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Things slow down this week as we move under the watery vibes of a Cancer Moon on Monday and Tuesday, followed by the Sun's entry into Cancer on Wednesday. For the next four weeks, our thoughts will turn to home, family, and comfort-seeking activities. Gardening, cooking, and restoring order to our homes and relationships; these are the hallmark traits of Cancer. Emotions and spiritual activities will also serve as a focus, reminding us to rebalance any areas of our inner lives that have become scattered or disconnected. Self-focus will be essential Wednesday and Thursday under the Leo Moon, as we stop to look at where we have been giving too much and not taking care of ourselves. This is the time to turn the focus back on our own needs for a few days. Once the Moon enters Virgo on Friday, we'll have two days to concentrate on restoring physical order to our surroundings, clearing out clutter, making lists, and creating a blueprint for future endeavors. With the mood of each day changing this week, we'll welcome the Moon's entry into Libra on Sunday, where we can assimilate all the activities and insights of the week and find our balance.

5 Ways to Embrace Your Home as an Archetype of the Divine Feminine, by Tisha Morris

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The rise of the Divine Feminine has become a popular concept in spiritual circles, and for good reason. The masculine energy (yang) has been the prevailing energy on the planet for thousands of years. And while it has led to improvements in productivity, industry, technology, commerce, and mobility, it has also come with abuse of power, war, corruption, greed, and superiority. This overbalance has hit a tipping point to where the feminine energy (yin) must be integrated to bring balance to the planet.

But how?

It is already naturally happening within businesses. The energy of the Divine Feminine has brought in a renaissance of new ways of doing things, new inventions with beauty, art, and design being the x-factor. This has also led to an immersion of spirituality into our everyday living. Businesses that are now thriving are based in fairness, creative innovation, and conscious design, while also fostering compassion to people, animals, and the environment. Incorporating the Divine Feminine energy has become essential to new businesses and the new economy, whether they are aware of it or not.

The emergence of women in the workplace and female entrepreneurs has also helped integrate feminine principles in business. Women have fought their way out of the home and into the workplace for years and with considerable success. In doing so, women have integrated more masculine energy while many men have begun to embrace traditional feminine roles such as child rearing and homemaking.

While gender does not define masculine and feminine energy, it is one of the more common expressions of it. Those who are on a path of self-actualization and ascension are coming more into balance of their individual masculine and feminine energies to where gender roles are becoming more blurred and a true integration is taking place becoming a model for the planet as a whole.

Because most of us have grown up and learned primarily under the reign of masculine energy, it is important to recognize what constitutes feminine energy in order to gracefully evolve into our new world. Regardless of gender roles, your home is a great way to integrate the energy of the Divine Feminine.

The sense of home—and even a house itself—embodies feminine energy due to its nurturing, protective quality. Simply bringing more beauty, intention, and creativity to your space can invoke the Divine Feminine into your space and into your life. Here are some easy, practical ways to do so.

1. Create a Sacred Space in Your Home
   Masculine energy is action-oriented, while the feminine is about stillness and receptivity. In terms of space, feminine energy is supported by quiet space. This could be in the form of a meditation area, a cozy reading nook, an altar, or even empty space. If you think about music or art, it is the white space or negative space that often make the difference.In considering what you want in terms of a sacred space, reflect on this quote by Joseph Campbell:

   "To live in a sacred space is to live in a symbolic environment where spiritual life is possible, where everything around you speaks of the exaltation of the spirit. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you might find that nothing happens here. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something will eventually happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again." -Joseph Campbell

2. Enhance Your Intuition Through Your Home
   We've all had an experience where our intuition told us something that simply did not make rational sense to our mind, only to find out later that our intuition was right. Intuition comes from our right brain, which is feminine energy, while logic and rationalization comes from our left brain, which is masculine energy.To enhance your intuition, create an environment that best supports it. Consider more abstract artwork. Specific imagery is finite in its meaning as opposed to allowing for creativity. Using monochromatic or soothing colors can also help the mind to dream and imagine. Also cutting down on clutter will minimize distractions and allow the monkey mind to rest.
3. Promote Your Creativity Through Your Home
   Like intuition, creativity is a product of feminine energy. We are all creative, and each one of us has creative gifts that can benefit the world. Do you have space in your home that supports your unique expression of creativity?For example, maybe your traditional home office becomes your art studio. Do you want to write, but have no writing space? Or maybe the kitchen should become grounds for cookbooks and experimentation. Our home should support all aspects of ourselves. If your home isn't supporting the best creative expression of you, then consider ways to make those shifts.
4. Nurture Yourself Through Your Home
   The Divine Feminine energy is loving and nurturing to others and oneself. Your home is an extension of you, and when you love your home, you are loving yourself. When you take care of your home, you are nurturing and taking care of yourself.Extend love to your home with fresh flowers, music, or aromatherapy. Bless your home with a space clearing or just give it a nice cleaning. Like any relationship, when you give it love and attention, it will support you in return.
5. Bring Beauty Into Your Home With the Five Elements
   In addition to being an energetic extension of yourself, your home also has a soul. One of the best ways to honor that relationship is to incorporate the Five Elements of Feng Shui—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—into your home.Your home is the connector between you and Mother Earth. It is where we have the opportunity to live in harmony with nature. In my book, Decorating With the Five Elements of Feng Shui, I provide various ways to do just that. As a result, your home will feel and look great, in addition to supporting your own personal energy.

   Some simple ways to incorporate the elements is using them in their rawest form. For example, use candles for Fire, plants for Wood, clay pots for Earth, crystals for Metal, and a fountain for Water. These are great ways to bring in natural beauty in fun and creative ways. In doing so, you will awaken the Divine Feminine within you and your space.

We all need a sanctuary to come home to—to nurture us, inspire us, support us, and surround us with beauty in ways only the Divine Feminine can. Why not create your sanctuary today?

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2015. All rights reserved.

I feel like I'm having a bit of an identity crisis. Let me explain. I was born 9/7/1969 in Denver, Colorado, at 7:32 p.m. When I was born, my mother had my horoscope charted, and I was raised to believe that I was a Virgo with Aries rising and a Cancer Moon. This was helpful growing up, because if I felt meek, I could simply tell myself that I had an Aries rising and force myself to be assertive. This belief led me to grow up with a certain amount of inner strength.

Well, 34 years later, I received another horoscope that states that I am a Virgo with Pisces rising and a Leo Moon. This seems like a rather odd combination, almost as though there are two extremes existing in one person. To tell the truth, I cannot seem to have good relationships with any Pisces. I wonder if on some level, I am disowning parts of myself and projecting this dislike onto others born under that sign. If this is truly my horoscope, it would seem that I need to learn more about my passionate, intuitive side.

So which horoscope is correct? And if I am a Virgo with Pisces rising, how should I come to understand more about that influence in my life? Do you have any advice on overcoming this identity crisis?

I know that any information you offer will be helpful. Thank you very much.

Sheila

Dreamchaser:

Sheila, I ran your chart and you are a Virgo with a Pisces rising and a Leo Moon. (If you would like to double-check, you can use the free chart program at www.astro.com). I am so sorry that you are going through this identity crisis. Let's address it.

The reason you cannot get along with Pisces people is because you are judging them through a Virgo's eyes. (Please remember that I am a recovering Virgo, so I know what I'm talking about!) We Virgos expect everyone and everything to be somewhat logical and orderly, and Pisces folks are SO not those things. The two signs are exactly opposite on the astrological chart, so it is naturally hard for us to understand each other. I will say, however, that having a Pisces rising makes you much more intuitive and gentle by nature than you would be if you did indeed have Aries rising. That is one thing you can and should use to your advantage. Please try to embrace your Pisces traits.

One thing about astrology that grates my nerves from time to time is how much stock some people put into what they or someone else is "supposed" to be due to the Sun, Moon or Rising sign. If I accepted my planets as they were, I would be the biggest anal retentive, perfectionist, worrisome human being on the planet. I decided a long time ago that I did not like some of the "traits" of Virgo, and I decided to change them in myself. We have choices in life. We can choose to allow things around us to tell us what/who we are supposed to be, or we can work on being who we want to become.

For example, I have a thing for Leo men. According to many astrologers, Virgo women and Leo men are NOT supposed to get along, but I feel most comfortable with them of all the signs. We are what we think we are. You said yourself that you would convince yourself to be more assertive. It does not matter where that "power" came from; what matters is that it did indeed come when you needed it. We are NOT limited by our astrological influences.

Another thing I would like to mention is that you are ruled more by your Moon, which is in Leo, than you are by your ascendant, which is in Pisces. That outgoing, forceful, strong character that you could pull up came from your Leo Moon, not your rising sign. What you thought you had in you all along because of your reported "Aries rising" really WAS there because of your actual Leo Moon. It was just waiting to be tapped.

I wish you painless integration of this "new" information!

*****

Astrea:

Hello, Virgo with Pisces rising and Leo Moon! I'm sorry to say that the astrology you grew up with is indeed incorrect, but stop with the crisis, already; you've always been you, and you will always be you!

It amazes me how people will categorize themselves according to astrology, and yet I do it all the time myself. It's a TOOL, for Heaven's Sake! Having Pisces rising would explain why you don't like or get along with Pisces people, but having Pisces in that prominent place in your chart would make you every bit as strong as you'd be if Aries was there. It might make you more tactful and a little nicer, too! Perhaps Pisces people mirror things that you perceive as your own weaknesses. Learn from them. They are brilliant and focused individuals (like YOU ARE)!

Having that weepy and emotional Cancer Moon replaced by the Leo Moon should certainly eliminate any confidence issues. This chart reflects all the personal strength you've learned to muster. This is actually the chart of a more POWERFUL person than you would be with the one that your mom had done for you. Leo Moon people get their way most of the time, and are usually RIGHT, too. They have an extraordinary sense of what is GOOD, and they know how to apply that knowing in a sunny and pleasant way.

When your chart was drawn up at your birth, the astrologer probably forgot about Daylight Savings Time, or got the zone you were born in off from the latitude or longitude, or simply made a one-hour math error when she was trying to figure out Sidereal time. (Do we still call GMT that?) In 1969 we had to do the math ourselves, remember. If I fall back an hour, I get the chart you received at birth, more or less. Pisces and Aries are next door in the Zodiac, as are Leo and Cancer, so that's what I think happened with the incorrect chart. Thank goodness we have computers now! I used to go nuts doing all that math!

Fret not. As I look over your full chart, I see all sorts of new and exciting things that you can do now that you're a "new person." 2004 will be a year of new beginnings, so you can take this new astrology into your life and have a big time with your Leo Moon. I see you foiling the dastardly and making everyone behave. You can use the Pisces rising to be a do-gooder, if you like, or to take on some kind of course where you can concentrate on healing yourself and others.

This isn't the end of you as you know you - it's just an EXPANSION of the person you have been!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.