The New Moon on Tuesday packs a punch, yet again. It sits with Venus and the fixed star Princeps, a tricky or sticky combination. Why tricky, you may ask? Scorpio is the arena of learning how to share power. As with anyone, we start out not necessarily knowing what to do. We learn power dynamics in childhood and if we don’t actively set about upgrading them, we repeat those patterns lifelong. Venus is what we desire. Princeps as the shameless liar with this New Moon/Sun partial eclipse turns the lights off and then on again on what we want. This gives us space to dig deeper on why we want what we want.
It really can call out the ‘compare and despair’ dynamic. This scarcity mindset can feel shame or loss when someone achieves what we wish we could achieve. Except scarcity is a lie. There is not only enough to go around, what is yours cannot go to someone else. The problem we have is when we fixate on only one way of getting to our wish fulfillment. We attach all our happiness to one person, place or thing. Now I am NOT a fan of talking yourself out of wanting what you want. That is the biggest lie of all, that you have to give up on what you want. In fact, quite the contrary. What you wish for is the key to your happiness. It’s the how you get to it that needs an upgrade.
What it requires is a ‘yes and’ mentality. Someone I coach is in love with a person already in another relationship. She was miserable trying to talk herself out of it. The habit of talking yourself out of what you want is one of the lies to leave behind with help from this eclipse cycle. Instead, we use her love and the open heart she feels with this man to help map out a bigger expression of her love nature. Obviously she can’t express it to him fully now. But it is teaching her things about herself that surprise and amaze her. What’s beautiful is that she wishes him what is best for him, even if it isn’t her, without giving up what she feels for him. That is the power of ‘Yes And’. It’s real, it’s inspirational and bigger than anything she expected to feel, given her situation.
Her goal is to trust her heart and use it to navigate to where she is meant to be. She invests in knowing that one of two things will happen. Their friendship may bloom down the line (honesty that she can hold that wish) or that someone will cross her path that feels the mutual attraction as big or bigger than she feels for them. Giving herself permission for all the feelings and then doing something constructive with them benefits everyone. It is far better than creating a story that the other person is a monster (more lies) or that you are a fool or unworthy (lies) or that you have to chew off your arm to get free of the feelings.
I jest but not entirely. It wounds something inside us to deny what we are drawn to almost as much as it wounds those around us when we pursue those desires without regard to consequences. Often we are advised to cut ourselves off from one kind of pain only to ignore that it is simply a transfer of pain. We go numb when we do that too often. The people who advise us to cut off from our desires learned that too. That one pain is better than another. Except that isn’t necessarily or always true. You have to see the whole picture, all the possibilities of how those feelings can serve a purpose that improves our lives. Yes there may be a cost involved, but if you work with your feelings it almost certainly leaves you with more life.
To get to the ‘win/win/win’ we have to investigate the lies we tell ourselves about what we desire. Or the lies we tell ourselves to justify pursuing what we want at all costs. Somewhere between those two extremes is your own personal path. One that honors what you feel and want and achieves it in a way that offers a ‘compare and dare’ option. Because once you achieve your dream, others know they can have theirs too. Seeing is believing and the ‘how’ you achieve things matters, now more than ever.
Our brains are wired so that when they see something is possible, they start connecting dots and expanding the possibilities in your world. Hence the ‘compare and dare’. Yet our ancient fear brain doesn’t trust the unknown. So it offers up ‘compare and despair’ as a brake on your expansion. Recognize when your brain is lying to you in order to keep you in safe space. Behave in a way that concretely builds a world you want to inhabit, rather than a cruel or brutal scarcity existence. Then the obstacles between you and your dream help you become the best version of you as you confront and deal with them. What if those challenges are exactly what helps you become the YOU that you’re here to be?
So don’t be shocked if you catch your brain offering up outrageous lies the next few weeks. They are simply advance warning that expansion is at hand. Use the lies to ferret out where greater possibilities are. Act on them in ways that build your character and add courage and strength to the world. You make it a better world to live in each time you do. When you act on your true feelings in a way that enlists support and gains momentum everyone benefits over time. The Cards and Stars will help.
Thank you,
Lisa Greenfield
10/25 New Moon solar eclipse – king of swords
This King sees the ‘big picture’. How right to lead into this New Moon partial Solar eclipse with him at the wheel. The sticky bit about this eclipse is that whole picture will reveal pockets that need drilling down on in the weeks ahead. As illuminating as it may be, the details require adjustment to the new picture, and this takes time. In the weeks ahead more lies come up to be cleared out. It is worth the time to clean out those closets and discover what you truly love and what matters to you as you are today. Now is an excellent time for clear vision and self discovery.
This King also stands for wise advice or counsel. Sometimes it helps for a trusted friend or advisor hear you think out loud. The goal here is to help you spot places where your view of things is smaller than reality, or skewed to a less powerful version of you. That is the biggest lie, the one that believes you don’t have the power. Your power may not be expressed the way you were taught to express it. It may not look like those around you express it. Still, few things have more authentic impact that living true to yourself in the face of obstacles. Doing that while respecting how your actions impact others adds even more effect.
Because when we consider others without compromising our truth, we tend to garner respect. There can even be increased support. Mars, the planet of action is slowing down to spend three months retrograde. So this is not a time to race ahead, it’s too easy to overdo right now. This is about getting to know to your motivators and stories. Find the lies, ones that don’t trust you can have what you want in a way that is going to benefit both you and others. The potency of forward movement fueled with self respect can gather more of the the same from those around you. It has changed the world more than a few times. See where it can change yours.
10/26 King of pentacles
This is the second King in a row. Two Kings together speak of good conduct rewarded. This is part of yesterday’s partial solar eclipse. When you operate from a win/lose dynamic, you contribute to a scarce world competing for power spots. However, when you create from win/win dynamics, you suddenly have allies and support that knows they can rise with you. It’s simple physics. The Moon stands opposite Uranus, the Great Awakener, before it squares Saturn, The Wisdom Keeper/Time Lord. So your inner landscape can give you more drama than the Prime Video or Netflix queue. It’s a wonderful time to talk it through with good advisors. What you have to say may reveal more than you expect. Insight can spill out of those pockets into conversations.
Really listen to your internal dialogue today. Watch for juicy rationalizations for behavior that is self sacrificing or selfish. Either edge of the pendulum swing is worth knowing on any given issue. Still not time for action, unless it is slow and measured. It’s way too easy to pull from the tension of uncertainty to create situations lace with even more tension. While that is a great distraction from uncomfortable self exploration, it’s probably less helpful. Keep drilling down on what you think and believe and where those ideas originated. Be sure to check to see if they still fit. Some may be like shoes from grade school. They hold good memories but pinch when you wear them. Time spent here is time well rewarded in coming weeks.
10/27 ten of pentacles
One of the meanings this empowered one to the tenth degrees carries is the ability to separate past from the present. How handy, right? The Moon moves into Sagittarius and makes a friendly trine to Jupiter in Aries. Jupiter expands whatever it touches. So this Moon in Sagittarius gets a kick to see more of that big picture and a higher truth. You’ve reached high enough ground to see clearly how far you’ve come. Watch out for illusions of grandeur. It is tempting to believe you ‘know it all’ with today’s aspects. You have definitely received good insight. What to do with it is a work in progress. Ten is a solid start, and it is still a beginning at a whole new playing level.
Mercury squares Pluto retrograde which brings up themes of fearing your own darkness. Or on the flips side harming with unfiltered communication those who’s shadow feels threatening or unwelcome. The two feel linked, don’t they? When we can’t face our own shadows, they creep in and appear bigger than usual. We project them on to others and suddenly a battle or armor is required. Except it is not necessarily accurate. By all means, pay attention to alarm bells. But instead of acting on them, get up close and personal with them. What set them off? Where have you felt this fear before? How often do you feel it?
The New Moon on Tuesday packs a punch, yet again. It sits with Venus and the fixed star Princeps, a tricky or sticky combination. Why tricky, you may ask? Scorpio is the arena of learning how to share power. As with anyone, we start out not necessarily knowing what to do. We learn power dynamics in childhood and if we don’t actively set about upgrading them, we repeat those patterns lifelong. Venus is what we desire. Princeps as the shameless liar with this New Moon/Sun partial eclipse turns the lights off and then on again on what we want. This gives us space to dig deeper on why we want what we want.
It really can call out the ‘compare and despair’ dynamic. This scarcity mindset can feel shame or loss when someone achieves what we wish we could achieve. Except scarcity is a lie. There is not only enough to go around, what is yours cannot go to someone else. The problem we have is when we fixate on only one way of getting to our wish fulfillment. We attach all our happiness to one person, place or thing. Now I am NOT a fan of talking yourself out of wanting what you want. That is the biggest lie of all, that you have to give up on what you want. In fact, quite the contrary. What you wish for is the key to your happiness. It’s the how you get to it that needs an upgrade.
What it requires is a ‘yes and’ mentality. Someone I coach is in love with a person already in another relationship. She was miserable trying to talk herself out of it. The habit of talking yourself out of what you want is one of the lie to leave behind with help from this eclipse cycle. Instead, we use her love and the open heart she feels with this man to help map out a bigger expression of her love nature. Obviously she can’t express it to him fully now. But it is teaching her things about herself that surprise and amaze her. What’s beautiful is that she wishes him what is best for him, even if it isn’t her, without giving up what she feels for him. That is the power of ‘Yes And’. It’s real, it’s inspirational and bigger than anything she expected to feel, given her situation.
Her goal is to trust her heart and use it to navigate to where she is meant to be. She invests in knowing that one of two things will happen. Their friendship may bloom down the line (honesty that she can hold that wish) or that someone will cross her path that feels the mutual attraction as big or bigger than she feels for them. Giving herself permission for all the feelings and then doing something constructive with them benefits everyone. It is far better than creating a story that the other person is a monster (more lies) or that you are a fool or unworthy (lies) or that you have to chew off your arm to get free of the feelings.
I jest but not entirely. It wounds something inside us to deny what we are drawn to almost as much as it wounds those around us when we pursue those desires without regard to consequences. Often we are advised to cut ourselves off from one kind of pain only to ignore that it is simply a transfer of pain. We go numb when we do that too often. The people who advise us to cut off from our desires learned that too. That one pain is better than another. Except that isn’t necessarily or always true. You have to see the whole picture, all the possibilities of how those feelings can serve a purpose that improves our lives. Yes there may be a cost involved, but if you work with your feelings it almost certainly leaves you with more life.
To get to the ‘win/win/win’ we have to investigate the lies we tell ourselves about what we desire. Or the lies we tell ourselves to justify pursuing what we want at all costs. Somewhere between those two extremes is your own personal path. One that honors what you feel and want and achieves it in a way that offers a ‘compare and dare’ option. Because once you achieve your dream, others know they can have theirs too. Seeing is believing and the ‘how’ you achieve things matters, now more than ever.
Our brains are wired so that when they see something is possible, they start connecting dots and expanding the possibilities in your world. Hence the ‘compare and dare’. Yet our ancient fear brain doesn’t trust the unknown. So it offers up ‘compare and despair’ as a brake on your expansion. Recognize when your brain is lying to you in order to keep you in safe space. Behave in a way that concretely builds a world you want to inhabit, rather than a cruel or brutal scarcity existence. Then the obstacles between you and your dream help you become the best version of you as you confront and deal with them. What if those challenges are exactly what helps you become the YOU that you’re here to be.
So don’t be shocked if you catch your brain offering up outrageous lies the next few weeks. They are simply advance warning that expansion is at hand. Use the lies to ferret out where greater possibilities are. Act on them in ways that build your character and add courage and strength to the world. You make it a better world to live in each time you do. When you act on your true feelings in a way that enlists support and gains momentum everyone benefits over time. The Cards and Stars will help.
Thank you,
Lisa Greenfield
10/25 New Moon solar eclipse – king of swords
This King sees the ‘big picture’. How right to lead into this New Moon partial Solar eclipse with him in the lead. The sticky bit about this eclipse is that whole picture will reveal pockets that need drilling down on in the weeks ahead. As illuminating as it may be, the details require adjustment to the new picture, and this takes time. In the weeks ahead more lies come up to be cleared out. It is worth the time to clean out those closets and discover what you truly love and what matters to you as you are today. Now is an excellent time for clear vision and self discovery.
This King also stands for wise advice or counsel. Sometimes it helps for a trusted friend or advisor hear you think out loud. The goal here is to help you spot places where your view of things is smaller than reality, or skewed to a less powerful version of you. That is the biggest lie, the one that believes you don’t have the power. Your power may not be expressed the way you were taught to express it. It may not look like those around you express it. Still, few things have more authentic impact that living true to yourself in the face of obstacles. Doing that while respecting how your actions impact others adds even more effect.
Because when we consider others without compromising our truth, we tend to garner respect. There can even be increased support. Mars, the planet of action is slowing down to spend three months retrograde. So this is not a time to race ahead, it’s too easy to overdo right now. This is about getting to know to your motivators and stories. Find the lies, ones that don’t trust you can have what you want in a way that is going to benefit both you and others. The potency of forward movement fueled with self respect can gather more of the the same from those around you. It has changed the world more than a few times. See where it can change yours.
10/26 King of pentacles
This is the second King in a row. Two Kings together speak of good conduct rewarded. This is part of yesterday’s partial solar eclipse. When you operate from a win/lose dynamic, you contribute to a scarce world competing for power spots. However, when you create from win/win dynamics, you suddenly have allies and support that knows they can rise with you. It’s simple physics. The Moon stands opposite Uranus, the Great Awakener, before it squares Saturn, The Wisdom Keeper/Time Lord. So your inner landscape can give you more drama than the Prime Video or Netflix queue. It’s a wonderful time to talk it through with good advisors. What you have to say may reveal more than you expect. Insight can spill out of those pockets into conversations.
Really listen to your internal dialogue today. Watch for juicy rationalizations for behavior that is self sacrificing or selfish. Either edge of the pendulum swing is worth knowing on any given issue. Still not time for action, unless it is slow and measured. It’s way too easy to pull from the tension of uncertainty to create situations lace with even more tension. While that is a great distraction from uncomfortable self exploration, it’s probably less helpful. Keep drilling down on what you think and believe and where those ideas originated. Be sure to check to see if they still fit. Some may be like shoes from grade school. They hold good memories but pinch when you wear them. Time spent here is time well rewarded in coming weeks.
10/27 ten of pentacles
One of the meanings this empowered one to the tenth degrees carries is the ability to separate past from the present. How handy, right? The Moon moves into Sagittarius and makes a friendly trine to Jupiter in Aries. Jupiter expands whatever it touches. So this Moon in Sagittarius gets a kick to see more of that big picture and a higher truth. You’ve reached high enough ground to see clearly how far you’ve come. Watch out for illusions of grandeur. It is tempting to believe you ‘know it all’ with today’s aspects. You have definitely received good insight. What to do with it is a work in progress. Ten is a solid start, and it is still a beginning at a whole new playing level. It’s a good time to inventory what your strengths and skills are, while keeping in mind
Mercury squares Pluto retrograde which brings up themes of fearing your own darkness. Or on the flips side harming with unfiltered communication those who’s shadow feels threatening or unwelcome. The two feel linked, don’t they? When we can’t face our own shadows, they creep in and appear bigger than usual. We project them on to others and suddenly a battle or armor is required. Except it is not necessarily accurate. By all means, pay attention to alarm bells. But instead of acting on them, get up close and personal with them. What set them off? Where have you felt this fear before? How often do you feel it? You have all your accumulated wisdom, strength and resilience. Balance your fears out with what you know about yourself now. This is the best place to apply today’s transits. Leave action for another day.
10/28 Strength
The aspects today invite you to look at what you consider the ‘right use of power’. Strength is required to hold a firm boundary when someone or something crosses it. It can call on anger to consolidate your energy and help you be brave. This courage is not meant to invade another’s space but rather to hold your own against intrusion. When you know your edges, what works for you and what doesn’t, then you need to speak on your behalf. Check in on how well you do that. Acknowledge what you do well. Also take a few minutes to make sure you don’t misuse your power to invade someone else’s space.
This invasion most often comes from a wound. The smarter you are the more you can justify trampling a boundary that reminds you of a past hurt. Whether you are giving or receiving this kind of invasive action, it weakens connections. There is a better option. You get to find your version of it. This is not a call for perfection, but it is a situation that can be greatly improved with some inner strength to face your imperfections and grow because of them. When you can hold a clean boundary and honor others’ boundaries, you have a recipe for true collaborative growth.
10/29 nine of swords
We have a series of adjustments today that come from over promising or wishful thinking. Again, these aren’t to make us wrong or cause problems. Rather it is to give us a chance to check out our reasons for doing what we do. Too often we fear a loss of connection that is ‘needless worry’, as this Nine points out. So we promise what we don’t want to give or do. Or we wish someone would read our mind and just do what we would like them to do without being asked. These are very human impulses.
Except that impulse erodes trust when we fail to follow through or builds resentment when they fail to live up to what we want from them. Nine is a master number and the small cosmic adjustments today promise rewards. We grow if we take the time to review our mental agreements and expectations. We benefit greatly from learning what will make it safe to risk speaking our truth. It may feel like truth can threaten the connection, but the opposite is more often true. It will deepen the bond. So will a vulnerable ask instead of an unspoken expectation. Work on mastering your fears that block your truth and see what comes of it.
10/30 emperor – Mars Retrograde
Mars starts its backward motion at a snail’s pace, today. It’s going to backtrack until January, giving us an opportunity to rethink how we act on our dreams and desires. Mars is also our courage and our ability to defend ourselves. The place where Mars goes retrograde highlights the shame and loss we feel when our actions don’t get the results we expected. Some of us learned to turn inward when it happens in self loathing or shame. Or perhaps you turned outward into schemes and manipulation. There are plenty of movies and stories that glorify the adorable scoundrel who breaks all the rules to win.
Either extreme is visible in the world today. Where do you fall on the spectrum? This long backwards trek is in Gemini. Mercury has the ability to go anywhere, even the hell realms and escape unscathed. Mars is hanging out in Mercury’s sign of Gemini, which gives added ability to see the big picture. Remember the King of Swords we began the eclipse cycle with, right? The lies we tell ourselves about the blocks, challenges or outright failures matter! Time to get to the sneaky little voices measuring you by the wrong yardstick.
The win/win/win dynamic is an abundant path. It’s an alternative to the popular ‘power over’ system that champions finding a better way to dominate or emotionally manipulate your way into results. The first is not only sustainable, it feels good and energizes all the participants. Results often exceed expectations when you have that kind of collaboration. The other is a win/lose scenario and a contraction. So discover where your learned behavior needs better clothes. Know what you choose and why. It’s your world, you make it what it is.
10/31 three of pentacles Happy Halloween
Pay close attention to your inner dialogue today. This Three of Pentacles highlights communication, but the body has the final word. Our mind can race ahead with solutions, ideas, plans and the body has feedback that is slower and more subtle. Yet those body cues are vital. They’ve proven that the body registers what is coming up to six seconds before the experience of something shocking or scary. Yes, they actually tested on that. It’s part of our survival instinct I imagine. But when our mind races ahead it can bully our body into silence, if you aren’t aware.
Today offers opportunities to discover where those low key, body inputs have valuable insight for you. Yet few people are trained to pay attention to those cues. If you are an athlete, you were trained to ignore those signals and ‘play with pain’. Emotions can back up into body pain as well. All you have to do is look at advertising to know that stomach trouble and pain relief are a multi -billion dollar industry. Use the body wisdom of this three and today’s celestial soup of small uncomfortable shifts that help you to master the day. Have fun and here’s to only the fun tricks and lots of treats for you.
11/1 judgement
Brene Brown shared the data that explained “we judge what we ourselves struggle with, but that we are doing better in the moment than those judged”. Today pay attention to who and what you judge. Know that the way you think and speak about those you object to is the same measure that you apply to yourself. So harsh words, hateful thoughts are a good place to excavate. Where did you learn to see others that way? Because you can’t help but see yourself through the same lens. Healing and growth happen when you acknowledge we all judge. Then learn how to work with yours with kinder, wiser eyes.
It takes practice and just as you learned to judge you can learn to Unjudge yourself and those around you. Doesn’t matter whether you begin applying a kinder frame to others or yourself first. What matters is you act on it. Why not hold the thought that they are doing the best they can in that moment and wish them a better moment. If it’s you being judged, then reach for a kinder thought, gentler tone for starters. Discernment helps us decide what is and isn’t for us. Take it too far and the world becomes a black and white, good and bad, us against them. The antidote is simple and challenging at the same time. You’ve got three months of retrograde Mars to help you get to a kinder, clearer path of action, free of unnecessary judgement.
11/2 five of pentacles
Venus joins the South Node today and adds to a sticky soup of aspects that have us moving ahead on one minute and hitting bumps the next. This Five of Pentacles is the card of scarcity mentality personified. When you believe in there isn’t enough, you will absolutely find evidence to support that belief. However, if you believe there is abundance, you can also find that. Once again it requires a big picture and broader definition of what abundance may be. “Life is Beautiful” is just one example of how someone created light in dark places.
The scarcity you experience may be real but it is not the whole story. Let it inspire you to create something unique to you and wonderful out of what is present rather than despair over the lack. This is one more opportunity to take what is in front of you and add the mixture of all that is you to get something extraordinary. At the end of the day, will you feel better about yourself having found even one dare to be great moment or despairing over what is missing?
By all means grieve the loss. Shed some tears if you feel them. Feelings are there for a reason. The difference is the feelings down’t drown you when you have a regular outlet and space to feel what you feel. Science knows it takes roughly ten minutes for the chemistry of emotion to travel our nervous system. Put ten minutes on the clock and let the feelings rise up and out. When it’s witnessed it is freer to flow. Then you can roll that grief into what you do next and it is all the more rich for the added texture. When you bring all of you to what you do, that itself is an opportunity for abundance. You can do it.
11/3 seven of wands
One of the meanings for this Seven is that you are on higher ground than you think you are. Often we battle ghosts from the past when something today stirs an old memory. The Pisces Moon today takes us through deep emotional waters as it swims up to Jupiter, the Great Expander. While we don’t control how we feel, we absolutely can choose what to do with the feelings. Water takes the shape of its container. Your feelings are the water and the container is what your actions are to hold those feelings. Will you make them a work of art?
Once again, can you hold the big picture with the best and worst of what you feel present and act on it in a way that benefits all? That doesn’t mean don’t rock the boat with change. It does mean, be kind when you are rocking and throw out a life preserver if someone goes overboard in your process. This Seven knows that some things are worth taking a stand for and you get to decide what they are for you. When you do, you show another it is possible to do what you love in a way that inspires them to do more of the same. Be brave, be kind, if you screw up then own it and take a do over. Work on getting it better, not perfect. You are further along than you know.
11/4 ace of wands
We have the Moon meeting up with Neptune, Lord of the Deep early Friday morning before you wake. Pay attention to your dreams. Wands are the realm of spirit and this Ace is that first spark of inspiration that leaps inside of you. Like any new flame it requires tending. Too often we let the world around us or even our interior reaction throw dirt on the fire. This is not the day to work out the logistics of what inspires you. It’s not even the day to act upon it. It’s a day to dream and in so dreaming, build the spark into a fire. That requires fuel. What fuels those sparks is praise, applause, recognition and respect.
Don’t worry that it isn’t the roaring fire yet that it may one day be. Give yourself recognition for the inspiration that flares up. Feed those flames… If ever there was a day to daydream, this is it. Imagine lots of different scenarios ahead of you. Picture yourself in them to see how they feel. Much like shoe shopping, let your imagined self take a wander (or strut) down different paths that lead from that inspired thought. Let the one that feels the most exciting and good to you get more attention. Keep stoking that fire. The time for action will present itself but first see what opportunities come your way as if by magic, to support it.
11/5 the chariot
Today is a fork in the road day. Which path will you take? In one direction we feel our old wounds, thanks to the Moon meeting up with Chiron. Because the Scorpio Sun hangs out with the South Node, old power struggles can diminish. With Venus opposite the Great Awakener, Uranus, we break free of wanting what no longer serves us. That can be old habits, patterns, loves and stories about what we love. It’s also a cautionary warning. If you try to work old ego driven power dynamics to get what you want, the south node has a shrinking effect. We can be blind to how ineffective the tactics may be but I promise you won’t be blind to the results.
It’s more likely those old behaviors will separate you from what you want. So you can break up with the pattern successfully, as the Chariot represents, or you can run blindly down a path that hits a wall. You decide. It begins by going slowly so you don’t rush past needed feedback. The shadow side of the Chariot is racing to a decision/action from ego driven desires to win. The upside is victory is assured when you prepare and advance with courage into whatever conflict is ahead. The battlefield is inside you today. Anything that shows up outside of you is there to help you map the landscape in your head. Spend time there and you will surely win the day.
11/6 five of swords
The aspects today, including Mercury/Chiron and Sun/Jupiter point to fearful thinking as our achilles heel. This is also the second five in the Moon cycle. Two fives highlight personal uncertainty. So where does your mind take you when you aren’t sure of yourself or a situation? Notice the stories you tell yourself in the absence of tangible evidence you are on the right path. It’s easy to fall into blame and shame with what’s cooking in the heaven’s today. Our light is not easily seen, but the shadows are.
Bring the light of your attention to the situation, whatever it is and add kind eyes. Ask yourself how old you are in the story you tell about what happens. You may be surprised at a six year old you retelling the story from way back when. How would you comfort a six year old? You can be brave after you feel seen and heard by you. Then when you turn the light of your attention on the situation, the shadows shrink down to their right size.
11/7 five of cups
This is the third five and now the story becomes personal satisfaction from debates. In other words, when you stand up for yourself that is the winner’s circle. This Five also heralds break ups. When you pair it with the first card of the cycle, the King of Swords, you have enough of a big picture to know what to keep and what to release. Some things have served their purpose and are meant to move out of our lives. Again, by all means grieve. In your grief add gratitude for what they brought you. Know that nothing you loved every leaves you. It is part of the fabric of you.
And the you that your are now moves on into more of your big life. Hanging on to things that no longer serve you or your purpose is as painful and unwelcome as trying to walk around in shoes you wore in first grade. It can cripple you to jam yourself into smaller space, no matter how safely familiar it may be. Believe that all you love will become the form it is meant to be and let go of the old form it occupied. Feelings take the shape of the container. So give the feelings you had for whatever is done a new container.
This is the best place to apply today’s transits. Leave action for another day.
10/28 Strength
The aspects today invite you to look at what you consider the ‘right use of power’. Strength is required to hold a firm boundary when someone or something crosses it. It can call on anger to consolidate your energy and help you be brave. This courage is not meant to invade another’s space but rather to hold your own against intrusion. When you know your edges, what works for you and what doesn’t, then you need to speak on your behalf. Check in on how well you do that. Also take a few minutes to make sure you don’t misuse your power to invade someone else’s space.
This invasion most often comes from a wound. The smarter you are the more you can justify trampling a boundary that reminds you of a past hurt. Whether you are giving or receiving this kind of invasive action, it weakens connections. There is a better option. You get to find your version of it. This is not a call for perfection, but it is a situation that can be greatly improved with some inner strength to face your imperfections and grow because of them. When you can hold a clean boundary and honor others’ boundaries, you have a recipe for true collaborative growth.
10/29 nine of swords
We have a series of adjustments today that come from over promising or wishful thinking. Again, these aren’t to make us wrong or cause problems. Rather it is to give us a chance to check out our reasons for doing what we do. Too often we fear a loss of connection that is ‘needless worry’, as this Nine points out. So we promise what we don’t want to give or do. Or we wish someone would read our mind and just do what we would like them to do without being asked. It’s a very human impulse.
Except we can lose sight of that fact and keep a pattern going that erodes trust when we don’t follow through and builds resentment when they fail to perform what we want from them. Nine is a master number and the small cosmic adjustments today promise rewards if we take the time to review our mental agreements and expectations. We benefit greatly from learning how to make it safe to risk speaking our truth. It may feel like you risk the connection, but the fact is the opposite is true. It will only deepen the bond. So will a vulnerable ask in place of an unspoken expectation. Work on mastering your fear and see what comes of it.
10/30 emperor – Mars Retrograde
Mars starts its backward motion at a snail’s pace, today. It’s going to backtrack until January, giving us an opportunity to rethink how we act on our dreams and desires. Mars is also our courage and our ability to defend ourselves. The place where Mars goes retrograde highlights the shame and loss we feel when our actions don’t get us the results we expected to get. Some learned to turn inward, perhaps in self loathing or shame or outward into malicious schemes and manipulation.
Either extreme is visible in the world today. Where do you fall on the spectrum? This long backwards trek is in Gemini. Mercury has the ability to go anywhere, even the hell realms and escape unscathed. Mars is hanging out in Mercury’s sign of Gemini, which gives added ability to see the big picture. Remember the King of Swords we began the eclipse cycle with, right? The lies we tell ourselves about the blocks, challenges or outright failures matter! Time to get to the sneaky little voices measuring you by the wrong yardstick. The next couple of months offer insight into ways you can work better, for sure.
That has more to do with the win/win/win dynamic than it does with finding a better way to dominate or emotionally manipulate your way into results. The first is not only sustainable, it feels good and energizes all the participants. Results often exceed expectations when you have that kind of collaboration. The other two are a win/lose scenario and a contraction. So discover where your learned behavior needs better clothes. Suit up and one choice, one chance at a time upgrade your ability to show up safely in your world to create what you wish to have.
10/31 three of pentacles Happy Halloween
Pay close attention to your inner dialogue today. This Three of Pentacles highlights communication, but the body has the final word. Our mind can race ahead with solutions, ideas, plans and the body has feedback that is slower and more subtle. Yet those body cues are vital. They’ve proven that the body registers what is coming up to six seconds before the experience of something shocking or scary. Yes, they actually tested on that. It’s part of our survival instinct I imagine. But when our mind races ahead it can bully our body into silence, for now.
Today will have opportunities to discover where those low key inputs have valuable insight for you. Yet few people are trained to pay attention to those cues. If you are an athlete, you were trained to ignore those signals and ‘play with pain’. Emotions can back up into body pain as well. All you have to do is look at advertising to know that stomach trouble and pain relief are a multi billion dollar industry. Use the body wisdom of this three and the celestial soup of uncomfortable shifts that help you to master the day. Have fun and here’s to only the fun tricks and lots of treats for you.
11/1 judgement
Brene Brown shared the data that explained “we judge what we ourselves struggle with, but that we are doing better in the moment than those judged”. Today pay attention to who and what you judge. Know that the way you think and speak about those you object to is the same measure that you apply to yourself. So harsh words, hateful thoughts are a good place to excavate. Where did you learn to see others that way? Because you can’t help but see yourself through the same lens. Healing and growth happen when you acknowledge we all judge. Then learn how to work with yours with kinder, wiser eyes.
It takes practice and just as you learned to judge you can learn to Unjudge yourself and those around you. Doesn’t matter whether you begin applying a kinder frame to others or yourself first. What matters is you act on it. Hold the thought that they are doing the best they can in that moment and wish them a better moment. If it’s you, then reach for a kinder thought, gentler tone for starters. Discernment helps us decide what is and isn’t for us. Take it too far and the world becomes a black and white, good and bad, us against them. The antidote is simple and challenging at the same time. You’ve got three months of retrograde Mars to help you get to a kinder, clearer path of action.
11/2 five of pentacles
Venus joins the South Node today and adds to a sticky soup of aspects that have us moving ahead on one minute and hitting bumps the next. This Five of Pentacles is the card of scarcity mentality personified. When you believe in there isn’t enough, you will absolutely find evidence to support that belief. However, if you believe there is abundance, you can also find that. Once again it requires a big picture and broader definition of what abundance may be. “Life is Beautiful” is just one example of how someone created light in dark places.
The scarcity you experience may be real but it is not the whole story. Let it inspire you to create something unique to you and wonderful out of what is present rather than despair over the lack. This is one more opportunity to take what is in front of you and add the mixture of all that is you to get something extraordinary. At the end of the day, will you feel better about yourself having found even one dare to be great moment or despairing over what is missing?
By all means grieve the loss. Shed some tears if you feel them. Feelings are there for a reason. The difference is you can roll that grief into what you do next and it is all the more rich for the added texture. When you bring all of you to what you do, that itself is an opportunity for abundance. You can do it.
11/3 seven of wands
One of the meanings for this Seven is that you are on higher ground than you think you are. Often we battle ghosts from the past when something today stirs an old memory. The Pisces Moon today takes us through deep emotional waters as it swims up to Jupiter, the Great Expander. While we don’t control how we feel, we absolutely can choose what to do with the feelings. Water takes the shape of its container. Your feelings are the water and the container is what your actions are to hold those feelings. Will you make them a work of art?
Once again, can you hold the big picture with the best and worst of what you feel present and act on it in a way that benefits all? That doesn’t mean don’t rock the boat with change. It does mean, be kind when you are rocking and throw out a life preserver if someone goes overboard in your process. This Seven knows that some things are worth taking a stand for and you get to decide what they are for you. When you do, you show another it is possible to do what you love in a way that inspires them to do more of the same. Be brave, be kind, if you screw up then own it and take a do over. Work on getting it better, not perfect. You are further along than you know.
11/4 ace of wands
We have the Moon meeting up with Neptune, Lord of the Deep early Friday morning before you wake. Pay attention to your dreams. Wands are the realm of spirit and this Ace is that first spark of inspiration that leaps inside of you. Like any new flame it requires tending. Too often we let the world around us or even our interior reaction throw dirt on the fire. This is not the day to work out the logistics of what inspires you. It’s not even the day to act upon it. It’s a day to dream and in so dreaming, build the spark into a fire. That requires fuel. What fuels those sparks is praise, applause, recognition and respect.
Don’t worry that it isn’t the roaring fire yet that it may one day be. Give yourself recognition for the inspiration that flares up. Feed those flames… If ever there was a day to daydream, this is it. Imagine lots of different scenarios ahead of you. Picture yourself in them to see how they feel. Much like shoe shopping, let your imagined self take a wander (or strut) down different paths that lead from that inspired thought. Let the one that feels the most exciting and good to you get more attention. Keep stoking that fire. The time for action will present itself but first see what opportunities come your way as if by magic, to support it.
11/5 the chariot
Today is a fork in the road day. Which path will you take? In one direction we feel our old wounds, thanks to the Moon meeting up with Chiron. Because the Scorpio Sun hangs out with the South Node, old power struggles can diminish. With Venus opposite the Great Awakener, Uranus, we break free of wanting what no longer serves us. That can be old habits, patterns, loves and stories about what we love. It’s also a cautionary warning. If you try to work old ego driven power dynamics to get what you want, the south node has a shrinking effect. We can be blind to how ineffective the tactics may be but I promise you won’t be blind to the results.
It’s more likely those old behaviors will separate you from what you want. So you can break up with the pattern successfully, as the Chariot represents, or you can run blindly down a path that hits a wall. You decide. It begins by going slowly so you don’t rush past needed feedback. The shadow side of the Chariot is racing to a decision/action from ego driven desires to win. The upside is victory is assured when you prepare and advance with courage into whatever conflict is ahead. The battlefield is inside you today. Anything that shows up outside of you is there to help you map the landscape in your head. Spend time there and you will surely win the day.
11/6 five of swords
The aspects today, including Mercury/Chiron and Sun/Jupiter point to fearful thinking as our achilles heel. This is also the second five in the Moon cycle. Two fives highlight personal uncertainty. So where does your mind take you when you aren’t sure of yourself or a situation? Notice the stories you tell yourself in the absence of tangible evidence you are on the right path. It’s easy to fall into blame and shame with what’s cooking in the heaven’s today. Our light is not easily seen, but the shadows are.
Bring the light of your attention to the situation, whatever it is and add kind eyes. Ask yourself how old you are in the story you tell about what happens. You may be surprised at a six year old you retelling the story from way back when. How would you comfort a six year old? You can be brave after you feel seen and heard by you. Then when you turn the light of your attention on the situation, the shadows shrink down to their right size.
11/7 five of cups
This is the third five and now the story becomes personal satisfaction from debates. In other words, when you stand up for yourself you’ve arrived at the winner’s circle. This Five also heralds break ups. When you pair it with the first card of the cycle, the King of Swords, you have enough perspective enough to know what to keep and what to release. Some things served their purpose and are meant to move out of our lives. Again, by all means grieve. In your grief why not add gratitude for what they brought you. Gratitude reassures you that you received the blessing once, now you can stay open to the next version of it. Know that nothing you loved every leaves you. It is part of the fabric of you.
And the you that your are now moves on into more of your big life. Hanging on to things that no longer serve you or your purpose is as painful and unwelcome as trying to walk around in shoes you wore in first grade. It can cripple you to jam yourself into smaller space, no matter how safely familiar it may be. Believe that all you love will become the form it is meant to be and let go of the old form it occupied. Feelings take the shape of the container. So give the feelings you had for whatever is done a new container.
