it’s sunday, august 16, & moon is in the starspace called punarvasu, which straddles gemini & cancer. moon moves into the cancer portion just after lunchtime today, so we’ll be dropping out of our gemini heads into our cancerian hearts for the next couple of days. yikes, it is a busy busy day in the sky today. mars just moved into aries! sun moves into leo! mercury will be joining sun in leo tonight! there is a whole lotta new energy at play—good to start noticing.
punarvasu means “return of/return to the light” & is ruled by aditi, the quintessential earth mother. she gave birth to the adityas, the gods who sustain our worldly existence. she brings unconditional love & hope, which is especially welcome if we’ve been subjected to storms of emotion (which see below). but if not, hey, it’s always good to feel literally or metaphorically wrapped in mother’s arms, right?
it’s the thirteenth lunar day, which is related to kamadeva, the hindu equivalent of cupid—i don’t think i need to tell you what that implies.
sunday is the sun’s day & sun is finishing his move out of cancer into leo today. as i’ve mentioned a gazillion times, when sun changes signs, moves into a new home for the month, it’s as if our own battery isn’t fully charged, b/c the sun is our soul power. so it’s always a good idea to take the day off if you can, but definitely to lower your expectations, grab a nap. if you woke up sobbing, as i did, you might find what the astrologer barry rosen has to say about sun’s transition enlightening: “deep unconscious patterns and difficult problems arise that seem daunting and filled with regrets. remember you have the power of free will in the present moment to move through into new light and do not have to live in the shadows and mistakes of the past. let them go. they seem tangled and difficult to deal with, but you are strong enough to get through them.” & sun in his own sign of leo should give us the power to do so.
& that’s your daily bliss! which is a kind of lunar weather report. the moon is our consciousness & i hope that by unpacking the cosmic forces influencing it every day, you’ll be better able to understand & thus lean into its ever-changing vibrations & use them to your advantage.
jyotish, vedic astrology, is the science of light. if you want to shine more light on your life, please contact me for a session. ~.~
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