Baptism by Flame Week 🔥: Eclipse + Retrograde - Reminiscence and Regression Therapy

May I recognize
my own powerlessness
to save me
from me.

For Grace
always ready to flow
into us—luminous.

And screaming: - “AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Time to twist and shout!

  This week: Swallowed by a spiritual crisis? Bloom burst into breakthrough?—disruption, eruption, awakening.
  In this newsletter and accompanying video, I’ll share exercises, prompts, reflections, and invitations for this opportune window of transmutation.
  Time to burst forth from the cocoon and stretch your wings, butterfly.

Follow along with the cycles, day by day, as each day this week feels like an aeon of transformation:

  The day before Neptune spills its liquid vision into the cauldron of fire—entering Aries for the next six months and seeding the next 14 years—our Saturday March 29th 9 degree Aries Solar Eclipse ignites and catalyzes a new consciousness requiring deep healing. GRAB Faith by the Horns and Leap into your Destiny.

  Mars, ruler of this eclipse, squares Chiron. Since Mars has been in Cancer for four months already, our Chiron-wound issues—particularly those needing healing around family, ancestral lineage, and root systems of security—come to the surface.
  Are we too reliant on transient and conditional forces—financial instability, political chaos, the emotional barometers of our beloveds and family members?

  How do we surrender the ephemeral and remember the eternal?
  Practice mantra. Chant the names of Allah. Offer every bite of food and every conversation to the holy relationship.

Ya Salam, Grant me Peace, amidst the chaos.

Ya Sabur, Grant Me Patience, amidst reaction.

Ya Qawi, Grant me Strength and Fortitude, through my own weakness.

  As I share more in the video, both Venus and Mercury slide backward into Pisces from Aries this same week. Aries’ restlessness rides its ram-horns straight into Pisces’ nebulous, tidal dream-visions. 🐏
  You may find yourself saying:

“I could create a different life. Maybe I need to leave this city, this state, this country. Maybe I need a completely new experience. I need to leave my partner. I need to abandon this unhealthy pattern.

TRANSLATION: I need to throw king / queen ego into the alchemical lab and allow calcination—the first stage of alchemy—to burn away the swamp-dross, the murky detritus, flake off the old skin…”

  Then comes stage two: dissolution—the ability to perceive the myths, the patterns, the characters and stories I’ve been swimming (or drowning) in, dancing or re-enacting in unconscious repetition.

  And only from that place can we choose in the third stage—separatio, the fiery clarity of Aries:

This is who I will become, after witnessing all of whom I have been.
I choose to evolve every pattern.
I choose to return and align my personal will with the Divine Will. “In’shallah—God willing”—I re-Source myself to the Pattern Maker.

  It’s also the final week of the Ram-adan fast, culminating in Laylat al-Qadr—the Night of Power.
  This night, more powerful than a thousand months (roughly 83.3 years), connects directly to what we’re facing now:
  Two Retrogrades.
  An Eclipse Portal.
  Neptune hovering at the beginning and end of the zodiac (0° Aries and 29° Pisces).

  This is a moment where the karmas of your entire life—maybe of all lives—can rise for ultimate release and redemption.

  In the Quran, it is said that Laylat al-Qadr was the night the Quran descended to humanity through the angel Gabriel, received by the Prophet Muhammad during Ramadan. Since then, the last ten nights of Ramadan have been seen as especially sacred, offering an invitation for purification and the treasures of divine proximity. Did you know that Al Rahman is the name of Allah, the compassionate one, and the Adhan is the call to prayer. Thus Rama/Adhan - the Call to Pray for Compassion.

  🕯️ This week is our Calling, to receive our Callings. So take Vigil.
  Be vigilant—especially during Eclipses and Retrogrades.
  What better time to fast from unhealthy planetary patterns than when planets retrace their steps—particularly in signs of challenge like Venus in Aries or Mercury in Pisces AND during Balsamic Moons at the end of the zodiac (Thurs/Friday).

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Venus in Retrograde RELEASING

• Projection onto partners

• Vanity and arrogance

• Excessive social, cultural, and media engagement

• Impulsive shopping, doing, “busying”

• Pushiness, reactivity, conflict

Reflection:
  Have you revisited March 2017—the last time Venus was retrograde in Aries?
  What themes or souls have resurfaced now?
  Are past loves or friendships returning to offer healing, or reorient you toward your future?

Exercise: Photo Therapy

• Scroll randomly through your photo timeline. Stop at an image that calls to you.

• Let yourself go back to that moment. Who were the characters in your soul-play? What did the environment feel like? What were you learning?

• Let memory be mirror, medicine, and myth.

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Mercury Retrograde in Pisces: Re-ORIENTING 🌊

• Too much information, too many tabs, too many dopamine hits

• Unfinished books, unprocessed thoughts, unintegrated conversations

• Scattered attention and anxiety from algorithmic overload

Exercise: Journal Integration

• Go back over the past 3 months. Write about what you’ve learned, who you’ve connected with, what you’ve taught or been taught, epiphanies that rose from the chaos.

• Write with presence. Plan with foresight. Release the outcome.

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Eclipses + Retrogrades = 🦋

Reminiscence & Regression Therapy

  The portal is wide open now to re-member, to stitch our souls back together. We will all regress whether we want to or not.

If you have not done any Shamanic Breathwork or Regression or Hypnotherapy, there can be no better week for this with the double retrograde and eclipses. 🧘 Learn more about and book a session in Deep Memory Process Regression Therapy and its connection to Evolutionary Astrology here.

CelestiOwl Music for Regression / Breathwork / Meditation

Other practices you can do now working with Neptune/Pisces conjunctions later this week, if you find these helpful please share in the comments:

Journaling - Mental health requires deep intention now. I 'm working with all my clients now on journaling previous planetary rites of passage, cycles, and relations. More of these coming later this week.

• Write about any addictive patterns and what they have prevented for you or cost you.

• Write about any way you try to escape, and find the healthiest way to use your imagination through creating or ingesting uplifiting arts, music, dance, film, story, memoir.

Photo Therapy

• Scroll your photo timeline. Choose an image. Let the memory speak, sing, swim through you..

• See the characters as soul contract players. What messages were hidden in the mise-en-scène of your life?

Playlist Therapy 🎵

1. The Album That Helped Me Survive
     Write about the album that was your lifeline during a Dark Night of the Soul, during a period of spiritual crisis or profound transformation. How did the music accompany you through this "dark night" and into a place of healing? Listen to it again and let it be cathartic and revelatory as you write and reflect.

2. Behold Beloved
     Make a playlist for:
     - A former lover
     - A dear friend from your past
     - A current beloved

  Write to th

em through song.
  What arises when you listen to those tracks?
  Can you honor the soul contract?
  Can you still receive medicine form them, can you still give your own, and share in the unique signature of love and magic you played in with them?
  Can you forgive the illusion of separation?

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Closing Reflection

  We’d love to hear in the comments—or in a private message—how these exercises, playlists, or photo therapy explorations open doors of personal and divine remembrance or bring a deeper awareness of healing. What weakness have you discovered in your life during this raw and rare time? How deeply can you ask for Divine Grace?

May I recognize
my own powerlessness
to save me
from me.

For Grace
always ready to flow
into us—luminous.

Emanate forgiveness
through prayer pose,
and the poetry
of Rumi’s rose.

When we ask and allow,
the garden of the heart
shall glow.

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If this opened something in you—send it to someone you love.
I write these transmissions to offer both beauty and balm.

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