Guided Journeys

Below are a series of guided visualisations that you can use to tune into the energies of your moon, sun and rising sign. I wrote them some years ago for use in workshops and classes – hope you find them helpful. It’s good to find a quiet spot where you can work undisturbed and have a notebook to hand in case you want to write down any of the experiences you have.

Begin each journey sitting or lying down and taking a couple of deep breaths, followed by a gentle awareness of your breathing in and out. You might like to imagine letting go of any tension and tiredness each time you breathe out.

The visualisations have fairly simple themes, but feel free to record them so that you don’t have to rely on your memory…

Journey to the moon

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Your natal moon is the keeper of dreams and memories (including those from other lifetimes…). Its natal position (sign, house and aspects to other planets) gives information about your habit patterns, needs and feelings. Having a friend accompany you in the boat helps to support your lunar needs…

You’re going to take a journey into your past… into your emotional self…Imagine yourself sitting in a dinghy… seawater is lapping gently around you… you can see a beautiful stretch of coastline in the distance… and you have a good friend accompanying you…

Take a few moments to let your surroundings sink in…

You’re about to go diving into a cosmic sea… no need for breathing equipment… your emotional self can breathe in these waters…

When you’re ready, enter the water… your friend will wait for you…

Notice how you enter the water… then diving deeply down, notice your surroundings…

Gradually become aware of coloured areas in the water… as if a coloured spotlight were shining through…

Each colour represents a memory which you can re-experience by swimming into the spotlight…

Choose one of the colours and bathe yourself in its light, allowing yourself to experience the memory which it holds… (you can swim back out of the memory at any time if you need to…)

When this feels complete, make your way back up to the dinghy and your friend, who is waiting for you with a dry towel and a warm hug…

Then slowly bring your awareness back to your body in the room where you started the exercise…

Journey to the sun

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Your natal sun is what you are growing into; your life-path and goals. Your sun sign needs to become the centre of your own, unique ‘solar’ system… Ingrid Naiman sees the sun’s position as the new costume that we put on which mediates between the moon’s energy and that of the Ascendant (rising sign) and I’ve taken this idea as my starting point for the meditation.

See yourself as an actor/actress… you’ve just finished reading the script of a new play… you’re ready for a new challenge… it’s just the part you wanted…

Rising from your chair to try out one or two lines, you notice a pile of garments lying on the floor… and looking through them you realise that they’re exactly what you would want to wear to portray this character…

In your excitement you decide to try them on… let yourself notice for a moment how it feels to be dressed in this way…

Looking around you again, your surroundings have changed… the chair you were sitting in is no longer there… in fact, the room is no longer there… what you see around you is a new landscape…

Take some time to take it all in… and then notice a path… this is your path… allow yourself to follow it if you would like to… or simply sit and contemplate the direction… be aware of what you see, feel, experience…

And when you’ve taken in enough for now, find a place to rest… and as you rest let your awareness come back to your own body sitting in the room where you began…

Journey to the ascendant

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Your natal Ascendant (rising sign) represents your approach to the world; your ‘window’ on the world. Karen Hamaker-Zondag likens it to the drawbridge of your castle. I’m focusing here on Ingrid Naiman’s linking of the Ascendant to the Higher Self or soul’s purpose:-

To prepare for your journey, become aware of something that holds you here in your body… a symbolic anchor on this plane… something to bring you back to earth when you need it…

A length of invisible thread attaches you to your symbol and unwinds gradually as you rise very high… above your place of birth… above the world… above time… Picture your surroundings… notice any sensations…

A figure approaches you… a stranger it seems, and yet you have a sense that you know this person…

There may be a question in your mind or a request…

As the figure comes closer you feel their energy blending with yours and know this energy to be part of your own energy…

Your question or request is answered as the energies blend together… a gift from your Higher Self to bring back to this plane… keep it with you as you follow your thread back to your body…

Become aware of your body sitting in the room where you began… move about if you need to, to reconnect…

And when you’re ready… open your eyes…

Journey into relationship

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The following themes came from a dream which happened at the time of a Chiron transit to my natal Mars in Libra. The first lines come from a poem I wrote about the dream and the ending has been adapted so that you can include yourself in the imagery (watch for symbols in your journey that help to highlight your natal Venus, Mars, moon energies – you may also find past life themes coming up…)

A beautiful domed garden
A conservatory of sorts
Perfectly round
Marble floor
Earthenware planters standing
Baskets hanging
The scent of beautiful flowers and tropical tree-barks
And every now and then, a statue
No ordinary statue…
Carved, it seemed, from quartz-crystal; serene
Posed as if in mid-dance or mid-question
One could almost imagine the wine flowing, the music playing…
And so it was that each evening as darkness fell
Spirits of people crept into the crystal figures and gave them life
Of a sort
As much life as you can squeeze between dusk and dawn
Always the same faces, the same wine, the same music playing…

One statue remains…
This is for you…
Let yourself become one with the figure
Notice what sex you are/how you are dressed
And allow yourself to join the party
Notice who you are attracted to/what sort of music is playing/what you and other people are wearing…

Stay with the process until it feels complete for you… and then become aware of your body once more, sitting in the place where you began…

When you’re ready, you can open your eyes…

Journey to integrate the elements

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The balance of the elements in your natal chart is like a ‘backdrop’ to the planets and angles. This visualisation can help you to sense this balance in a more right-brained way. Enjoy!

See yourself standing at the edge of your scene – this is the place you’re about to create your inner landscape… you are the magician…

Perhaps a good friend has offered you the use of a cottage for the weekend… or you can imagine a place which would be ideal for exploring the elements…

How is the earth element going to be for you…? Do you want to walk on it… lie on it… make sculptures with it…? It’s entirely up to you…

And water… perhaps a lake… a river… a downpour of rain… exploring your feelings…?

The fire could be somewhere to warm yourself… or to cook a meal… or simply to stare at a candle flame and see your visions…

And the air… perhaps a meeting with friends… reading a good book… flying a kite on a windy day…

You choose how the elements are for you in your inner landscape… and the step into it and let your senses take over…

And when this exercise feels complete, just allow your awareness to come back to the room where you’re sitting…