Hello and welcome to our community meditation space.
My name is Vivian Girard and it is my delight to be guiding us in a meditation for the new moon in Cancer.
As we arrive in this time together,
I invite you to picture yourself walking into our virtual living room,
Finding your seat.
And settling down for some time with astrology as a lens through which to better understand our human journey.
Let us close our eyes.
As you bring all of your attention,
Your focus,
Here into this moment,
This body.
This pause that you have created.
That you have claimed for yourself.
To be still,
To attune your mind,
Your body,
Your soul,
Your heart.
Start magnetizing all of your attention,
All of your power,
Here into your body in this moment.
It is very easy to stay busy and distracted.
To have our minds be moving in lots of directions with lots of activities and responsibilities.
What if for just a little while?
You get to claim a pause that is only focused on you.
Relax your muscles if you find that you are tensing up.
And imagine visualizing an unraveling of all the ways that you are attached to everything around you.
You can see it as cords or threads,
Lines of light.
What if you could create a cocoon where everything stays outside of you except for your own attention,
Your own power,
Your own creative life force?
You can visualize all of those threads just gently dropping at the outside of your cocoon.
They will be there to pick up as soon as you are finished.
If you choose.
And notice how it feels in your body as it is just you becoming present with you.
You may feel the need to wiggle or move a little bit to shake off.
Perhaps pieces that are a bit sticky or clingy to you.
Visualize the cocoon having an edge of form around you.
It can look like a bubble,
An aura,
An energy field.
An igloo,
Whatever shape or strength feels right to you.
For me,
I like to picture a bubble.
It looks gold and shimmery.
It has an edge,
But it's very thin and it looks almost permeable.
But I set the intention that my energy stays inside the bubble.
And anything that doesn't serve me or belongs to others stays outside of that field.
If that feels resonant for you,
Imagine from the bottom of that bubble,
You can create a grounding cord,
A root,
Underneath your body,
Your feet,
Your bottom,
From the bottom of the field,
You can see this cord,
This root going down into the earth.
Much like tree roots.
Deep and wide,
The roots go far down underneath where you are in this moment.
Connecting this bubble of energy that you're in,
This cocoon,
Deep into the earth.
Notice what happens in your body as you settle into this feeling of being more grounded,
More present.
And then start to visualize this field of energy that you are in,
This bubble or cocoon,
Becoming wider around you.
Create space.
So if it was squished close,
Tight to you,
Imagine now you have a foot or two feet,
Perhaps even three feet of space.
Around your body and going to the edge of this energy field or bubble that is holding you.
Notice how much calmer your body becomes when you have a little more breathing room.
Some extra space just to be you with you.
If there is friction that shows up or a lot of thoughts or energy that gets a bit bubbly or intense,
You can just send that down to your feet.
Or to your bottom,
And then from the roots underneath this cocoon,
You choose to release what is ready to go.
You can use your breath and have a big exhale as you do that.
You can sigh or yawn,
Cough or burp.
Visualize what is no longer needing to be held by you to go down through to the bottom of this cocoon and then through the roots into the earth.
Because we are doing this as a community,
It may feel extra intense or amplified with so many of us focusing on it at the same time.
Allow that to support your process.
The power of many choosing to release what we are complete with.
To release what is not actually ours to have to hold.
To release the energy that is no longer in alignment,
No longer supporting our growth,
Our expansion.
All of us choosing to do that through this meditation space amplifies what we are doing together.
So from the bottoms of your feet,
You allow the old,
Toxic,
Stagnant energy to move down through the roots and into the earth to be purified and recycled.
The earth receives the energy as simply energy.
And then redirects it to where it is more needed.
Bring your attention back to your body and to this space around you.
You can imagine feeling the edges of the cocoon from the inside.
As if you have your hand against the sides and the back and the roof of the igloo or the energy field.
And you can just sense how strong this force field is around you.
If it feels like you have leaky holes or big gaps where energy is not able to stay inside the bubble or kept out of the bubble,
Depending on which way you're looking at it.
Visualize that edge being corrected,
Being strengthened.
You can picture your hands smoothing the edge of the energy field from the inside.
Connecting any tears,
Any spaces where it doesn't feel solid for you.
You can turn around in your visualization and look behind you.
Perhaps your back has had a space that's wide open in the energy field behind you,
And when you turn to look,
You notice that.
So you can smooth out the energy field from the inside.
You can strengthen this bubble around you,
This cocoon.
It's not to keep the world out or to isolate yourself.
It's to give you a full pause.
From the activity of the world.
To allow you a space where you can feel just yourself.
Sometimes that makes us uncomfortable.
There may be feelings that we haven't wanted to feel.
And being distracted by the world.
Is almost a safety tool.
It's a way for us to not have to feel the things that are inside.
So you notice if that is true for you and calm your body,
Relax your muscles.
You can be in this space just to rest.
Just to pause and to breathe.
As you start to feel more comfortable in this practice or process of being in your cocoon.
Over time,
You can start to open up the feelings.
Explore them,
Sit with them,
Move them,
Understand the stories that are underneath the emotions This first time of being in the bubble in this way may just be to remember that it's possible.
To find a practice that allows you a quiet space just for you.
So you remember the root underneath the bubble.
You send any fear or doubt,
Overwhelm,
Down to the root and release it into the earth?
And then you sit back up inside of your cocoon.
Straighten your spine and open your shoulder a little bit wider and allow the space around you to become a bit bigger.
So your cocoon stretches.
Maybe now you have several feet of airspace around you.
You might find you're smiling because simply having space feels so good.
So relaxing when the world is loud and chaotic and busy.
It reminds me of when I was a child and we would make little forts in tents and put blankets over the couches and then bring our books and read and play games underneath the tent,
Thinking that nobody knew that we were there.
Allow yourself to feel that sense of playfulness.
In a sense,
Curiosity.
When you are with you in this way.
Your mind,
Your heart,
Your body,
Your soul,
All focused just on you.
With a buffer of time and space around you in this cocoon.
The most magical experiences can happen.
Your body can heal.
Because you have taken some of the stress and the anxiety away.
Your heart can feel safe to remember.
To allow emotions to flow and move through you and go down to that root underneath your body,
Underneath the cocoon.
When you feel ready,
Those emotions can just run down the roots and into the earth.
Your mind can slow down the pace of the thinking.
Can let go of the looping.
Your mind can focus on holding the energy field.
Keeping it several feet around and outside of your physical body.
Your mind can be picturing your hands patching any spaces that might have a little leak here or there and smoothing the field out.
Your mind can notice what your body needs.
What stories are coming up for your heart to feel?
And maybe in this space,
Your mind just becomes a journaler,
The one taking the notes.
The one remembering the pathway to this process,
To this cocoon,
So you can come back.
And the soul is moving spirit.
Energy consciousness.
Through this energy field that you have created.
The soul whispers to us when we are quiet and present.
Sometimes it whispers memories.
From this life,
From other dimensions,
Other parallel realities.
Other playgrounds.
Sometimes the soul offers us guidance.
It shows us little moments.
Clips,
Videos,
Images,
Words,
Colors.
From the future?
From the past,
From the field of consciousness that is beyond this human realm.
When we sit in this quiet space,
This cocoon that you have created for yourself.
We actually hear the soul.
We feel,
We see what the soul is wanting us to see.
We are listening.
We are so present that we cannot argue with the soul or push it away or deny it.
Because our mind is taking notes.
It's writing down in the journal what the soul is showing us.
Our heart feels the resonance.
Our heart smiles and laughs and giggles because when the soul communicates and we hear the wisdom of the soul.
It speaks with joy,
With acceptance,
With safety,
With belonging.
With the knowing of our inherent value.
The soul is wise and clear.
Supportive.
The soul lives inside of our body in order to expand,
To evolve.
To become more than we were as consciousness before this lifetime.
So the soul shows us what serves for us to know next.
And when we are quiet,
Like we are in this space.
And the mind is writing down what the soul is showing.
Our next steps can become very clear.
And then our human chooses what to do with that.
So we relax the muscles of our bodies.
Feel the root underneath this bubble and expand the space within the bubble.
Imagine you can add just even a little more room around you.
As you straighten your spine and you open your shoulders,
Allowing your heart to open.
Take up more room in your own bubble.
Allow yourself to feel your own power.
Within this cocoon,
This energy field that you have created.
The sense of power in this space is self-sourced.
It is from within you,
Through you,
For you.
It is not power over.
Or control over.
It is your own power to be,
To exist,
To create.
Feel,
To think,
To love.
To evolve.
Relax your muscles.
And feel what it is like to be you.
Fully you in you,
For you.
Allow the root underneath the cocoon to take anything else that is ready to go in this moment.
Run it down to the earth and allow that energy to be recycled,
Purified by the earth.
Feel the steadiness in your body as you are grounded in this moment.
Let this become your baseline.
You are a standard.
When you are not this,
You feel it,
And you can come back to this sense of grounded safety in any moment.
Feel the space around you,
Around your body.
The energy field that you have created.
That is always yours.
You can close your eyes in any moment of a busy day.
And picture yourself right back in this feeling.
Create the space and allow the space to expand around your body.
And that calm will carry across time and space into whatever moment you are in when you choose to do it again.
Thank your mind for the work that it is doing in service of your soul.
When we allow the mind its importance.
And also its place,
It becomes our greatest tool,
Our greatest resource.
Breathe into your heart,
Relaxing the heart space,
Allowing it to stretch just a tiny bit wider than it already is.
Knowing that the greatest gift you have as a human is to feel,
To love,
To create,
To express,
To be in the emotion of this human journey.
Allow your heart to stay as open as possible.
And then invite your soul to place all of the markers,
The synchronicities,
The magic in front of you as you leave this meditation space.
Let your soul guide the path and then trust when those show up.
Celebrate the synchronicities and the magic and more of it will happen.
When you feel ready,
Go ahead and open your eyes.
Allow yourself to just look at one thing in front of you as you come back into awareness.
So I am holding a crystal in my right hand.
I'm wiggling my fingers around it.
I'm starting to wiggle my toes,
My feet.
Moving my shoulders and as you do that allow your gaze to take in more of the space around you.
When we are in meditation time and we come back into full presence in our external reality,
It is a powerful moment to blend both,
To merge the internal and the external,
To tell ourselves again and again that both are true,
That what we are seeing and feeling in our meditation time is ultimately what becomes manifested in our external reality.
Harmonize and play as you come out of meditation.
I encourage you to drink a big glass of water,
To be really gentle with your heart space in this new moon and cancer energy,
And then to come join us in the lives as we read energy and share our ahas in this beautiful journey we are taking together.
I send you so much love.
Thank you for meditating with me today.
