July Energy Message
July is for releasing control and practicing care.
Cancer always points out our blindspots, the places our crab shell is covering our vulnerability and the ways we are working so hard to not expose those soft parts. We might reach outside and try to gain control over our environment so we will be comfortable at least for a moment, but the comfort is only so deep.
What if we stopped the cycle and let ourselves feel what we feel? What if instead of outward control we shifted to inward listening? What if we decided it's ok to have needs and to hear them?
This month, release control and come into caring deeply. Care deeply for your thoughts and feelings, care deeply for your pain and joy. Care deeply for your loved ones, your community, and humanity the world over. Radically accept the tides and waves of feelings, offer them your presence, stillness, love, and support. Ask yourself over and over again, what care is needed here?
Great healing is possible as wounds resurface letting us know they are still here and need love. We have an opportunity to come into a practice of deep care for ourselves, one another, and the planet.
This month come home to yourselves and come home to each other.
∞
a Poem on Coming Home
When I miss the ocean,
my breath is the waves
I am so close and far away
from something I can’t reach
and is inside me
always
there are rivers, mountains
untouched terrain, caves
I went outside, outside
forgot what lies in the ocean tides
ebb and flow
this time I come home
don’t want to go away anymore
know too well what missing feels like
so I keep an eye on the well inside
glistening and golden
down there
where my truth resides.
July Highlights
July 10 ~ Full Moon in Capricorn
July 12 ~ Saturn Retrograde
July 17 ~ Mercury retrograde
July 22 ~ Sun in Leo
July 24 ~ New Moon in Leo
July 30 ~ Chiron retrograde, Venus enters Cancer
July Reflection Questions
꩜ for contemplating, journaling or making art. . .
How can I care for myself, earth, and all beings from a vulnerable and willing place?
What inspired action am I feeling called to from the center of my heartspace?
If I let myself feel my feelings I would be/feel…
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Intuitive Art Alchemy
The magical process of creation & transformation—a ritual you can practice on your own at any time.
Be a witness for your vulnerability.
Practice tapping into your center of calm while allowing your vulnerability to express its wisdom through art.
1. Gather any art materials you feel called to use.
2. Take a moment to find your center and ground into that place.
3. When you feel ready, do a body scan looking for places you feel vulnerable in your body. What does vulnerability feel like? What color is it? What sound does it make? What texture is it?
4. Choose a place to focus and ask your vulnerability what it would like to express.
5. Stay in touch with your center and witness the expression as you create. Pause as needed to get grounded, and continue witnessing the expression and sensations that arise until the practice feels complete.
6. When finished, you can journal for five minutes about what it was like to hold space as a witness for your vulnerability. How did it feel in the process, and how do you feel now?
Sending love & strength,
emily/autonomous muse