it’s friday, january 13, & moon is in virgo, in the starspace called hasta. in the environment of virgo, our inner (or outer, if you’re a virgo!) perfectionista rises to the occasion. yes, it’s awesome to notice what’s wrong in our lives & do our best to make it right, but we can get carried away, so consumed with getting it righter than right that we make ourselves crazy. “perfectionism is the art of never being satisfied,” as an unknown somebody said. or, as anne lamott has said, “perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. it will keep you insane your whole life.” don’t make yourself crazy—do your best & let god do the rest, as my teacher sharon gannon always counsels.
hasta means “hand,” so all things we can literally manifest, make happen, with our hands is at play today. feel like writing? making a collage? giving a massage? cleaning house? i have my moon in hasta, so my hands are always into something. after i’m done writing for the day, i’m going to use my hands to make the cinnamon snail‘s mini peanut butter-chocolate cheesecakes to bring to a friend’s house in the mountains this weekend. (shhh, don’t tell her!) i actually started yesterday but didn’t have enough chocolate chips for the ganache—maybe i needed the moon in hasta to bring that project to fruition! anyhoo, this asterism reminds us that regardless of what we literally manifest with our hands, we get to do so only through the grace of god, that our gifts are a result of the divine flowing through us. the divine really makes it happen, not us. we are but the vehicles.
it’s the seventh lunar day, the seventh phase of the waning moon, which is ruled by indra, whose downfall was his big, fat ego. so we get another reminder to be humble, remember that we are not the doers.
friday is owned by venus, planet of love & other earthly delights. “compassion is an essential element of love,” says the bhakti monk radhanath swami. compassion might just be the thing today given how nitpicky virgo can make us, how overly critical of everything & everyone.
& that’s your daily bliss! which is a sort of lunar weather report. may it allow you to align with the day’s cosmic energy so you can find & create a little more bliss. may it inspire you to enlighten up a little more each day.
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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