Contributed by Barbara Musser,
Sexy After Cancer
Astrologically we are in a period of lots of action ~ eclipses, full moon, the equinox and Mercury retrograde, to name a few. During the season of eclipses, things can change in big ways, rapidly. If you knew you could wave a magic wand and change something big about your heart and your capacity to love, what would you change? How can you love you more? How can you bring more love to the world?
Our experience of love blossoms from our love relationship with ourselves. How do you love you? Are you madly in love with you? Do you have a crush on you? Do you know how gorgeous and lovable you are? If you aren’t having these experiences, what would it take for you to have them? Maybe, just maybe, it starts with deciding that you do. And then acting as if it’s true. Don’t believe me? I invite you to try it on and see what happens. Let your heart shift completely in the eclipse! And here’s a poem to inspire you.
“And You Shall Love”
do you love yourself?
yes, but
do you love yourself?
not like a poor relation, with an
effort to be kind. being good about it.
do you love yourself
like the most hopeless crush you ever had?
the day you wrote his initials
all over your notebook:
mr. and mrs. glowingly divine?
do you love yourself like
Rumi loved his God?
do you love yourself stumbling
and giddy, burbling visions of wine-drunk
spiritual ecstasies?
do you love yourself
so hard it hurts to breathe,
so true the very thought of losing you
makes you ache and cry?
do you love yourself
with dirty fingernails
and all you’ve got,
hanging on, for dear life?
do you love yourself as you rise up,
as you lie down, and as you go about your way?
would you die,
if you didn’t have you?
have you woken, yet,
from that awful dream,
the recursive bargain of self-hate
you made to stay alive?
is this the deal-breaker?
the angel abides
until one day
your will abides no more:
from out of nowhere you could name
the unleashed heart of fire ascends
and you are joined.
as full of scars
as grace.
“beloved”
a voice is heard;
the voice is yours.
(this time it is the angel’s turn
to laugh; even God’s hidden name
prances and smiles)
Dvorah Simon
© 2015 by Barbara Musser, Sexy After Cancer.
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