Okay, so today I found myself quite irritable.
It just so happens to be Mercury retrograde in Pisces, and Aunt Flow showed up. It is workout day, and I had little desire to “crush it” like I normally do on my Monday workout.
It was warm out, which usually compels me to run outside, rather than in the gym, but I was in such “a mood” that I didn’t like how the clouds in the sky looked. Really!
I mean, the sky was irritating me!
What’s up with this “fake haze” that floats in the sky, hiding the beautiful bright blue…?! Well, I think we “Truthers” know, but anyway… Ugh!
I went inside despite my lack of motivation, and because I didn’t want to aggravate myself running under “the blasted haze.” And, so many middle-schoolers were out on a school holiday. I think you “get”my sense of affairs….
Well, I get inside, and it’s LOUD because so many kids are in the basket ball court beneath the gym. I put in my earbuds to drown out the noise with my trusted 90’s playlist. I couldn’t decide to make it a body-toning day, or a cardio day, so I did both. Thankfully, my use of the Sacred Fire visualizations I use began to do their magic to loosen this “funk” I was in.
After a few sets on some machines, I made my way to the treadmill. I put it on the highest incline level and began my exercise. A very unusual desire to listen to some hard rock came over me.
Now, I’m typically an ‘oldies-but-goodies” listener of music, but I browsed my library and found just the tune to fit the bill.
The sounds of guitar, bass, and drums of Godsmack’s “Love,Hate,Sex,Pain” began their journey through my earbuds. I felt the angry energy of the music move through my mind and body, but, in this unusual instance, I realized –
there is medicine in this moment.
Presence revealed to me that, because I have used the Sacred Fires before hand – which has instilled in me the protective energetics it offers – I can use the “angry energy” of the music to help me to “shake out” similar frequencies in my feeling body.
So, there I was, on the machine, jamming out to that song on repeat (and a couple other selections), looking a fool while gently head-banging and writhing to the rhythms. Little did my audience know that I was intentionally using the frequencies to help me “shake the rug” of my irritability, and all other unknown “disturbances in The Force.”
As I utilized these lower frequencies to loosen any base frequencies within me, I called upon the Sacred Fire of my heart to blend with the sweat that was now pouring down my face to purify my heart-mind from all that Mercury was summoning to my attention. Once I hit my goal on the machine, I stepped off with a blast of Gratitude to my Presence for triggering me to a teachable moment in my trek through the Daily Matrix. This alchemical work found completion when I used the water element once in the shower to wash off the toxins that my sweat had pulled from my feeling and physical body.
So, my friend, I invite you – should you feel “angry at the clouds” – to call upon the Alchemy of the Sacred Fire to work with you and transmute all that comes up for you this Mercury retrograde phase.
May The Flame be with you!
Sacred Fire Priestess 