Crafting & creating containers in which we can float & flow
aka Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces
This full moon lunar eclipse in the sign of Pisces (peaking on the 17th at ~7pm EST) is reminding me of the song Float by Janelle Monae.
Maybe this transit itself won't feel as empowering and upbeat as that song, but I feel like that's the essence we're being invited into unapologetically moving towards via our dreaming & practicing we know we deserve during this lunation and eclipse season, despite all our valid fears and grief.
In Virgo season we are curating, harvesting, refining, defining, and planning... but where are we in need of loosening of trusting a floating and pleasuring within the spaces we create?
I am forever bowing to the lessons of the Pisces-Virgo axis / duo / opposition. Through it, mutable Earth & Water are asking us how we can shape-shift and how we can rather than “fit” into a form, instead let a form hold us gently; following the guidance of supportive structures.
Like the way the river follows the land via the path of least resistance that is familiar, or how I show up to the guidance of my journal Knowing it can help hold whatever form or feeling I'm in that day.
This late summer Virgoan Sun wants us to embody the Element of Stability (Ace of Pentacles) & Retreat (Hermit), while the moon and Pisces wants us to Root into Fluidity (Four of Cups) & Remember (Moon).
(Yes these are card names from the tarot deck I’m (almost done) creating & you best believe I have a really sick astro-tarot system integrated into it!!)
To me this combination of energies means that we are learning to become friendlier with liminality & uncertainty - we must if we are to continue to create in a chaotic world.
While there is a lot of Earth energy present, it is not ridged and inflexible - it is supportive moss cushions and sand under your feet which meets the ocean.
This is an invitation to reframing productivity and planning into a more intuitive and embodied experience.
How can you invite in more flow, support and experimentation into your life?
I’ve been listening to the book Rest is Resistance by Trisha Hersey of The Nap Ministry, and in it she deeply reminds us that reclaiming our rest in all forms (not just sleep and stillness) as well as our worthiness of dreaming is essential to resisting grind culture and living more liberated & whole lives.
I highly recommend this book as one supportive narrative to helping us embody what our culture belittles.
While most of my important chart placements are on the Cancer-Capricorn axis, I have a really heavy and powerful Virgo-Pisces axis which includes my Saturn and Pisces conjunct my IC for the root of my chart opposing my Mars midhaven and Chiron all conjunct in Virgo across the way.
What I show up in the world to do create offer and share is colored by my deep spiritual roots and wounds. I don't create from those wounds in a way of projection, rather I create the kind of tools and structures that I need to move through these depths, and then offer a tried and true tested version of it to all of you.
This is the energy & place I know that Cycles Journal is born from,
and this is the same place that the Embodied Ecosystems deck is emerging from - teetering on the edge of being ready to be crowdfunded and printed. (Make sure you’re on the waitlist here because I’m determined to launch it by next month or the following!!)
The opposing yet balancing of energy of working with the spiritual & somatic together only troubles me when I ignore the deep creative potential that can only live through an embodied kind of dreaming.
When I am not using reflective tools that bring me back into my sense & senses, it’s too easy to lose sight of this purpose in a world of distractions.
To me, this Virgo-Pisces axis represents the sort of dreaming that occurs even when you're awake, because it's so embedded in your bones you can feel it rippling through your veins and pulsing you to do something to bring it into this world.
Your beating heart drums & dreams up a way that your bones are ready to bring to form.
The material and the spiritual / the soil and the spirit are not separate. They work together back and forth, hand in hand, water in vessel, blood in body, through us and for us...
But these dreams only stay alive if we tend to the vessel so that we can feel its pull.
And the body only continues onward when there is a vision that follows intuition.
Virgo is ruled by Mercury, the connective communicative representation of our nervous systems and fascia that connect our muscles and ligaments and bones. Think Magician card energy, where we wield our embodied elements as our greatest innate instruments of change, choice and creation.
Pisces is ruled by Neptune, the dreamy depths of the deep blue sea within our vital organs, and also traditionally ruled by Jupiter, our ally of change expansion potential and pursuit. Think Hanged One & Wheel of Fortune energy - it's a lot about surrendering to the subtler cycles of life.
So this week I invite you to find a way to make a nest within the sea of your dreams. Spend time dreaming in your waking life through wondering, wandering, creating and feeling…
What is your dream for your life?
What is your dream for the world?
Where and how do they intersect?
Right now, especially during an eclipse, we don't need exactitudes or detailed plans or elaborate rituals...
We just need to let the feeling help us feel our way forward, one step at a time.
If a part of you is struggling and wants more structure and definition… without shame or invalidation, try to remember the supportive spaces and fluid forms that already exist in your life, and lean deeper into them or shift them.
Remember that dreaming and imagining is not lofty or unproductive, but essential to building and reforming the present and future of our world.
Thanks always for being here & being you,
Rachael Amber
of Cyclical Roots
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