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

August 8, 2021 / Estere / Anxiety relief, Astrological Projections and Forecasting, Celestial Gossip, Consciousness, Daily Cosmos Watch, Divine Feminine, Estere, Feed Your Venus, Getting unstuck, Jupiter retrograde, Lunar effects, Mars in Virgo, Neptune retrograde, New Moon, New Moon in Leo, Pluto retrograde, Retrograde planets, Saturn Retrograde, Self-care in transitional times, self-LOVE, station retrograde, Stationing Planet, Uranus retrograde, Venus in Virgo, Virgo, winds of change / No Comments

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.
caleb Dressel, confusion, creativity, drumming, Jupiter retrograde, Leo New Moon, Mars in Virgo, narcissism, Neptune retrograde, New Moon, overwhelm, Pluto retrograde, priestess, rhythm, Saturn Retrograde, service, shoulds, Simone Biles, the Flower Channel, twisties, Uranus retrograde, Venus in Virgo

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