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Healing Your Defenses

admin October 2, 2018

An introduction to healing our defenses in the mind and body.

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Sunday at 2:55pm PT, the moon goes dark and rechar Sunday at 2:55pm PT, the moon goes dark and recharges at 2° of Libra. In the development arc of the zodiac, Libra is shifts the focus from personal/inner growth to interpersonal/outer growth. Libra is represented by the scales, and what it’s measuring is balance in relationships, the starting place for outer growth. Libra teaches a kind of social string theory. No person can be properly understood as a singular, isolated particle; we are all rather a complex jumble of vibrating strings meeting and colliding. Libra wants these vibrational interactions to be as smooth and harmonious as possible. It knows how to get things to line up and align, and can show us how to nurture symmetries and pleasing asymmetries. All of this makes Libra very sensitive to harsh, discordant vibes, and even more sensitive to Truth, Justice, and Beauty - what’s possible when all the instruments are in tune and playing well together, all in right relationship. In its immature aspect, Libra is known for being conflict averse. But our Libran gifts grow and get tempered through conflict. The realized potential of all this sensitivity is the development of clear judgment, a sturdy capacity to discern worthiness, and the will to adjust accordingly. The greatest balancing act Libra teaches might be between the two kinds of love: the love that says yes, that resources with generosity and mercy and lovingkindness, and the love that says no, that wisely and sternly sets boundaries on what is not right or worthy. Knowing which kind of love – the holy yes or the holy no – is the right kind of love for any situation, to nurture instead of thwart its vibrational potential, that’s the work. On this new moon, we can quiet down a bit and ask ourselves, what new relationship dynamics do we want to invite in? Where do we feel some resounding yesses? Where might we need some fresh boundaries? Where are we at in our ability to say no or fuck no with empathy and clarity, and then back it up? --- Get the longer moon reading and some ritual suggestions and creative prompts by signing up for my substack newsletter, In the River of What’s Happening Now. Also, all hail NY AG Leticia James! Happy new moon 🌑
Happy equinox my friends 🧡 To honor the start o Happy equinox my friends 🧡 To honor the start of fall, and to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Giltter in the Blood (!) I’ve started a new writing project, a brand new baby substack newsletter called In the River of What’s Happening Now. Here’s an excerpt from my first ever post - “Failure is Holy.” It’s a love letter to the fall equinox: “Welcoming in the psychological descent of fall, it’s unthinkable to almost every part of us. Every part except maybe the soul, whatever that is. When depth psychologists talk about soul, some talk about it as a perspective on a thing, not actually a thing. Others talk about it in ways indistinguishable from the heart and the feeling function. Maybe one of the ways we can know our soul is by locating the part of us that kind of loves falling apart, the part that comes all-the-way-alive when we cry in front of other people, or fail spectacularly. I’ve had a least a few really big failures in my life, the kind so devastating to my self-view, the only thing to do was to surrender, sit fully down in the dirt in my nice outfit and ruin it, finally releasing all fantasies of perfection. The soul loves a ruining. My failure has always served as a prequel, not to success exactly, but to something that is more true. I’m still learning this: the failure of things not meant for me is the necessary portal to discovering what is, and in the process, who I really am.” 🙌🏼 If youre into it, or you like the moon posts I write, you can subscribe to newsletter anytime. The link is in my bio & on thecultofmindy.com. The basic offering has no paywall, & you can get my longer-than-2200-character readings on the new moons and full moons in your inbox for free. For a small subscription, you can get a lot more, including regular ritual and creative writing prompts, talks on special topics in depth psychology and surviving being human, I really don’t know what else, but I have a feeling it’s going to be good. That’s it. Happy Mabon again, here we go.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, 2:59am PT, In the early hours of Saturday morning, 2:59am PT, central dream time, the moon is full at 17° of Pisces. Pisces is the final move of the zodiac; its vibes will get you stoned. It’s a mutable water sign represented by the twin fish, forever swimming in the cosmic ocean of oneness. Pisces encodes spiritual meanings about wholes divide into parts, how parts of a whole feel the whole, how nonduality splits into duality and then dissolves back into nonduality. It tells our origin story - that we begin in the waters of the womb, in a state of union, and then to fully come in to this world we have to separate. And it probably tells us something about where we are all headed in the end - back into something undifferentiated, back into the formlessness that dreams of form. Pisces is not for the linear analytical grasp. If you try to come at rationally or literally, you will get very lost, very fast. Meanwhile, Mercury is stationing retrograde Friday night just before the full moon, reversing our flow and stress testing our plans. The combination is giving us a moment of supreme opposition to Virgo’s clarity and precision. If the feelings and tears have been flowing all week, if you feel like a wide open channel, if you keep finding your mind and body trying to process all of the everything all at once and it’s not going that well, you are not alone. Take it from a natal Pisces moon - the best way to navigate this ocean is with empathy, warmth, and a sense of humor. Also poetry, stretching, questions that don’t need answers but act as portals, really great sci fi, the assumption that all the twists & turns of life are meaningful and part of a larger composition. Pisces senses and makes sense with the imagination. Maybe this weekend, just for awhile, we can suspend ordinary limits and definitions, pause our scrutinizing, take some perverse pleasure in the mess we are in, and appreciate the many many gifts our abundant imaginations have already provided. ✨ Starting on the next new moon, I’ll be delivering moon readings and more directly to inboxes to subscribers of my new newsletter In the River of What’s Happening Now, the basic offering has no paywall. Link in bio
Happy Thursday friends, I’m already feeling the Happy Thursday friends, I’m already feeling the tractor beams of this Mercury retrograde Pisces full moon situation coming at the end of the week. Getting ready to be a hot(ter) mess over here. Before that happens I wanted to let you know that we are bringing back the embodied alchemy course - a cocreation of mine and the incredible Trinity Capili (@trinitythehuman). This is a long-form workshop container - an 8-month course that begins in October and continues through May - and it covers essential philosophies and practices of ritual somatic meditation as an aid in personal healing and transformation. The course includes weekly readings and talks, somatic practices, and a small-group process group to bring your feelings and experiences to for witnessing. You might already be doing these kinds of explorations in therapy, in your yoga practice, in the art studio that is wherever-you-are, with plant medicines, and it just might be time to join forces with a group of tender radicals and get some exquisite witnessing and containment. I would be honored to spend this kind of quality time with you! And if you don’t know Trinity yet, I honestly can’t say enough about how amazing she is to work with 🙌🏼 Regardless of whether you join this workshop please check out @CreaturePace and her work in decompression and body meditation. If you’re alchemy curious and want to explore further, head to my website. And if you've never worked with me before, you can book a free introductory call with me this month and we can feel out together whether it’s the right fit. Links are in my bio and registration is fully live on thecultofmindy.com. More soon as the moon peaks
In the small hours of Saturday morning – 1:17am In the small hours of Saturday morning – 1:17am PST – the moon goes dark and renews herself at 4° of Virgo, the goddess of details. There is something simple and perfect about this new moon. Every year, after the peak hot mess of Leo season, Virgo sweeps in coolly, analyzes the scene, frowns, and then without any drama or resentment, starts to clean up. Virgo is an archetype of discernment and executive function 🙌🏼 It’s mutable earth intelligence knows exactly how to set things right, how to arrange things so that they actually work. Wherever Virgo is styling your chart, you likely have extremely practical gifts. You also likely have to work to curb your inner critic, or intentionally not-notice flaws in others. It’s so important and holy, knowing how to let yourself and others be worthy, as is, just letting everyone live already. But the urge to judge and perfect – that can be holy, too. There’s some unworthy shit going on. Everything is not all good. We need Virgo’s critical eye and natural-systems wisdom more than ever. On this new moon, as on every new moon, we get the chance to start again. Not from scratch, but from where we are now, from where everything is now. We get to reset in any way we need to reset. And then we get to draw a new dream towards us. It’s probably a dream of rightness, of re-righting and re-writing, a dream of sanctifying ruins, healing a wound, making art from pain. Whatever that dream is, if it’s truly yours, trust that you will know everything you need to, when you need to - and not a second before - to support its manifestation. For now, just devote yourself to it whole-heartedly, and feel how it devotes itself to you right back. Moon inspiration musical piece by Céleste Boursier Mougenot at @sfmona
Happy birthday moon man! If you know you know. Bri Happy birthday moon man! If you know you know. Brian S. Ellis is all heart, if he loves you, you don’t doubt it, he gives freely of his genius and his feelings, on the page, to his friends, to his wife and his cat, he makes billionaires of us - I’m constantly devastated by his example of service to love and good vibes. Here’s to the next forty years boo 💜💜💜💜
Thursday at 6:36pm PST the full moon peaks deep in Thursday at 6:36pm PST the full moon peaks deep in the realm of visionaries - at 19° of Aquarius. If the skies are clear where you are, this one is a super moon and will be a stunner. It’s an ideal time to sneak out in the dark, lie back on some warm asphalt or cool grass and look up, breathe in the great mystery. Nothing is more Aquarius then getting stoned on stars and moons. Aquarius is fixed air, the Most Air, an archetype of collective consciousness and imagination. It’s known for its drive to innovate and originate, for its love of strange ideas and plans that hatch in the furthest reaches of the mind; it’s all very crystals forming in the cracks of the real. What it values most is love and freedom for all sentient beings, and its greatest enemy is fear – fear is the mind killer – so wherever Aquarius rules your chart, that’s where you’re likely learning the most about fear and fearlessness. All full moons can be intense, and this one is happening amidst some very challenging astrology. If it feels like you have not made any real progress in the last six months in manifesting the deeper vision you are holding for your life, this week might be very hard. This full moon, then, is giving us permission to honor the real limits we are up against, and to be weird, and take some extra mental space – to tune in and turn on, even if we don’t have time to drop out properly. Whatever is daunting you about the world, about your situation, about the changes you want to make, Aquarius invites you to try and chill about it. Not because it isn’t worth getting worked up about - it is - but because to get where we want to be, we have to learn how to return to a state of equanimity when provoked or activated or enraged – a state in which we are far more effective. Whatever calms and centers you – walking, calling in your ancestors, listening to starship bridge ambient noise while foam rollering your back – give yourself the full moon gift of doing it. The Sabian symbol for 19° of Aquarius is “a forest fire quenched.” May we all have pristine visions of how exactly we might meet the most destructive forces in the world with equal creativity and ferocity and love.
Hey y’all I’ll be at Pickathon Sunday morning Hey y’all I’ll be at Pickathon Sunday morning for 10am poems at the Woods Stage with Anis Mojgani, Dao Strom, Emily Kendal Frey, Brandon Jordan Brown & Julia Gaskill 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡if you’re around come around! Also can’t wait to see what @themakeandmary has done with The Refuge neighborhood - if you want to meet up I’ll probably be there sipping iced tea. Shaney Albers and Graciela the Sage are offering morning meditations and sound baths each day and Yvonne Perez is bringing aromatherapy and art supplies, and now you know how I think about partying these days 🙌🏼
The moon is brand new today, going dark exact at 1 The moon is brand new today, going dark exact at 10:55 am PT at 5° of Leo the fire lion. Leo is an archetype of freedom and self-mastery and the full flowering of personal creative expression. It’s into joyous monarchy, relaxed strutting, demanding attention, drinking the good stuff and being the good stuff. Wherever Leo rules in your chart, it’s got secrets to reveal about your individuation, that spiraling growth by which an acorn becomes an oak tree and each of us becomes the oak tree version of ourselves - full grown, full-souled, our specific gifts seen and developed and on offer to the world. Wherever you are at on your life journey, the Leo new moon is suggesting the show isn’t over till it’s over - if you’re cooking up a dramatic rebirth, born from a rock and hard place, it’s a good time to take that next step, or leap. New moons in general are invitations to pause, contract, rest if needed, and start again. This one is arriving in the midst of two weeks of rough astrological weather - a triple conjunction in Taurus of the north node and Mars and Uranus, creating an urgent need to shake things up, get free from restrictions, break up and re-form foundations; and Saturn in Aquarius is opposing Mercury in Leo and then squaring the Uranus in Taurus. I pray this isn’t affecting you personally, but if it is, it’s probably time to breathe, bring your flailing limbs back to center, and dig deeper. The urgency you are feeling to change it all rfn, it’s good information, and it’s ok to slow it down, do it in phases, make it less catastrophic, more sustainable. Bringing an instinct or idea into full fruition is a massive and holy undertaking, full of false climaxes and stops and restarts. The idea must be allowed to transform in the process of manifestation, as it meets the limits of reality and reality’s terms. That’s a good thing - that’s how creation works. When in doubt, try being curious and welcoming what’s feels hard and limiting - how might the limits be providing a container? Then use this new moon - and the next and the next - to call in the nutrients and resources needed, the pleasure and love and joy, so that life can continue growing.
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