Hello and welcome to our community meditation space.
My name is Vivienne Girard and it is my delight to be guiding us in a meditation for the new moon in Virgo.
As we arrive in this time together,
I invite you to picture yourself walking into our virtual living room,
Finding your seat in circle,
And turning as a community towards astrology as a lens through which to better understand our human journey.
Let us close our eyes.
We are arriving in a moment of rest after a very busy,
Turbulent few months of astrological shifts.
So your body may be arriving here more tired than usual.
Focus on relaxing the muscles.
Consciously unwinding any of the tension that you have been holding in your body,
Perhaps without even realizing you were doing it.
Unwind the muscles.
And allow yourself to bring all of your awareness,
Your attention,
Into your body here.
What may help guide your energy back into this moment is to focus on your feet.
To picture all of your attention,
Your energy,
As it arrives back into this moment.
Moving down through your body to your feet.
Noticing how your feet are connected to our planet.
Your feet have walked you into this moment,
This room,
This space where you are meditating.
So bring all of you here.
To where your feet have chosen to rest for this moment.
And then you consciously relax the muscles.
And allow more of you to find its way here to you.
When we have moved through the big shifts that have happened.
With so many astrological changes.
Our bodies have been feeling it,
But perhaps our minds have not had the words or the structure for it.
So start calling your attention back from wherever you have been besides fully here.
Your mind may have been busy thinking about work or puzzling over a relationship.
Analyzing the past or predicting the future.
Let us be fully here in this moment for this brief time of meditation.
You can perhaps see your energy as being attached like threads to wherever you are outside of here,
And you're gently tugging those threads and pulling your awareness back into now.
Back into here,
This body.
And as your energy arrives in your body,
It can start to feel more full inside of you.
Relax the muscles and guide your awareness all the way down through your body to your feet.
You can visualize that you are filling your body up like a cup of water.
As your awareness,
Your consciousness arrives back in this moment,
You start filling up the physical form that is you,
The human.
And as that happens,
You may notice that your body needs to move or stretch.
You may find that you are coughing or yawning,
Burping.
Your ears may pop,
Your eyes may leak,
When we fill ourselves back up with our own consciousness.
Our physical body feels that shift.
So you relax the muscles.
And continue calling more of you here to you.
As you allow this process to continue,
I will speak to the mind.
We are in a new moon in Vargo.
Vargo is ruled by Mercury which manages our communication,
The mind,
Our thinking.
Mercury is now in Libra and so it can be a time of more harmony,
More potential harmony in our thoughts.
In the ways that we communicate in our relationships.
For this time of meditation,
Let us focus on how we work with our mind within meditation.
So notice how your mind is participating right now in this meditation.
You may feel busy in the mind when we are moving quickly and then we slow down.
Attempt to stop our thinking because we are now in the phase of meditation in our day.
Our mind may have a hard time putting on the brakes.
So as you bring your attention to your thoughts,
To how your mind is co-creating in this process of meditation,
Imagine you can do it with kindness.
With curiosity.
Your mind is not here to get reprimanded or told to sit down and be quiet.
Your mind is invited to be a partner in the process of meditation.
It is a relationship.
Between your mind,
Your body,
Your heart,
Your soul.
So use your breath to slow down the activity within your body so that you can bring your awareness fully to your mind.
And notice the thoughts that are moving around,
Bubbling inside of your awareness right now.
Without judgment.
Your mind is showing you.
The information that is running under the surface all the time.
When we are not in meditation.
The mind is feeding thoughts into our body,
Into our awareness.
And we may not even be aware of what those thoughts are.
So here in meditation,
Your mind can show you some of the patterns.
The words that repeat,
Subconsciously,
Unconsciously,
As you move all day.
Imagine you can write those thoughts down.
And perhaps show them in your imagination,
Show them to your best friend,
Your partner,
Person you trust the most.
Are the thoughts that your mind is running,
Are they kind?
Are they even true?
Are they thoughts that you want to speak out loud?
Are they thoughts you would want this partner or best friend or person you trust to say to you?
Meditation offers us this beautiful internal space of a shift in perspective.
A deeper understanding.
In this new moon in Virgo.
We have the opportunity to come into more alignment.
With our own minds.
With the way that we think,
The things that we think.
The emotions around what we think.
It is a gift to be able to pause and look inward.
And unpackage what is happening in our minds.
So relax your muscles of your body.
And imagine you can pick up a pen and change some of the words that your mind just wrote down.
You may want to take the whole page and crumple it up or burn it or throw it away.
Or you may just want to slightly change a few words.
There's no judgment.
Just the moment to be intentional.
To look at the way that you think.
And intentionally shift it,
Align it.
Bring it into more balance with the breath.
Perhaps the thoughts you prefer to focus your energy on.
Maybe for a moment we put the pen and the paper down,
We pause and think.
Do some alignment with our heart and our soul and then come back to the pen and paper for our mind.
So with the pen and paper to the side.
Imagine you can bring all of your awareness to your heart first.
Being curious about how your heart feels as you have this shift in perspective… when we realize,
When we have awareness that perhaps our mind has not been as kind as we would like.
It has not been as kind as we would be to our best friend or our partner in the things that we say.
Our heart may feel the sadness of that.
The disappointment or.
.
.
Frustration.
Perhaps even a sense of overwhelm or depression,
Like it's just too hard to change the thoughts,
It's too deeply ingrained to shift this narrative.
I believe in meditation.
Anything is possible.
So what if you imagine?
That I sit next to you.
And we both put our hands on your heart.
With such respect.
Such care for the soul that is here having the human experience.
Understanding the density of reality.
The overwhelming amount of information and.
.
.
Decision-making that happens in just an hour,
A day,
A week?
How easy it is over a lifetime.
To develop patterns in our thinking unconsciously.
Perhaps imagine we can pause together,
You and I.
The image I see is of a beautiful hammock that we can lean back into and swing our feet side by side,
Sitting in the hammock.
Looking at all of the thoughts bouncing around out in front of us.
And perhaps we can start to send the thoughts that don't feel in alignment with the vibration that we prefer.
The thoughts that are negative.
Heavy,
Disparaging.
Unkind,
Even cruel.
Limiting,
We can send those thoughts down into the earth.
With a big sigh or exhale as those thoughts go down and get recycled,
Purified.
We can lean back in the hammock and turn,
Grin at each other.
Like,
Phew,
That was a lot.
And then turn our attention back out in front of us.
And perhaps we imagine this time we have crayons,
Bright colored markers,
Big easel paper with big thick markers of all colors,
And we can start drawing sketches or beautiful words,
Writing them.
On a white easel pad or even if we're imagining in the sky in front of us.
The words that I would say to you… The thoughts that you would say to me… the kind thoughts.
The encouraging thoughts.
The thoughts that say anything can shift or change in a moment's awareness.
That old patterns can dissolve.
And new patterns can be created.
That anything is possible.
Reminders that we are infinite beings.
Playing in the field of consciousness through human bodies.
And when the density feels too much,
We tap back in again to that infinite trust.
That infinite knowing that we are all connected.
That we come from light and we return to light.
What thoughts would you want me to say out loud to you about you?
Imagine you can write them in the air,
Write them on the easel pad,
And then lean back in the hammock.
And you can look at me and think the things that you know I would love to hear and write those and I write them and we overlap in the way that we are writing our thoughts in the air.
Use your breath to stay here in your body,
Fully present.
And allow yourself to experience partnership through the mind.
The feeling of having each other's back and being here to support,
To encourage.
Your mind in its highest potential is an ally,
A partner,
For your heart,
For your body.
Your mind can express what your soul knows to be true.
And as you have this visual of us sitting in a hammock together,
It is a bridge to show you what is possible.
With your mind,
Your heart,
Your body,
Your soul.
Imagine in this visualization that your soul can take the place of where my body has been sitting next to you in the hammock.
My body moves out and your soul is right by your side,
Bigger than you.
Tall or wide or stronger.
Fiercely behind you,
In your corner.
So strong.
So clear.
On reminding you of who you are here to be.
Your soul when it speaks through your mind.
Is your best cheerleader.
Your greatest dreamer.
Your strongest ally.
Allow your mind to calibrate.
To the frequency your soul is showing you,
Holding with you in this moment.
Your mind is meant to be the note-taker for your soul,
For your heart.
Not the boss that is holding you back and criticizing you.
And mean,
Unkind,
Or cruel.
So any thoughts that are in that old frequency,
Run them down into the earth.
Release,
And allow your soul to have the brightest markers,
Crayons,
Paintbrush,
Spray can of colored paint,
Imagine your soul can start to write beautiful words of truth in the air in front of you.
Sitting next to you in the hammock with your body,
Your heart.
Your mind is writing it down,
Taking the notes.
Your soul writes with big letters.
Cursive,
All different languages,
Hieroglyphics.
Your soul writes in frequency,
In truth.
In bright colors.
Invite your mind to be part of this collaboration.
As the note taker.
The one who records what the soul is showing you.
And then lean back.
In the hammock,
Imagine your soul is wrapping around your body,
Your heart.
Giving your mind a high five.
Your soul is soothing your body and showing you.
This is a sustainable way of being.
When you come back into this meditation space,
Into this visualization.
The soul is always sitting waiting in this hammock for you to remember to drop in.
And when your thoughts become unkind or distracting.
You can drop back into this image and your soul will bring you back into alignment.
From this moment.
Imagine you can set an intention at this new moon in Virgo.
Of how to integrate this into your daily life.
How to remember this feeling,
This embodied experience.
Of alignment.
Of intentional thinking.
Harmonic thinking.
Let all the cells in your body calibrate and relax.
Feel your heart,
Strong,
Steady.
An integral part of mind-body-soul-heart.
Check that your mind has all the notes and markers that it needs.
And then merge your soul fully into your body and allow the image of the hammock to slowly dissolve.
Feel your feet firmly planted here you are,
In this moment.
On this planet,
Choosing to meditate and to shift the story.
To align yourself with what most serves.
For your time here on this planet.
Relaxing your muscles,
And as you feel ready,
Open your eyes,
But just focus on one thing in front of you.
I'm looking at a crystal that I hold in my hand and I'm rubbing my fingers over the crystal.
So perhaps you want to rub your fingers,
Your hands together,
Wiggle your feet,
Your toes,
Maybe move your shoulders,
Allow yourself to start to come back into full presence.
And as you do that,
Allow yourself to merge what you see,
What you feel inside in your meditation space with what you see reflected externally in your physical environment.
Both are true.
So,
Big exhale.
I encourage you to drink a big glass of water,
To journal some of the thoughts that your soul is showing you,
And then to come share in the community experience.
Come share what is happening and allow us to celebrate and support as you walk this path.
Thank you for meditating with me.
I send you so much love today.
