Thursday July 16th

Happy New Moon! Hopefully this Cancerian moon is bringing you all out of your shell instead of retreating inward. I would imagine with its fellow planets being all over the place that you've been feeling a little bit like doing both. Today is all about authenticity. This is a card that comes up over and over in our lives to test us, and it's how we deal with these tests that makes or breaks us. The Lord of Shortened Force is heavily influenced by Gemini, and Mercury is trying to instill great wisdom on us today. We're being given answers to some of our deepest questions this lunar cycle, and it's exciting! Mercury has been sitting in the degree of "a man staring at a mandala referencing an ancient book of wisdom" for a while now. Have you been listening? This is a great time for meditation. The watery moon gives us heightened intuition and perception, which is great when you want to receive messages from your guides. The 8 of Swords was pulled today, but it's not as scary as it looks. This card comes up when you're acting as an admirer more than a participant. You admire qualities of life, like wisdom or meditation (examples, it could be anything), but you're not putting any effort forth to bring them into your life. There's an uneven balance being acquired and you're not investing in the tools within yourself to fix it. Don't focus on how others perceive you or what vibe you want to give off, focus on strengthening yourself within to be the person of your dreams. If you be what you want to attract there's no stopping you! With Venus going into retrograde in a about 10 days, really fulfilling your inner self desires is going to be extremely important. We must have a strong sense of self and rely less on how relationships with other people make us feel when Venus is retrograde. This card is coming up to prepare us for any interference that could come up, and it's teaming with the moon in the degree of "a woman stranded on a desert island with two men." Everyone is in it together. When three people are stranded on an island, they don't separate and do their own thing. They stick together and team up. Three is better than one. If each member of your soul family is strengthening their inner self your team will be unstoppable!

I FOCUS MY STRENGTHS AND STRENGHTEN MY ENERGIES THAT GET FORGOTTEN. I AM A WELL ROUNDED LIGHT BEING