Moon Mind Calendar {March 14th to 20th}

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This Week's Intention: Strengthen inner resources. Move what needs to be moved.
Release pain, struggle and grief. Find your inner ground and stand firmly.

The Moon is waxing, slowly filling the emotional body. The week begins in the sixth tithi (phase), moving to the seventh tithi, marking the half way point in the cycle, with Sun newly in Pisces. Your light source will be fragile and ungrounded until it strengthens in degrees midweek. Stay grounded and get embodied. Use self care diligently, as the physical body will need extra care during this cycle of release and letting go.

Monday, March 14th
Moon in 6th tithi

The week begins with ample creative potential. With the eclipse portal still active, desires may be extra strong. Pay close attention to your wants, vs. your needs. It's important that you know the difference. Rohini activates immense creative potential. The masculine and feminine forces- Lord Brahma and goddess Saraswati- enliven this process. Lord Brahma contains and structures the ample creative wisdom of his feminine counterpart, allowing her creative abundance to come into form. What are you creating for your life? What action steps are moving you closer to this? Do you know how to manifest or are you feeling around in the dark, hoping for the light switch? It's time to upgrade your skills, ask for support and find new resources- in order for different results. Maximize your creative potential.

Monday night, Moon shifts to Mrigashirsha nakshatra, increasing extension, branching out and extending your range. What pathways are you opening up? What resources and support are helping you with this extension?

Tuesday, March 15th
Moon in 7th to 8th tithi

Late morning the emotional body shifts to Gemini, inviting in a dance between mind and feelings. Moon continues through Mrigashirsha nakshatra, supporting the cultivation of soma and nourishment within. This will require that you go slowly and tend to sacred pauses. Notice where you are pushing, rushing past the messages of support coming. Where can you listen more closely? What are you neglecting for your physical and emotional well being? Ketu and Mars give their drishti (gaze) to the Moon, causing forced release, struggle and painful encounters. Lean into these challenges and use it to let go of what is not working.

As evening arrives, Moon shifts to the challenging and forceful nakshatra, Ardra. Use this for emotional body release and purging grief, anger, sadness and pain from your being. Let tears, words, creativity move the suppressed emotions in healthy, constructive ways.

Wednesday, March 16th
Moon in 8th to 9th tithi

Ardra continues to be the influence over the day, stirring Rudra's power and stormy ways. Rudra's force moves prana, life force energy, which can be useful for making big strides, powerful actions, and creating momentum and change. Rudra is the father of the Maruts (winds) which are responsible for movement- inner and outer. Because prana insures health, life and balance, Rudra insures life and can support its harmony. He is a healer on every level. Sometimes force needs to be applied for release- where there has been no movement for too long. Rudra brings this release through the emotional body, though often a painful experience. The process supports the pranic winds to move more fluidly and in harmony with life. Move your prana today and allow emotions and tears to release in order for more balance within.

Evening brings a softer, gentler star to bring calm after the storm. Once Moon arrives in Punarvasu nakshatra, notice how the space that's been created through Rudra's release, invites in some new possibility. Lean in gently.

Thursday, March 17th
Moon in 9th to 10th tithi

Moon continues to move through Aditi's domain, Punarvasu. A moveable nakshatra, that can bring a variety of results. Aditi brings resources and support, abundance and goodness. She is the mother of 33 devas- including 12 Adityas, 11 Rudras, 8 Vasus, Indra and Prajapati. She brings equanimity, truth, unification and togetherness within the self and the universe. Yesterday Rudra cracked open and broke a part, creating space and opening. Today, Aditi helps you find a new type of nourishment to feel this space, while helping you put your pieces back together. Do this intentionally.

Early afternoon, Moon moves to its own sign, Cancer, and this sense of unification and nourishment strengthens. What are you opening to? What are you closing to?

Friday, March 18th
Moon in 10th to 11th tithi

As Moon continues through its own sign and Pushya nakshatra, tend to your emotional body, heart, chest and lungs. Feelings about mother, home and nourishment will be enlivened. You may notice grief or anger, or both. Find ways to release and move this through breath and body. Notice where there's resistance or avoidance. This will intensify the feelings, so create sacred space to deal with the emotions today. It will be worth your time and effort.

Mercury moves to its debilitation sign, Pisces,  on March 18th at 15:55 PST, joining Sun in this watery sign. The mental body is moving, changing and being cleansed with the fluid wisdom of Pisces. There is a certain experience of endings and release that will be experienced in this cycle, adding to the themes already enlivened by the eclipse portal and Sun in Pisces simultaneously. Both Sun and Mercury are out of the gaze of the other planets, offering a bit of freedom in expression as a result. The ruling planet of Pisces, Jupiter, is conjunct Rahu in Leo, causing shadowed expansion, resources and uncertainties that will effect the mind. Venus is considered exalted in Pisces, though currently still moving through a friendly sign, Aquarius, feeling the restructuring effects of Ketu. The mind will feel these changes as well, adding to instability at times. Read more about Mercury in Pisces in my Waxing Moon Horoscopes.

Late in the night, Moon moves to the final nakshatra of Cancer, Ashlesha and the mental body is activated. Stay out of the shadows and illusions.

Join me for a *free* Creative Ritual class on Sunday, March 20th in honor of the full Moon, eclipse portal and Holi celebrations. Gather resources to increase your creative potential! Join the List


Saturday, March 19th
Moon in 12th tithi

Sarpa, the snake, is enlivened as Moon continues through Ashlesha nakshatra. Mercury rules this constellation and is currently weak in degrees and now in its debilitation sign, Pisces. Tend to the mental body today and take this sensitivity into consideration. Don't push or over-stimulate the mind. Be gentle and go slow. Ashlesha can support mental body transformation when you directly address the shadow and illusions it stirs. Use this intention today and get support through resources like EFT (emotional freedom technique) to bring change.

Renewal, awakenings and beginnings arrive with the Vernal equinox tonight at 21:00 PDT. The length of light and darkness is almost equal, which marks a turning point. For the northern hemisphere, days will be getting lighter (longer). This is the beginning of spring's arrival! The sense of opening moves us towards completion as the eclipse portal ends on the 23rd.

Just before midnight, Moon leaps to Leo and Magha nakshatra. The ancestors are enlivened. Ask for their support.

Sunday, March 20th
Moon in 13th tithi

Moon in Leo amplifies the conjunction of retrograde Jupiter and Rahu. All three planets receive gaze from Ketu, Venus and Saturn. The emotional body may feel energized, but overwhelmed simultaneously. As the Moon moves through Magha nakshatra, its ruling planet, Ketu, provides an opportunity for cutting and clearing, as well as release and transformation. Are you resisting this release? The ancestors provide support with this process so ask for their support. Let spirit be a resource today with challenges and uncertainty. Call in spirit to provide guidance. The father's lineage is especially activated during Magha nakshatra transits, while the Moon represents mother. What needs to be cleared and released from both mother and father, your lineage, childhood? What doors are you closing? What doors are you opening?

Join me for a *free* Creative Ritual class on Sunday, March 20th in honor of the full Moon, eclipse portal and Holi celebrations. Gather resources to increase your creative potential! Join the List

Monday, March 21st
Moon in 14th tithi

Just as Monday begins, Moon shifts to Purvaphalguni nakshatra, increasing creativity and life force energy. Bhaga is an Aditya who brings resources and support through the material. Let his potential bring you gifts. Notice ideas, excitement, new choices and actions, as these are ripe with possibility and new growth. Allow passion to stir you and increase your momentum. Open your heart and expand your flow of love. What space has been created with all the clearing and releasing of the eclipse portal? What still needs to be let go? What seeds are you planting now? 

The week ahead brings a full Moon with a penumbral lunar eclipse and the Holi festival. Read more in my Full Moon Wisdom and the coming Moon Mind Calendar.

Join me for a *free* Creative Ritual class on Sunday, March 20th in honor of the full Moon, eclipse portal and Holi celebrations. Gather resources to increase your creative potential! Join the List

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