EYE ON SPIRITUALITY: THANKSGIVING MESSAGE 2025
The vacations give us a valuable break from our every day grind and power us to replicate on the true which means of our life and why we’re right here. This Thanksgiving week, I arrived dwelling to my puppies giving me massive yelps and wagging tails, fully engaged of their dharma of simply giving unconditional love. They don’t criticize. They don’t discover fault. They simply admire—and that’s the lesson they’re right here to show us.
On Thanksgiving Day, November twenty seventh, Saturn stations direct at 0 levels Pisces after being retrograde since June. In my practically 4 a long time of training Vedic astrology, I’ve discovered that Saturn’s station intervals—these days when it seems to cease within the sky earlier than altering path—are among the most intense and transformative instances we expertise. You will have felt caught this previous week, as should you’re pushing towards an invisible wall. Choices might really feel heavier. Saturn is asking you one remaining time: “Have you ever actually realized the lesson?”
We are likely to blame Saturn and our lives, however Saturn is like that robust highschool coach who works you exhausting so you may win the race. The important thing with Saturn will not be to withstand its strain however to acknowledge what it’s attempting to show us. Saturn rewards exhausting work, duty, meditation, and most significantly—gratitude. In my guide on Saturn, I remind readers: exchange lack with gratitude, exchange fault-finding with reward. This isn’t only a religious platitude—it’s the important thing to remodeling Saturn’s heaviness into grace.
THE BLESSING OF WATER: THE GRAND TRINE OF NOVEMBER 16-17
Simply ten days in the past, we skilled one of the lovely astrological configurations of the 12 months—a Grand Trine in water indicators connecting Jupiter in Most cancers, Saturn in Pisces, Solar in Scorpio, and Mercury in Scorpio. This uncommon alignment peaked November 16-17 and fostered peace, stability, and wealth manifestation. Water indicators are about feeling, move, and religious connection. This Grand Trine was a cosmic reminder that once we align with the present of Divine love, abundance flows naturally.
Consider it like this: when water flows freely in a river, it nourishes all the pieces in its path. However once we dam it up with criticism, resentment, and fault-finding, the water turns into stagnant and poisonous. The Grand Trine reminded us to let love and appreciation move freely. Venus in Libra, which ends right now, has been restoring concord and stability to {our relationships} all month. Now’s the time to consciously select to maintain that move going.
FAULT-FINDING VERSUS APPRECIATION: THE SATURN TEACHING
Saturn in Pisces creates a selected problem. Pisces is the pure twelfth home of the zodiac—the realm of the unconscious, hidden fears, and self-sabotaging patterns. When Saturn is right here, our internal critic can turn out to be overwhelming. We discover fault with ourselves, with others, with the world. The thoughts churns with detrimental judgments: “I ought to have finished this higher.” “They all the time let me down.” “Nothing ever works out for me.”
That is Saturn’s lowest vitality—the unhealthy guardian who restricts us with an excessive amount of worry and criticism. However right here’s the reality: fault-finding is simply worry dressed up as judgment. After we criticize others, we’re actually projecting our personal fears of not being adequate. After we criticize ourselves, we’re swimming in Saturn’s sewer pit of remorse somewhat than standing within the current second the place actual energy lives.
The treatment is easy however requires a aware alternative: Select appreciation over fault-finding.
Most of what we criticize is a psychological phantasm. Eckhart Tolle reminds us that 99% of our ideas are rubbish—so why purchase into them? My mantra for Saturn is simply to acknowledge the psychological noise in your thoughts after which say, “Saturn, you may go now. I don’t want the criticism.” We’ve the facility to not simply settle for the rubbish that goes by way of our heads. Our future is to command the planets if we’re aware and religious folks.
THE VOICE OF CRITICISM VERSUS THE VOICE OF APPRECIATION
Let me adapt an exquisite educating from Emmanuel’s Guide that speaks on to this:
What does the voice of criticism whisper to you?
Criticism speaks to you in logic and motive. It assumes the language of care itself.
Criticism tells you, “I wish to make you higher.” Appreciation says, “You’re already entire.”
Criticism says, “Give me proof. Present me proof. Give me one thing to repair.”
Loving appreciation says, “Solely give me this second… Open your coronary heart and see the Divine in all the pieces.”
Each second of your life you’re supplied the chance to decide on—appreciation or criticism, to trudge by way of the mud or to drift on water’s grace.
THE PRACTICAL PATH: TRANSFORMING THE ENERGY
Mars is combust (too near the Solar) from November sixth by way of March twenty sixth, with peak irritability coming mid-December by way of mid-February. This implies rigidity is simmering beneath the floor for all of us. It’s simple to let that rigidity leak out as criticism and fault-finding. However we will remodel that vitality by way of religious follow.
Do extra meditation, yoga, and breathwork. These practices transfer us out of the essential thoughts and into the appreciative coronary heart. That journey from head to coronary heart—these essential 8-12 inches—is the true journey towards enlightenment, however it takes a aware option to journey that distance.
The Mountain pose in yoga grounds us to the earth chakra, serving to us really feel our toes greedy the earth and creating extra safety in our lives. The Chair pose does the identical. After we really feel grounded and safe, we’re much less prone to fall into Saturn’s entice of criticism and worry.
Use Saturn’s vitality as a wake-up name to deal with your duties with grace. Handle your funds, get into your physique, nurture your well being—however do it from a spot of self-appreciation somewhat than self-criticism. Search for the magician’s “criticism sleeve” and expose him for the fraud that he’s. You’re infinitely cherished on this universe.
MERCURY DIRECT: THE COMMUNICATION SHIFT
Mercury separated from its troublesome conjunction with Mars on November twenty third, and goes direct on November twenty ninth. This implies the gridlock in communication—each inner and exterior—is lastly breaking apart. The federal government shutdown that plagued Thanksgiving week is prone to resolve quickly. Extra importantly, the interior gridlock of detrimental self-talk can resolve too.
As Mercury goes direct, follow aware communication. Earlier than you converse criticism, ask your self: “Is that this coming from love or from worry? Am I attempting to repair somebody, or can I admire them as they’re?” The reply will reveal whether or not you’re working from Saturn’s good guardian vitality (self-discipline with love) or unhealthy guardian vitality (restriction with worry).
CHOOSE APPRECIATION: A THANKSGIVING PRACTICE
This Thanksgiving, make a aware follow of appreciation:
- While you sit all the way down to your meal, admire not simply the meals however the palms that ready it, the earth that grew it, the solar that nourished it.
- While you see relations, admire them not for who you want they have been, however for who they’re proper now on this second.
- While you discover your thoughts discovering fault—with your self, with others, with circumstances—pause and say, “Saturn, you may go now.” Then consciously exchange that criticism with one factor you admire.
- Spend time with young children and small animals. They reside in pure appreciation, untainted by the essential thoughts. Allow them to educate you.
- Hearken to music. Dance. Create artwork. Get a therapeutic massage. These Venusian actions aren’t frivolous—they’re obligatory medication for Saturn’s typically harsh classes.
Keep in mind: appreciation doesn’t imply ignoring actual issues or accepting dangerous conditions. It means approaching life from a basis of gratitude somewhat than grievance. After we admire what’s, we have now the clear imaginative and prescient and internal power to enhance what wants bettering.
THE HIGHER PURPOSE
Saturn is attempting to maneuver us into the current second. After we’re caught in criticism—of ourselves, of our previous errors, of others’ failings—we’re not current. We’re trapped in regrets about yesterday or fears about tomorrow. However the current second is the place the Divine lives. The current second is the place love exists. The current second is the place actual transformation occurs.
This Saturn station on Thanksgiving week will not be an accident. It’s a cosmic reward asking us: Will you select to swim within the sewer pit of fault-finding, or will you stand within the clear water of appreciation?
Select appreciation. It must be a aware alternative.
You’re infinitely cherished on this universe. Your puppies understand it. Babies understand it. The Divine is aware of it. It’s time you already know it too.
Blissful Thanksgiving, Everybody.