cancer season

The New Moon in cancer just sent us awash in feeling and possibility on Friday. 
I don’t know about you but there is a point in the height of Summer heat where the longing for cooler Autumn days starts to stir within me. 

After the heat wave we have had (and are continuing to have), I’d say that time is now. 

However there is also something to be said for leaning into the heat and discovering what resides around the places we get uncomfortable. 
 During this Cancer season will your experiences overwhelm you and send you into a pinching or retreating mode? 
Or will they instead bring you closer to yourself, your truth and the people around you. 

When we lean into discomfort we can teach our nervous systems that we can tolerate something difficult, that we can respond instead of react and that every feeling and experience actually has a beginning middle and end. 

In other words, this too shall pass. 

This week I got called out by an Oracle deck. 
I met a girlfriend for lunch and I was in a tizzy by the time I arrived. Having written the time down wrong, I was late and having just gotten some bad news about a surgery my dog needs, I was also emotional. 

To make matters worse this was supposed to be a lunch to celebrate my friend as it was her birthday. So I arrived, ungrounded and in a rush. 
As we sat down together, she handed me an Oracle deck. She had seen it and thought it was perfect for me. 

Never mind that it was her birthday, she had brought me a gift. (I know some incredibly thoughtful people)

I glanced through the cards and set them aside focusing instead on my friend and trying to not to be too self centered in my inner chaos. 

I came back to those cards the next day though and my first three card spread called me out. It reminded me to reground, that my roots needed to run deep to manage both the now and future things. That part of my work in this moment is to reconnect with my shadow self and discover the gifts that reside there and that it was time to call in energetic allies. 

I’ve been avoiding myself a bit. I’ve been rejecting my Shadow. As one thing after the next has been coming down the pike this last year, I’ve been managing what I can and doing my best to act like I’ve got it under control. 
But I don’t. There are so many things outside of my control. I “know” that. But my own responses to these situations are generally about doing. What can I do to get things moving, to manage to make it all pass by quicker or be less intense? 

My Shadow is reminding me that I don’t have control and that it’s ok, perhaps even crucial to stop trying to hold back the flood. To instead, retreat, or let the water carry me where it will before coming back up for air, My Dad always told me to let the rip tide take you. He swore it would pop me back up eventually. And he was right. It will. 

So I am following the advice of the cards. I’m hanging with my Shadow and digging my roots deep and surrendering the best I can. 

I guess Cancer Season is in full swing. 

Want to work with the Cancerian energies? 
One of the themes Cancer brings up is feeling at home in yourself. 
For me right now that’s about embracing and working with my shadow self. 
Maybe for you that’s something different. 

Meditation for feeling at home in yourself

Sit in a comfortable seat
Tune in to the rhythm of your breath
Scan your body from top of your head to the souls of your feet
Notice any places that feel uncomfortable, or tense
Notice if any thoughts creep in, 
Acknowledge them and let them float through
Continue to breath
Imagine your breath loosening tight spots
Easing discomfort
Releasing
Continue to breathe and settle into your body
Be with you

Explore the Journey
We begin tomorrow, Monday July 8th at 10 am PT with a series of 12 mini lessons at 10 am PT Monday and Wednesday for 6 weeks. 
These classes are glimpses into the curriculum of the Priestess Path Awakening Program that begins August 23rd. 

I’ll send out reminder emails with the link to join an hour and a half before each lesson. 

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