THE LEAP WITHIN // SAGITTARIUS NEW MOON 2019
SAGITTARIUS NEW MOON ~ 4 DEGREES OF SAGITTARIUS ~ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 ~ 7:06 AM PST
There’s something that happens when we move through a grief process. Eventually, we find acceptance, we find a sense of possibility and we optimistically step towards the light. Often, we have to venture towards it in trust that the warmth will heal us. But what we find along that way is that it’s actually the journey that heals us. It’s the moments spent in tenderness and vulnerability. It’s the validation we give ourselves and gift to others. It’s the ability to take a second go around, this time with better boundaries, with a keener eye, and with a more tender heart. The healing comes in the forgiveness and the fellowship – of circumstances and of other and of self.
Sagittarius season is all of it – the trust, the faith, the journey, the acceptance and the ultimate expansion that comes from it. Through this journey, we become teachers to each other; heart-centered wayshowers who lead with compassion. Whether or not we believe the journey is worth it is irrelevant because it is ultimately unavoidable. We must embark, we must move forward, we must expand – it’s nature – it is nurture – it is how we heal.
May this new moon be both a reflection and a recommitment to your own growth, your own journey and your own ability to cast your vision and follow it through. May you be supported in this quest of remembrance and may its elevation carry you through the season and into the new year.
Optimistically Expanding
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and for the last year it has been sitting like a King at home in Sagittarius, powerfully growing your capacity to live more fully in a specific aspect of yourself. This type of transit will impact each of us in a different way, but there’s no doubt this powerful planet has played a role in the lessons you’ve learned this year around growth and abundance and quite honestly, what you deserve. So much of this year has been a recapitulation of a theme: trust and the honoring of self.
Reconciling an older version of yourself with the upgraded version is a mourning process in itself. It’s easier to throw everything out, cast aside a version of yourself that didn’t know as much and attempt to rebuild as a new form that does. It’s easier to put a turban on it and call yourself new and healed. But the valuable work comes in the integration. A fully integrated human contains the emotional information of their past – not as a crutch or an excuse, but as a tool and a reference point.
Many forces want us to see the challenges and shortcomings. And so often, we do. But what if true expansion and magnetism required a shift in perspective that is foundationally optimistic? And rather than skipping over what is dark and bleak to go into them fully and completely in trust of the blessings before they come.
The payoff for expansion doesn’t usually come immediately. Like a chick birthing itself into the world, a shrinking exists when she experiences the pressure of her shell. In our expansion then is contraction – it must be this way in order for us to strengthen beyond what once was. Every death, then, is also a birth and what feels like the end of the world, is, so as a new world can emerge.
The presence of pressure in your life is you, pushing into your shell. The container that was once spacious called on you to grow and so naturally you did. And now it’s time to integrate the shell into yourself so to expand beyond. These shells – they are our beliefs, our comfort zones, our practices and our habits. Beyond them is a greater truth, a more aligned life and a new zone of genius you are meant to occupy. This moon cycle and season is not the time to make decisions or build the path towards your newness. It’s the time to dream as big as you can… and then go beyond to something greater.
INQUIRIES FOR THE SAGITTARIUS NEW MOON
Who is the person you intend to be in the world?
What is your greatest vision for yourself? For society? For the world?
What is the fun you want to have in the world?
What do you believe to be true about life?
Do your actions reflect your vision?
Deepening Your Desire
Manifestation is, in its simplist understanding, a formula. Align your emotions with what you want and take action towards it. With each step you take in that direction, what you want steps towards you. There are libraries full of stories and testimonials and books teaching this and while I’m usually not that kind of teacher, this sun cycle is the one to manifest so here’s my recipe ~
The first step is to get your vision right. Answer the inquiries above and then answer them again, Refine your vision until it’s an image in your mind you can trust and believe in and aim your arrow towards, even if you have no idea how it will happen. Next, feel more of what you want to feel – feel how you WILL feel when what you want undoubtably comes. The key is this: want what you want because it’s what you want. Tune into what you yearn for.
The less your focus moves externally, the stronger your results are internally. The paradox is that this internal work is excatly how you create what you want externally. This is the work of the post-mercury retrograde November and Mercury trine Neptune is just enough of a rose-colored tint for us to get deep into desire and reminding us that life is but a dream and it can shift and change in an instant.
Big Leaps
Now, the reality is that what appears to be a big leap or a magnificent manifestation, is at some level, a series of small shifts. The more present one is to each progressive shift, the more present one is, the more power one has. It’s somewhat simple, but it’s not simplistic. The results that come make more sense because you were there for them, you have awareness in the process and can see what you did or didn’t do. You can course correct or shift your aim. And this is powerful. This is truth. This is real. There is no escaping it, even if there are places you don’t want to look.
There is less suffering when you’re present, which by no means negates the very real suffering that is going on everywhere. What I’m talking about is the subtext – the suffering of the mind that labels and defines and diminishes. The optimist that is Sagittarius presents a mirror for us: how do I see the world? What amount of energy comes from second-guessing and doubting my worth? What attitude is influencing my ability to live the reality I want? What can I do to allieviate my own suffering?
I’ll share a passage that I return to each time I find myself pushing against an old shell and called on to leap. It comes from The Book of Awakening, by Mark Nepo.
The Chick Being Born
When in the midst of great change, it is helpful to remember how a chick is born. From the view of the chick, it is a terrifying struggle. Confined and curled in a dark shell, half-formed, the chick east all its food and stretches to the contours of its shell. It begins to feel hungry and cramped. Eventually, the chick begins to starve and feels suffocated by the ever-shrinking space of its world.
Finally, its own growth begins to crack the shell, and the world as the chick knows it is coming to an end. Its sky is falling. As the chick wriggles through the cracks, it begins to eat its shell. In that moment – growing but fragile, starving and cramped, its world breaking – the chick must feel like it is dying. Yet once everything it has relied on falls away, the chick is born. It doesn’t die, but falls into the world.
The lesson is profound. Transformation always involves the falling away of things we have relied on, and we are left with a feeling that the world as we know it is coming to an end, because it is.
Yet the chick offers us the wisdom that the way to be born while still alive is to eat our own shell. When faced with great change – in self, in relationship, in our sense of calling – we somehow must take in all that has enclosed us, nurtured us, incubated us, so when the new life is upon us, the old is within us.
Truthfully Free
In the end, the teachings of the cycle are about freedom, truth, trust and faith. Beyond all beliefs we layer upon each other and ourselves, the truth is, we are free. We have to trust that. We have to have faith in our ability to treat and be treated this way. We have to see that vision. And to deepen our understanding of it, we have to defend it for all beings.
This is the gift of a divine existence and the blessing of living in the present.
~ Julien Elizabeth // Gemini Rising
SAGITTARIUS AND JUPITER MESSAGES
If you know your rising sign or ascendant, I suggest you read it as your intention below. You can also read your sun and moon sign. These are meant to be taken in as insight and inquiry. There are so many factors that give your life the life that it is, so take these notes as food for thought and take from it what feels right for you right now. If you aren’t sure of your ascendent, or have a curiosity to go deeper, schedule a natal chart reading and we’ll decode it all together.
Aries – Youve been growing and growing and growing in big and expansive ways, Aries, and it’s so inspiring and so admirable. As you settle down into this new season, you’re called to not only integrate all you’ve done, but also explore how your perspectives have shifted, too. Beliefs are always up for review and your understanding of what’s true for you might be calling for a tune up. Read new books, call on new mentors, seek conversations that make you think as you explore just what freedom means for you, right here and right now.
Taurus – Youre in a bit of a revolution, dear Taurus, which might rock the ground beneath you that I know you’d prefer be steady. The transformation underway is so big and so vast and so important for you and for us and for the world. Let yourself go through it and the right doors will open for you and you will walk through them with ease. This is a month of trust and surrender and rebirth and it’s beautiful and we’re grateful.
Gemini – Twin star! This is the month where all of the incredible work you’ve done on your own starts to turn over. You know who you are! You know what you want! You know what to say! You’ve done the work, you’ve made yourself at home, your life is finding its natural hum. And now, your eyes are looking wider and bigger at who you’re sharing all of your magic with. Whether you’re in a relationship or partnership, you’re looking a little closer at your commitments and those that get to shine in your light, too. This is the month to consider: what is the truest, most realist relationship I desire? Am I in a partnership that sees me, values me, allows me to be me – in all of my aspects and all of my ways? Am I the partner that allows for this, too?
Dream up your big dreams this month and call in the one who will meet you there. Venus is on your side!
Cancer – There are months to dream and there are months to play and there are months to think and there are months to be with your people. Dear Cancer, this season for you, is a month to lookat life and how you’re living it. As in, what routines make you feel your best? What rituals keep your heart full and your mind clear? What practices and people and ways of moving about give you the ability to grow and expand and welcome in all that is abundant and coming for you? Life flows for you when you’re moving in the ways that make you feel best. Cast your visions for the life of your dreams, my love, it’s coming!
Leo – You’ve been working hard, Leo! Nesting and making yourself feel safe and secure and at home wherever you go. You’ve been digging and uprooting all of what doesn’t feel just right. This month wants you to cut yourself some slack. Get creative. Play. Enjoy the moments you don’t have to be anywhere or do anything. Get flirty. Have fun!
What creative projects and visions bring you joy? Start them! Create them! Think big! Dream wide!
Virgo – When your home is just right, something lights up inside of you and the abundance begins to flow. This is your month to focus your attention and action in your home. What’s the space you need to be in to expand to your highest potential? Dream big. With no restrictions of budget or location or time, what would you create? Call it in big and accept nothing less than this truth: You deserve exactly that, angel!
Libra – You’re in demand! Usually you live for this and so of course it feels natural to be so chatty and social. Just be sure you’re choosing for you and do your best to keep your expansion on your terms and in your ways. Sagittarius season is calling you to tune up your methods of self-expression and all of the ways you speak your truth and share your magic. Choose for yourself what activities on your calendar fit into the life you’re creating for yourself. As valuable as it is to socialize and express with the outside world, remember to stay connected to the voice within, too!
Scorpio – Like a phoenix that enters the fire, you’re emerging the other side and life is looking transformed. Good work, angel! This month is as good of a time as any to organize your affairs, peek into your accounts and prioritize your values (and your dollars!). You can use the energy this month to cast visions for more prosperity in the new year and set in motion the actions that will secure it for you.
Sagittarius – what a great big birthday month it is for you! Everything is in your favor, asking you just how big you can think and dream and call in. This is your time – direct your arrow at the biggest star and make yourself so bright you outshine it! Your effort brings warmth and inspiration to us all!
What holds you back from sharing all of your visions and hopes and greatness with the world? This is the month to flirt with letting that go and going big. I can’t wait to see what you create.
Capricorn – Taking a step back is always valuable, especially for you this month (and maybe this year). So much expansion, so much shedding, so much unearthing, so much of so much of so much! This is a month that invites you in — to your cave, to the womb, to the secret spaces and places within that remind you how divine you really are. There’s nothing wrong with disconnecting and being quiet. I promise no one will forget what you’re creating and you certainly won’t fall behind. Let yourself rest and expand behind the scenes and you’ll be more you when the light shines on you next month.
Aquarius – Who are your people, Aquarius? What social groups are you influencing and who are you influenced by? This month wants to reconnect you to the pulse of humanity that inspires you and gives your life meaning. This is your lifeblood, your purpose, your why. Look to the social causes that inspire you and set in motion a vision to serve. Your perfect visions of a perfect future will set the world ablaze. This is a month to find the team that inspires you to share all you see!
Pisces – Your hard work is making a difference, Pisces, and the world wants to recognize you for it. Are you prepared to step out onto the public stage a bit more this month? Whatever you do for work, this is your month to step in and step up. Use the energy of Sagittarius to put your work first and it will pay off with the visibility and credibility you may be hoping for.
Are you local to LA? Take these insights a layer deeper and transform with community Sunday November 24 at Love Yoga Space in Venice, CA for the Sagittarius New Moon Circle.