Leo New Moon: twisties, shoulds, and finding your rhythm

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Leos in the Hood – Leo New Moon

I write this newsletter just as the Moon is turning NEW at 16 degrees Leo. Sometimes I like to wait for the actual lunation to write as feeling into the vibration of WHAT IS is completely different than tapping into what could be.The picture I chose for this New Moon in Leo is a painting my friend Dove painted for me for my LEO birthday entitled Leos in the Hood. And indeed Leos are in the hood bigtime right now with the New Moon in Leo and it is hot hot hot and laziness is the order of the day…until it’s time to get moving! Lions, big divine cats, spend most of the day lazing about (I call it conserving energy) and then when action needs to be taken it’s swift and on point. Leos are cuddly and affectionate with one another but if they experience a slight to their tender egos or feel disrespected (oh! the burden of royalty!) well, you will just not be invited to bask in the sun with them, until proper respect is reinstated (but they will never really trust you again). Living with two real cats and my LEO housemate and being a Leo myself (Sun, Moon, Uranus, and Pluto in Leo) well I can attest to what raises our fur and how much we need to feel respected and honored in our needs and our feelings. You have LEO energy somewhere in your own chart and even if you have no planets in that sign when you were born you will have LEO ruling some part of your chart and this is where you will feel and manifest LEO qualities. Where the NEW MOON at 16 degrees LEO falls in your chart is where you will see your creativity germinating.

Each month the New Moon energy supports setting intentions for what you want to next experience, where you want to being anew. Isn’t it wonderful to birth yourself anew each month? A dependable cosmic gift. Use it to refresh yourself each month and to rejoice in the creative process. No New Moon is more creative than the LEO NEW MOON, ruled by the Sun, the central star and life force giver of our solar system. Use this New Moon energy to set your intentions for your creative ideas. I will be learning to video edit for my youtube channel, The Flower Channel, a BIG leap into techno madness for me. When I get overwhelmed by the sheer learning curve for my flower-loving brain, I do get excited to be the creative force behind my channel – in all ways. And I also know I will probably edit for 10 minutes and then get up to clean the toilet or do laundry or fuss with my plants or take Arthur for a leash walk in the yard or anything so that I don’t have to sit at the computer (except to binge watch mysteries or romances) for more than a tolerable length of time and that’s fine because that’s my RHYTHM.

Which leads me to the core of this tome and that is RHYTHM. I don’t know if you caught the segment of the Olympics where they did a little biopic of Caleb Dressel, the swimmer extraordinaire du jour. It turns out that he is a drummer and is actually quite a spiritual teacher, at least he was for me. He spoke about drumming connecting him to his rhythm and that his personal rhythm plays out in all parts of his life and that when he is true to his own rhythm he is at his best (and wow! what a best that is!), that each person has their own rhythm. I was very taken by this and moved to share as I think that is the very essence of why I do readings. I see the rhythm in astrology charts so when I read your chart I can help you connect to your rhythm supporting you to move into your personal natural potential. I get very excited about this because each person is different and unique in their rhythm which gets me to my next point…shoulds.

I have a person close to me who ‘shoulds’ me to distraction every time we talk. I should do this, I should do that – ad infinitem, all coming from his way of doing things and his need to have others do what he does. Narcissistic types will tend to do this and we all have some narcissistic types in our realities because narcissism is rampant in our culture. I am never going to get this person (whom I also care deeply for) to stop should-ing me (and everyone else he knows) but when I am in my rhythm I just do my own thing and let his shoulds roll off me like I’m a brand new teflon pan. I’m sure you have should-ers in your life (who doesn’t?) but don’t waste any of your precious energy trying to change them even though they spend their precious energy trying to change you! Just get on with your own rhythm.

Got the twisties? Just STOP!

Now let’s have a little chat about the ‘twisties’, a gymnast’s term now made known to all from the amazing Simone Biles. You know the feeling – not knowing which way is up. I was so taken by this as I feel so many of us are in the ‘twisties’ these days and Simone Biles’s handling of the ‘twisties’ is remedy for us all – just STOP. Stop everything. Take a break. Tell the truth. You’re mentally confused. You don’t know which way is up, which is down. So STOP. If you ever been tumbled by a wave in the ocean you know the same feeling. I was once taken over by a wave in the mighty Atlantic off the Florida coast and no matter how hard I swam (and in those years I was a pretty strong swimmer) I just kept being dragged out to Europe. Finally I got so tired I just slowed to a near STOP and let the current take me. I just stop fighting as the waves were big and I didn’t know which way was the shore. My destiny was not to exit through the ocean and a life guard arrived (who doesn’t love a hero?) and I was brought back to shore as my frantic mother was jumping up and down on the shore ( a sight I’ll never forget – poor Mollie!), which is all to say when I admitted I could do no more I was able to relax enough to stop fighting against that which I could not comprehend – directional confusion and mental exhaustion.

For many of us the world seems like that today. Confusing. Exhausting. Incomprehensible. So just STOP. Take a breather, Let someone else take the wheel for a bit. Winning is not nearly as important as taking care of your self, especially your mental state. Your body knows when it’s time to STOP so all you need to do is…listen and obey the body. Good luck with that!

Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto are all moving retrograde. Uranus will station retrograde and begin its 5-month retrograde cycle on August 20th. Things are moving at a snail’s pace and no matter how much you try to make things move faster it will be a futile waste of energy. Align with the slowdown. Pace yourself. Take a nap or two. Everything will be there when you awake. Venus and Mars both in Virgo help you to discern where to put your energy and refine everything you are doing with the Virgo priestess archetype imperative of service. If something doesn’t feel aligned with your bigger purpose let it go for now. Find your cozy spot and hang there until you feel ready to make a move.

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Full Aquarius Moon 7.23.21 – enter laughing as you search out wondrous things right around you!

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FULL Moon at 1 degree Aquarius

23 July 2021

8:36pm mountain time

Full Moon in Aquarius 7.23.21

Astrology is a navigational tool to help you cess out the emotional and physical landscape of your life journey. Events will happen in your reality, in your consciousness, and you get to work with those events and their energetic effects in your natural style and in the ways you are evolving. Similar circumstances, people and events will occur repeatedly in your life associated with planetary cycles and their influence on your chart. You get to work with them, manage them, grow through them, evidence of how much you have expanded your understanding and comfort level with the ever-changing flow of life.

The lunar cycle from New to Full and back to New again gives you repeated opportunities to set intentions, release what doesn’t fit and create new intentions each month. The sign placement of the Moon in relation to everything else going on in the cosmos and in relation to your own chart reveals where you can focus intention-setting and release, enhancing your awareness of your own journey – which is really what it’s all about!

This Full Moon at 1 degree Uranus-ruled Aquarius opposes the Sun just entering the hot fiery sign of Leo, ruled by the Sun. The vibrational energy created by a Uranian-Sun connection can herald all kinds of unexpected cage-rattling that can lead to real liberation. This liberation can happen to you or you can participate in it as best you can but you can be assured that in the areas of your chart where this

Full Moon falls there will be a shake-up and shake-ups are inevitable and great for the evolutionary process. Best to get used to Uranian energy (if one ever could) as Pluto will be entering Aquarius in March 2023 and that transition will begin a 20 or so year unfolding of new stuff like you can hardly imagine – all for creating a more egalitarian, humanistic world. But is going to feel different, that is for sure.

As Pluto completes its run through the last 5 degrees of Capricorn and the U.S. experiences its Pluto return, much will be discarded to make way for the new. The more you can clean out your own psychic closet of sacrificial and self-denying debris the more you will enjoy this transition into the New Age that is inevitably being birthed. Either you’re in the flow of change or you are on the sidelines ripping your hair out. You will get a taste of this with the Full Moon on July 23rd in the areas of your chart that are affected by the lunation.

Pluto at 25 degrees Capricorn forms an out-of-sign conjunction with the
Full Moon at 1 degree Aquarius. When Pluto is involved with the Full Moon there is great opportunity for intense emotional transformation. With the Full Moon in Aquarius opposing the Sun in Leo you get to look at the balance of your own creative expression in the context of the community, your ego needs in relation to your social groups and the world at large. The Aquarian moon has an emotional detachment that lets you step away from needing approval and admiration (which a Leo Sun craves), guiding you instead to a bigger vista of seeing yourself as a necessary cog in the wheel of your Life, a part of something bigger which needs your unique contribution, your unique energy that makes the whole picture complete. Like an intricate dance, your part in the dance is critically important to the entire production. Though you may feel inconsequential, that your part, however small, is not needed – that is incorrect. The Aquarian moon knows each part makes the whole cohesive and functional, each soul has its purpose and in the context of the Creator, each soul has value and is needed for the entire shebangie bang to roll along. The trick is to enjoy the ride, no matter what unfolds.

Venus at 1 degree Virgo just ahead of Mars at 26 degrees Leo oppose Jupiter at |
0 degrees Pisces. Jupiter is moving retrograde and will re-enter Aquarius on July 29. Great opportunity here this week to expand your understanding of LOVE, personally and in relation to the greater whole. Oodles of fabulous info (and gorgeous photos) on the New Energies of LOVE in my ebook Illuminations . Check it out…it’s beautiful and so helpful to really get what’s happening on the planet right now. ILLUMINATIONS.

Venus works her High Priestess energy to the nth in Virgo. More about how to work with Venus in Virgo to harness the energy of the LOVE goddess at
Feed Your Venus.

look for wonders as you enter laughing Full Moon in Aquarius 7.23.21

Look for wonders, for magic tucked in all kinds of places. No matter the outer circumstances, you get to create and inhabit your inner world and that gets to be whatever you want it to be! The Aquarian Moon supports your individuality as a necessary part of an intricate pattern of life evolving. And take your time. Relax into the flow. I am learning how to video-edit my Flower channel videos and I am up against my own procrastination…so be it! Things take as long as they do and I am learning to allow more for Divine timing…clearly not my own! With Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto all moving retrograde it’s no wonder everything feels slowed to a snail’s pace. So it is!

TheFlowerChannel on youtube

In the meantime there are some cool Spiraea videos up and, all things being as they seem to be, more will be up after my scheduled root canal brought in by a misplaced nacho.

Grateful for modern dentistry so I don’t have to down a pint of whiskey as I wait for the farrier to arrive with a pliers. Nothing glamorous about the good old days. Bring on the Aquarian fabulousness!

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Cancer New Moon 7.9.21

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New Moon in Cancer 7.9.21

I don’t know if it’s just me but I seem to see hearts everywhere. It could be that I’m looking for them or I’m just open to noticing them or they really ARE everywhere in Nature’s bounty but these strawberries are lined up like can-can dancers just bursting forth with LOVE. And they were delicious, as you can imagine, especially when I lightly sauteed them with fresh from the garden rhubarb! Whether you are collecting edible treasures from your own garden or enjoying the fruits of your local farmer’s, the abundance of summer is clearly upon us. What are you looking for and seeking out? Surely there is LOVE available in endless forms.

Cancer New Moon 7.9.21

New Moon at 18 degrees Cancer

9 July 2021

7:16pm mountain time

This lunation is intensified by an opposition from dwarf planet, purger Pluto. Cancer is such a sensitive time anyway, what with the sentimental, emotional moon rulership and Neptune trining this New Moon. I would imagine deeply guarded feelings are going to make their way to the surface. Self-care is an absolute MUST as you engage with these feelings and do your emotional work to release their grip on your reality. Sometimes it can feel nearly impossible to release strong feelings but, like thunderstorm clouds, they will pass – if you let them. Experiences that have hurt your heart, that have caused deep feelings ranging from disappointment all the way to rage are usually connected to feeling unloved. You can never make someone else love you in the way you want but you can amp up your practices of self-love and this New Moon calls for just that. The outer conditions in your life are a reflection of your inner condition so the more you feed love to yourself and nurture your inner condition the more you will experience LOVE from others. Don’t take my word for it. Try it yourself!

Venus at 15 degrees Leo conjoins Mars at 17 degrees Leo, aligning these personal planets in the fixed Fire sign of creativity, love affairs and play. Leo loves to be appreciated and when appreciated showers LOVE from her generous heart. The trick is to not look for appreciation from others but to rejoice in your own creative spirit, your own playful energy. However you like to play do lots of that (always) but especially at this New Moon. You will attract more of what you love the more you groove on yourself.

More on how to fully engage Venus in Leo at Feed Your Venus.

Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto are all moving retrograde now slowing everything down. When so many planets are slowing down so too will you. As above, so below. You might find yourself needing to nap more, or if you are not usually a napper, you might find yourself absolutely needing to take lie-down midday or mid-morning or mid-evening. Very intense energies are coming to our planet these days so make sure you are giving yourself as much down time as you need. You might need many naps during the day. Take them!

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