Awakening Shakti, the Divine Feminine
Lots of watery energy today: Be in the flow of love & tread gently with yourself & others.
it's friday, october 25, & moon is in cancer, in the starspace (portion of cancer) called ashlesha. cancer is the environment of the divine, the sacred, feminine. on a podcast with shakti-awakener jeanie manchester, sally kempton, who literally wrote the book on awakening shakti, explained that the women's movement "has been utterly instrumental not only in changing the political structure but also in bringing forth understanding of the sacred feminine in a way that's able to see the feminine in her wholeness; that is, in her wildness, in her radical power, in her destructive qualities as well as her nourishing qualities," adding that "the feminine vision tends to be much more present-moment oriented, tends to be much more embracive, tends to really see the dignity of all life right now. not b/c of a future that we're moving toward, that we're developing toward, but intrinsic worth."
if you want to awaken your shakti & you're near boulder, jeanie is leading a half-day shakti immersion gathering at the starhouse tomorrow with chanting goddesses dawnia dresser & mira devi.
ashlesha is the star of clinging as tightly to something as a boa constrictor, squeezing the life out of it. this asterism invites us to examine what we are clinging to—emotions? relationships? mind-sets? jobs?—& whether we are doing so b/c we fear what might happen if we let it go or if it is really serving us. if we're clinging to the good stuff, no problem! but if it's toxic, well, that's a whole other story & one we get to investigate & rewrite so there's a happy ending for us, one that involves our evolution.
it's the ninth lunar day (tithi), the ninth phase of the waning moon, which, like ashlesha, brings in serpenty energy, which is the energy of transforming negativity into positivity, poison into wisdom. doing this inner work may feel challenging today, b/c both this tithi & venus are connected to the water element, so our emotions could be on high. go softly & gently with yourself (& others).
friday is ruled by venus, planet of love (& other earthly delights). love is a state of being, says eckhart tolle. love is a flow, says amma. love is a manifestation of shakti, of the divine feminine. what would BEING LOVE or being in the FLOW OF LOVE look like for you? how would you give it expression?
TL;DR
embrace the messiness & complexity of the feminine. • examine & release your embrace of toxic emotions, people, situations. • be love, be in the flow of love—same-same!
& that’s your daily bliss! IN-joy! 🌓🙏✨