Open Door Cages
Art: The Right Key To Freedom by Giuseppe Maiorana
Curious indeed the cages we pop ourselves in, the limits we place on our dreams and ambitions, the cultivation of hopelessness we can indulge from within. Even on the luckiest days trapping ourselves in prisons of our own making, then gilding the bars with misplaced matyrdom, easy bypass or excuses.
Eclipse season arrives twice a year to rattle those bars and our lives in the process. It does not care for faux hesitation nor courage that only cowers inside your heart's cage. An unforgiving mistress of beginnings and endings, Lady Eclipsia is a chaotic go getter with glittering eyes peeled. In cahoots with your soul self, she has read its scrolls and knows when you spook on the path or take off for slimmer pickings or safe harbours.
The rattling has already begun. As far back as that last Aries new moon when initiation came knocking loudly before you were ready. Last week when the rosy glow of the Libran full moon scattered its petals to an ill wind. Conjured turbulence to unseat you from playing pretend to placate, and salted those old wounds to be sure.
Today at the half moon threshold we sit exactly between the last peak and the first eclipse, a black moon in Aries that will arrive as another initiatory prelude to the next cycle. The winds of change are already rattling, messing up our hair and best played plans. Crisis and opportunity flickering in the half light, playing loose and fast with avowed resistance or borrowed glory.
Soon the towers may crash. The world will tip wildly. The phoenix will roar. Fortuna spins the wheel once more. Tucked into this day are clues. Keys to the locks that bind you, tantalising from beyond the bars. Golden tickets flapping that demand you leave your old world ways. Shards of lightning you could catch if you have a bottle ready and the will coursing through you like fire.
Lady Eclipsia is testing your mettle. Rise to meet her or surrender again, your future sighing at the gate.
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Words c. Kerrie Basha 2023