I AM….The Universe
 
© Ellaeenah
 
I know I am the universe but how do I experience that in my everyday living? It’s a question that we often ask. Our knowingness is just not enough; we wish to experience ourselves as the universe so that this esoteric truth can become our reality.
 
Let us see how our solar system is experienced, by us, day to day. There is nothing in the Universe whose energy you do not hold, and if you hold that energy, you can be certain that you are manifesting that energy, even though you are not conscious of it. So, today let us be conscious of how we manifest the energy of our solar system.
 
Let’s start with the 2 luminaries in our solar system, the Sun and the moon. The Sun and the moon play a beautiful role within us. The energy of the Sun makes us vibrant, makes us shine, leads us to laughter, makes us cheerful, and brings the feeling of inner warmth. When someone is in need, when a child is crying and you hold that child to your heart and give him ‘emotional warmth’, what you are doing is radiating the Sun. You are becoming the Sun for this child, whose world might be in darkness. When you give a gift to someone, who least expects it, and you see their eyes light up with joy, what you have done is emanated the rays of the Sun. When you show someone the way when they are lost, when you show someone direction, again you are this same beacon of light.
 
The sun has also a different role to play: it gives you personality, it gives you a purpose, it gives you a goal. For all of us who have set our goals (however small they might have been), and then walked determinately towards that goal, and experienced its ‘success’, we have experienced the rays of the sun. Each time you are what you are, all you are doing is manifesting the rays of the sun.
 
Each time someone looks at you for encouragement, for moral support, what they are looking for is the manifestation of the energy of the Sun, that you are.
 
The moon has its own gentle energy; not as vibrant as the energy of the Sun, but as vital and as required. When you gently rock a baby to sleep, giving him the comfort of serenity and security, you become the gentle light of the moon that streams into the night of his thoughts, and puts him to rest. When someone is in pain, and tears flow freely, and you are there, even if it is with only a tissue to clean the tears, what you are doing is being the moon, gentle, caressing and nurturing.
When you caress your lover, or romantically dance into their hearts, you are manifesting the Moon. 
 
The moon is gentle and, as we all know, it affects the tides. Sit by the sea-side on a moonlit night, and very often, your thoughts turn almost sad, wistful, nostalgic; a lot of what-ifs and I wish it had been come up, and that’s lovely because what the moon is doing is bringing up the flow of emotions that you have kept suppressed within you; so it brings it up for conscious thought: what if I hadn’t said ‘no’ to that young boy years ago? I wish I had been a little kinder when my mother was still alive. These are examples of might come up. All of these pent up emotions because they are so ‘small’, because they don’t seem very significant emotions in the larger scheme of our daily lives, they are ‘forgotten’, but are built up, within us, into little wounds that lie silently; often open wounds, which need closure, which need to be healed. So when you are sitting by the sea-side on a moonlit night and these questions come up, it’s the moon within you that is saying: let them go. You, with your energy of the moon, are consciously voicing these emotions now and thus, letting them go. So you and I are the Sun and the moon and we manifest them regularly.
 
Within us, we hold the sun and the moon. We shine our light in different ways: sometimes, in strong, powerful ways, and sometimes gently, softly, compassionately.
 
And then there’s Mercury; small but so beautiful. Mercury is a unique planet; it affects our lower selves, our lower minds, and it affects our Higher Selves and our higher minds. And because it affects both of these, Mercury can be called the Divine Opposite. It always has an ‘opposite’ to present to you. It brings to you options of either ‘this’ or ‘that’ but ‘not both’, and it also brings to you options ‘this’ or ‘that’ or ‘both’. It shows you ‘impossibilities’ and instantly shows you all the ‘probabilities’ and it constantly plays this little game with us, making our lower selves believe it can’t be done, making our Higher Selves experience that it has already been done. This little conflict that Mercury brings up for us is vital. It is this conflict that makes you and I strive for the challenge, for each time someone tells you, you can’t do it, a little ‘devil’ rises up within you, and says: I can and I’ll show you I can!!
 
Most of us manifested Mercury’s brilliant opposition as children, and even more so as rebellious teenagers, for every time mom said: this can’t be done, you went ahead and did it, and proved that it could be done. Every time dad put his foot down and insisted you do something his way, you did something exactly your own way, till dad had to agree that your truth was also as powerful. It is Mercury’s energies within you that manifest this way. They give you laughter, light hearted fun, flirting with life.
 
Mercury gives you the ability to speak, the ability to write, the ability to communicate.
 
Venus is a planet that teaches us how to love. Every time you turn around and say I love you, you are experiencing being Venus. Every time you turn to someone and say: I know you’ve done something, which you’re not happy with, which I’m not happy with either, but I love you irrespective, and that will never stop…each time there is unconditional love, free of judgment and criticism, it’s Venus’ energies being manifest, for Venus is about acceptance, and complete surrender to that which you are.
 
If you can surrender to that which you are, you will instantly accept the differences of all. Every time you hold yourself and say: I love me, I am beautiful. I love me, I am Divine Power. I love me, I am Divine Grace, the Venus energies in you expand to their fullest potential, and this expansion is radiated outwards, for if you can honestly believe that in spite of your human frailties, you are still beautiful, you are still power-filled, you will never judge another again, for you can see that Divine Power does not need you to be ‘perfect’, in some conditioned definition of ‘perfection’. Divine Love does not need you to be always right. Divine Grace is most apparent when you have fallen and failed, but forgave yourself enough to try again. If you can acknowledge that, in self, is it possible not to acknowledge that in someone else? That’s the Venus in you.
 
And then there’s the planet that is, in fact, the reason that you live and act every day: Mars. If you were not Mars, if you did not manifest ‘Martial’ energy, you would not be able to do a single thing, for the energy of Mars is the energy of action. When you feel a thrill, a passion, a compulsion, an inner urging, an inner prodding, to do something, even if it is out of rebellion, it is your Martian energy. It gives you the power to make a movement, to act.
 
When you are sometimes caught in that cyclonic whirlwind of depression, which seems to suck you into its darkness, what you’re experiencing is a dissipation of Martian energy. If you can now understand this, each time you are feeling lethargic, each time you want to do something but you cannot find that strength to do it and therefore opt to stay in a bad habit because it’s just too much effort to get out of it, why instantly connect to the Mars that’s within you.
 
You will ask me now, how will I connect? Mars resides in your solar plexus. Touch your solar plexus and strongly visualize a red ball. When you are touching the red ball, it must seem a real, vibrant ball that you are touching. Through the palms of your hands, allow the energy to flow into you, into your physical. From your hands, you train it up to the 3rd eye and allow it to penetrate. Then allow the Mars energy to strengthen, empower, your heart chakra.
 
Now with one hand still on the solar plexus, et the other gently cup the nape of your neck. When you touch the hollow at the nape of your neck, you are accessing the higher reaches of the mind. When you do this, you ‘hear’ the manifested reality of the divine wisdom that you already have.
 
Let’s move on to a beautiful planet: so generous, so compassionate, so giving: Jupiter. Throw your minds back; all of us have experienced this energy. The times when you have been happy just to give and give, and get nothing in return, you have manifested Jupiter. The times when your home has been small, physically, but your heart has been large and all-embracing, and you have kept your doors open and said: come in and take shelter; take wisdom, take nourishment, take anything that you need. The times when you have not held back, but shared everything that you have (I agree those times are not as common-placed as they should be, but we’ve all experienced them) we have experienced ourselves as Jupiter.
 
And then we experience ourselves as Jupiter in a more physical way, which we wish we didn’t: putting on weight!!! Every time you put on weight and bulk, that is truly Jupiter energy manifesting in the physical.
 
Let me explain why and how many put on weight as an emotional shield. When there is a lot of emotional trauma, emotional pain, the physical body instantly knows I will not be able to handle this much, so I have to go into a defence mode. What do our soldiers do, if they are being attacked? They put a shield in front of them. That is what your physical body does, because Jupiter gives you that compassion towards yourself.
 
We all tell ourselves, at some point in time, I hate myself. But that’s not the truth; it really is not the truth, because moment to moment, beloved friends, we are doing everything to protect ourselves. Someone receives the news of a horrible death and faints. Why? The mind is protecting itself from the shock waves of energy hitting it, and knows it needs to disconnect, temporarily, in order to avoid physical problems. And why do we protect ourselves? Because WE DO LOVE OURSELVES. We DO, because somewhere deep within us, we all know we are the Universe. But in the daily grind, in the conditioned beliefs, in the accepting of truths of others, we sometimes lose touch with that vital spot within us and we begin to play a game with ourselves and say: I hate myself. I don’t love myself. You cannot help but love yourself, and putting on weight is the body’s way of shielding you, because you love yourself.
 
Yes, there are those who do not have the propensity for putting on weight. The body has no shield and those lose weight; they become skin and bone; you can see on their face, that there is something literally eating them up because try as it might, the Jupiter energy is not available to them, to protect them, protect the body. Why? Because of planetary positions in their charts!!
 
This brings us to Saturn, the planet often blamed for the woes in our life. Let’s understand this planet from a positive perspective. The Saturn energy within you, is the energy of creation. Now that’s something you didn’t know! Whatever you create in your life, good, bad, indifferent or ugly, you are manifesting, experience living Saturn energy. Now, what is the thing humanity most desires? No! Not love, not happiness, not peace. EVOLUTION! That is what humanity most desires. We desire joy, happiness, peace, love, money only because these are the stepping stones towards that final goal of evolution. But at a very real level, you don’t desire the intermittent goal; you desire the final goal and there is not a single life form on Earth, that does not desire evolution. That is why the seed grows into a tree; that is why the child grows into a young man; it is manifesting its ultimate goal for evolution.
 
Having this ultimate goal of evolution, we use the Saturn energies to create situations, to create people, to create conditions, which will take us to that ultimate goal. We create all our situations that with Saturn energies because we all <MUST> evolve. That is our humani-divine aspiration.
 
Friend, when you are the solar system, you are far larger than your conditioned mind. The Universe that you are, is not deterred by and does not fear what it considers as trivial challenges. It is the physical mind that fears it. But in those moments, when our physical mind threatens to take away the power of the Universe from us, let us remind ourselves: I am the solar system. I am the Universe.
 
You create joys with Saturn, you create troubles with Saturn, so yes, Saturn does create the troubles in your life, but because you are using the energies of Saturn to manifest and make real your ultimate goal for evolution.
 
We have all experienced Uranus, time and time again, globally. We all know that in eons past, man believed that the Earth was flat. Do we that belief now? No! Why? It is Uranus that gives us the energy to think in a manner that is diametrically opposite to anything we had ever thought.
 
Today’s world is different from the world of 5 years ago, and the world of 5 years ago was completely different from the world of 50 years ago. But are we consciously aware of these changes each moment of our lives?  Not at all! Why? We don’t need to be… the Uranus energy is working each moment through us, bringing about change.
 
This brings us to an interesting fact: why do we fear change when, in fact, we are changing each moment? The Uranus energy is radiating every moment, bringing up change; change in self, change globally, change in your consciousness, change in global consciousness. So every time, you think ‘different’, every time you dare to be different, understand that your Uranus energy is very, very strong.
 
Now we reach Neptune. We must have a link to our past, because our past has made us what we are today. In order to have continuity, you need an energy that holds it all together. The links in the chain are formed by our Neptune energy.
 
If Neptune energies were not manifested and experienced, our lives would be like badly cut movies; instead of which, they are a wonderful movie, all about ourselves, with the actors and actresses, the heroes, the heroines, the villains, the directors, the producers the lyricists, the songwriters, the dancers, the vamps. We are all of it. And it’s the Neptune energy holding it together. It’s the editor; it sits in the editing room and edits the scenes properly, makes us aware of patterns that need to transformation.
 
The power of transformation and choice is the power of Pluto. And every day you experience the power of Pluto; you wake up in the morning and you decide: should I have a bowl of cereal today or a cup of coffee? The power of choice ….Pluto. From a trivial breakfast cereal to should I marry X or Y to should I just continue living in false belief or open myself to truth? Every choice is the power of Pluto. It is the choice of transformation, or the choice of continuing in ignorance. It is the choice of a complete and full ‘turn around’, or a choice of resisting every moment of change. It is the choice of no-movement or the choice of evolution.
 
Did I hear someone say I am the Universe? YES, YOU TRULY ARE!!!