Leo New Moon

Today’s Leo Moon suggests that to keep from caving into the storm takes tremendous courage. 

Is it disrespectful or too radical to seek the strange courage necessary to engage with moments of levity in the midst of so much confusion and desperate unkindness?

As many of us navigate our days like tightrope walkers, seeking to balance our daily lives along the fragile edge of an unsettled world, could we give ourselves some time to engage with the creases in our days where the news doesn’t find us? Not to stick our heads in the sand or stop showing up for our values, but to keep our hearts lifted as we keep working to carve out a kinder world? 

Can we give ourselves permission to engage with joy?

So often I wonder if it’s up to me, and to anyone who is blessed with a home and food and children who are safe . . . I wonder if some of our responsibility to These Times might be to send joyful energy vibrating out into the midst of the terror.

I was in Ireland this spring, a place that runs deep in my bones, and I was reminded of something I’d felt in my father and grandfather and that something is a sense of levity that is based in loss and sadness and yet somehow refuses to collapse and, instead, elevates the moment with tenderness that is both fierce and warm. 

And so I look to Leo, an energy that encourages creative play, to help us remember that the world is complicated and at the same time that we are faced with loss that feels unfathomable, we are simultaneously offered moments to fall back in love with the world.

I encourage you to send me a note if you’d like to understand how the prevailing cosmic cycles are affecting you personally. Or to explore a child’s chart, or a relationship chart, a goddess chart or to track your planet’s energy map-lines as they run through states and countries.

On the eve of this new Leo Moon, I ask you to consider this: Does our choice to generate levity imply that we aren’t paying attention to the mess or is it an offering to the sorrows of the world?

With a deep bow to all Being,

Deborah

Participate joyfully
in the sorrows of the world.

~ Joseph Campbell