Are You Resourced?
FINDING RESOURCE DURING LUNAR ECLIPSE
Q: Are You Resourced?
A: What comes to mind when you envision your resources? Do you immediately think about your bank account? Or do you look out your window and take in the view? Some of you may begin to feel your body, your strength, energy, or tiredness. Do people come to mind? Relationships you have built over time? Or perhaps you take a tour through time and retrace the steps you’ve walked up to this moment. As someone who loves words with a fervor, there is something about re-sourcing that really inspires me. The dictionary’s researched origin of this beauty you might ask? Dating back to the “early 17th century: from obsolete French ressourse, feminine past participle (used as a noun) of Old French dialect resourdre ‘rise again, recover’ (based on Latin surgere ‘to rise’).”
Through the astrological lens, when I contemplate my resources and my relationships with them, I am brought before the kingdom of Taurus. Taurus, which is ruled by Venus, is the domain of the second house of…that’s right, our resources, food, finances, our body, self-worth, nature, and our value systems. This house is the terrain that comes after the first which inspires the question, “Who am I?”. The first house is ruled by Aries, the pioneer, who takes the first step forward into becoming. The second house begins to materialize this effort. Who we are begins to take shape as we address the value of the world around us as well as create our own wealth in the world.
SELF-WORTH & VALUE
Do your financial value and net worth (from dollars to coconuts) equate to your self-worth and value? If you take time with this, it is truly a profound question that is layered with nuance. There are the conscious and the unconscious answers, the true and the false answers, the hopes and the answers fueled by despair and worry. This is a question for our cultural anthropologists to be explored throughout the ages and within every culture.
If you’ve done the work to have found access to your value outside of any financial set of parameters, what is your relationship now with your finances? Asking for a friend : ). As someone who has not been primarily financially driven throughout my life, I am actually working hard to build these muscles in the material world. There is a yin and yang energetic that brings life force into every flow and form. The extremes of being spiritually rich and materially destitute or the moral bankruptcy that can at times follow immense wealth, do not equate to a life of equanimity.
TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE IN TAURUS
Today is a full moon total lunar eclipse in the sign of Taurus. While the sunlight of the Scorpio sun is beaming across the cosmos upon the moon, there will be a cutting of the chord of this radiant beaming glow for a period of time. When energy is influenced in such a powerful manner, the effects are felt deeply and over time. Not to mention there are very strong aspects such as a conjunction with Uranus to the moon which will certainly bring the element of surprise and a continued square with Saturn that will highlight the constraints and limitations of our resources, on the personal and global level.
Mercury kisses the Sun in cazimi style meaning they come together in a brilliant fashion which adds amplification to our communications and expressions. It is election day in the US which will have many on the edge of their seats while pushed and pulled by the electrical Uranian surges of this eclipse.
Despite all of the collective hype circulating en masse, I encourage each of us to take this day to honor our resources. To take inventory or perhaps write out your understanding of all that you have from the perspective of gratitude. Give thanks and get creative. Be curious and innovative. What can you curate from deep within to allow even more abundance into your life? Call upon the planetary archetypes for reflective guidance. Maybe the overflow comes from discipline and structure - Saturn. Or perhaps it comes from letting go of the false constructs you’ve created around your own capacity - Uranus.
Wherever you find yourself on this day, work to stay connected to your heart. Go inside if the external is too radical and pause in the sanctuary of your wisdom. Eclipses are a good time to lay low and observe oneself and the opportunities to change. And, as indicated by the origin of “resource”, know that these deeply rooted changes will reveal a new you, and you shall recover from the fall of the old self and rise again.
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