Taking Care of Business

it’s thursday, july 2, moon is in capricorn, in the starspace called śravaṇa, it’s the third phase of the waning moon & jupiter’s day.

 

where your attention is being drawn

capricorn is the tenth house of the natural zodiac (the one that begins with aries & ends with pisces), which is related to career, public life & life responsibilities, sense of duty. as such it is all business all the time, whether that business is your business-business or the business of your life.

stern & disciplined saturn’s rulership keeps our nose to the grindstone, holds us accountable. he does actually take notes, keeps a ledger & makes sure we stay out of the red & in the black.

are you taking care of business?

 

how to direct your mental/emotional energy

śravaṇa is the star of listening, of deep listening, of being able to get quiet enough to hear the voice of your most innermost being (more below!). that may seem challenging in our noisy world, but my yoga teacher david life used to say that new york city is the best place to meditate b/c it presents the biggest challenges & so delivers the greatest rewards—if you can meditate there, you can meditate anywhere.

kind of like, if you can ski the sheets of ice that pass for snow in vermont, you can ski anywhere.

are you up for the challenge?

if you don’t have a meditation practice, just sit & pay attention to your breath (without trying to control it), then to the space between breaths, between your inhale & exale & vice versa. that space between is where the magic happens.

 

what supports your emotional body

the third lunar day (tithi), the third phase of the waning moon, is ruled by goddess nityaklinna, aka the “eternally wet” one. wet as in moist with nourishment, with compassion like the urmother. she brings sweetness & gentleness to grow, to nourish & sustain, the way a mother (traditionally speaking!) sustains home & family. which is why this tithi is considered the best to take care of home & family.

 

how to align with the weekday’s energy

thursday is ruled by wise & expansive jupiter, who, as everyone knows by now, is exalted in cancer—until october!—where he is expanding, deepening, exalting our heart wisdom.

while jupiter is the guru, the “job” of a guru is to, basically, put him/her/themself out of a job, to get you to the place where you become your own guru. s/he/they teach you to tap into your own inner knowing, to trust your intuition.

there’s no better time than now to start listening (& śravaṇa will help!) to what your heart has to say.

 

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the daily bliss is 100% human generated! the act of creation is intrinsic to being human—when we give up our agency to create, we cease, little by little, to be fully human.

may it allow you to align with the day’s cosmic energy so you can find & create a little (or a lot!) more bliss in your life.

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