it’s friday, july 17, & moon is in taurus in the starspace called mrigashira. mrigashira, the wandering deer, actually straddles taurus & gemini, as if two legs were in one sign, two in the other. moon will wander into the gemini portion around sunset tonight, which means we get one more day of feeling grounded & content to prepare us for feeling more antsy & curious & spunky over the weekend.
mrigashira is ruled by the deity soma. soma is the elixir of immortality, the plant nectar the gods knocked back like jell-o shots. no one knows which plant, exactly, produced the soma, but all plants contain wisdom, have intelligence, are elixirs of some sort. nature is our pharmacy. plant medicine/wisdom is all around us—some comes in the form of food for our bodies, flooding our systems with nutrients; some in the form of remedies to heal our ills; some in the form of drugs to expand our consciousness—we just have to open our eyes to it & receive it, know that mother earth has our back.
the day is split between the twelfth & thirteenth lunar phases. see yesterday’s post about the twelfth phase, which ends around noon. i love this when it happens, which is once in a blue moon: the thirteenth phase is associated with desire & happiness, like venus, who rules taurus & who rules friday. which is why friday is considered date night. which means: triple-lean into whatever makes you happy today, whatever fulfills your desires, especially, but not necessarily, if it involves others.
as i just mentioned, friday is ruled by venus, who wants us to experience happiness. happiness is earthly & conditional & fleeting, as opposed to joy, which is ethereal & unconditional & eternal. the state of joy, of bliss, is the ultimate goal, but nothing wrong with wetting our appetites with a little happiness meanwhile.
“happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp—but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”—nathaniel hawthorne
may you be patient & receptive so happiness can alight on you today!
& 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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