it’s tuesday, august 18, & moon is in the starspace called ashlesha, which occupies the last sky-slice of cancer. cancer invites us to connect to our heart, to our emotional body, to feel rather than think, to find communion with others by recognizing our similarities rather than our differences, by appealing to everyone’s basic goodness & unconditionally loving on them b/c of it. if you watched or listened to michelle obama’s wrenchingly inclusive & big-hearted speech at the dem convention last night, you know what i mean. embody your inner michelle today, &, hey, every day—why not?
ashlesha is the entangler & when moon is here we are asked to look at what we are tangled up in emotionally. if it’s love love love for the truth, for god, no problem. but if it’s feelings about or toward someone or something that prevents us from assessing the situation clearly, with discrimination, that wants us to go low rather than high, not so much. just saying!
tuesday is owned by mars, who just moved into his home sign of aries, giving him (i.e., us, through our inner mars) power to get things done, overcome obstacles, hew toward heart-based actions. this energy is super awesome for many (vedic rising) signs, including scorpio, aries, cancer, leo, libra & capricorn—that’s half of us!—so do take advantage of it. & if you don’t know your rising sign, i can help you with that.
it’s the last phase of the waning moon, the dark moon, when the last dregs of light are released. as mark twain said, “everyone is a moon & has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” i’m not saying you have to show your dark side, your shadow to anyone, but i will say that it is healing to admit you have shadow, that you have a dark side, & even more healing to be witnessed in that acceptance, if it’s possible. in any event, today is a good day to lean into your shadow, to hug it close & then release the fear & anxiety & grief you find there. grieve what you are letting go of & make room for what’s coming.
& 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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