Welcome dear friends.
This is Sarah and I'm so happy to be back with you again.
This practice is for the new moon in Cancer and this is the second new moon in a row in the sign of Cancer,
Making it a quite rare black moon.
So we have these two opportunities,
These two new moons to consider all the themes relating to the astrology of them and to relate them to our lives.
As always this practice is interactive so we will reflect together,
We will journal together and then we will set our intentions for the coming cycle.
So it would be good if you had pen and paper or your journal and that you have a comfortable and quiet space just to sit in for the next little while.
If you're here and you're ready,
Let's take a breath.
Let's inhale deeply and just see if we can relax a tiny bit with each exhale.
Start with the scalp,
Relax the eyebrows,
The ears,
Unclench your jaw,
Drop those shoulders,
Relax the chest and the belly and notice any little butterflies,
Any anxiety that's sitting here.
Relax your hips,
Your legs,
Ankles,
Wiggle your toes.
This new moon,
This new moon is opposite Saturn.
Saturn is restriction,
It's hard lessons,
It's feeling hemmed in,
It's feeling stuck.
And while here in Scotland where I am,
Our lockdown measures are ever easing,
It's not the same in many other parts of the world and indeed in many other parts of the world we're seeing restrictions again.
When a new moon comes up against Saturn like this we can feel like we're opposed at every turn.
We can feel like there are obstacles,
There are blocks,
We can feel like we don't know what the way forward is and we can feel like the way forward is not worth it in whatever we're trying to achieve.
But although Saturn is a hard taskmaster,
He likes to give rewards for hard work and that's our message for this new moon.
We must make sure that everything that we are doing now,
Everything we are working towards,
Everything we want to be comes directly from the heart.
We must take all these cancer and values of heart,
Home,
Security,
Family,
Compassion,
That tender feminine energy that we all have regardless of how we identify.
We must make sure that our intentions come from this place.
We are entering into this new way of doing things and this new way of doing things is heart centred.
And if we can be sure of that and we can be sure of our direction being guided by the heart,
Then Saturn will reward us for putting our heads down,
Pushing on and pushing through.
The motto for the area of Edinburgh that I live in is persevere.
And you find it within all over our community and during our lockdown.
A wonderful artist made a chalk drawing right in the middle of one of our busiest streets and with it the unicorn which is the national animal of Scotland.
Underneath it thanked our NHS and all of our key essential workers and the motto was persevere.
And that's what we must do with this new moon.
Keep going.
Let's take time now to reflect and journal together before we write our intentions.
Let's consider these themes that Saturn might be bringing up.
It's heavy energy so if you feel heavy that's okay.
If you feel like you want to scream with frustration that's okay.
If you feel like something is pushing down on you that's okay.
So let's write these things down.
Let's write down where we feel restricted,
Where we feel blocked,
Where we feel hemmed in,
Where we feel like it is not worth pursuing anymore.
I'll keep an eye on the time for you.
And let's take two minutes.
Okay.
One minute left to go.
Okay.
One minute left.
Let's think now about our heartfelt desire.
Every intention comes from a desire to feel a certain way.
Everything that we set out to achieve.
So let's take some time and see if we can take a deep dive into the tenderness of the heart and ask what it wants.
Let's revisit any intentions that you set last month and ask if they are truly aligned with your heart.
What are the values behind them?
Let's take two minutes.
I'll come back to you.
Syn warp You have one minute left.
You have one minute left.
It's time to set our intentions now for the coming cycle.
Intentions are guiding principles that we live by.
And they come from the way that we want to feel.
We write them as I am statements at the beginning of this new cycle,
This new moon.
And if we live by them and we take action towards stepping into them throughout the next cycle,
Then we begin to see them show up ever more in our lives.
I am is the most powerful spell you can speak.
We tell ourselves so many negative stories about ourselves.
I am not good enough.
I am not worthy.
I will never achieve this.
And we believe them.
And often we've told them to ourselves for so long that they are deep rooted.
And we believe them because we say I am.
And whether we realise it or not,
Everything after I am comes into being.
So if we can make those negative beliefs so deep rooted,
Let's harness that energy for the positive.
Examine those heartfelt feelings.
Make sure your goals have soul.
And let's write our I am intentions together.
Take two minutes and I'll come back to you.
Can you life again?
There's one minute left.
Write your spell.
Begin it with I am.
I am.
Keep your intentions somewhere you will see them for the rest of the month and think every day about how you will step into them,
How you will show up as them and watch them become ever more real.
You can finish with a thank you and you can say it is done.
And if you feel blocked or restricted,
Hemmed in,
Pushed down or facing something insurmountable,
Then remember the motto from the little part of Edinburgh that I'm from and persevere.
Talk to you soon.
