The real start of the Age of Aquarius . . . today . . . we’ll need compassion

I’m writing today’s New Moon blog on the Aquarius New Moon, 2023 . . . and I think this new moon makes today the real start of the Age of Aquarius. New Ages don’t really have “starts”, they just kind of dawn as the song goes. 500 years before the New Ages, changes start to happen slowly, with the arrival of new world teachers who affect our consciousness with new values, concepts and ideas . . . think of Buddha, Jesus and Zoroaster before the Age of Pisces.

50 years before a New Age new thought concepts can appear in quite disruptive ways, with thought revolutions bringing cultural change . . . think of the 1960’s and 70’s as a result of the reactions of the Pluto in Leo generation’s experiences.

 

 

But today, on the Aquarius New Moon 2023, and on the weekend the Sun and Pluto are strong energetically, bringing “light” to the purification we need for wisdom power to emerge . . . Saturn is still in Aquarius, making sure its job is complete of teaching us how important hard work is, before moving into Pisces for our next learnings to happen followed by Pluto’s move into Aquarius end of March.

Pluto’s transits through a sign have energetic effects on us collectively, and historically because of its long orbit of 248 years. And historically, when Pluto has transited Aquarius in the past the energy has been “revolt of the feminine” . . . think of Ancient Queen Boudicca in the ’60’s at the turn of the christian era, 1900 years before our cultural changes in recent memory.

I think the New Age “starts” today, I think we’re moving into a new age of revolutionary thinking which is about bringing balance to our world culture through assertion of the sacred feminine . . . and the essential sacred feminine quality we’re going to need to thrive through what might be dynamic times, is compassion.

In my Yin Zen teaching, I call compassion one of the essential virtues which is like the “glue” that brings all the threads of life wisdom together making a strong fabric for the age: we’re moving into uplifting spiritual energy when valuing virtue and wisdom will make us a strong spiritual force for the future.

   

A very small insight:

This week I’m practising the short contemplation in “listening to the cries of the world” a way of opening up to compassion with a pure, kind heart: acknowledging that we can all hear the hurt in the hearts of all human beings. You sit quietly and let the cries in.

This practice comes from the zen concept that “the Regarder of the Cries of the World” is always present and listening (in the journey of Zen from India to Japan, by the time Zen reached Korea, via China, the mythical Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara had changed gender. By now the god had become a “she”, Kwan Yin the Goddess of Compassion).

We need to be still, quiet and receptive because Humanity’s heart is broken: we’re suffering from “unrequited humanity”. My own insight today is that Humanity has also given itself a big headache, but then that’s been building for centuries.

   

Spiritually we say our breath “touches and opens our heart”, then we can thrive with compassion—SuZen

 

 A Spiritual Practice

This is a simple daily practice : opening up to our noblest of qualities with the Spacious Heart Meditation.  

 

 

“Lao Tsu: I know this to be true for I have looked within myself”

 

Namaste, SuZen

 

 
 
My teaching— writing, and Spoken Word anthems as the artist SuZen—is about dedication to practice of Zen, Meditation and Yoga: it stands for spirituality, understanding, Zen, energy and nutrition through practices: we live daily and simply with zen, YinZen, in the imminent experience of Sacred Feminine flowing through the mystery of life.
 
“As founder of SuZen YinZen, I’m delighted to be your teacher and guide during these exciting times in human existence: a time when we are so close to a new dawn of re-balancing our world—and I aim to teach simply and with inspiration and hope. Practice may not be easy, but it’s the only Way for some of us.”
 
 
 

 

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The Vision of Your Soul . . . a vital energy checklist

 

Imbalance, when we’re out of sync with the “Vision of the Soul” . . . and not accessing our Spiritual Vision . . . cuts us off from our vital life-energy source: Soul Force.

 

       

Imbalance, no active Spiritual Vision

Dis-harmony, disease and distorted life are what happens . . . so I suppose you’d say there’s chaos in your inner world, no harmony of the inner with the outer world in your life. Your eyes and the eyes of your soul not perceiving your life as equals?Or, as I’m teaching you, you’re Spiritual Vision is just not activated.

Our world today, at this point in our human evolution, is complex and it conflicts us with the pressures which cause us stress . . . our individual response to this, to our environment is what causes us dis-harmony and distortion at the level of our body’s cells which we know results in disease. At the most, this means unhappiness and discomfort at the spiritual or psychic level of our beings—imbalance.  

 

An anchoring checklist

This is a checklist to anchor yourself at a level of being in sync with your Soul . . . and connected with the vital source of life-energy in your life, your Soul-force: to give yourself a few guiding principles to re-balance and re-harmonise regularly.  

  1. Understand yourself and your own sensitivities and responses.
  2. Understand your Soul . . . where your energy comes from and what makes you strong and vital.
  3. How is your Soul feeling? Do you practice Chakra meditation often . . . do you check in with your emotions . . . do you take time out to check how your own intelligence is being recognised . . . how do you deal with noise pollution detracting from your need for silence?
  4. Don’t try to understand the world – that’s impossible . . .
  5. Understand the nature of your own Bliss instead . . . being “seen” brings you joy.
  6. Understand your body’s messages coming from its own innate wisdom – and recreate your wisdom body regularly with Soul energy.
  7. Get to know your Soul and where you are strong and happy.

 

 

We do this with our “Tapas”

Strengthening our Soul-force means radical focus on a few ways that we create personal discipline in our life: in the yogic way, this is practising our “Tapas”. I teach you to strengthen Soul-force and activate more accelerated Spiritual Vision with body-work—typically physical yoga—movement and meditation, mantra and chanting and, very importantly, silence and storytelling.  

 

 

Practice in contemplation . . . meeting your Soul in the zen gap

In contemplation and meditation, we practice so that we develop Soul awareness—which is how we can open up to our Soul’s Vision for our life . . . practice takes us to the stillpoint within: some of us call it “zen”. The stillpoint is what we also call the “gap”, when your knowledge is expanding and meeting the unknown (or unknown for you) . . . right when this is going to become experience for you, and turn into wisdom.

It’s at this gap that you meet your Soul—the transcendent part of you that’s bigger than you think you are—which contains your Divinity . . . and the part of your Self which wants knowledge through your experiences here on your life’s path. Right at this very still, silent zen gap point is your Soul energy: and here is your vital power: awareness in stillness. Go there as often as you can.

     

This inner healing journey is from my Voice of SuZen YouTube Channel:

 

 

Namaste, SuZen  

 

 
 
My teaching— writing, and Spoken Word anthems as the artist SuZen—is about dedication to practice of Zen, Meditation and Yoga: it stands for spirituality, understanding, Zen, energy and nutrition through practices: we live daily and simply with zen, YinZen, in the imminent experience of Sacred Feminine flowing through the mystery of life.
 
“As founder of SuZen YinZen, I’m delighted to be your teacher and guide during these exciting times in human existence: a time when we are so close to a new dawn of re-balancing our world—and I aim to teach simply and with inspiration and hope. Practice may not be easy, but it’s the only Way for some of us.”
 
 
 
 

 

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Getting the Validation of Your Truth . . . arriving and resting

 

My “Genius of Nature” Dedication: Within your own nature you have genius of Nature . . .

“Attention with Divine Focus on your mind, and the Source of your mind – learn its nature and it becomes the diamond faceted jewel which reflects your own Buddha Nature: changing forever the way you perceive our World . . . “

Mind becomes pure, strong, clear and beautiful – capable of changing our World with one kind thought at a time.”— SuZen

 

 

My Guidance for You I’m getting a lot of guidance for some of us, that we’ve walked our path in truth, we’ve “climbed the steps” to the summit of the spiritual mountain within us – those of you who’re motivated to grow spiritually will know the experience I’m talking about. In doing so, walking the Divine Path, being committed to our Truth and growing spiritually with dedicated practice, we’ve received ou confirmation that what we were working towards, working towards uncovering or understanding, is actually true or valid.

 

 

The Energetic Shift

Have you noticed the shift in energies recently? Time seems to have “shrunk”: what used to typically take, or was expected to take, maybe 6 months of a process, now is only spanning a matter of weeks [or days, I experience]. Personally I think it’s because we’re experiencing an accumulation of past experience, growth and wisdom so it’s not taking as long to distill wisdom and manifest energy for change. Anyway, we’re receiving confirmation by signs, symbols and messages that our Truth is actually valid. Confirmation can come like a spiritual download of information.  

 

 

Our Spiritual Work has been Truthful  and Worthy

The validation will be that the work you’ve been doing has been truthful and worthy. And that was your Transformation. A validation of the transformation you’ve gone that has been the process during your path to spiritual growth. And now that you’ve gone through this process, you realise the journey WAS the Transformation – and on this realisation, then we’re all ready to say “okay, now we’re ready to do something with this?”.

 

 

Stillness, space, sanctuary

Transformation energy is a good energy to feel, but at the same time there’s usually the acknowledgement that it came from adversity – recognising to get to transformation meant walking through adversity. Maybe that’s what we “sit with” now, rest and acknowledge – because some of us are definitely bruised and tattered from the journey to say the least – before we get to the being “ready to do something with this”?

It’s been an uphill battle for many of us to get to this moment of understanding our Transformation. It might be a little too soon to go back to the energy of “okay now how do we dismantle this system, this current collective worldview or the Matrix, that got us all into this mess that Humanity is in right now?” Time for stillness, space, sanctuary – simply time? Being with the Transformation experience, and doing very little . . . ?  

 

 
“May the Virtue of your Te shower down with blessings from your Raincloud of Virtue on all around you.”

   

 

One of my Voice of SuZen Podcasts “Truth” from a few years ago

 

 

 

 
My teaching— writing, and Spoken Word anthems as the artist SuZen—is about dedication to practice of Zen, Meditation and Yoga: it stands for spirituality, understanding, Zen, energy and nutrition through practices: we live daily and simply with zen, YinZen, in the imminent experience of sacred feminine flowing through the mystery of life.
 
“As founder of SuZen YinZen, I’m delighted to be your teacher and guide during these exciting times in human existence: a time when we are so close to a new dawn of re-balancing our world—and I aim to teach simply and with inspiration and hope. Practice may not be easy, but it’s the only Way for some of us.”
 
 
 

 

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Empowering the Heart Chakra’s Work

I wrote this originally as one of my “messages from existence” which meant “Messages from the Mother of Existence” or Flow: and it’s about the Heart Chakra . . . it’s heart based, about growing love and the way we’re going to change by empowering that which is working to change our world and bring about change, by those of us who care, for a world that really is fairer for all.

 

 

Chakras and resonance

But first let’s talk about a quality of the Solar Plexus Chakra, to get you into this concept: when we breathe, with constant practice, and when we’re breathing into our center—our energetic center—we’re actually connecting and magnetizing . . . we’re connecting with the Earth, we’re connecting the resonance of all the Chakras and magnetizing ourselves to bring into our lives and to connect with that which is at the highest level. When we do this practice it reaches from the Solar Plexus Chakra and up to the Heart Chakra . . . and it magnetizes the Heart Chakra.

 

 

This week’s Full Moon

What I’m sensing this week with the Full Moon, and what the astrology has been indicating energetically for us—we’ve just been through a powerful Mars/Venus connection over the weekend—is that the momentum of the Universe is picking up in terms of love energy . . . I call it big feminine love energy. Our willingness to change, and our willingness to bring love into our lives for ourself, humanity and the Planet really is astonishing and we’re being so supported by the flow of the Cosmic rhythms at the moment.

 

 

Empowering that which is working

So, empowering that which is working: this is going to be a time especially now as we’re coming up to Full Moon [December 2022] I realised, when looking at what’s happening with our Mars or masculine energy and our Venus our love or Goddess energy—in the beautiful radiance of the “queen” if not High Priestess, an expression of Mother Goddess—in our lives, environment, relationships, Planet and Universe. You can think in terms of Universe and how those layers radiate out from you: we’re going to be given the chance now, if we can tune in, to say does my head actually really mean what it says by “giving my heart its voice”? Because sometimes your head tricks you!

 

 

Dancing the dance of the Universe

What we say in Ireland is, your heart “cops-on” . . . you don’t get everything you said you wanted because heart and mind are not on the same page or in alignment—basically wisdom is innate in you and both mind and heart need to be tuned in, listening, feeling and acting in truth. When this happens we can say “my head and my heart are speaking the same language, singing the same tune and dancing the same dance of the Universe”.

 

 

There’s more here in my original message:

 

 
 
My teaching— writing, and Spoken Word anthems as the artist SuZen—is about dedication to practice of Zen, Meditation and Yoga: it stands for spirituality, understanding, Zen, energy and nutrition through practices: we live daily and simply with zen, YinZen, in the imminent experience of sacred feminine flowing through the mystery of life.
 
“As founder of SuZen YinZen, I’m delighted to be your teacher and guide during these exciting times in human existence: a time when we are so close to a new dawn of re-balancing our world—and I aim to teach simply and with inspiration and hope. Practice may not be easy, but it’s the only Way for some of us.”
 
 
 

 

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Essence of Thriving : Simplicity

“One of the most important virtues we need to live consciously, practising and living with zen in our lives—to live well and thrive—is simplicity. Being able to live simply may be what we need as the grounding anchor in going through the changes we face during the next few years.”—suZen

  All we are on a physical level as a human being is air, water and food. And physically, our body’s 10-13 trillion cells replace themselves every 100 days [just over 3 months].

When you think “thrive”, think of all the seemingly small, but necessary daily elements of life as the miraculous organ you are as a human being. At our essence we are a living organism, on a living Planet, in a living Universe.

 

This will give you some critical thinking skills to live with “golden-ness” in your daily life as we say in zen: you can live without water for some time, but you can’t live without breathing. You can live without food for quite a while, but you’ll get dehydrated without regular water. Without regular sleep, we get disorientated and disfunctional . . . without regular rest and relaxation we’re stressed and vulnerable to dread disease.

With good diet and nutrition we are strong and conquer disease, pollution and stress. Without a spiritual life, a positive routine for our mental wellbeing and soul connection, our sense of identity with “all that is” or centering the turning of the Great Universal Wheel within ourself, we experience anxiety and loss. Without meditation we are spiritually bereft, even experiencing erosion of Spirit during these challenging times we’re in right now in our world.

With meditation we immerse ourselves regularly in silence, stillness and rest . . . the way we stay connected with true nature, truth, soul force or love force [as both Gandhi and Jesus taught].  

   

 

Lao–Tzu: “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” Tao [zen] logic has adopted this quotation to become the cornerstone behind our philosophy.

       

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These are the basic building blocks of the essence of  thriving: based on the 5 Health Principles of an Ancient Eastern Wisdom Path to liberation, and encoded and practised for thousands of years: Yoga in its entirety . . .

. Proper Breathing

. Proper Relaxation

. Proper Movement of Bodymind

. Proper Diet and Nutrition

. Positive Mental Attitude and Meditation

 

” Ask yourself: What is necessary for me to be alive – what is in my daily life?” I have just three things to teach, suzen:

     

 

“Here are my 3 steps for being anchored by our cornerstone, living with our essence: and discovering how to thrive . . . “

 

Simple Living is about living consciously and in the moment. Consciousness is about awareness and this “Simple Living” process helps you to raise your awareness of how you’re living your life – and teaches you to live in the magic of life unfolding. An awakening to what is real in life. As a teacher, I think I have only 3 things to teach: meditate, exercise the body-mind, live simply and with these 3 our health will go a long way.

 

 

And here are some of the steps: Step One: Meditate. Give yourself time for deep inner nurturing and nourishing. Making time for our spiritual care is as, if not more, important as making time to eat, sleep, work, socialise. This can begin with 10 minutes a day.

It is the act of creating a “space” in time which is only for the spirit which begins to build an inner structure deep within the bodymind . . . and then this is the basis of our deep nourishing of the self with meditation. So the simple steps here are: make time, make space. Focus on posture, breathing and silence. Practice regularly.

 

 

Step Two: Go to the “sweetspot” regularly!

Listen to meditative music. The Ancient Yogis believed we have a little sac of “Amber Nectar” (the nectar of the Gods) deep within our brains, at the pineal gland.

The way to connect with our “sweetspot” is through relaxation and music, raising our vibrations. There have been many pointers to us from the Ancients in many civilisations that the pineal gland is the point of access for us to our souls and the flow of Consciousness.

 

 

Step Three: Practice Right Diet:

Dietary control is very important in living your life with simplicity. We eat those foods which contain the most life force energy and which feed our bodymind emotions and spirits. Traditionally Vegetarianism and Veganism suits the bodymind of a meditation and yoga practitioner—but books such as “Eat Right 4 Your Type” have taught us that not everyone can be Vegetarian or Vegan without supplementing our diet nutritionally, or eat raw food diets. Understanding a little about the Ayurvedic Doshas can be illuminating!

Learn what you can about your body and what foods are going to bring you optimum health. Eating little and often suits the body when we are attempting to bring Balance and allow Consciousness to flow: but learn to inform yourself and experiment for your own self-empowerment.  

 

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A Spiritual Energy Practice

This is a simple daily practice:

 

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Spirit of Air and Water 963Hz: all we are physically is air water and food . . . energy medicine has its own frequency and we can connect and resonate with that.

 

 

Enjoy! suzen

 
 
 
 
My teaching— writing, and Spoken Word anthems as the artist SuZen—is about dedication to practice of Zen, Meditation and Yoga: it stands for spirituality, understanding, Zen, energy and nutrition through practices: we live daily and simply with zen, YinZen, in the imminent experience of sacred feminine flowing through the mystery of life.
 
“As founder of SuZen YinZen, I’m delighted to be your teacher and guide during these exciting times in human existence: a time when we are so close to a new dawn of re-balancing our world—and I aim to teach simply and with inspiration and hope. Practice may not be easy, but it’s the only Way for some of us.”
 
 
 
 

 

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