Falling for yourself // Libra Full Moon 2021
Harmony is great. Balance is ideal. But are we striving for peace so hard we fail to do ourselves justice? Are we over-compensating or disregarding ourselves for the sake of the status quo? Life is really moving us to find ourselves whole within our relationships and commitments.
A gift in this life is that we can steer the ship, change direction and course-correct. This time is wisely used recognizing where you fall, getting clear on your needs, unfolding your map and shaking off the dust that clouds your direction.
Libra Theme: Relationships
This is a touchy time. It feels like life is giving us hope and at the same time, taking much away AND leaving a lot unresolved.
Our own evolution occurs in a world that includes billions of people from billions of backgrounds with billions of perspectives, all learning and growing through life at a very volatile, uncertain, transformative time. How we adapt to the pressure of it all is quite unique to each of us and will undoubtedly create as much friction and tension as it will joy and ease.
If you’re prone to minimizing your needs and not speaking up, consider what may need to shift so that you do and you can. If you’d rather keep the harmony then do what is needed, examine whether that status quo is helping or hurting.
We all play a role in our relationships. The coming together and the falling apart are never truly one-sided, nor are they usually happening in isolation. We have all done things we regret. We all wish certain things went a different way.
How can we forgive ourselves and each other?
Libra Theme: Justice
Part of this Full Moon release comes in setting down the weight of it all. Instead of pointing fingers, open your palms and receive the wisdom of your hardships - not because the other is right or wrong, but because it’s time to serve yourself. In this release, may you find that justice and peace within is valuable enough to stop striving for fairness. Fair is perhaps ideal, but it’s not realistic to believe it can be achieved in all things all the time.
If you wallow in the lack of fairness, you won’t get very far.
What is just may not be fair to everyone. The real gold comes in integrity. Do right for you. Be honest and kind to others. You don’t need to blame anyone for what they did wrong to achieve justice for what was done. If you’ve been hurt or hurtful, ask for forgiveness AND be willing to look deeply into WHY you’re hurting or being hurt. These are windows into your past and your healing.
It’s easy to be cruel without meaning to be. You can’t know all of the times you’ve hurt people in tiny, seemingly insignificant ways - there’s nothing you can do about that. But you can seek to contribute to the world you wish to see in tiny, significant ways. Do that.
Inquiries for Libra
What feels unjust in your life?
Is there anything that you have let go too long without resolution?
Is there a conversation you need to have to restore balance in your life?
What situations are throwing you off balance?
A Fresh Start
This Full moon is opposite Chiron in a close dance with the sun and Venus. This offers a compassionate understanding of some of the deeper wounds you’re set to heal over the next several years. What’s coming up right now isn’t about the other. This is about yourself and how your projections create the world you live in. Consider the wounds you may still carry from relations of past and present. What is emotionally unresolved within will seek resolution throughout - in one relation or another, or both.
It can be painful to realize significant relationships in your life may be out of integrity. It’s hard to recognize old wounds that continue to play out. It’s scary to see patterns and conditioning repeat themselves.
There is a silver lining. The honesty of owning all of who you are - what you like for certain and what you certainly dislike - is where you’ll find the sense of home and wholeness you may be seeking outside of yourself. There are opportunities before you now to shake off the old dust and move beyond old trappings of friend and foe.
Notice yourself - do you play the blame game? Can you see your role in it, too? Have you been telling the same story for several months? Are you stuck in the drama of it all? It is time to make space in your life for what you want.
PERMISSION SLIP:
You are allowed to…
Walk away or keep distance from relationships that don’t reflect your integrity and values.
Change your mind. You can say no to things that were once a yes, or say yes to something that was once a no.
Stand up for yourself (with grace).
Stay in the space of how you feel.
Look for the blessings in your life today. Write them down. Soak them into your bones and memorize them into your cells. Make a commitment to yourself, to your pleasure, to your light, to your wholeness. Be so sacred with your space. Create a strong and beautiful moat of compassion that is cleansing and purifying for all who are invited to enter into it. Take care, take care, take the most care - of your heart, of your wholeness, of your Self.
Explore the self through change and transition March 28-April 4 in RENEWAL ~ a monthly exploration of the astrology embodied.