How are you? While I am usually thinking this as I’m writing my weekly Stellar Insights, I don’t usually ask it. Yet, I am today, given that we just moved through a quite intense week and weekend, topped off by the Capricorn Lunar Eclipse. And so, there’s a chance that if you’ve moved through situations similar to many people to whom I’ve spoken, you may be processing a heightened level of inputs, that are giving shape and form to deep realizations.

For many it seemed as if their feelings were loudly beckoning them, wanting to be seen and heard, and taken in to account. And yet they may have been tricky, and sticky, ones—you know the ones you try to tamp down because they reflect the feeling that you may be feeling a bit stuck, or boxed in, or immobilized, or limited in potentiality.

And yet, as much as it may feel upsetting to accept that sense of limitation, and feel those feelings, it’s through doing so that a way forward emerges. Acknowledging them rather than trying to turn a blind eye to them and/or wishing that they would magically disappear is what can lead us to the pathway that actually transforms the stasis into movement. Staying with the discomfort allows us to tap into the knowledge of what would create comfort, the pain ends up casting forth the awareness of what the right remedy may be.

And with that we remember that it’s by honoring the solidity of our feelings, and staying with them, that we experience something seemingly paradoxical: that like the tides, they too evolve and release themselves. All the while, they can be the boat that allows us not only to navigate the open sea but also find the shore.

And while the Lunar Eclipse occurred this weekend, I’m sharing this with you now, as a way to inform this week for several reasons. First, as you know, the halo of Eclipses extends for weeks surrounding their actual occurrence and so does the invitation of this Eclipse and the illuminations that it carries forth. Whatever has already emerged within you will, of course, will serve to guide you this week.

Plus, this week itself is one in which we’re being invited to truly dig in and be honest about our feelings and motivations; we’re called forth to champion owning our “ouch spots” and seeing how instead of them just being relegated to being a source of our insecurities that they can actually be a source of our healing gifts. Among the reasons I’m saying this is that Chiron, the celestial body that represents the wounded healer, stations this week as it begins it retrograde cycle. I’m also noting this because we’re on the heels of a quite powerful time the week after this one when the Sun will oppose the Jupiter/Pluto Conjunction and warrior Mars will unite with Chiron; and so, we’re already feeling some of this continued clarion call for deep and transformational healing. And with Mercury about to station in the sensitive and emotional sign of Cancer, set to end its current retrograde cycle on Sunday, it’s a time when our thoughts may be so infused with emotions that at times it may be hard to separate them one from another; we may also see that the way forward is to be with them and see how that itself can feed and nourish us.

As I started this note, I will end it, wondering how you are. I hope that it’s even better than it was when I originally asked it, that what I have shared with you has given you insights to help you navigate your here, and your now, and your where you want to move toward.

All my very best,

Stephanie

Astrological Highlights

July 8

Mercury/Mars Square

July 10

Venus/Chiron Sextile

July 11

Chiron Stations Retrograde

July 12

Mercury Stations Direct

Sun/Neptune Trine

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Stellar Insights: July 6 - 12, 2020

Astrological Highlights