it’s tuesday, july 21, & moon is in the starspace called ashlesha, which occupies the last sky-slice of cancer. cancer is where we feel our most sensitive & thus emotionally vulnerable—our heart so open here, our empathy maxing out as we hew toward the needs of others. it’s easy for us to become destabilized by the sturm und drang of everyone else’s life, to be pulled every which way. the lesson of cancer is to love by maintaining healthy boundaries, by not totally losing ourselves.
speaking of not losing ourselves, the energy of ashlesha invites us to use our powers of discrimination so as to not get entangled in toxic emotions—or to get ourselves untangled. we need to make sure that our emotional attachments/entanglements are bringing us closer to truth, to god. we need to look at our emotions with the same dispassion as we might, say, look at a basket of fruit at the farmers’ market & decide whether we want to buy it, whether it’s what our soul really craves.
it’s the second phase of the waxing moon, which supports us in creating things that sustain our life, that provide material comfort. time to plant your fall garden?
mars rules tuesday. mars is our fighting spirit. our inner spiritual warrior is an expression of him vibrating at his highest frequency. being a spiritual warrior entails equanimity, being able to fight the good fight, to act, out of a desire to connect to god rather than from, say, rage, which comes from judgment. the bhagavad gita says, “the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation” (II.15). a lot of us are feeling rage right now (or, um, is it just me??!!). i invite you to respond not with violence against our oppressors (i know—so hard not to judge!), our own gov’t, which is not acting in our best interests, but by calling your representatives in congress & demanding that they defund homeland security (aka, trump’s goon squad agency) now.
& 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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