Bouldering, Anyone?!
Moon is in Cancer + it's Mercury's day: Remember that self-care is other-care & that communicating clearly is communicating kindly.
it's wednesday, december 18, & moon is in cancer, in the starspace (pie slice of cancer sky) called pushya till midday mountain time, then ashlesha. cancer is ruled by all-giving moon, who wants everyone to be happy. which is a great sentiment, a great goal. but/& it's where we can forget to take care of ourselves, & when that happens, when our tank is on empty, we won't be able to make anyone happy. so let's do remember that self-care is other-care.
pushya is the star of nourishment, of feeding & cultivating our best qualities, bringing our light forth; ashlesha of perhaps inadvertently malnourishing ourselves by nourishing, clinging to, holding tightly to, a grudge or negative tendencies or relationships that don't or no longer serve our highest purpose. pushya's energy is expansive, infinite, abundant; ashlesha's contractive & protective. the upside of this asterism (& the upside is key—jyotish is about light, about upliftment!) is that ashlesha is ruled by the nagas, divine serpents, who give us the ability to gain insights from what's poisoning our life & transform that poison into wisdom, to peer into the hidden nooks & crannies of our psyche & help us figure out why we're clinging to what we're clinging to so we can uncling from it.
it's the fourth lunar day (tithi), the fourth phase of the waning moon, so—spoiler alert!—you just might feel thwarted somehow, some way, might feel like someone or something won't get outta your way, is putting a boulder in your path. if you've got a bouldering mat & some climbing skills, no problem! the rest of us might take a page from his holiness radhanath swami's book of wisdom: "obstacles become blessings with the right angle of vision: try to understand your life's lessons & persevere."
wednesday is ruled by thinky-talky mercury, who is no longer retrograde, so we have no more excuses for not communicating clearly, & thus kindly. we also have no more excuses for not moving ahead with whatever we've been noodling over. i don't know about you, but as soon as merc started thinking about moving forward, on sunday, i was all of a sudden able to start pulling the puzzle pieces of an astro research project together into a cogent & articulate fashion. what have you been noodling over? where have you hit the "pause" & "reflect" buttons?
TL;DR
don’t forget to fill your own tank! • ask yourself why you might be malnourishing yourself. • do you see obstacles or opportunities? • no more excuses for not moving forward with what you’ve been noodling over!
& that’s your daily bliss! IN-joy! 🌖🙏✨
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