Halfway.
This newsletter marks the beginning of the second half of 2020. Crazy right? How we got here...where we're at? Crazier is that it's also marked by the last of three major eclipses that started on June 5. Welcome, a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn. Let's get straight into what's happening, not to us but for us, and how we can navigate this cosmic energy and connect with our highest selves for mind, body, spirit alignment in our every day.
Eclipses not only heighten the energy of each New and Full Moon it encompasses, but they're super important energetic events. Most major points in history can be traced back to eclipse seasons (you'll notice some of your personal historical events do too if you care to spend time cross-checking) – this Full Moon Eclipse in Capricorn is no different.
Capricorn, an earth sign ruled by Saturn, governs time, responsibility, strict rules, hierarchies, traditions, and has a generally very serious get-things-done attitude. The Full Moon in Cap is opposite the Sun in Cancer (Cancer season!) and the asteroid Vesta, named after a Roman goddess and guardian of the hearth and home who represents harvest and abundance. Off the bat, we know that Full Moons are times of releasing and surrendering to divine order, but there's much more to this cosmic concoction and the function that all of it is playing in each of our lives right now.
To understand where we're going and how to get there, we can't unsee where we are and how we got here. For Americans like me, it's oddly serendipitous to welcome a Full Moon Eclipse during our country's birthday. After months of illness, rapture, death, fear, exposure, protesting, and literally tearing every state and industry within wide open to show all inequities, we are bare-boned and aching for newness.
Back in April, I wrote about the changes to come as Jupiter and Pluto did its cosmic thing all around us. Specifically, I said, "This is a time of breaking into the past in order to break free for the future, a time when old responses to new problems won't work, springing forth a new way of being." I'm not an "I told you so" type of person, but I will remind you to take a look at what's resulted after I said what I said, and I am here to let you know that Jupiter and Pluto are at it again. Last time it was all about relinquishing fear as we jumped into a metaphorical moving car, this time it's highlighting the collective message that all of this cosmic activity is sending us. Let's break it down simply.
Take responsibility for your emotions.
I know I speak for many when I say that we're tired. Our minds, bodies, and spirits have endured blow after blow, all while processing more than many have ever had to process in their entire lives, let alone six months. It's natural to feel like you'd like someone to come and take all of it away, but the cosmos urge us to release internal programs of victimhood and martyrdom and keep it together. Not only for our own sake and alignment but for that of mankind. And not hide it, but handle it instead of expecting others to do the work for us.
We don't have to match the global overwhelm with more of ours. We can empathize with others without being completely drained in the process. Honor the pain that comes with peeling back and excavating, honor the anger, and the craving to fight (it's normal, especially now) but also honor the fact that you're still here, stronger, more capable than ever. Reflect on why you feel so strongly and transmute those negative emotions into positive changes for your future, for the future of society. And most importantly, learn to embrace duality – the fire and the sadness of it all along with the beauty of being able to feel and act in the first place.
Take responsibility for the part you're playing as we build this new world.
I've been off social media for three weeks now. One of the reasons why I chose to retreat is because I needed a break from the static. The pressure to do, do, do and perform your beliefs on a stage of endless posts and replies started to interfere with the way I moved, and most importantly, it started to infect the way I thought. My online following doesn't set me apart from anyone – this is something so many of us are feeling. The pressure to choose sides, pressure to wave our flags 24/7 without rest, pressure to march, and shout, and rally...when in actuality, those aren't the only positions we can and should play right now.
It's important that we seize this energetic opportunity to focus on what we really want, what we need to do in our personal lives to get there, and committing to purposeful action. Just like Capricorn is all about sticking to the rules and doing what it has to do, make it a priority to own your position in co-creating this new world, both your world and ours. Not because you "have to" but because you want to show up as conscious, productive, and aligned.
Fighting for change can be incited by negative emotions and even pressure, but just like the changing of the seasons and like an embryo becomes a baby, things naturally need to change to grow. If we should be learning anything this year, it's that you can't meet the same problems with the same responses. Release and go.
Take responsibility for taking care of yourself.
One of the other reasons why I left social media until further notice? Motherfuckin' BOUNDARIES. I say that to preface this: We're in this for the long haul whether we like it or not. So waving our flags 24/7, staying strapped to our phones for every bit of news that drips in, and doing more than we physically, mentally, and energetically can is not honorable. It's destructive. Take advantage of this cosmic energy to own and create rigid boundaries for yourself. Note that things are going to come along to test if you'll cross your own lines (I've been rejecting paid opportunities to show up on Instagram all week), so stay true to yourself. Remember wtf you are and what this version of you needs to align with that higher version of you.
I hope that these insights were as clear as I felt writing them. Since we're midway through the year, don't forget to use the journal prompts in this email as well as review your vision board(s) and Claim of Abundance to see where and you need to recalibrate.
Sending love from NYC. 𓁿 MS.
