 This Week's Intention: Move into the receptive, the sacred pause, the inner listening. Align with your yes- the one that accepts support, resources, new possibilities, more guidance. Drop your arms. Identify all the places within you that resist the nourishment you need. The struggle is real, honor it, but use it to heal and transform, rather than staying stuck. The week begins on the tail end of a full Moon weekend. Moon continues through its debilitation sign, offering remnants of the Scorpio full Moon. Deeper receptivity is available in this waning cycle, let this be an intention as the days get darker and turn more inward with the waning Moon. Mercury is now direct, though Saturn and Mars continue in retrograde motion causing challenges with stops, starts, frustrations and confusion with actions and pauses. Monday, May 23rd Moon in 2nd tithi Dvitiya Moon continues through Jyestha until noon. Let your morning be simple and clarify what you need for mental stamina this week. Write to-do lists, clarify and organize. Let meditation and nature be your morning resources in order to set the tone for the week to come. As Moon leaps to Mula midday, Nirrti arrives with her chaos and confusion. She is adharma, against dharma, meaning she can provoke challenges that will derail your best efforts for success. To read the full report, sign up for my membership.
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 This Week's Intention: Part of you is ready to awaken, the other part of you is resisting. Part of you is moving forward, while the rest of you is moving in reverse. Where are you in conflict with opening and closing? Seek to unite these opposing forces within. The week begins with a debilitated Moon sandwiched in between retrograde Saturn and Mars. This puts pressure on the emotional body and stirs conflicting feelings. Transformation is afoot. Can you feel it? By the end of the week there will be four of the nine planets in retrograde motion (six, counting the always retrograde nodes, Rahu and Ketu). Returns are inevitable. Wherever transiting Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Mercury are moving through your personal jyotish chart, you can expect returns in these areas of your life. Monday, April 25th Moon in 4th tithi Chaturthi Moon continues through Anuradha nakshatra until midmorning when it shifts into Jyeshtha nakshatra. Moon is neatly sandwiched in between two challenging planets- Mars and Saturn- both retrograde. There is pressure, heat and conflict being provoked. Saturn and Mars represent opposing forces, while Scorpio increases the symbol of polarities and seeking transformation. The mental body will be your most potent resource for change today. How are the inner conflicts keeping you locked in old programming, stories and limiting beliefs? To read the full report, sign up for my membership. Do you want more astrological details about the new Moon and the coming cycle? Use my 2015 Moon Wisdom Calendar to learn more about the cosmic themes. Learn More. *Horoscopes are based on your Vedic (sidereal) rising sign. You can also check your Moon and Sun signs for further insight. Do the same with your Navamsa signs for further clarity. Do not use these horoscopes with your Western sign (Tropical) as there is likely no correlation. These horoscopes are meant to be used as a broad overview of the current transits and obviously do not address the specifics of an individual’s unique chart. Aries: Continue to dance with themes of wants vs. needs. Your heart longs to knit these two together, to integrate and let go of fears. Feed yourself well, be nourished and express with poignancy. You may feel unclear about what you really need at this time. This is the root of your emotions- the anger and frustrations. Getting clear on what your emotions are really telling you is essential for getting your needs met in more lasting and sustainable ways. The past can support the present. Your emotions are the messenger. Listen carefully. Taurus: With great feeling can come great action and the ability to powerfully manifest. What feelings are moving through you right now? What challenges are emerging and how can these obstacles be used as a resource for change and transformation? Take your emotions into movement and art. Transform them alchemically and let them take on a new form. What can you harvest with this process? Your anger and frustration hold great power. It's your job to channel this effectively, rather than let it hold you back. Gemini: So much creativity is available to you right now but it's your introspection that is allowing this flow. Meditation, relaxation and taking multiple pauses will allow for deeper awareness, increased creativity and necessary preparation before the coming outward cycle hits. Frustrations are a reminder to slow down, listen, allow. Changes are a reminder to be open to new directions and possibilities. Surrender and allow. Let relationships be a resource for greater nourishment and support. Cancer: Feelings are a powerful resource for you right now. What are they trying to tell you about your need for nourishment and support? Sustainable expansion is only possible when we feel safe and supported. What do you need in order to create more of this in your life and in your body? What can help you receive what is available right now? Allow change be a resource for getting your needs met in new ways. Change can do you good. Surrender and open to possibilities. The holding and grounding is alive all around you. Can you feel it? Leo: Rest, restore and pause. Take time for deep nourishment and listening to your emotional body, your feeling wisdom. What does it need? What does it tell you about your expansion process, change and transformation? There is a lot of power and charge within you which can help you make change right now. But don't act just for the sake of action. Make sure your steps are aligned, embodied and are coming from a place of deep knowing. This will help you trust your steps and trust your landing. Virgo: Put your focus on teaching and gaining more wisdom. Ample passion and power are available for you and your dharma right now. What is working and what isn't? What feels helpful and resourceful and what is challenging and impeding your momentum? Take the obstructions into creative acts. Paint, dance, move, explore, transform. Trust in your dynamism, your actions and your forward momentum. Trust in creativity and your ability to make change. Trust your choices. Libra: Are you speaking the truth or just the past? What stories connected to your personal mythology have you on auto pilot? How are these old stories keeping you for getting the support and nourishment you need and want so badly? Catch yourself in the act! Notice when the mind starts to go into the past and re-visit memories, stories and illusions. These stories are gripping you, keeping you from your greatness. How can you use them as a way to transform yourself and make lasting change? Scorpio: Move, change, grow. Find new ways to be held, supported and deepen your trust in life. As you move and transform, notice your responses. Are you resisting the nourishment and support coming to you? Are you receptive to the many forms it arrives in? Awaken new feelings of home within you and trust your landing. You are much stronger than you think you are. Allow yourself to make necessary changes that deeply nourish you and let spirit offer guidance. Remember challenges are opportunities. Get your needs met in new ways. Sagittarius: Intense feelings are available to you right now. What are they sharing with you about finding deeper nourishment and comfort in your relationships? This is a time of powerful integration, digestion and assimilation of life's nourishment. It's here, available and ready to be received. Are you allowing it in and saying yes? Part of you is not able to accept and hold the food of life. What is the resistance and how is it keeping you from feeling connected to yourself and others? Capricorn: Feelings are alive and well within you and helping you connect more deeply to others. Your pelvis is the entry point for feeling life. Manifestation is a result of feeling, not thinking. What is feeling nourishing and supportive right now? In your body, in your life and in your relationships? Cultivate more presence with this feeling of deep nourishment and use it as a resource for creating more of it. There is great power available to you in the emotional body right now. Feel, sense, imagine, create. Repeat. Aquarius: Feelings and emotions are powerful resources for you right now. How are you using them to inform your actions and choices? What can your emotions share with you about your needs and longings for connection and creation? Notice where you may be disconnecting, dissociating with your emotional body because it's to painful, challenging or overwhelming to feel. How can you take smaller steps and have gentle acceptance without closing doors or putting up walls? Keep your eyes open and be willing to listen to your heart wisdom. Pisces: Powerful feelings and emotions are alive within you. Are you surfing the waves or drowning in the overwhelm? These emotions are directly connected to your sense of power and empowerment. You can let them disconnect you from your core, or let them inform a deeper connection with your center. Use your feelings of anger, frustration, confusion and depression to get more potent answers. Let these emotions inform your creativity and your process of creation and connection. Move, paint, dance, sing them through you. Move with them and move them, don't be destroyed by them. Need some extra guidance and clarity? Schedule a session with me. Plan your week in tune with nature. Never miss a planetary update. Sign up for my weekly newsletter. Was this post helpful? Please share it with a friend! Thank you. Moon begins its waning cycle after full Moon in Scorpio on June 2nd. Scorpio is the Moon's debilitation sign and because Moon will also be conjunct retrograde Saturn at the time of the full Moon, themes for the coming cycle invite certain pressures- which can intensify the emotional body effects we experience. This combination however will provide deep release, like a valve that needs to be opened, inviting in a sense of letting go and waves of grief to surface.
Ride the waves and allow the tides to move you. This emotional release is a healthy and necessary part of landing, grounding, and finding deeper support and nourishment right now. Don't underestimate the power of letting go and emotional surrender. As the Moon continues to wane, we may feel extra sensitive. Give your self to gentleness, allow for vulnerability, and create safe space for your fragility. Tend to your Self Care diligently right now and allow for extra rest, relaxation and rejuvenation. Mercury goes direct on the 11th of June, and this vital time of mental body clean up begins to assist us with more forward motion. What steps did you re-trace and what messages arrived? What have you learned about expressing yourself more potently? What needs are clearer now in order to help you find deeper stability, support and nourishment? What is helping you share yourself in new ways? Sun continues his tight conjunction with Mercury and Mars as these three planets transit through Taurus together. Heat and pressure ignite themes around support, stability and self expression, all in the name of finding deeper nourishment. Manifestation of our desires on the material plane of existence, come to the surface. Will we make it or break it? Sun and Mars have an especially tight conjunction towards the latter half of this waning cycle, culminating in exact conjunction of degrees on the 13th. Though these two planets are friendly to each other, the heat may be unbearable at times. Be mindful of your words and don't become a fire breathing dragon! With Rahu and Saturn's gaze upon this fiery duo and their conjunction with Mercury as well, we may feel heated mentally. Prevent overwhelm, getting overheated, burned out, and exhausted. Use ample self care to help with this. Just before the new Moon, Mars and Sun chase each other into Gemini, sparking a new heat wave of creativity, communication and connectivity. Sun makes the leap first on June 15th, with Mars following close behind a few hours later. A certain dynamism is sure to follow, which leads us directly into the coming waxing cycle. This will be a time of many new insights, ideas and a very strong imagination. Success will be determined by how well this creative energy is put to good use. Being selective about which ideas get your action steps will be crucial. Every idea is great, but not every idea needs to be acted upon. New Moon is Tuesday, June 16th at 09:06 CDT while in Gemini and Mrigashirsha Nakshatra. This waxing Moon cycle brings us four planets transiting Scorpio- Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Venus- as well as an exalted Mars in Capricorn. This is a powerful time of transformation. Mars will help us with fulfilling duties, goals and action steps. If we are paying attention to our emotional landscape, we may notice an increase in anger, agitations and inner frustrations, as well as increased fear and other uncomfortable emotions. Potent and powerful messages are just under the surface if you're willing to go deeper and ask what your deepest, darkest needs are. Hidden in our shadows are gifts waiting to be found. As mentioned in my New Moon Wisdom post: "This cycle in many ways is the final extraction process of our past many months of dancing with all that has transpired in and through Libra. We are finally able to release what needs to be released, while keeping parts and pieces that we want. The next step will be to use what we've harvested and let the manure become the necessary nutrients for our garden of life." The next Full Moon is on December 6th with an exalted Moon in Taurus in the creative and benefic Rohini nakshatra. More on this in my next Moon Wisdom post. Horoscopes for the Waxing Moon Cycle {November 22nd to December 6th} *Horoscopes are based on your Vedic rising sign. You can also check your Moon and Sun signs for further insight. Do the same with your Navamsa signs for further clarity. Do not use these horoscopes with your “Western Sign” as there is likely no correlation. These horoscopes are meant to be used as a broad overview of the current transits and obviously do not address the specifics of an individual’s unique chart. Aries: With four planets in your 8th house right now, it's time to really do some deep investigative personal work. Use this time for transformation- changing old fears, vulnerabilities, traumas and haunts into awakenings and awareness. How far are you willing to go in order to change? At the same time, work is picking up and career seems to be charging forward mightily. Make goals, take action steps and be bold, but not at the cost of your personal development work. Or can they both inform each other? Self care practices continue to be helpful and important part of your personal process right now. This is non-negotiable. Taurus: Your romantic compulsions are leading you right into your most important inner work right now. The mirrors coming to you from others in the coming weeks will be powerful reflections for you to introspect, transform and change- if you're willing to go towards your darkness in the process. Learning from your anger, your pain, emotional turmoil, and frustrations will be valuable, so charge forth! This is a time of depth and healing if you truly choose to use it as such. The gift you receive for your efforts will enhance your ability to receive, to be nurtured and nourished. Isn't that what you are craving anyway? Gemini: It is all about healing and being healed for you right now. Digesting and assimilating old patterns, behaviors and parts of your life that are long overdue. These pieces are connected to your creativity, courage, action steps, passion and relationships- all from your past. Suddenly, you are feeling charged and motivated to make some big, bold changes; Mars will help you with moving through your past once he moves to your eighth house. Your emotional body is a primary resource for you at this time. Your feelings connected to comfort, support, nourishment and money, will help you look into your shadows and see the missing links you've been over looking. Get comfortable with your discomfort. Cancer: Your fifth house is crammed with four planets right now which helps you address aspects of your passion, your romantic needs and wants, as well as your creative abilities. Are you listening to your emotional body for the memos? Trust and safety issues come to the forefront for you, so be willing to go more deeply into your insecurities. I promise you there is a gift wrapped piece of your soul waiting in these emotional challenges, if you are willing to dive in and be curious about your darkness. Relationships are a challenging and yet powerful resource for you right now. What is your deepest need? And what aren't you receiving in your life? What are the wounds that keep you from healing and moving forward? Go there. Leo: Your heart-center, home life and emotional body is your central focus right now. Use this time to touch deeply on your emotions, your feelings, and your needs for comfort, safety and security. There's a certain willingness to dive into your healing work right now as Mars exalts in your 6th house. What old patterns have been keeping you in the dark, locked into your shadows? Awareness and awakenings will be assisted by giving yourself ample alone time to linger in silence, contemplation and meditation. What parts of your past are keeping you trapped in fear, hurt and filled with anxiety? What is the brave face you wear truly hiding? Take your masks off. Virgo: It's taking all your courage and willingness to look into your biggest challenges. Right now, Rahu is still in your head. You're either missing the biggest gifts of your shadow work, or diving right in! Creativity, the arts, the hands and arms, are all vital resources for you and your healing work. Make sure you are working directly with your body, mind and emotions in order to address what is holding you back on all three levels of your life. What is your resistance and where is it located in your body? What emotions are the most challenging and potent and how do you hide them? Be curious and start shining light into your dark corners. Dance with your shadows. As Mars goes exalted in your fifth house, your passion, digestion and anger get amplified. Take this as a good sign, but work with this properly to harvest the gold. Extract the passion. Libra: Your second house is fully charged with four planets right now, while Mars is exalted in your fourth house of heart, home and liberation. This is a time period that tests your comfort levels. Discomfort is coming in multiple forms and effects your heart, your emotions and your sense of security. I ask you to go into these challenging feelings with curiosity, willingness and courage. Your current state of affairs (financial and otherwise) may seem to have no connection to your early childhood losses and disappointments, yet the planets say otherwise. What pieces of your childhood need to be confronted, cleaned up and healed in order for you to finally get the deep nourishment and comfort you so desperately crave? Your work is exploring the emotional body messages very intimately. Don't forget to let the rage out in healthy ways. Scorpio: It truly is your time to take the spotlight and you are likely feeling it. Your first house has four planets in it, meaning your head is filled with multiple types of energy, pulling you in multiple directions. Work with your past and the anxieties and fears that it challenges you with. Forge forth with creative and career projects. Liberate yourself from old relationship patterns and the vows you've made around them. Work consistently and methodically to reach your goals and aspirations. Mars is exalted right now in your third house of hands, creativity, the arts and communication. Be bold and make the most of this time in order to courageously move forward in your life- towards goals, desires and dreams. If you want it to happen, create it. Sagittarius: Mars moves out of your head and into your mouth, your second house. Watch your anger levels for signs about your needs for nourishment, comfort and support. What is underneath the anger? What need has not been met for you and how is this connected to an early childhood wound you may be carrying still? Notice your food choices in relation to your emotions and avoid excess alcohol and intoxicants. With four planets in your twelfth house, focus on retreats, travel and alone time for now. This may help you digest some of the past that has yet to be assimilated. Seek resources and tools that help with this releasing and letting go phase. What are you finally ready to let go of and liberate yourself from? Look to your emotional body for clues, especially the challenging emotions that are stuffed neatly into your body. Capricorn: You are charged and fully loaded right now Capricorn. In your usual work pony fashion, you know how to really push it into high gear to get the job done! With so many irons in the fire that are blazing hot, I have to be that voice of reason, the one that reminds you to pause and hit reset from time to time. Like every day, multiple times a day! These pauses will help you fully integrate the intensity occurring right now- in your relationships, in your head, with friends and possibilities. There are gains and losses right now, as there always are, and it's your job to dance with both effectively. Pluses and minuses represent polarities and the grande illusion of separateness. For you, working with your vulnerabilities and weaknesses as actually the supportive allies that they are, will be important to contemplate and reconcile with. You might finally realize why you push so hard. Aquarius: Your career is demanding most of your energy right now and requiring you to cut losses, find some silver linings, and re-prioritize. This is an ideal time to be thinking creatively and communicating effectively to get yourself recognized. Meet and greet the right people and be ready to make changes that have been a long time coming. Mars is exalted in your twelfth house right now. Relationships may be mixed with passion and rage. You are working with themes of nourishment, comfort and support right now. Your shadow has you both refusing to see what needs to change for your ultimate needs to get met, while simultaneously making you address this issue head on. Pay attention to your emotions right now. If it doesn't feel right, it isn't. Pisces: This is a powerful time for you, your wisdom and dharmic path Pisces. With four planets in your auspicious ninth house, it's time to put the pieces together and step firmly into your life purpose. Look for clues in your emotional body wisdom. Sense and feel into your yeses and no's. Serendipity and extra support are good signs that you are heading in the right direction, a nourishing direction. As Mars moves to your eleventh house, you will need to keep your momentum going with action steps, goals and maintaining focus on your desired outcomes. Working with self trust and intuition are vital as you become more attuned to what is right for you and what is wrong for you. 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Plan your week in tune with nature. Never miss a planetary update. Sign up for my weekly newsletter. Was this post helpful? Please share it with a friend! Thank you New Moon Wisdom + Creative Ritual for the Waxing Moon Cycle {November 22nd to December 6th}11/21/2014 Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. ~Brené Brown The New Moon is at 06:32 am CST in Scorpio and Anuradha nakshatra. Saturn, Venus and Sun are in Scorpio as well, which puts four planets in this sign at this time. All four planets receive drishti from Ketu and Jupiter. Three of these planets are in Anuradha nakshatra, while Saturn is still in Vishaka. This combination of energy exemplifies change, transformation and working with our darkness, in very tangible ways. While also enlivening a certain theme of gaining insights from releasing and letting go. This new Moon invites in a certain mystical element, one that invites us to go into our depths and harvest our inner riches. But don't be surprised if you discover shadows instead of light, as this is the gift of Scorpio, the 8th house, and its ability to transform our beings. But from the depths of our darkness, we can truly access our vulnerability. It's here in this fragility, where our deepest and most profound ability to transform and change exists. Vulnerability truly is our power, our strength. It is in our willingness to work with our shadows, our own darkness, that we can transform ourselves. Scorpio is directly connected to the eighth house and all eighth house matters of the zodiac. The body parts connected to the eighth house and Scorpio are the genitals and the excretory organs. These parts of our human body, our physical cosmic form, exemplify our vulnerability, as well as our ability to release and transform. These parts of the body are also part of our second chakra, which correlates to our sensing and feeling capabilities, our animal instincts and our human animal needs. This is also why the Moon (the sensing and feeling, emotional body of our being) is debilitated in Scorpio. We must not negate these aspects of our being. Our sensing and feelings, our vulnerabilities and our ability to release and let go are vital for our health, well being, our sense of vitality and wholeness. These themes are alive in this coming waxing cycle so pay close attention. This cycle in many ways is the final extraction process of our past many months of dancing with all that has transpired in and through Libra. We are finally able to release what needs to be released, while keeping parts and pieces that we want. The next step will be to use what we've harvested and let the manure become the necessary nutrients for our garden of life. With multiple layers of Mitra influencing this new Moon, fine detail becomes another part of our theme in the coming cycle. Mitra is a deity that rules precision, exactness, focus and detail, while also being considered the "friendly star". This soft, mild and gentle star, allows us to probe into the details of our being, contemplate, honor and acquire the details we need to tend to our heart, and our emotional body wisdom. Use this time to dig into your depths, your shadow parts, and seek wisdom for honoring these aspects of yourself. Look for the gifts within your darkness. Put pieces together, in order to help make sense of the nonsensical, to attend and tend to your brokenness- the illusion of the shadow. Make your emotional body and physical embodiment practice your priority at this time and harvest from the wisdom of your own knowing. Creative Ritual for the Waxing Moon Cycle The emotional body and physical body become potent messengers for us at this time. These body's can be entry points for our deep harvesting process. The cosmic and creative intelligence coursing through us can be accessed as we cultivate a relationship with our senses, feelings and sensations. This is the beauty and strength of the body- which gives us access to our deepest needs, desires and wants. This creative Ritual is designed to get you gently attuned to what these messages may be. I also recommend using the 3 level check in to help you make vital distinctions between the messages of each body: the physical, mental and emotional bodies. For more information about getting embodied, read this. 1) Sitting, standing or laying down, begin to notice your breathing. Notice the quality of your breathing. Get intimate with the sensation of how the breath feels moving within your body. Feel the breath as you inhale and the chest expands. Feel the breath as you exhale and feel the chest collapse. 2) Notice any sensations in the body that are arriving for you. Is there a certain body part that feels tight? Cold? Energized? Painful? Throbbing? Seek out any sensations that are present for you and let your attention go to this part of the body. 3) Use this sensation for greater inquiry. Does this sensation have a color? Maybe it has a shape or brings with it an image? Perhaps it has a sound? Be curious and ask the sensation to give you some deeper information. 4) Harvest this information. As you gather these pieces of information from your body ask the sensation to answer these three questions: I am, I want and I need. Based on the answers you receive, you may wish to begin moving with the sensation and let it inform your physical body movement exploration. You may also wish to do a drawing in order to harvest your findings more intimately. I suggest exploring both of these processes in order to awaken your dialogue and start deepening your relationship with your physical body. I am passionate about embodiment! This is why I offer my clients a very unique synergy of modalities to help them get embodied. Using jyotish insights from your own karmic life map, I am able to prescribe individualized and specialized body part work, in order to maximize healing and transformation. My embodiment prescriptions are ideal for overcoming obstacles and blockages that may be hindering health and wholeness. The body is our biggest resource for awakening, and I'm here to help you awaken through the messages of your body wisdom! Want to learn more about transforming your life through jyotish and embodiment work? Schedule a session with me. Plan your week in tune with nature. Never miss a planetary update. Sign up for my weekly newsletter. Was this post helpful? Please share it with a friend! Thank you |