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Mercury will move into the sign of Cancer today and we can finally step back from all the lightning-fast thinking that's been a hallmark of the month! Combined with the easy going Libra Moon on Monday and Tuesday, we'll all take a step back to re-balance and regroup. Things could seem a bit ethereal under Wednesday and Thursday's Scorpio Moon, especially with Neptune (the epitome of ethereal!) turning retrograde on Friday. For the next five months the planet that rules spirituality, soulfulness, the occult and the unseen will travel backward through Pisces, the sign it rules. This cycle will bring new visions to life, reveal the answers to questions we haven't been able to answer, and clear out any illusions or misconceptions that have been holding us back. Fun times are the theme of the day under Saturday's Sagittarius Moon, while Sunday's Capricorn Moon will give us a choice; do we want to clean out the garage and have a rummage sale? Or do we want to drop on the couch and catch up on our streaming or napping?

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.

Can an inanimate object sometimes act as a guardian? I had a car that actually saved my life one time by refusing to move just before another car ran a stop light at high speed. How does that happen?

Dreamchaser:

I am so glad that you asked this question because lots of people ask the same thing.

Can an inanimate object save our lives? No. Can a higher power, angel, spirit guide, etc. use an inanimate object to save our lives? Yes. You used a car as an example. The car itself does not have a mind or a soul. It cannot say, "I think I will save my owner's life." A spiritual being of some kind, however, COULD make the car not move.

When annoying things happen, I often wonder how much of it is to prevent something "bad" from occurring. For example, if my car will not start or I get a flat tire, it very well could be to delay me so that I stay safe from harm. We can't see the whole big picture all the time. We tend to be rather short-sighted. If we could see all the action going on below the surface and behind the scenes, we would be AMAZED. We have beings of all kinds helping move things into or out of our paths accordingly.

One example that keeps popping into my mind is a story from my own life. My daughter had been born approximately three weeks earlier. I wanted to take her to my father's house, so I hit the road. We were traveling on a four-lane divided highway, and I was in the right lane. I heard a horn honk blaringly and I looked to my left. There was a man in a car staring at me, and I realized that I had nodded off. The ONLY thing I saw when I looked at the car and man as a whole was this man's eyes. They were very big and brown and looked strangely liquid-like. I was heading for a rather steep drop off that would, at best, hurt us both very badly. As I shook the sleep off and looked around to get my bearings, I looked back to wave to the man - and there was no car.

I looked behind me and in front of me on the road, and I was the only car on that stretch of highway. I realized that some higher power had saved our lives that day. Spirit made that car and that man manifest to wake me. I guess someone could have come into my car and shaken me awake, but this was a much kinder and gentler method, as it didn't freak me out too badly.

So you see, we both had "cars" save our lives. I wonder how many of our readers have similar stories. I would venture to say MANY. Next time something "bad" happens, like a postponement of any kind, stop and think. MAYBE something is trying to help you in some way. If you change your thinking about delays, at the very least, it will make it easier to deal with the wait!

I wish you all safety!

*****

Astrea:

All my life, my Daddy has always bought Ford cars. He drives a Ford now. When I was about three, we traded "Josephus" in for another Ford, and I went nuts. I didn't want to have a DIFFERENT CAR! Daddy explained that it was STILL Josephus. He even started the car so that I could hear the engine and said, "See, he's still right here!"

No matter what car we had, the SPIRIT of Josephus transferred into our new one when Daddy signed the papers to buy it. Whether it is the SPIRIT of Josephus (the car, not the historian), or A SPIRIT that enters every one of Daddy's new cars until it's not his car anymore, I always feel safe when we're driving. Daddy has been driving for more than sixty years, and has never been in an accident. He has had ONE ticket, and I think he might have been driving my mother's car that day.

Perhaps thinking we have Josephus in the Ford gives us more confidence to drive to where we're going safely. Maybe we're just more careful because of Josephus - we want to be careful not to HURT him, after all. 🙂

I don't really believe that INANIMATE objects can have Spirits of their own, but they can be well inhabited by Spirits both Good and Bad. A car that is a LEMON might have an EVIL Spirit living in its motor. A SPEEDY car might carry an IMPATIENT Spirit, but it isn't a Spirit that is built into the car, in my opinion. It may be that when we NEED extra protection when we're driving, we dig around and summon permanent Guardians to inhabit our cars!

There is a simple protection spell for those of you who do NOT have a protective Spirit living in your cars. When you get ready to go on any trip, load up your car and then in your mind, create a net of blue stars and wrap your vehicle in that net. This also works to protect your home while you're away. It's such a habit with me, I rarely go to the store without throwing my net over the house and car. It just takes a second, and driving through THIS world, I need all the help I can get.

I can't say for sure whether the CAR has a Spirit or whether a GUARDIAN Spirit you carry with you settled itself into your car. It is one thing or the other, but you certainly WERE protected in that car in that MOMENT. However you choose to perceive it, you DID receive protection when you needed it the most. What difference does it make where it comes from as long as that protection is THERE? Just be sure to remember to take it with you when you go to buy your next car!

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.