Praesepe: 

 

The Praesepe Cluster (pronounced PREHsehpee) is my home place beyond the bedroom window. It is an open star cluster, like the Pleiades and Hyades, in the center of the constellation Cancer. At 577 light years from Earth it is one of the nearest clusters to us, and is composed of over 300 stars.

From this star cluster is a particular kind of healing energy, which among other things helps us integrate loss and transition. We come into alignment with the love in divine choreography, better able to accept and embrace changing priorities (trust the Process). This huge, dense star cluster is itself in transition. Having existed for 800 million years, it’s predicted to finally break apart about 10 million years from now.  Recent research indicates that it may actually be twin star clusters in long, slow motion collision for 800 million years.

Time is different there:  it moves sideways. There is the possibility to make detours, to let each moment expand. (Explaining why I sometimes have trouble with Earth-time.) This expansion is a common experience in meditation, in art... and in Praesepean Session Work. There is a world within each of those minutes. M.K. asks, ”How is a session with Moira like being in a casino? You have no idea what time it is.”