it’s wednesday, august 5, & moon is in aquarius, in the starspace called shatabhishak. aquarius is where we feel a sense of personal responsibility for the world around us, where we want to be of service, to leave the world better than we found it. once, when my teacher sharon gannon was staying with me, i moaned to her about not feeling inspired to take on the vastness of my garden, b/c it wasn’t mine, b/c my house was a rental, & she said to me, “i believe in improving wherever i live.” sage & humbling advice, which i still aspire to embody—altho, truth be told, my garden, save the veggie patch, is still, alas, a mess.
shatabhishak is an asterism of healing & protection. its symbol is a circle. when we draw a line around something that something within is contained, is protected. in the “ramayana,” when rama & sita & lakshmana were living in exile in the forest, lakshmana drew a line around their hut, encircling it, to protect sita while he & rama went out, & told her not to cross it. which, of course, she did, lured by ravana’s henchman who turned himself into a golden deer. why she disobeyed & why they left her home alone is another story, but there wouldn’t have been a story if they didn’t & she didn’t! how do boundaries serve to protect you or others in your life? what happens when you cross your own line?
the second phase of the waning moon becomes the third starting late this morning (see yesterday’s post for the lowdown on the second phase). the third phase invites us to be flexible, make adjustments, think outside the box. if things aren’t going as planned, if, like me, you’ve overscheduled, can you rejigger, can you let something go, rearrange your day to make it work, entertain the possibility of another solution to a problem, stop clinging to how you think something should be in order to create space for another vision to emerge?
wednesday is owned by mercury, which means the word for the day is: “communicate.”
& 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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