“Defy your inner critic, your social training, and your smartwatch. Go back to yourself, to the invisible source that moves the universe.” – Martha Beck
by Astara
The deck chairs are not yet put away. The dwindling monarch butterflies still dance about our butterfly bush midday, even as the sun angles a little bit lower and the temperatures drops a bit each night. The recess of summer is almost over and autumn is on its way in the northern hemisphere.
Years ago the astrologer Mark Borax offered me a fresh perspective on the fall season, “According to Rudolf Steiner, ancient culture approached seasonal rites opposite to the way most modern people see it. The autumnal equinox, instead of being the time Earth gets ready to slumber, was seen as the time Earth wakes up and spirit comes alive. Winter, though filled on the surface with brittleness, decline, sleep and death, was recognized as the time spirit thrives and the life force revitalizes down deep. For this reason, autumn equinox was seen to lead to life more than death, birth rather than diminishment.”
The life force inside you is the highest concentration of source energy and creativity that flows through your heart and belly. When you fall into your core, you are actually falling into love — love as a vibration, a frequency. Love is the highest frequency where the unmanifest meets the manifest. Love is what you are made of.
The equinox kicks off the first day of Fall in the Northern Hemisphere on Thursday September 22, 2022 8:03 pm Central Time, yet many planets have been already escorting us inward to notice love inside. This month, six planets in total will be retrograding through the cosmos. Five of them — Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, and Uranus stationed retrograde prior to this month, while Mercury stations retrograde today. That’s six retrograde planets in one month.
Although it might seem daunting, I see it as a Willy Wonka style gold leaf invitation to visit the mysteries, humor, pitfalls, and wisdom of your internal magic factory. September asks you to do what Illuminating Hearts is all about: take a deep dive inward to regroup, revolutionize, create clarity, and reflect on where you may be resisting your own soul blessings and expansion.
Yup, September is the perfect month to fall into your primal life force more deeply than usual. How wonderful that we can help you reconnect with your luminous truth in a myriad of ways!
- Create coherence through Sound Alchemy. Join us in an upcoming Sound Alchemy event to fall into the frequency of love, schedule a private Sound Alchemy session, or download Sound Alchemy from our shop.
- Meditate. Enjoy one of Astara’s guided meditations.
- Explore inner space, the most important space program. You can dive into Inner Space Academy with a burgeoning group of creatives in the Unlimited Universe subscription. Astara’s annual group Heartifact Coaching teaches you how to activate psychic prosperity and live the life your soul intended alongside a beautiful community.
- Heal inside the Heartifact Archaeology Eco-system. Schedule a private soul healing session with Astara to dig a little deeper and embrace your sparkle.
In all of the options above you can enjoy some form of our sonic architecture designed for your renewal. We layer positive intentional sounds that mimic nature and the cosmos; sounds your biology recognizes as healthy and restoring. When you hear sounds that evoke nature’s intelligence, you are re-aligning to vibrations intrinsic to your body.
Vibrational medicine such as this acts as an antidote to the over-stimulation of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) associated with fight or flight response of our daily modern world. We journey you into the rarely accessed healing state of the rest and digest function of the body where the body restores itself naturally.
Here are just a few of the benefits of Sound Alchemy:
- Internal Massage. Our sound invites you into the relaxation state governed by the vast reach of the vagus nerve. One of the branches of the vagus nerve connects to the mouth. If you join us in a Sound Alchemy event, we begin with group toning and breathing. When you sing, tone, and breathe deep with us, your jaw muscles send a signal of safety throughout the vagus nerve, relaxing your entire nervous system. The vibration of your hum is an internal massage positively stimulating not only the vagus nerve, but all of your organs and body systems. This is why when you actively participate with our sound, your availability to healing is even more powerful.
- Deeper states of being. Inside of the deep restorative resonance of the gongs and other instruments, you enter deeper brain wave states than usual, including alpha, theta, and even gamma — which give you more access to your creative genius and psychic abilities.
- Energy field healing. Harmonic resonance tunes up your electromagnetic toroidal field by dissipating wobbles ready to go. Wobbles are the old beliefs, limiting thoughts, and dark stories held as miasms held in the body, keeping the river of energy from flowing through ALL of you. Our sound dissolves the noise that is not you.
- Emotional support. Inside this relaxed state you have access to acknowledge and transform difficult e-motions — energy in motion — inside you. When you are willing to lean in and feel your energy in motion, you can then throw them on the bonfire of your heart which will dissolve them back to love. Because love is what you really are.
Savor our Sound Alchemy offerings. Even better, join us on 9/24/22 for our next LIVE Sound Alchemy event and tone with us, breathe with us, sound with us. Fall into the season. Fall into yourself. Fall into love.
