An Eclipse: The moment you forgot who you are…

…an eclipse is the moment you forget who you are.

The sun — your consciousness — is always there. Steady. Unchanging. Quietly powerful. It doesn’t chase, doesn’t react, doesn’t need to prove anything. It just is.

The moon — your thoughts and emotions — move. They shift, they cycle, they reflect light but don’t create it. Some days they’re calm and beautiful. Other days they’re heavy, dark, overwhelming.

And then… the eclipse.

The moon drifts in front of the sun.

Not because the sun disappeared.

Not because your consciousness is gone.

But because something temporary has moved into the foreground.

In that moment, it feels like darkness is real.

Like the thoughts are truth.

Like the emotions are who you are.

But it’s an illusion of positioning.

The sun hasn’t gone anywhere.

This is what happens in your life:

A thought appears.

An emotion follows.

It grows, loops, feeds itself.

Until it blocks out your awareness completely.

And you say:

“I am anxious.”

“I am lost.”

“I am broken.”

But you’re not.

You’re just in an eclipse.

And the most important thing to remember about an eclipse?

It always passes.

You don’t need to fight the moon.

You don’t need to control every thought.

You don’t need to fix every emotion.

You just need to wait… and witness.

Because behind it all, untouched and unchanged—

You are still the sun.