Celestial Timing Tango
01/07/2010 - By Lisa Michaels
The movement of the sun, moon, and stars create a rhythmic pulse for the creational dance of your life. They provide patterns and phrases that form the time signatures of celestial music.
Working with the rhythmic timings of nature is like listening to the music when you dance. There is a certain musical point when it is most effective to begin the movement or step on to the dance floor - the count of one. The same holds true for the creational dance of your life. Certain points make the best time to take powerful and intentional steps into the flow of creation.
Both the sun and the moon have great points for stepping in. The sun makes points in a solar yearly cycle while the lunar cycle creates a conscious entrance point each month on the new moon. The problem is most of us have forgotten to listen to the celestial music Mother Nature plays so that we can dance in harmony with her rhythms.
If you forgot to listen to the music during the tango you would never be effective or be filled with the feeling of grace. There is something magical that happens when you step in time to the music and coordinate your steps with grace and harmony. When you are in rhythm, an amazing feeling begins to flow inside which uplifts, centers, balances, and energizes you.
The same holds true as you align with the celestial music in the dance of your life more grace enters. You become better able to handle the times when the emotional waters of life may be rough because you learn how to realign yourself and get back in sync with the flow.
In any type of dance, you learn how to do this because you practice. No matter how the previous “phrase or cycle” went you start again. You assess how well you did, evaluate what you can adjust next time then re-center, realign, and start on count one again; practicing over and over until the flow is smooth and grace filled.
When you discover how to hold the creational dance of your life in the same way, you are less frustrated with the outcome of any particular situation. You simply know that you need to evaluate your movements and energy and realign with the music and begin again.
If a dancer gives up their practice in frustration and never goes back to it they miss the magical feeling of grace that enters when the bumpy places are finally smoothed out. They will end up repeating the same inner block throughout life until they learn to move through that energy.
So, if you have tried setting intentions and focusing on creation but feel like you haven’t gotten to your goals or dreams yet; it is time to realign and get back in step. Start utilizing each new moon as the one count for your creations. Grace comes from getting in the magical flow of the music and the dance, not from sitting on the sidelines waiting. You actually have to be practicing the movements to find the flow.
Lisa Michaels, author of Natural Rhythms ~ Connect the Creational Dance of Your Life to the Pulse of the Universe, helps people connect to the divine dance within. As a former 500-pupil ballet school owner she understands and appreciates dance from both the structured and free form perspective. Lisa is currently serving as the Vice President of the Sacred Dance Guild. http://www.sacreddanceguild.org You can find more information about Lisa and the rhythms of nature at http://naturalrhythms.org.
