Blog Post – 27 March 2018

There has been much written by many on the power of “forgiveness”.  For many of us it can be a long, emotional and difficult road to get to this state of awareness.  We know that we will feel so much better, and that we can move ahead with much more energy and peace when we do forgive, but still we hold on to the need for vengeance, justice, validation and fairness.  We cannot change the past, yet we hold on to it in the belief, that if we can just get our heads around it, understand it and intellectualise it enough, it will feel different too us… but it never does.
There is however, a magical stepping stone that we can use that will really help us to move in that direction, and that is known as “acceptance”.
When something comes up from your past that you have not forgiven and so it is still creating negative feelings within you, that hurt you, make you feel less than perfect and that you cannot seem to rationalise, just say to yourself “I accept”.   When you do this you create an energetic space around you, that stops you in your tracks and allows you to just “be” in the now.  By accepting that past situation or event, you are not saying it was fair or just, you are certainly not letting that person off the hook, and neither are you minimalising in any way what you have experienced.   You are instead giving yourself permission to be free of the hurt and suffering, and you are giving yourself peace and healing to move forward towards forgiveness.
There is nothing you can do to change the past, it is done.  And so does it not make sense to just simply accept what has gone before, understand what it has taught you, and forgive it all?  YOU are the only one suffering from the hurts of your past, and you don’t deserve to put yourself through that experience over and over again by not being able to accept and forgive it.  Give yourself a break – you are here to be happy not to allow yourself to be stuck and frozen in time due to an event that you are still giving power too long after it has gone.
If forgiveness is the final frontier, then acceptance is the guiding light that takes you there.
On Easter Sunday we have a Full Moon in Libra.  Libran energy is the energy of relationships and as this is the Year of the Sacred Relationship, the timing could not be better for this lunar gift to us.  All relationships will  be under the microscope with this Full Moon.  Retrograde Jupiter in Scorpio, at this time is also encouraging us to go deeper and deeper into our personal feelings to understand what our emotions are telling us, and Retrograde Mercury in Aries is asking us to re-examine our use of personal power and passion.  The combination of these energies can really help you to find your balance in life, and so allow whatever this Full Moon energy brings up for you, to help you to see where you are out of balance and where you struggle to maintain harmony in your life.
Full Moons are a time for release and letting go and so at this powerful first Full Moon of the astrological year, look to where you can clean up and therefore balance out your life.  Pay particular attention to the old wounds of the past and surrender these to the cleansing and healing energy of the cosmos.  Accept everything for what it has taught you, and for the person is has made you today, forgive yourself and all others involved and let the beautiful lunar energy of this Libran Full Moon exonerate, bless and uplift you to a lighter, brighter and happier existence.  Blessings xox