The combination of the full moon and a Mercury retrograde, especially one in as emotional sign as Cancer, offers us a unique opportunity. It is very likely that the isues that are highlighted for you within this energy are some of your most challenging groth points. More so because they are likely to be hghlighted in a very pure and identifiable state. When they hit, they are likely to be packed with emotional charge. You may very well get triggered.

Here is the beauty of this, though -- all you are being asked to do is to disengage. Don't take it personally. Stop, breathe, relax. Do your best to not get caught up in the fear. Have faith in the Universe and let go. Whatever is going on is illusory, unless you give it the energy to be real. No matter what your negative ego wants to tell you, this is really not that important.

Find some way to re-center yourself. Meditate. Practice sacred breath. Go for a good workout. Practice an intricate piece of music. Paint something. Get out of the negative ego and back into your free will and decide what you're going to focus your energy on, and it will all be all right. You have the power to make it so.

Blessings
Ayamanatara, The Council, and the Christed Ones

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
-Leonard Nimoy

We are each responsible for the healing of others, in that we are all connected. If we do not look to help others heal, how can we possibly hope to heal ourselves? In that sense, every interaction is an opportunity for healing, of one party or the other, or even both parties.

Let that be your guide today. Take the opportunity to heal or to effect healing. Be helpful. Be useful. Go a bit out of your way. Look for the opportunity for your own healing in each interaction. What can you learn from the homeless woman on the corner? What can you learn from your boss’ bad mood? What do your own reactions tell you about where your wounds are? What do the reactions of others tell you about theirs?

Make healing your focus today.

There's an energy going around right now. A lot of people are burnt out, done, fed up, past their breaking point. Sound familiar?

It's interesting because I usually associate this with Mercury retrograde, but this is coming after. This is because the retrograde pulled up all of the things that needed to be changed and, if you didn't take the opportunity to make those changes during retrograde, you are likely now at your breaking point. or past it. and have been for a while.

What do you need to change in your life?
What do you need to change in yourself?

A lot of people are looking to things outside of themselves, ie: out of their control, to change. I would suggest to you that it's more productive to focus on these things that are actually in your control, that is to say, your actions and reactions.

How do you respond to stress? Where are you allowing yourself to fall into victim mentality? Where do you need to speak up for yourself? Where do you need to shut up? Where are you allowing your negative ego to let you think you are stuck? Where can you change your viewpoint on your current situation to change its entire flavor?

Breathe.
Bring your attention into the center of your chest at the level of your armpits.
Breathe some more.
Do your best to look at the situation from a different perspective.
What have you been blind to?
Breathe some more.

It's going to be ok.

I have finished writing the book and it had been turned in to my publisher. As much as I have been excited about this project, as much as I believe in it... I still had a bit of a panic attack after I sent it off. I think it could best be described as "Oh shit, now it's real." I am very excited about the next phase of this project - getting it released (mid-September) and out to as many people as possible. Because that's really the point; the book is a vehicle to reach and help more people. I want so badly to be able to make more of a difference. I've got 2 booksigning lined up in Los Angeles, 1 in Bishop... I'm going to get one at the Norwich Bookstore in Norwich VT... I'd like to do San Diego and the Bay Area... If I can get to Olympia WA I can do one there; the same goes for Austin... *trying to remember to breathe* *trying to remember to let the butterflies be anticipation, not fear*