Can we be in joy while the whole world is in tumult? Are we allowed?
For some of us, we ache from the insides, deep in our healing—all we’ve been exposed to, all that has dimmed us, our hopes, our hearts’ desires.
But the heart’s energy field is bigger than a brain as HeartMath will tell you, the following about the heart’s field. The energy produced by the heart is more than 100 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain and can be detected up to 3 feet away from the body, in all directions, using SQUID-based magnetometers (Figure 6.1).
Figure 6.1 The heart’s magnetic field, which is the strongest rhythmic field produced by the human body, not only envelops every cell of the body, but also extends out in all directions into the space around us. The heart’s magnetic field can be measured several feet away from the body by sensitive magnetometers. Research conducted at HMI suggests the heart’s field is an important carrier of information.*
With Mercury retrograde in Leo it won’t be surprising to get clear on a number of things to review:
*How you put yourself out there
*What you do in life purely for the sake of joy and love
*What is your true need to be seen and heard by others
*Where you’d like to build more courage
I’m no stranger to this Mercury retrograde in Leo. Where Mercury is standing right now, He/She/They/It are directly on my natal Sun. ☀️
That very sun I have “given away” to “other” born in the house of “others.” (7th)
I have memories and contacts to explore. I have new relationships to consider. I get to PLAY with what possible wisdom may come from exploring those areas I need to show up with more courage.
At this point I have so many certifications, so much experience and expertise in a number of different fields that are all similarly related. I started a YouTube channel, and I’m maintaining this blog, my business, my house and plants, and my family.
Another BIG exam is slated for me to demonstrate my expertise in a new, deeper category of my TCM work: skin as an extension of my external medicine work. That exam will be at the tail end of the summer, during the “pause” right before a ton more astrological “action.” This is a category of achievement in my field where few have actually tread. The exam passing rate isn’t so high. That’s not why I’m doing it. I do it for love. Just love. I constantly and consistently invest myself in improving FOR others; to be of service.
But I’m human, and I’m making peace with a lot.
Much walking and physical movement, music, and catharsis decorates my summer Mercury retrograde party 🎈 banners/streamers and they look like balloons 🎈 around healing ❤️🩹 AND grieving at the same time.
I think we all know Trauma at this point. It’s become the collective consciousness’s main dialogue! How could it not? How many disasters are we recovering from, losses, interrupts, missed opportunities— at ANY given time?!
So, what can I offer you that has not been offered before? What will really make your heart sing?
Maybe… even just take some time out for some singing 🎶 and dancing. 💃 go outside and scream like a banshee, or if you realistically can’t, do it in a pillow.
No one needs to watch. Your own audience fills your inner world; it’s your shadow. Your shadow is your audience!
So don’t listen to anything that might hold you back from your purest heart’s desire. See what stands the test of time. See what stands the test of “this time.”
Mercury will retrograde from July 17-18 depending on where you live, until August 11/12.
What has been through the fire 🔥 that looks so shiny and sparkling now but has a lot of blood, sweat, and tears 😭 behind it?
You know. You are the one who been through the fire, through hell and back. You know: It’s your capacity to love.
During this Mercury retrograde when things might be better examined, slowed down, face unexpected technical challenges or fight inner demons.
You have a hand-holder, over here, in me. Somethings that REQUIRE courage, and the real movements can sometimes only be BABYSTEPS. I’m your girl. Your cheerleader. 📣
When you face those demons, you are not alone.
By next year I will also be offering my coaching programs and probably a slew of other carefully cultivated offerings. But I’ll still always be here— just like this. And this is MY love. To be here. With You.
I mean, what is the point of your light, if it never reaches out?
Does light sit in the dark?
Hide under a rock?
Or does it yearn to lift the rock from the inside?
Today someone special died. An artist, activist, and a poet. Each day, someone special dies. Many someones.
In their opportunity to share what’s inside them, they spoke of telescopes and friendship. Before they died, they told you about death and joy and grieving, and made it all make sense.
She left this world, today, just shy of her 50th birthday on August 13.
I have no doubt that my message for today’s New Moon will be aligned with the gardeners and nature lovers. I’ve been reaching out to Luna for the message and she’s been very clear that with the strong energies of Mars/Pluto opposition, all the Aries placements still in effect, and that challenging aspect of Saturn and Venus conjoined with the North Node, we’ve never needed to be sunk in with nature more.
Uranus is also still in Taurus in process of wrapping up its stay. From July 7, 2025 for the next 7 years, Uranus will ingress Gemini and fill the mental plane with communications, logistics, innovations, disruptions, and more. Fortunately Jupiter has been transiting Gemini and paving the way for Uranus, setting up a good vibe. Jupiter is known to be the great benefactor of the zodiac. Next month the Sun will be in Gemini and that will further light up that area of the Zodiac and this will all be in preparation for Uranus to transit there by July.
For now, we have dedicated moments to reflect on this New Moon in Taurus and set our intentions to focus on what grounds us, brings us deeply into ourselves, and most opens us for those unique and intuitive messages from nature and from spirit. It’s essential at this juncture to take a break from media—even just a small sector, or reduce its time.
For your meditations:
Here are some words from Rosemary Gladstar, one of the most renowned Western herbal pioneers,
Take a moment. Open a jar of herbs that perhaps you grew and dried yourself… draw in a long deep breath… and if you pause awhile with the plant, it can carry you forward into the future.
Let the plant speak to you—not with words, but in the way that only plants know how.
Let’s enjoy the ineffable this New Moon in Taurus. Gaze at the stars, sink your feet in the dirt or the sand. Roll down a hill in a meadow, blow off the seeds of a dandelion. Make dandelion wine. I have some tinctures that I am ready to strain, and the birds song has been especially poignant.
Another fitting way to celebrate the phases of the Moon in relationship with the Sun, valuing the cycles that nature gives us— those that repeat—and let us know that we do have a regularity in life, there is consistency, pacing and calm: Celebrate with music, drums, piano, whatever speaks to you. Perhaps you love the sounds of harp, accordion or trumpet. Enjoy the moments of non-verbal, enjoy the spaciousness of sound and sing or imbibe the air and earth with your voice.
I hope this post has stirred some calmness and pleasure within you. Let me know in the comments if this new moon is touching your natal chart and which houses! I’m happy to help with a consult in the future years when I open up more time in my schedule.
For now I will leave you all with some beauties:
My deepest wish is for all beings to experience happiness and be free from suffering. 🙏🏻💕
It’s not an idyllic wish. It’s grounded in a desire for the progress of moving in the that direction, for peace and kindness to flourish in the lives of all. This wish will continue to flourish no matter what circumstances show up or appearances of the world would submit that we are not gonna end up there, well and wise.
None of our Earth journeys are in vain, purposeless or random.
bananas but no more pleasant and surprisingly tart as
cranberries in salad or with oranges. Dragon fruit is good or
Dill pickles accent your sandwich for lunch but for dinner
Eggplant with ricotta and Mariana sauce
Fudge from the boardwalk completes your
satisfaction. Tomorrow we have
Gnocchi
Haricot verts and for dessert homemade
Ice cream
The days fly by with
Jicama chips
Kale chips
Lasagnas
Mandarins, Meringue, and Macaroons
If you are feeling flowers,
Nasturtium makes an orange delight satisfying eyes and stomach
Oatmeal, oatmilk, oatmeal cookies are all good in the morning
Plus plums, porridge, pineapples, papaya
Queijadinha (coconut and cheese tart)
Raspberries, Rhubarb
Strawberries
Too much! (toffee)
Ube is the best though coupled with
Vanilla
Waffles
Xoconostle
Yogurt
and
Zucchini bread
***Caught up on some extra sleep but still need more, last day of my 5 day clinic series where I am working on facial rejuvenation acupuncture with ancillaries. I’m exhausted though. I reached for “low hanging fruit” with this “poem.” May your senses be delighted nevertheless!
I’m hoping that the spacing turns out better than it did with my last post. I have written the poem in notepad and copy and pasted here. That changes the layout.
Fiesta Estrellas 
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