Babies as young as three months old have been known to stare up to 10 seconds longer at stuffed animals dressed like the baby. Ten seconds is enormously long for a baby that age. Those survival instincts in each of us tune to what is similar. We feel more secure with what is familiar. We walk around with unconscious bias for familiarity. This isn’t a bad thing. Especially when you use this little factoid to review the stories you tell yourself about almost everything you’ve experienced in life.
This Full Moon has uncomfortable activation that helps us see where our need to belong and be safe colors how we interpret whatever happens around us. As I keep mentioning, the stories we’ve lived with no longer fit what happens today. Mars and Venus are cozied up together in Capricorn and head towards a meet up with the Deep Transformational Pluto. Our way of structuring relationships, all kinds of them, are set for major overhaul. It’s not going to be easy. This really is a Moon Cycle that illuminates the phrase, “The Truth will set you free”. It may also include the add on, “But first it will piss you off”.
Challenges in relationships come out of our bias towards the familiar. For example, someone new does something that reminds you of an ex or a family dynamic. Suddenly you have a whole story in your head. Friends and family are likely to trigger mental and emotional landmines, behave in ways seem historical in current situations. Except you aren’t in the past. Things are changing, most of all you are changing. When you react to avoid past pain, you only see half the equation. Be patient with your process, and it is a process. Our emotions are actually molecules in our body. You may have a pattern that defaults to rage, or resentment, or defeat. It requires reinforcing additional responses on top of your automatic reaction.
Now you have a bigger framework to view what happens as of now. The Sun is in Aquarius, farthest from its home sign of Leo. The Moon is hanging out in the Sun’s sign in a grand cross with the North and South Nodes. Healthy ego is possible in this celestial cross hair. Ego is, after all, “the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world’. Wounded self is when we cannot measure ourself accurately, so the world we live in gets skewed, too. We think too much or too little of ourselves. Notice what you stare at and for how long, if you want a more graceful way to restructure who you are in relationships.
Leo/Aquarius is individual versus the collective. How can you be you in a way that has more options for where you plug into community and adjust as you go? That’s what this Full Moon serves up when you are willing to drop the story about what you think something means. It’s not comfortable to see where your view of you is skewed to ‘too much or too little’. Life is a learning curve so I encourage you to bring your sense of humor. It’s a great travel companion these days.
See others in light of that human factor, right? Where can we ask another to show up for us without a big story to justify the ask. We can also learn to go without an angry story if or when they can’t show up. Know your ‘yes’ to whatever you ask is out there, be open to more than one way to arrive at it and free up those you are connected to from being your only answer. When you can do this, it is abundance mentality. An abundance of love is present, everywhere and you add to it with your thoughts, words and deeds.
The reality of that abundance helps overcome fearful attachment to one outcome, one person, one way to achieve anything. There is a world of possibility when you find your authentic requests, dare to voice them and release others from a story about fulfilling them. Stay open and patient for the answers to your wants and needs, your yes is out there when you entertain fresh ways of getting there. That’s a Truth you can take to the bank this Full Moon Cycle. The Cards and Stars will help.
Thank you,
Lisa Greenfield
2/16/22 full leo moon six of cups
This Full Moon is inconjunt Pluto, an aspect that means you cannot see the transformation at hand. Mercury is just a little ahead of this and moving towards Saturn. What this means to me is we are often blind to where our ego has set limits that are arbitrary and quite likely out of touch with current situations. Since our mind’s eye can’t see it, instead we get a soup of emotions that simmer on old resentments, hurts and even jealousy. In childhood, our survival brain constantly monitored who got what to make sure you received enough to live.
Sadly, most of us still have the limits of those programs running daily. Sad because whether you were the favored one or not, that view is reactionary. It misses a lot of relevant information for what happens now. We need fresh eyes. This Six highlights going back to childhood. First it address what is likely our reaction as we get triggered in connections. Then it also promises that when we stop and look with fresh eyes, we can take in a lot more necessary data. Find your Goldilocks spot. The way we show up in the world gains or losses us opportunities.
So it matters. But you don’t want to trade authenticity for acceptance or dominance. You do need to know how to be yourself in a way that works for you and your community. This is a time where you naturally build community that is more in alignment with who you are now. Each choice, every experience gives you more insight into you and where your ‘family of frequency’ is today. Why not enjoy the next few months as you hunt for your ‘just right’. It’s there, waiting to be discovered.
2/17/22 the fool
Oh what a sweet day to take a leap of faith. An examined leap, but spring forward nevertheless. There is so much support to stretch. Your fear brain may stomp on the brakes with your inner critic loudly pointing out flaws. Acknowledge them as ‘good to know’ and incorporate the down side into whatever you do. That’s strategic thinking. This is always a good tool to work with as it uses the energy of your critic instead of battling with it. Fear points out what is most likely to expand your world, so it’s also where you strengths are.
When you acknowledge it but don’t give it the wheel, you are keeping your options open. Mind always wants a task specific, measurable outcome. So switch its focus to how well you are involving your body (sensing function), your heart – how you feel about the risk you take and of course, your intuition. That instinctive action is the sum total of insight and wisdom that your body, heart, mind and intuition all offer you, when you refuse to let mind cram you into a narrow path. Get to know how each part of you communicates best. Do you have an easier time hearing their ‘no or not yet’ or are you tuned into the ‘yes, take the next step’ messsage? Either way, collect the information, and take at least one step in a new direction.
2/18/22 five of pentacles
With the Moon in Virgo sitting opposite the dreamy Neptune and now the Sun, we learn through contrast. Five of Pentacles is creativity born out of necessity. When we give in to despair that we don’t have all we need or things are not as the should be, imagination has no playmate. Here is the invite with this setting. Let what you dream of, long for and imagine have a playground. Admit that it is not real YET. Feel your way into right timing and needed ingredients as they show up and invite right action.
Rather than a black and white views of what is real and what isn’t. Start with the world of possibility and start finding the intersections where it feels good to take one step towards making it real. This is how you harness necessity and invent your way into abundance. You can’t force it, you must instead commit to the journey. Information and wisdom gained along the way may add more to your original inspired view than you can picture now. Doesn’t that feel a whole lot more engaging than a stark view of what is as the whole truth of what can be?
2/19/22 queen of swords
This highly competent Queen is the Air Traffic Controller of the deck. She keeps all the planes in the air and makes sure everyone gets where they are going safely. The only challenge can be isolation and data overload. With the Moon trine Mercury in picky Virgo to perfectionist Capricorn, set a goal on progress and not perfection. If your fear brain can’t stomp on the brakes and outright stop your forward momentum on your leap of faith earlier this week, it can nibble it down to nothing around the edges.
Your goal is not to get everything just right, your focus is more on finding your way forward using the collective you instead of just thinking your way there. Give your brain a job to do when it serves up a lot of nitpicking. Have it look for all the ways you can learn from what is not quite ‘right’ yet. Ask it to see what you can do differently ‘next time’. Do an end run around it when your Inner Judge overestimates the losses and underestimates you. Go give yourself a high five for risk taking and learn as you go.
2/20/22 Temperance
What a timely reminder to stop and take a breath. You may want to program that into your phone throughout the day. Irritation, old hurts, discontent and a simmering stew of emotions is on the burner today. What you need is your own attention. Don’t expect others to meet your needs or see you clearly as they are likely simmering in their own pot. Today is a do it for yourself day. The best you can shoot for is compassion for yourself and others.
Stand back from too much empathy, as their emotions may overflow your already brimming pot. Take notice if you do sacrifice yourself for others. This reveals where you needed to belong at the cost of your own well being. Good to know, right? Also watch where you climb on your high horse when others fail you. Demanding their changed behavior is just as young a response. No you don’t have to put up with bad behavior. But do see the humanity behind it and work with healthy boundaries. Barbed wire is likely to cut you as well as them today. Gently, gently, gently breathe. Find your safe space and breathe.
2/21/22 Knight of wands
We start the day in somewhat tense atmosphere. Impatience is another way to express these energies. This Knight is the bravest and also the most urgent movement forward. There’s steam behind this horse power. Remember anger is a consolidation that helps draw healthy boundaries when someone or thing pushes in too far. Practice saying a centered no and holding it. No need to blow torch someone with the energies on fire within you today. Also, no need to stand while someone blasts you.
You may also feel angry within if your critical mind wants to illuminate all the ways you can’t be on the right path. Frustration with progress or the current state of things is a good way to slow down your expansion. If this is something your fear brain does to you, pay attention. Our inner critic can be a bully. Stand up to it. Doubt your doubts and remind yourself big changes take time. Watch for projection. It reveals more about you than it does anyone you pin the story on now. Don’t spend the day at war within or without. Be brave and know you are playing with fire. Play carefully…
2/22/22 two of wands
What an abundance of ‘two’ energy we have today! Even if there is a little heat in the mix, you need honest conversations. Start by being honest with yourself. Set an intention to see where you may have been operating with blind spots. Ask a trusted friend to help you see what are missing. Again, it may ruffle feathers or it may inspire you.
Recently a friend listened to me express remorse over the way I handled something decades ago. She quite calmly told me what she remembered witnessing. My inner critic had savaged me, but she backed that nasty voice right off with contrasting facts. Have a truth telling session and trust you can hear what there is to be said on all sides. Because the Truth will set you free, even if it rubs the wrong way at times.
2/23/22 seven of wands
One of the meanings for this Seven is that you are on higher ground than you realize, stop battling. Mars and Neptune also make friendly contact, which highlights ‘enlightened non action’. Guess what? Today is a day to feel whatever you do and NOT act on it right away. Hard as it may be to swallow, sometimes not responding, not defending, not rushing to action or story about what happens is educational. You watch as the situation shifts without you doing anything. It’s humbling to realize that the Universe can set things back on a track you may enjoy without you getting your sticky hands in the mix and making it more difficult. Why not play with that idea today and have fun daring the Divine to dazzle you while you watch it happen.
2/24/22 ace of swords
Ah, time for a discerning eye when this sword of truth shows up. This Ace brings the energy of cutting through the noise, fog or distractions to get to the core of things. As the second day of Mars/Venus and Neptune contacts dials up our imagination, this Ace comes in and insists we be clear about what is unfolding. We are meant to dream of a world that works in greater harmony and less conflict under these aspects. Yet we also need to get functional about what is required for the first or next step to making the dream a reality.
The bigger the dream the more time and effort it will take. It’s a good time to reevaluate what matters to you and what you are willing to do for those dreams. Obstacles are here to show us what we value enough to overcome them. So why not use this sharp mind energy today, swords refer to the mental realm, to carve out what comes next for you on your quest to live the dream you came here to live.
2/25/22 emperor
The Emperor is known for setting a confusing life in order successfully. You may well need it today. The Moon moves into Capricorn with Mars/Venus/Pluto, while Mars is in a tense dialogue with Eris, the asteroid of discontent. It’s easy to want to jump into action to defend yourself, and you’ve had practice recently in enlightened non action. Pull from that muscle memory before you wade in to matters.
The benefit of this card is you can see more of the playing field from your executive brain. Take in all the relevant information. Remember that the way things have been done in the past aren’t going to play as well now. In fact they may fail miserably. So stay open to new input, fresh pathways. By all means use what has worked before for construction material. Just assemble it in a way that is more tailored to what is in front of you now. Have patience and assemble a team. You can still lead, just share the work load.
2/26/22 nine of wands
We continue to put out those mental fires today. First you gain ground only to have more little flare ups. Why not view it as a training day. Nine is a number of mastery and the theme of this Nine is spiritual discipline. It helps to remember that nothing is happening to you, it really is happening for you. With the Moon making sweet aspects to Uranus, the light goes on and you can’t miss the bigger picture unless you really bury your head in the sand.
So let those pesky irritations or momentary glitches be great practice to retrain your brain for abundance. Anger consolidates us and helps hold a firm, yet flexible boundary. Resentment usually requires you speak to what you want and need without holding the other hostage to it. When you own and advocate for what you want and need, you stand the best chance of getting it. Release timelines on fulfillment and look for who is a match to say yes. Find the flow and resources appear in harmony instead of discord.
2/27/22 Princess of swords
This wordy princess can signal good communication or inner critic with a flare. With Eris and the Sun in an awkward relationship, don’t be surprised if a little of the ‘poor me’ creeps into mind. Drama is just a way of holding a painful story out in front of us instead of digesting difficult circumstances. You tell all your friends, you enlist allies in how unfair something is. Which can be a way to help you make sense of something.
Just remember that approach usually comes from a feeling of powerlessness. Have compassion for what hurts then work on constructing a story that helps see you as equal to whatever is in front of you. It may sting, someone may disappoint you, and you can still manage it with a little help. Swords are the arena of the mind, so it matters what you tell yourself about anything that happens today. It’s fine to start with a ‘woe is me’ story. Just book end it with a ‘Dare To Be Great’ story afterwards. It builds your field of vision to see the whole spectrum.
2/28/22 ace of wands
This is the second Ace in the cycle and signals union. With the Aquarius Moon in square aspect to Uranus, we suddenly can see ourselves free of limitations from childhood conditioning. Now the flash of insight requires you integrate it and act on it in a new way. Old habits die slowly as they are replaced with new choices. So this requires the union of intention and action, of heart and head. This is why obstacles that slow you down can actually help you pause long enough to make a new choice. The fun thing about this Ace is the sparks it throws. Be prepared to have some illuminating thoughts on any number of things today. Then you get to choose which ones to fan the flames on and which ones you set free to find it’s place in the world.
3/1/22 seven of swords
Today’s aspects are mild compared to the last couple of weeks. The Moon drifts into Pisces to join the Sun, Jupiter and Neptune in this watery realm. The Seven of Swords points to the fact that the most difficult lies are the ones we tell ourselves. All too often, we are fooled by another because we were willing to be. We don’t fact check, we don’t ask questions to clarify. Instead we assume we are all on the same page.
Except right now that’s not a good assumption. It feels so good to believe everything is in harmony, you don’t want to do anything to rock the boat. Hint, it’s worth a little rocking to clarify details. Especially the important ones. With a bit of diplomacy you can clear up miscommunications and save yourself a big storm that may sink the ship later. Your intuition will help give you additional insight and you still need your mind and your words to make sure the connections and agreements are clear.
