If you're reading these lunar insights right now, know that I am actively sending you loving vibrations in suggestion that you do the same for yourself. You've made it this far, and that is cause for gracious celebration. Through a million small explosions of life as we used to know it, you've made it to the middle of a year that has been unlike anything that we could have possibly imagined. If you've been doing the work, you've been actively reading these emails, setting intentions for opportunities to grow past your human limitations, and intending for abundant alignment despite the conditions that seek to destroy you, love on yourself right now.
This New Moon in Cancer, the moon-ruled sign of empathy, emotion, and imagination, gives us a break from the pedal-to-the-metal energy that was eclipse season. This is the second New Moon in Cancer this summer. I described the first as seeming maternal, in a womb-like state, growing and pushing through to birth newness, changing the world as we used to know it. Since then, we've had time to dive in, deeper and deeper into our souls, whether on our own, journaling the prompts and intentions I've been providing for us here, or in community in one of the many soul circles I've led over the past few months.
If you haven't been giving yourself the space to see the opportunities to use conscious action to mold and shape your new beginning, this is your chance to shift into high gear, CUT OUT SPIRITUAL BYPASSING, and really see. This is your chance to pivot and align with Spirit-filled energy. This is your chance to intend and act upon regaining your personal power, remembering your true north, and establishing foundations in your life based on who you really are and what you truly want for your life. Your journey, our journey, depends on it. Let's dive into how we can navigate this cosmic energy and connect with our highest selves for mind, body, spirit alignment.
I'm going to start out reiterating what I said for the last New Moon in Cancer because it still rings true:
This New Moon Cancer is ruled by the moon which highlights intuition, imagination, and creativity, so finding ways to care for your mental health as you break through expired mindsets, to care for your body as you undo trauma and emotions that have been braided into your psyche for years, and spend time nurturing your soul center as you do the very difficult work of shedding and connecting more than ever.
If all of this sounds exhausting to you, trust me, I feel you. There has been so much deep uprooting done and called from us in just the past seven months, that any talk about breaking through and shedding might be frightening. But here's the thing...it's good to notice the fear as long as we don't step into it. It's productive to become aware of the ways we feel, the things we believe, and the actions we've been committed to as long as we are also aware of how they hold us from aligning with our best possible lives. This is one of the major focuses of the cosmic activity positioned to aid us on our journey these next few weeks.
"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it," once said Paulo Coehlo, Brazilian writer, artist, and author of the woke classic, "The Alchemist." He ain't ever lie. We were alchemists in the womb, shifting and changing into full-grown babies ready to birth, and if ever, we are alchemists now as we do the same – birth new beginnings. This New Moon is categorized as a Black Moon and is opposite Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn which happens to also be in retrograde. A Black Moon signals a shift in the total fabric of the Universe, Jupiter and Pluto are still doing their thing as I've recounted in various emails this summer, and Saturn, planet of structure and stability, is very active right now. Everything is conspiring to help us manifest healing and the laying of a foundation beyond our human dreams. Let's wrap this up with where our focus should be:
Facing toxic patterns relating and intending to heal our relationships with matters related to family, home, safety, rules, and decisions.
As we're on the cusp of a new beginning, and the Sun and Moon both oppose no-nonsense Saturn, we're guided to pay attention to any remaining toxicity as it relates to our personal lives. Face fear, anger, control, anguish, and bypassing with acceptance, release, love, and compassion. Masculine energy has taken over every aspect of our lives, both personal and throughout the world for centuries, but this has proved to be the year we tip the scales the other way, balance the yang with the yin, and shift from doing to being our most authentic selves in all forms, in all ways.
As astrologer Divine Harmony said, "The antidote to the toxic masculine out of control is the feminine, not just in her lunar, soft manifestations but also her fierce, Warrior Goddess manifestation." Intend to spread love and bless anything and anyone in and around your life, bless the purpose they have served in your journey until now, and focus on manifesting opportunities to nurture all areas of your life relating to family, home, and safety.
B O U N D A R I E S .
Along with transmuting toxic masculinity comes releasing its hold on how we exist in the world. In order to do that, it's imperative that we step away from loud opinions, polarities and prejudices, and back to our center. This is how we tune in, how we remember who we are, what we think, and what really affects us and why. Set clear boundaries for yourself so that you can have the time and space you deserve with your mind, body, and soul. Don't just take it from the lady who's been on a social media break since early June – the planets are all pointing towards a silencing of the static. As Saturn's tough-love finger waves at the things we have to pay attention to in order to cooperate with this collective shift towards a better world, Jupiter is teaching us that growth can happen within personal limits too. Tap into this energy to help you step away, process, and progress.
Alignment over hustle.
The cosmic conjunctions I described here in January told us that the next few months would call for intense hustle for change. Having put forth more effort than many of us thought imaginable, this time is for us to focus on being in alignment versus doing the most. Reiterating our need for boundaries and cultivating more peaceful, feminine energy, this time is optimal for grounding, diving in, and asking ourselves questions that will shape our existence moving forward. Step away from your devices and give yourself the attention you've been giving everything and everyone else for months on end. Again, you deserve it.
As this is such an important time for self-reflection, I'm giving you a few more journal/self-conversation prompts than usual below. If you haven't taken a look at your vision board(s) and/or Claim of Abundance, this is a great, great, great time to review or complete them.
More than ever, remember wtf you are.
Sending love from NYC. 𓁿 MS.
