August 26th, 2022

A new moon is often a time to shed a skin. A skin we may have manufactured over the span of a month. Or sometimes over many lifetimes. Letting go can sound so liberating (especially in a buzzword world) but in actuality can be some of the scariest work we do. Allowing ourselves to see what we sidestep and bury into shadow can be murky, confronting and altogether upsetting. To even admit avoidance can be heavy work on the road to unmasking. And it is an unmasking that is what is happening. The many masks we wear to protect, bolster and pretend we fit into something that ultimately we do not. The identity is just that - something attempting to define something that is indescribable. You my friend are indescribable. Do not limit yourself to the fences you create.

Ok now please can someone help me down off this soapbox - oh no one is here...*hobbles down* There is much beauty in this mighty Magha new moon. With Venus and Mercury on either side of the Sun and Moon we are embraced by these two benefic planets. With these two I see it that there can be a support from relationships and of intellectual clarity/discernment as we unmask. Though along this journey in the next day or two there may be mourning and there may even be out of body experiences as you dethrone your old identity to make way for the new one. 

Another curious part of a Magha moon is that is has a lot to do with our ancestors. If we look down the line of our past we can see patterns. Curiously we carry similar afflictions to those walking the earth before us if we lean into this heritage. This is not just our hereditary illnesses and diseases. But traumas, habitual wounds, addictions and desires unfulfilled begging for satiation. For in our evolution of our family line we propel the next generation to finish what we started or couldn't finish/resolve. Investigating these long held patterns and cycles can be very painful yet ultimately illuminating and ever more so liberating. And liberation is what we seek this new moon.

Stay light,
Mark :)

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