November 1st.
I myself made this reading last night with a Tarot as well as with an Oracle. The two readings are interesting and complement each other by refining the interpretation of both.

Take your favorite Tarot or Oracle (or both), mix your cards, take 6 of them blindly and place them. Here are the meanings of each position:
1. what you have harvested since the 1st November 2020,
2. what you can now close (right to the first card),
3. new projects to be sown (covers the first two cards),
4. how to prepare yourself for the introspection that begins (under the first card),
5. what could help you to do this introspection (under the second card),
6. what is the important topic you will be working on during this introspection (covers the last two cards).

This reading sets the tone for the entire upcoming cycle from 22nd September 2021 to 23rd September 2022. We have entered the Aquarius astrological era since the Winter Solstice 2020 and the years we are going through are therefore essential in the changes they bring individually, but also collective/societal.

Good reading

Cinnamon (cinnamomum cassia) is a warming spice that helps reduce body moisture by increasing circulation. An antiseptic and excellent digestive tonic, cinnamon is known to mimic the action of insulin (the body hormone that regulates blood sugar) by stimulating insulin receptors on fat and muscle cells. This action introduces sugar into the blood and cells. As a result, it has been proven that simply adding one gram of cinnamon to the daily diet of people with type 2 diabetes improves blood sugar levels, as well as blood fat, to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

If we are creators of our reality, it is clear that most of the time we unconsciously create, and this lack of knowledge of what we do and the consequences of our actions generates within us the belief that we are a victim of what is external to us.
Everyone will then implement – very unconsciously – a defence strategy in response to what they believe to be an attack. This strategy is an automatism that is implemented not since early childhood, but long before, when the individual develops in the maternal womb. When I tell you that all this is very unconscious! Thus, the individual will repeat this strategy throughout his life until he becomes aware of what is at stake in him and himself.
Because there are few people who naturally practice introspection and the innate taste of self-exploration, most of us need an external event to offer this saving awareness. Sometimes, often even, a single event is insufficient. The individual persists – again always very unconsciously. Then there is another event. Then another one, with a greater intensity than the previous one. This is by no means bad luck. On the contrary! Life simply puts at our disposal the opportunity to take charge of ourselves, to take responsibility for our actions in order to become fully – and in all conscience this time – actor/actress of our reality. I am speaking here of Life not as an external reality to us and I remind you that each of us is Life.
I know a man who has accumulated head trauma until the last one which rather than being fatal to him has definitely opened his eyes. This man understood that the existence he was leading did not correspond in any way to the aspirations that animate him and he made the choice to undertake a work on himself. His life today is very different from the previous one and he tells anyone who wants to listen to him that he finally knows the happiness he had always wanted for himself.
I know an 18-year-old girl who is looking for freedom, but who is so scared of what she wants, that she accumulates destructive behaviours and exhausts her physical health faster than she would like - if she were aware of it - to do so. Today, her condition is getting worse and she runs the risk of never living her dreams. Instead of discovering freedom, she locks herself in her body and takes as a hostage her mother who finds herself powerless to save her child.
I know a middle-aged woman who is unhappy in all the romantic relationships she has known and still knows because she always attracts the same type of abusive, disrespectful man who is unable to engage in a couple’s life. As long as this woman refuses to undertake work on herself, on what drives her, on the avoidance strategy she has put in place, she will never experience the joy of a satisfying, nourishing and fulfilling relationship.
Is there any way to do otherwise? Of course! Fatality exists only for those who indulge – again often unconsciously – in a status of victim. However, if becoming aware is a first step, changing your behaviours to reflect what drives you is a second step. Nature being what it is, any change – because it leads us into the unknown – generates a certain amount of fear. Here again, if we all have the same value, we are not all equal in facing the challenges, because if fear is stimulating for some, it can be blocking for others. In any case, remember that solutions exist and dare to leave your comfort zone at your own pace and in your own way.

The long-awaited moment has finally arrived: HERE AND NOW LET'S TURN THE PAGE!
This is the moment to close the sorting work that began several years ago and accelerated several months ago. Some had undertaken this sorting work into consciousness and welcomed, one step at a time, the revelation of the values that animate them, the recognition of the energies that make them vibrate and the understanding of the need to live in accordance with these values and energies. These people have already chosen the colour they want to paint their existence and they can now rest, because what is happening will not surprise them. For others, those who have followed and still follow - more or less blindly - a choice made and imposed by others, the awakening will be harsh.
For all from today - and for the time of this lunation (28 days) - let's breathe a little bit. The period is waiting and patience, but waiting and patience does not mean suffering and giving up. If we feel tired, let's take the opportunity to rest and recharge our batteries, because whatever choices we have made - in agreement or in disagreement with what motivates us personally - the revelations that will be made at the beginning of October, will force us to act in the continuity of our choices: to stop a relationship, to lose a job, to change places of life, to renounce certain habits because we refuse the vaccine or, conversely, to accept more and more constraints and controls.
Whatever our choices are, in any case, the time has come to assume them. We can’t have everything, we have to be able to lose to win. At the beginning of November, the actions previously taken earlier in the year to address THE shift that humanity is taking, these actions will begin to take shape in the matter, to materialize. Time is no longer to regret, what has been done has been done and we cannot go back on it. The time has come, however, to accept full responsibility for our actions and the impact they have on our personal lives, on society and on the environment. The only question I ask you then on this day of New Moon is: how do you choose to live the time you have left?

Observing the interactions of the beings around me is one of my great passions – and probably also an innate behavior. I find that through quiet, silent observation, with no expectation of results and no cookie-cutter judgment, I gather a myriad of interesting information.
I so observed and learned many years ago, and at my own expense, that the manipulator was seldom the one who boasted about it. Conversely, the manipulator often tends to position himself in the role of the victim, he never assumes responsibility for what happens to him.
I had been thrown into the bath with my spawner (what a nice metaphor, wasn’t it?) who had understood that I was a sensitive child, potentially impressionable and therefore manipulable at will. She had taught me to be wary of everyone except herself. Of course! Naive, I believed in fairy tales in which all mothers acted in the interest of their children, loved them and protected them against everything/all. But life – and my taste for observation and analysis – forced me to see that one of my mother’s favorite behaviors was to do everything in her power to isolate me from the Others and I still remember that sentence how murderous she had one day pronounced: 'You don’t need other people, you have your mom, and that’s good enough for you.' I also remember how she used to denigrate me when we were alone and tell me how mean, lazy and incapable I was, how she made me feel guilty and told me that I was selfish because I thought of myself rather than her, how she sowed in me the fear of the Other to prevent me from going towards him because she would have felt abandoned.
When the time came to build my life, like everyone else, I unconsciously repeated the pattern of the home I had grown up in, and so I – always very unconsciously – chose to couple myself with a man who was acting like my mother. He also tried to cut me off from any personal friendships while he stacked them up. From the very beginning of our relationship, this partner had almost made me believe that I had a psychiatric problem, a mental illness, that I was crazy and that I had to be put on medication. I still remember his little mocking smiles when I came out of my hinges, proving to him – as he said – that he was right: I was completely insane. I also remember his innocent look and the victim’s position he took when we were in public. Then one day, quite early, I was barely in my 20s, I remember that the behaviour of this man had pushed me to make the decision to consult a psychologist. Then another one. Then another one. Again and again... It was a great deal of good for me, because these numerous meetings allowed me to deepen my knowledge of myself, of my way of working, and of human nature.
I have since and over time developed a very special reserve for people who complain all the time and claim to be victims of others or events. As I mentioned earlier, the manipulator is rarely the one who recognizes being one. However, profoundly human or completely naive, I have always found and still find excuses for the manipulators and I claim that they are more to complain than to blame, I want to believe that they don't know what they are doing since for them, in their reality, their behavior is a natural defensive behavior. But even though I'm able to understand, that does not mean that I must accept to undergo these manipulations.
For more than a year now, such a manipulator has been part of my physical environment. By that I mean that this person is not connected to me remotely, through a computer. I had the opportunity to approach this person closely and begin a friendly relationship with him. But one day, under the effect of intense stress, this individual revealed his true face and I immediately cut short any link with him. Today, far, I am watching this person’s manipulative behaviour on his entourage. I admit that I find this fascinating. Incomprehensible, but still fascinating. Fortunately, taking a distance allows us to move away from a danger and thus take another look at it. And when we change our perspective on a person or situation, we then become able to change our behaviour by taking actions that are more suited to our basic security needs.

As difficult as the beginning of my life journey may have been, I am nevertheless grateful to have experienced it. So I thank all the manipulators I met, because thanks to them, I questioned myself and human relations. I also thank all the therapists I met, because thanks to them, I have opened my eyes to myself and to human relationships. Taking a step back from the external events that mark our life and delving into our emotions, wounds and belief system is the only way to stop undergoing your life and become a full actor/actress of it.

If emotions are an integral part of the experience of incarnation and it is therefore futile to try to ignore them, if emotions colour life and make us vibrate, there are other energies, more subtle, that make us vibrate even more.
Emotions are animated by intense energies which no conscious mind, however powerful it is, is capable of containing. In the short, medium or long term and depending on the experience of each, any emotional repression will inevitably cause you to lose the North and you will unconsciously directed the energy  either internally and resulting in the manifestation of an illness (mental or physical) or outwardly and that could harm your relationship to the world.
It is therefore healthy to express one’s emotions in order to prevent them from accumulating and thickening the mental-emotional barrier, because it is the thickening of this barrier which is at the origin of the fanciful interpretations that most of us have of Reality.
An emotion cannot be controlled. An emotion cannot be mastered. An emotion is guided. This is the first and indispensable step if you want to grow the power and efficiency of your rituals.

If you are walking in consciousness on a spiritual path and that path makes you interested in esoteric practices, perhaps you will have surfed on the NET and you found a thousand and one tips on the best shamanic or witch technique you will have to acquire to become a master. I have read and read again that this so-called best technique is to load your ritual with all the emotion that you hold within you.
Know then that this technique only serves to free you from your emotional overflow. This is in itself a good thing, but this is not enough to grow the power and efficiency of your rituals. It is also for this reason that you need to regularly repeat your ritual. Repetition is a way of reprogramming yourself and reprogramming is a fundamental mistake that makes you believe that you need to become someone that you are not. Therefore, any repetition of the ritual will cause you to stagnate in the first step for a duration of which no one can predict the length and this stagnation will generate in you ever more emotions that, rather than elevating you, will keep you in the belief that you are incapable of creating your reality and accessing the Happiness to which you are rightfully entitled.

Then one day, you feel that the time has come to progress. Progress is in the course of things, it is part of evolution and if you agree to follow the natural movement of life which is to make you grow, if you throw overboard all the old beliefs that you believed in and that are still unconsciously conveyed by the mass, you then grow towards consciousness (in the meaning feeling and not the intellectual sense of the term) that you have the creative power that you have most likely heard about, but never really experienced. Here you are approaching the second step of the process which is to contact the energy beyond the emotion and therefore beyond the conscious mind, in a place where duality no longer divides, but is complemented with a single goal: to serve the power and efficiency of the ritual.
Contact this energy beyond emotion has nothing to do with what is commonly called meditation, the purpose of which is to annihilate the ego. Thus even if it is not the one who directs, your ego has a role to play in esoteric practice and in any other spiritual process. Contact this energy beyond emotion is to cross the mental-emotional barrier while using the energy it generates to focus on the intention of your ritual. Here, quantity is not synonymous with quality and therefore, the thinner the mental-emotional barrier is, the more powerful and sharp it is like the tip of an arrow would be. In this case, you understand that it is totally useless to repeat your ritual, a single sharp arrow is enough to reach the center of the target.

Rather than dreaming about what our life would be like in a different world, more peaceful, more equitable, more respectful of each other and the environment, rather than dreaming or hoping, what would happen if we started to embody this dream? To live it every day. To make our lives what we want them to be.
We are all going through a dark period, but where there is the Shadow, however dense it may be, there is also the Light. This Light does not always manifest in the form we expect or know it. And yet, there it is, this famous Light that I prefer to call Consciousness.
Personally, I think we are going through a great time. It may be difficult, but it’s great. It’s great because if we can’t get our lives in order, if we can’t make the decisions that are right for us, that make us move toward more respect for ourselves, even then the outer circumstances bring us before the accomplished fact. There is no need to blame these external circumstances, because we have helped to put them in place and because we therefore have our share of responsibility. This is what I like about the present period: we have a big and magnificent opportunity to carry ourselves individually, to grow, to free ourselves from an external authority that is no longer adapted to the evolution towards which most of us tend.
I see peolple all around me, close and not so close, dangerously dangling on the flood of their powerful emotions. The illusions built up by their lower mental and not resting on any solid foundation are crumbling one after the other. These people are put in front of themselves, lost, helpless, desperately trying to cling to their chimeras. But chimeras can no longer do anything, they don't have the power to keep them afloat as they did for years. In that case, I would advise those people to stop fighting and agree to let themselves go. Once at the bottom, their instinct will push them to stomp on the ground, propelling them to the surface. No one can know in what dimension each one of us will choose to be born, because it belongs to the experience of each one.
There is nothing new in what Humanity is going through today. Life is made up of cycles and we are going through one more. The difference lies in the fact that, thanks to technology, we are more in contact with each other and therefore information circulates faster and easier. But what kind of information? Because if we are more in contact, it's necessary to note that the communication that connects us is often more superficial, less deep; and unconsciously yielding to the powerful energies that stir, anxious information, not passed under the sieve of discernment, do and will certainly do much more ravages.
The truth is in each one of us and the time is right to take a break to immerse yourself. I know that this may seem difficult, if not insurmountable, to some, and I would like to remind these people that there are events over which we have no control, no power. The effects of this August Full Moon are part of these events. Our power lies in the inner position we choose to take to live events. Yes, situations are disappearing, but why worry about the disappearance of what no longer needs to be? It is not the loss of someone or something that causes us to suffer, it's the attachment that we have to that person or object or situation. Some attachments are stronger than others and do not blame us for living them, feeling them or suffering them, let us rejoice rather to be able to enjoy them while they are and when they are no longer, let us rejoice still to have known them, then let us continue on our way and choose – with more awareness this time – to pick up the new opportunities we want to experience.
Peaceful Full Moon to all.