September is a great month to exit the gridlock of “getting somewhere” and drench our head in mantra. It’s also the optimal time to establish a new mantra practice. Here’s why:
On September 1st, Saturn retrogrades out of “just do it” Aries back into the slower, energy-aligning sign of Pisces until mid-February, 2026. That’s 5 1/2 months of fine-tuning whatever Saturn in Aries set in motion over the last three months.
Pausing to stay true to the callings of our soul may slow down some projects, but the results will likely be richer and more satisfying.
Ready to dive deeper into the dharma of Saturn in Pisces? Check out: When Gravity is a God: The tough love teachings of Saturn in Pisces.
Mystic in the Matrix
Is one time of year better than another to start a mantra practice? Indeed.
Every year, during the Equinox months of March and September the New and Full Moons fall on the Virgo/Pisces axis. I call this the “mystic in the matrix” polarity– an opposition particularly activated this year, due to the Solar and Lunar eclipses falling in the same Virgo/Pisces polarity.
Virgo rules healthy routines, protocols and all manner of psycho-physical purification. Pair this with the hypnotic, veil-thinning sign of Pisces and you get the perfect conditions for implementing some fresh Virgo protocols for Pisces communion.
Something wants to “go dark”
Okay, so it’s eclipse season. We have a Lunar eclipse on the 7th and a Solar eclipse on the 21st. Something wants to “go dark.” People often pivot out of old lives into new ones now.
But before you say goodbye to your job, your mate or your home land, make sure it’s not some subtle habit of mind that wants to go dark: an insidious, soul-killing paradigm that’s bound to travel with you.
Egoic automation and blind spots: we all suffer them and they’re most often exposed in the throes of collaborative self-inquiry (astrology included).
The question is, how do we loosen our identification with them and reset these karmically ingrained habits of mind in our everyday life?
Have you ever tried targeted, work-a-day chant?
I’m not talking about corny affirmations here, or obtuse Sanskrit syllables. We need accessible dharmic lullabies in our mother tongue that stroke the head of orphaned ego, upgrade its looping me-stories and reset the people and things we magnetize around us.
How do we know if we’ve found a good mantra? Simple. Over time, it drops us into silent seeing.
Do mantras seem contrived and self-absorbed– even delusional ? I understand. I, too, didn’t take them seriously until I noticed how dirty I felt splashing my beliefism all over everybody.
Gradually, it dawned: intelligent, artful mantras are ambient echos from the divine mind, the original anti-depressant and the best addiction we’ll ever form.
Ready for a self-imposed sound bath?
Here’s a few Sacred Soundbites (posted daily on my WhatsApp group) that have poured through me over the last year. Whimsical or sober, monotone or melodic– the choice is yours. The point is to build the muscle of medicinal voicing so you can get inspired to devise your own.
Mantras
Hold me in our timeless glory and let the whole human story take a rest.
The only loss I’ve ever mourned is the mystery of you in my heart, unborn.
Breath is not holy or evil; no different the vaporous mind.
From the hip of Your oneness, two legs start to dance.
Matter and spirit, you wear the same pants!
There’s nothing sadder than an unrung bell. Strike our hearts, let the music swell.
Throw me in your fire, cook me with your heat—
every feeling I will offer, like a flower at your feet.
Send me to your valley send me to your peak
no matter where I go, you’re the One I meet.
The following is my go-to mantra. I like it because it’s so portable. Recited inwardly, or aloud, it blends beautifully with the cadence of walking:
Unborn, undying, imperishable, we are this timeless presence
Unborn undying imperishable, we are this timeless presence
Safe at home in the heart of god, we are this timeless presence.
Safe at home in the heart of god, we are this timeless presence.
September 7th Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces:
Conjunct Mercury, this Eclipse invites meditative relating.
Dharma:
Shut up until you feel their suffering.
Inquiry:
How can I explain this without robbing it of its mystery?
Reckoning:
Most people are devotionally parched.
Their eyes pleading, “Feed me a magic
sentence that ‘abracadabras’ me free
from mind-on-a-countdown.”
September 21st New Moon Solar Eclipse in Virgo
Square Uranus, this Eclipse dares us to serve in more spontaneous, original ways.
Dharma:
There is no meaning in life unless you’ve never brushed your teeth before.
Inquiry:
What way of serving so naturally absorbs me that doer-ship disappears and I turn into “energy moving?”
Reckoning:
Criticism is constipated teacher/mentor karma looking for release– not though knowership, but through mediumship.
Closing Prayer
Thank you Father for the purity of your most holy children whom you have created guiltless, forever.
Help us to perceive– in whatever darkness and suffering is evoked during this eclipse season– the soul’s positive intent, twisted by orphaned ego on its way out into the world– as we honor Your unbroken presence and populate our world with angels so we can sincerely say,
“How fortunate the chance to light this lantern of flesh with Your supernal, soul-seeing light.”
September Transits
Sep 1st- Saturn goes retrograde in Pisces
Sep 2nd- Mercury enters Virgo
Sep 6th – Uranus goes retrograde in Gemini
Sep 7th- Full Moon Total LUNAR Eclipse in Pisces
Sep 18th- Mercury enters Libra
Sep 19th- Venus enters Virgo
Sep 21st- New Moon Partial SOLAR Eclipse in Virgo
Sep 22nd- Mars enters Scorpio
Sep 22nd- Sun enters Libra (Equinox)
Hunter Reynolds
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