daily bliss

it’s tuesday, june 23, & moon is in cancer, in the starspace called pushya. cancer creates an environment for connecting to our heart & through our heart. it is ruled by the moon, which is our sensitivity, our feeling nature. moon is always on the move & cancer is watery & movable; we can feel unstable emotionally here, pulled in every direction, by everyone’s needs, like a mother with a houseful of babies all crying out for her attention. we can’t shut the door on screaming babies, but we can on screaming adults. we can set & maintain boundaries with most of the people in our lives. if we don’t take care of us, we can’t take care of others. &, yes, there is a lot of caring to be done right now & it’s awesome that so many people feel the pull, but just as a mother is in it for the long haul, for at least 18 years, so are we, & we don’t want to burn out too soon. we need to know & honor our limits.

pushya is the nourisher, just as a mother is. (see yesterday’s post for more on the mother principle.) this nakshatra is ruled by the deity brihaspati, who is the priest, the guru, & as such also a symbol of nourishment. ideally gurus are, like mothers, kind & compassionate & benevolent & unconditionally loving. a teacher once told me that a guru should be no more & no less than a friend, which is different than how we think of mothers. although plenty of people are friends with their mothers, we need more from our mothers than friendship; friendship, i think, is optional, is extra. what do you think?

it’s the third phase of the waxing moon, which invites us to be flexible, to make adjustments if things aren’t going as planned, being open to other ways of doing things, thinking outside the box.

tuesday is owned by mars. tuesdays are always good days to forge ahead, get ‘er done, but b/c of mars’ placement in the sky right now, we want to be wary of recklessness & overzealousness. mars isn’t very good at thinking before he acts, so we’re going to have to do the thinking for him.

& 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. ~.~