Free! Free! Set Someone Free!
Moon is in Leo + it's Venus' day: Toni Morrison weighs in, & we get to do what we love with the ones we love.
it's friday, january 17, & moon is in leo, in the starspace (pie slice of leo sky) called purvaphalguni. leo is the sign of power & leadership, of using our power to lead righteously. "your real job is that if you are free you need to free somebody else," said toni morrison. "if you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. this is not just some grab-bag candy game." & the bhagavad gita reminds us that a true leader, one endowed with greatness, leads by example.
"whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps. & whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues." (3.21)
purvaphalguni is all about the fruits (phalguni), the results of our actions. & the bhagavad gita tells us that we have a right to perform our duty, but that we are not entitled to the fruits of performing it, that we should never take credit for whatever results (good or bad) & thus never be attached to not doing our dharma. (2.47) but the gita doesn't, as far as i know, say we can't IN-joy whatever fruits come our way, & purvaphalguni invites us to def IN-joy them, to take a break from doing our duty, put our feet up. cause we all know that all work & no play makes jack a dull boy!
it's the fourth lunar day (tithi), the fourth phase of the waning moon, which supports us in overcoming obstacles, in not making anything harder than it really is. like, if you're in the mountains with heavy snow on the way where you are & where you are planning to go in the morning, you might want to scramble to do laundry & pack up & get on the road today!
friday is ruled by relationshipy venus, who is having a cosmic mashup with serious & sometimes (!) stressful saturn. friday is always a good day to do what we love with the ones we love (hello, purvaphalguni!), but/& we are also invited to be more attentional & intentional with all of our transactional relationships, whether business or pleasure. this is a good time to recommit or deepen our commitments, to do our inside work so we can show up more authentically & maintain boundaries, to get serious where we may have been casual or noncommittal or—dare i say?—indifferent or incurious.
TL;DR
a righteous leader leads by example. • IN-joy the benefits of all your hard work but don’t take them for granted. • overcoming obstacles doesn’t have to be hard. • venus & saturn coming together invite us to pay serious attention to our relationships.
& that’s your daily bliss! IN-joy! 🌖🙏✨
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