How to Handle All This Darkness

How to Handle All This Darkness ©2018 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

Right now we're in the dark side of the moon, we're having a new moon eclipse tomorrow. It's the 3rd of three eclipses that started a month ago. People have been going huge growth spaces. I'm not an astrologer, but I see astrology as an energetic component of the hologram, that is the world we're creating as Consciousness. It's like energy weather.  We can use it to our advantage, like wind in our sails.

So eclipses open doors, create sudden new changes, beginnings and endings. But they also 'eclipse things', which sometimes means shining light hidden things but also means not everything is fully revealed. Change can be initiated that doesn't become fully clear for a month to six months.

So we're going through dark times, some of us are fumbling around, many of us are frustrated that there isn't enough light yet. Especially those of us who are light bringers and healers, who want to illuminate, enlighten, clear, and restore to wholeness.

I have to confess, I'm still a little afraid of the dark. But that's because I sense denser energies as I move through it. In my last house, which was built in 1905, I always felt energy just outside the bedroom door (which made it real fun to go to the bathroom at night).

In my current house, which was built in 1956, the family that lived in it 60+ years has had at least two members that have passed. So I'll feel the presence of one in our hallway (most likely the one who passed most recently). I've just learned to walk through it without resisting.

In the old days, I'd do an exorcism. In recent times, I've just been navigating around it. But it occurs to me to do a different kind of energy work, a kind of house blessing, which brings it into present time. It gently releases energies absorbed from the past and assists them to their next level of evolution.

And that so ties in with what is going on in the world today. Darkness is coming out of the woodwork, as increasing light of Consciousness is coming into physical form. It feels more intense as it is being seen more clearly.

It feels like historical patterns, that no longer fit in our current state of evolution. It's bubbling up from our unconscious, and playing out by unconscious people.

When I am in the present moment, the past ceases to exist, it goes away. 

You can do this for yourself, very simply, by bringing yourself into Present Time. Bring your focus into the present moment. Imagine bring it back from all other places in that you've had your attention on, throughout time and space. What you may notice is sensations within you, and sounds around you, become more acute or clear as you're fully present to notice them. 

You can also do this by creating a focal point of Consciousness within you, wherever you place as your center. This is you bringing your full light into the present moment, which can effortlessly release all non-presences within you.

Do this whenever you think of it, and notice how it changes your perception. It will have a ripple effect out into the rest of your reality as well.

Try this for the next seven days and see what happens!

Equinoxes, Eclipses, and Portals for Change

Equinoxes, Eclipses, and Portals for Change ©2014 Joan M. Newcomb

We've just come through the Equinox, which is a shift in seasons and a new cycle for Nature.  And this month we've got two eclipses which bring sudden endings and sudden beginnings.  They all happen every six months and launch us to a new level of growth, which lasts six months, two years, or more.

This occurs whether we're aware of it or not, but if we're operating from Consciousness we can take full advantage of them to accelerate our growth.


Nature's cycle begins with the Equinox after harvest time. It's Nature's New Year.  You can align your cycle with Nature and call in a new phase of growth.  Be amused to see what unfolds when you do!  For the first three months there is 'soil prep'.  View your life as a garden, this is when you are tilling, removing rocks, and adding fertilizer.

Winter Solstice is when things seem to go dormant, but in actuality there's a lot of activity happening on an unseen level.  It may seem that you are daydreaming, but really there are seeds that are overwintering, waiting for the perfect time to sprout.

I find that my life speeds up after the Spring equinox.  This is when the unseen architects bring their plans to nature, it's when you can actually order seeds and start planting.  In your life you can begin to move forward, giving roots to your dreams.

It culminates in the Summer, harvest time, you see the fruits of whatever you called in back last Fall.

Eclipses have similar cycles, they're every six months, coinciding with the Full Moon and New Moon, and about every two years they shift to a different pair of signs.  Full moon Eclipses bring sudden endings, it feels like the scaffolding of my life gives way and things collapse, to reveal how strong (or weak) my foundation actually is.

New Moon Eclipses bring beginnings. Opportunities will present themselves, and doors will open.  It can seem traumatic.  I find that things will suddenly occur, the last straw to 'break the camel's back' and force me in a new direction.

Manifestation sometimes seems to take two years.  "Stuck" or static energy held within for two years will show up with physical symptoms.  Fantasies will show up in real life two years after they were first dreamt.  It seems like one year is rebuilding, the next is deconstruction.

Everything is a creation of Consciousness, and it actually emanated from within.  However, you can consciously work with these forces to set your intentions and bring things into form.

You can think of astrology like energy weather.  If you want to build a house, you'd probably aim to do so during the dry season in your geographic area.  If you're sailing around the world, you'd choose to go with the wind and ocean currents (and avoid hurricane season)!

Realize that if something sudden or shocking ends or begins, you called it in from your highest Consciousness.  Find a way to be in agreement with it, or in the least amount of resistance to it happening.  See that behind everything is an opportunity to grow, expand, emotionally deepen, and gain greater awareness.

Keep this in mind for the rest of the month and see what happens!

Out with the old, in with the new!

(c) 2009 Joan M. Newcomb

Today's a powerful day (in the illusion of things).  It's December 31st, the last day of the year.  It's also a Full Moon.  It's the 2nd Full Moon of the month, so a 'blue moon'.  And it's also a lunar eclipse! (If you're in Johannesburg or New Delhi, you're enjoying the view at the time I'm typing this).

I'm enjoying believing in astrology, so what I've picked up about Full Moon eclipses is that they pack the punch of 3x a regular Full Moon (and come only twice a year).  It indicates something in your life is coming to fullness or culmination.  Sometimes surprising or sudden changes happen on an eclipse.  Sometimes they happen a month to the date after (or before) the eclipse.  And they have a reverberative effect for the next 6 months.

Two weeks from now they'll be another eclipse, a New Moon solar one, that will indicate new beginnings.  So it's all good!

If you'd like to know more, I have some favorite websites where I get my information:
Susan Miller's Astrologyzone: http://astrologyzone.com which gives monthly predictions ("be sure to read your rising sign, too")
Astrodienst, from Zurich: http://astro.com which gives you detailed information based on your birth data.
The Cosmic Path, http://www.thecosmicpath.com/ which gives weekly & monthly predictions.

(That is, if you choose to believe in such things. You can decide on the Universe you choose to exist in; you could be in a parallel Universe where such things don't exist!)

Regardless, it's a good time to consider letting go of the past and moving forward into new creations.

Something I normally do at New Years is play the Transformation Game http://innerlinks.com either solo or, now that I'm married, with my husband.  It's a great way to focus for the coming year!

Energetically, it's important to release the past in order to have the space for new creations to happen.  Physically it's helpful, too.  There was this elderly woman who lives in a 4 bedroom house but never threw anything away.  She had a path from the back door to the kitchen, bathroom and her bedroom, but everything else was piled high with stuff of the past 50 years!  Your energetic space can look like that, too, if you don't cleanse and let go.

I'm not going to go into decluttering your  home, there are many other resources for that (http://flylady.com is a favorite of mine). There are lots of ways to energetically clear your space as well.

Ho'Oponopono http://www.hooponoponohelp.com/ is a pretty effective way to cleanse not only your inner space but patterns in the morphic field as well.

Robert Scheinfeld's Busting Loose model http://bustingloosefromthemoneygame.com does the same thing, different words, different language, ultimately clears your morphic field.

Releasing the old isn't like erasing memories, it's more putting them in the proper place (in the back of your aura).  It's de-energizing the emotion from those experiences so you're not wading around mired in past resentments, viewing the world through ancient "photographic slides" of your life.  What's great about the above two techniques is that you don't have to consciously know what you're clearing (it helps not to intellectualize).

Another simple technique is grounding, or what William Bloom calls "earthing".  Imagine an energy connection going from your lower abdomin (first/root chakra) to the center of the Earth.  Imagine it like one of those trash chutes chutes in old buildings that used to go down to the incinerator.   You can release imaginary trash bags filled with whatever you'd like to dump, down to the Earth's molten core.  Whatever you've release gets instantly transformed and recycled into beneficial energy for the planet.

You are 'lightening' your vibratory space, expanding and raising your awareness, and allowing in new and wonderful creations.  This is often the missing piece of the Law of Attraction, being energetically receptive to what you're attracting.


What happens when you do any (or all) of the techniques over time is that your life transforms.  In fun and magical ways.  Don't just do it on New Years, do it every day and any time it occurs to you (or you feel motivated to).  You can let go of the past and welcome new creations, regardless of the phase of the moon!!

So, try these (or make up your own) every day for the next week and see what happens.  And email me the results!  joan@joannewcomb.com