So, if you haven’t been doing “the work” on yourself, turning the lead into gold, doing the deep inner work that reveals you in all your glory and transforms the not so glorious, this would be a good time to start.
This New Moon in Cancer is also a Solar Eclipse, visible in South America. Eclipses mean change, as in “here’s an opportunity to”. Solar Eclipses bring forward those things we’ve buried, so we can see them. If we’ve been working on ourselves, it may come up as a healing or an opportunity to heal. If you haven’t, it may feel like a crisis or be uncomfortable. It’s up to us and our perspective. That’s one of the things working on ourselves does. It helps us change our perspective.
We’ve been feeling the effects of this Eclipse for quite a while now, so you may already have discovered what you’ve swept under the carpet. I certainly have.
I tend to push myself further than the body is capable of; it just doesn’t keep up with the rest of me. We’re coming to an agreement, my body and I. Part of that agreement is that I take 2 entire days a week off – no routine – no “I have to”. I may have to change my perspective around things like dishes and laundry from have to – to want to, since they need to be done. It’s more healing to do them with joy than to do them with resentment or resignation.
This New Moon is in Cancer, a feminine sign, a water sign. This is a very subjective sign – our emotions, our home, our family. It’s a sign that invites us to go inward to look at what we’re holding on to. It helps us to look at what’s important to us and to follow our hearts. It’s also a time to acknowledge and allow for our own needs.
Cancer also hosts the beginning of summer here in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere. More change. Are you seeing a theme here?
In the middle of all this change energy, Mercury is going retrograde on the 7th of July. We are already in the shadow period. This reinforces the invitation to go within, to be retrospective, to understand our needs and how to meet them in relation to everything else in our lives. It is not the time to start something new. That would be going against the flow – not fun.
So, let’s take the time to sit, and feel, and allow whatever needs to surface to do so. When it does, just say “hello, welcome”. Acknowledging it is a good first step. Then, you can do some feeling into what to do about it
Allow the process, in fact, enjoy it. When you come out the other side you’ll feel clearer and lighter – meaning you will be able to hold more light.
My intent:
- To take time to reflect on what is taking up space that is not needed.
- To allow the process of acknowledging and letting go.
- To take 2 full days a week off
- To remember to breathe
Take a look at what you’ve created in your life. See the more unpleasant situations as an opportunity to grow and heal. Change your perspective. It can change everything.
