Let’s pat those tears dry, darlin’. In all the best ways (albeit inconvenient sometimes) Cancer season can have us in our feelings and I trust that you have let yourself ride the wave with vulnerability and surrender. Expressing our feelings and emotions is not the same as experiencing them. Reacting is not the same as responding. To be most effective in our communication—the bridge between us, whether verbal or not—we must know what we are trying to say, first.
I am all for the messy, the convoluted, and the raw. Hell, I've been known to spout some stuff in this Moonsletter that makes little sense even to my own mother (hi Mum!). Life is complicated, humanity is far from perfect.
And yet, we have become accustomed in our hyper-paced, publicly-pressurized world to reacting from our emotional impulses, instead of responding from our feelings. The constant news cycle and media barrage baiting us to engage, engage, engage! only serves to exhaust those most vulnerable. If you’re out of breath, you cannot shout. If you’ve been jumping from reaction to reaction, your legs will tire and you cannot run the distance. But by permitting yourself the space and time to experience your feelings without judgment or the need to immediately create something from them, a deeper understanding can emerge.
In somatic coaching, there are four phases to somatic awareness: awakening, increasing, containing and completion. Many of us are conditioned to initiating, starting things (awakening), and some of us are very good at building upon those things (increasing). But the majority of us find it challenging to contain our energy in a way that encourages the necessary alchemy in order to bring something to true completion. Instead of repressing or throwing our precious energy at the nearest target, if we cradle and spoon it, then we allow the emotional energy to transmute into new ideas and expressions of our values.
Your emotional energy does not need to be an impetus for production or creation. It can just be feelings, in and of themselves. Discard the notion that everything you feel or think needs to be a platform or a product, qualifiable and monetizable. It's a stringently capitalist and patriarchal perspective that would turn your human experience into an object with cash value.
At this Full Moon in Capricorn, we are halfway through the lunation and we’ve reached the fullest point of Cancer season. Our emotional cups are brimming and now the question is what to do with all of this energy. For some of us, this will look like further processing, mothering the parts of us still contending with the impacts of violence; those of us with water moons are especially vulnerable to these waves of grief. However, this Full Supermoon in Capricorn offers us the opportunity to begin extracting our emotional wellbeing from the collective milieu. As the Moon trines Uranus, we are grounded by emotional independence. We are no longer seeking validation from external forces, we don’t need to prove our feelings to anyone.
Capricorn is a sign of immense, divinely-guided creativity as well as devotional work ethic and accountability. The seagoat is a chimera, a creature bridging two vastly different worlds: that of the mysterious seas and the material earth. Capricorn energy is all about the transformation that can occur through ingenuity and hard work; the bridges that can be built between worlds, the known and the unknown, the old and the new.
Although with Venus square Neptune we could be tempted to entertain romantic fantasies to distraction, Venus will also be trine Saturn providing stability in our relationships and the ability to organize and commit to tasks as they relate to our values. Mercury opposite the Moon may create some challenges to communication, but sextile Uranus will inspire new ideas, technologies and inventions. It will serve us to honor our ingenuity and get those ideas down, although we may not yet know how to translate them to others.
Bridge building is a task that requires much research, calculation, and a sturdy foundation. This moon invites us to build the bridge between our emotional world and the external, between our old ways and the new ones we are still exploring. In the last few years we’ve witnessed the cumulative degradation of our societal, economic and political systems. We’ve also seen that historically patterned actions do not blaze the way for new systems or infrastructure. Allow this Full Moon in Capricorn to transform your emotional energy into novel ideas and creative plans that build upon the foundations of your values. Seek emotional clarity to fuel new perspectives drawn from the wisdom of experience. Bridge who you were, with who you are yet to become.
FOR THE BODY
Capricorn rules the knees, joints, skeletal system, tendons, ligaments and vestibular system.
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The vestibular system is how we regulate our balance and spatial orientation. Practice your balance with tree pose, experiment with spatial awareness through dancing or exploring the Feldenkrais Method.
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Mullein is the guardian herb of Capricorn and can be smoked, drank as a tea, used as an oil or taken as a decoction for the relief of stagnant congestion, to reduce inflammation, and soothe a cough.
Add collagen + calcium to your supplements, and eat plenty of red and yellow veggies, avocados, mushrooms, fish, eggs and bone broth
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*I am not a doctor nor registered dietician. Please consult your PCP to make sure that any changes are correct for you and your body.
The Full Moon in July is known as the Buck Moon in North American and European folklore, as it is the time when the antlers of deer, elk and moose are at their fullest. Bucks will shed their antlers in mid-winter and it takes them six months to regrow, each year gaining a larger set. This moon commemorates how much growth we’ve achieved; the individuals we’ve become through loss, rebirth, growth and maturation. Honor this time for yourself by checking in on the you from the beginning of this year.
Have you been able to maintain a healthy work/life balance?
How have your goals changed?
How have you evolved?
There's still two spots open for July's Office Hours! Each of these sessions surprise me with how intimate and validating they can be. It's truly such a pleasure to get to spend this time with you. Each Office Hour is followed up with notes from our session and next steps.
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