Listen Up!
It's a Capricorn/Shravana New Moon + it's Mercury's day: Dissolving the boundaries of who we are invites infinite possibility, the art of communication isn't all talk.
it's wednesday, january 29, & we had a new moon in capricorn, in the starspace (pie slice of capricorn sky) called shravana, at 5:35 a.m. mountain time. the new moon is created by the rendezvous of sun & moon, the divine masculine & the divine feminine, who, like long-lost lovers, come together to create new life, a new cycle for our evolution.
pragmatism, steadiness & perseverance are key words for capricorn, which helps us play the long game, sit on a meditation cushion, be still.
shravana comes from the sanskrit verb "shru," which means "to hear." before books & note-taking during lectures, "shruti" was how sacred wisdom was passed down—you had to get very quiet & listen hard to what your teacher was saying. (even today, young boys learn the vedas by chanting them, by listening & repeating what they hear.) shravana can also mean "one who limps" & is ruled by vishnu, who, in one incarnation, famously took three GINORMOUS steps, going beyond the three worlds, beyond his limitations as the mere mortal he was pretending to be, in order to reestablish order in the universe.
this asterism is known alternatively as ashvatha, which is the name of the sacred fig tree under which the buddha, after years & years & years of sitting quietly & meditating, became enlightened.
"in the depth of silence, the boundaries of who you are dissolve, & the possibility of boundless life opens up."—sadhguru
this new moon occurs during the auspicious kumbha mela celebration in india, held at the confluence of the ganga, yamuna & saraswati rivers, where people bathe in the holy waters as a rite of purification. these rivers represent our central channel & the two side channels, ida & pingala (the sun & the moon), where the nectar of wisdom flows within us.
wednesday is ruled by mercury, master of communication, who is also in capricorn & is about to slip into shravana. mercury knows that communication is an art, & that it involves listening at least as much as if not more than speaking.
also in the mix: jupiter sending the moon grace, mars passion.
putting all that together, our mission for the coming cycle, if we choose to accept it is to bathe in the nectar flowing within us by getting quiet enough to receive. how can you reduce distractions, simplify your life, tune deeply in & transcend your limiting beliefs? what's the best that could happen? what possibility might arise?
TL;DR
the new moon starts a new cycle of our evolution. • by getting quiet & reducing distractions, we can transcend our limiting concepts of self. • jupiter brings grace to our lunar project, mars passion. • communication is a two-way street, listening perhaps more important than speaking.
& that’s your daily bliss! IN-joy! 🌑🙏✨
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