Interesting how it only takes one day for our health to start to crumble. To make the wrong choice, to have an accident, to start thinking things that could spiral you out, to stress and then not sleep well,  or eat foods that really disrupt the body. The body and its symptoms are always showing you its needs. And what comes to the surface physically are reminders to each of us to take the time for self-care. 

Women, I’ve been on a journey that I know many of you can relate to. And while I can only speak to this as a woman, this is something for the men too. Seeing us shift out of the patriarchal order is one that takes time and patience and most of all, unlearning for all of us. For us women, it’s one where we step out of being in too much of our masculine energy.

I remember the first time the trees really spoke to me in unison very loudly in my mind amidst my favorite path in a quiet forest. It was pre-Covid and they told me of a large and looming upcoming change. But I also knew from them I didn't need to fear it. I had no idea what was coming our way. After I heard this, I was not ready to talk about this, or my other communication with trees for some time. It still feels very personal and also egotistical or unspiritual or something. But I've decided to push through the resistance, because it’s important to share this.

This new moon is oozing with creativity. With a snake month in a snake year, and the new moon conjunct mercury in Taurus, we can really get our hands into whatever craft calls you. Do you garden? Do you cook? Do you make something with your hands or have you wanted to? Does your body want to stretch, to walk, to move? To also sit on the earth, or with your feet in the water and to reach into the soil of your heart and tend it with time off and renewal? 

Lilith wants you to embrace and call back to you the parts of you that you gaze down on trying to hide, those parts you find smoldering with shame, or guilt. Our shadows can be displaced in ways of envy and jealousy, projecting against something when it could actually be a deep held desire that feels too crude, too much, too sexy, too needy, too angry, too much for ourselves to admit or bare, let alone be seen as or with.

This recent new moon brought in a balancing agent through an action-oriented grand cross in the sky. These energies asked us to go deeper, to really look at how we can heal anything that we are angry about in the collective by going within and healing ourselves.