"If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have."
Wow! The last month has just been wild in the energetic realms, and no doubt some of that 'wild' has found its way into each of our lives.The call to return to our wild hearts.
If we haven't realized it by now, a key 'lesson' of our times is that really learning to 'let go, let be', to trust the flow and unfolding of Life, is the essence of navigating perpetual change. That means reconnecting to inner Wisdom, to intuition.
That's a lot easier to do when we're cultivating an open heart, a strong heart connection. I'm not talking about greeting-card, romance-novel, chick-flick 'little love'. I'm talking about the fill-your-heart, overflowing Big Love. The Love that mystics and sages from many traditions say banishes fear. The cultivated Heart that shines with intuitive knowing, connection, empathy, and compassion.
This is the perfect focus for the Pisces Full Moon: a big, shining full moon, reflecting back the brilliance of the sun, and super-powering connection, psychic capacity, intuition, and compassion. (On the toxic side, if you're spiraling that way, it can be addiction (to numb the sensitivity) and unhealthy (or nonexistent) boundaries.)
As strange as it sounds, cultivating a strong, open, Big Love heart takes practice, even though it's so much who we truly are. We live in a culture whose machines are fueled by (and thus cultivate, very effectively) fear, to which the opened heart is a threat because a cultivated heart, flowing the Big Love, is more powerful than we might imagine.
I remember 5 or 6 years ago, receiving a vision of how the power of the heart field worked, and how it radiated outward from us and affected -- or alchemized -- all around us. I didn't, then, have the words for what that meant. And I was just in the midst of a journey from head to heart (a journey that continues, and which I'll share more about in upcoming posts here or in my Sophia's Children blog). But for now...
With more recent research on consciousness and the power of the heart field and 'emotional intelligence', we know and can articulate a lot more.
The electromagnetic field of the heart, for example, is 5000 times more powerful than that of the brain, according to research by Heartmath. 'Heart intelligence' includes a potent magnetizing or alchemy potential, as my own experience has shown me, and also a powerful intuitive and empathic capacity. We see more easily 'through the eyes of the Divine'. Our inspiration and creativity flow more easily. We're more well. And on, and on.
When we're fearful and anxious, we constrict, and tend to 'be in the head', in the past or future -- anywhere but the present, anywhere but the heart. Oh the chatter, the judgments, the fear-inducing 'what ifs'! The mind is pretty good at that; it's been well-trained and is well-maintained by the Fear Machine that makes us good, if somewhat mindless, consumers and drones.
I'm guessing that we're on the planet for a whole lot more than that. You?
When we relax and bring our awareness to our heart center, breathing into it like a gentle bellows stoking the spark to fire, we can easily begin to feel the difference between the fear-full mind and the powerful heart-center. We begin to get an inkling -- we're remembering something we deeply know but have been conditioned into forgetting -- that Love really is the most powerful force.
Don't take my word for it; try it yourself and see, feel and know. Mmmmmm, the Big Love, the open heart. Perfect practice for this Pisces full moon.
Blessings and Lots of Heart-Full Juju,
Jamie
To explore and dive into Heart, the Mystery, and the gifts of the Feminine, join me for the Autumn season of the new Feminine Mojo Mystery School.
Image Credits: creative-commons Heart from Clker; public-domain full moon rising from NASA.