It's past 3 AM! Come outside with me and BREATHE!

For many years, I've awakened between 2:50 and 3:30AM almost every night. As I've gotten to this amazing age of 73, it's also a convenient time to head down the hall to the bathroom. Sometimes I slip on my shoes and a robe or sweater depending on the weather and step outside to my small porch that faces my front yard open to the sky. Almost immediately I take a deep, full breath as I close my eyes and, when they open if I'm lucky, on a clear night, I find Jupiter or Venus, the Pleiades or Orion or the Big Dipper. And most rare and magical, I might glimpse the fading whoosh of a meteor passing in front of me. 

I need the deep breath and sky to help me with whatever issue or question was circling in my brain when I woke up. I've read that it's common at the Lung Time (3:00-5:00AM) according to Traditional Chinese Medicine to be dealing with worry or guilt or unresolved issues of pain or grief. 

The time between 3:20 AM to 3:40 AM, is also known as the Brahma Muhurta, defined to be the best time to connect with the higher frequencies of the universe. This is the hour of possibility which means that the seed of spirituality that has been sown inside you starts sprouting. Yogis describe Brahma Muhurta as the best time for meditation.

Amazing what a quiet porch under the inky clear sky can do for your soul. You have started to respond to the consecration of the universe according to Sadhguru, “...if you become in rhythm with the life you will also wake up somewhere after 3 AM.”

Tomorrow's Full Moon in Aries will arrive around 4:57AM here in southern Illinois. Come join me. I'll probably be up, inhaling all the beauty of this world, grateful once again that I can rise on my own, breathe and exhale with ease, smell the fading of September and feel the dew on these feet that have walked so many miles. It's a good life and I am thankful for it all! Perhaps that's all the enlightenment I'll ever need.

Blessed Be!