First appeared in Conscious Life, 7/99

The ‘Dog Day' of Summer: August 11, 1999: Healing Through The Heart

Before our ripening millennial moment arrives, we'll face another potent portal to either walk through or ignore: the total solar eclipse of August 11, 1999.

This is no run-of-the-sky eclipse. It's a card-carrying galactic gateway. Astrological adepts have been waxing prophetic about the date's significance for awhile; it also precedes, by just two days, the Aztec-prophesied "day of destiny".

What's so special about this eclipse? If we're willing to meet our celestial shadow at the level of metaphor, we'll be insight.

Consider: the Moon blots out the light of the Sun. Perhaps our hidden, dark, or "feminine" side is asking our fiery, now-now-now, tick-tock, "masculine" energy to take a nap. The Moon signifies the night side, what's unexplored within us, inviting receptivity, nurturing, allowing, rather than the solar-aggressive, "go-for-the-gold, the burn, the competitive edge" that plays out in our daily dramas.

Coming to wholeness–embodying our masculine and feminine energies, both within ourselves and as a planetary organism–is the quest and question of our time. First, are we willing to go there, and second, do we know how? It's a call to alchemical union, this wedding of the light and the dark, and we could use a transformational map.

As a longtime student of ancient wisdom traditions, especially Mayan cosmology, I walk in both worlds, following an indigenous calendar that corresponds to seasonal and biorhythmic cycles, alongside our more linear Gregorian one. So I was intrigued to see what "natural time" might reveal about this auspicious access point. (The traditional Mayan symbols have been translated into modern equivalents, so decoding a day's "energy" is like a game–it's fun, and it expands one's ways of thinking and perceiving.)

August 11, 1999 is an epiphany.

In the Mayan sacred calendar, August 11th will be a White Planetary Dog. The dog archetype is about loving through the heart, and loyalty–sounds a lot like "man's best friend", right?

"Planetary", in this case, is a frequency, like a note on the musical scale. It's the frequency of manifesting, and it vibrates to how we perfect ourselves in order to produce a desired outcome.

"White" is one of four colors that correspond to the four directions, the four elements, and our four "bodies" (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual). White is north and air, a dimension of mind.

Finally, each archetype has a guiding energy, like a wise teacher or mentor. The guide for White Planetary Dog is the Mirror, which of course is about inner and outer reflection. It also connotes endlessness (ever been in a funhouse hall of mirrors? Did you gain an enhanced perspective on where "you" end? Look deeply into the mirror...) The Mayans even have a saying that reflects the mirror: In Lakech, I am another yourself.

The complete energy for the day reads:

I perfect in order to love
Producing loyalty
I seal the process of heart
With the planetary tone of manifestation
I am guided by the power of endlessness.

It's a fantastic window of opportunity calling to us! Listen: "Hello, humans! By connecting your head and your heart, you perfect your love. In so doing, you produce loyalty to one another and to the greater good, which will manifest as unending heart-centered love all over the planet!"

This is our possibility, our invitation, our initiation, our healing.

And this is the beauty of Truth: it doesn't matter what vehicle takes you there. The message is always the same. Come home to yourself. Remember the Love that you are. However it's expressed, there's a universality that's unmistakable. Tears of recognition flood your eyes as you choose to see clearly, as you inhale back your authenticity and power.

You're unconditionally invited to join in the cosmic celebration on August 11th, as the Moon of Communion eclipses all the old ways that no longer serve. Joy is waiting on the other side of the window. Let's ride the carrier wave of the frequency of the heart into the ocean of resonance with all that lives. You are Love. Let Freedom Ring!

(P.S. A sneak preview: The final day of this century, 12/31/99, is a Yellow Solar Human, which has to do with influencing free will through the power of collective intention. A perfect counterpoint to Y2K. And that's another article.)

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