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Balance is the theme at the start of this week, as the Moon saunters through Libra Monday and Tuesday. The remainder of the week unfolds under a Scorpio Moon, and this one could bring out our intense side, which isn’t always a bad thing. Focus, drive, and progress will be a theme Wednesday through Friday, and we’re likely to get twice as much accomplished as we had planned! The Moon waxes full in Sagittarius on Saturday, which could bring surprising people into our midst. This full Moon could have us crossing paths with exes, people we went to grade school with, or even people we don’t know who we’ve shared past lives with. If someone pops into your head out of the blue, do a search on social media to see if you can find them. (Assuming you WANT to find them.) If an ex shows up asking for a second chance, your answer should be no, but do relish in the ego trip of knowing they’ve never forgotten you! Finally, if you’re still flying solo, this is a great weekend to venture out to the social scenes or check out dating sites. Swipe left? Swipe right? Take a chance, as anything is possible under this lovely Sagittarius full Moon!

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.

My grandmother died of cancer. I was extremely attached to her and saw her as my mother. We had a deep bond and when she died I felt as though she took part of me with her and I kept part of her here with me. I dream about her often, and am wondering if she is visiting me in these dreams. I have a reoccurring dream where she shows up at my aunt's house (which was her house before she passed). She is my bedroom doorway and I am in total shock, saying I have missed you so much I thought you were dead! She does not respond to this, she just smiles and hugs me and acts like nothing ever happened. I also have had dreams where she calls me and tells me that she is still alive. My brother has had dreams where he wakes up in the middle of the night thinking there is an intruder in his home and gets his gun and goes searching through the house and goes into the basement, only to find it is her hiding in our house as if she never passed on. I often get the feeling she is looking over me and protecting me but I am just so unsure so I would like another opinion. What do these dreams mean? Is she visiting me and my brother in our dreams? Is she watching over and protecting me? Thank you for taking the time to read and respond, it means a lot.

Brittany

Susyn:

Your grandmother has never left your side and is most assuredly visiting both you and your brother through your dreams. Although she has left the physical plane, her soul continues to remain close to you and all her loved ones.

It must be very comforting when your grandmother pops up at your aunt's house as if nothing has happened in these dreams. The dream phone calls in which she tells you that she is still alive are indicative of the fact that she still exists and is reaching out to you from a different realm. You can't see or touch her, but you can sense her spirit and hear her voice clearly. It is her way of letting you know that, despite all evidence to the contrary, she remains close by, watching over and protecting you.

I am certain that she sends you additional signs during your waking hours, so watch for certain aromas, music or flowers that trigger memories of her. You may feel a sudden breeze or hot and cold temperature changes for no apparent reason. When this happens, it is proof that she is around.

Your brother's dreams are quite telling as well. He and your grandmother may not have been as close to each other as you were. The dreams in which he hears noises and goes in search of an intruder, only to find your grandmother hiding in the basement, suggest that he may not be as open to the idea of her spirit visiting him. Perhaps when he was growing up they used to play hide and seek games, and that is why she does this in his dreams. Perhaps she is wary of unnerving him, so she lets him seek her out.

When our loved ones die, they do not just disappear; many remain close to us to watch over and protect us. Some people refuse to believe in spirit contact, but for those of us who have been exposed to it firsthand, as you and your brother have, the experience is very real. You can trust what your instincts are telling you. In fact, the more you trust them, the more contact your grandmother can make with you.

When you have one of these dreams or sense her spirit around you during the day, this is the perfect time to stop and visit with her. If there are things you would like to share, questions you want to ask, or you simply want to tell her how much you love her, now is the time to do it. Of course, you don't have to wait for this to happen; you can call her spirit to you through prayer and meditation whenver you desire. I recommend a channeling session with a psychic if you would like even more communication and validation that she is near.

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Oceania:

I'm sorry for the loss of your grandmother, who was clearly a mother to you. What you wrote about loss is true: A part of us goes with the person who dies, and a part of them stays here with us.

I don't know if your grandmother is visiting you in your dreams, but I do know your dreams are part of your grieving process. In one dream, you're able to freely express your truth about how much you have missed her. It's a refreshing feeling when we can be honest and genuine with someone, as you could be with your grandmother. I recommend that you join a grief group where you can safely process and honor your emotions, and be heard and accepted in return. It's important that you find other people you can be truthful with.

Your wise unconscious mind comforts you with recurring dreams about your grandmother's smiles and hugs. Her warm and affectionate nature clearly enriched your life. You need to talk about how much she meant to you, which is another reason a grief group would be beneficial. It's also important to find other people whose smiles and hugs you can enjoy.

Dreams of the deceased calling to say they're alive are very common when we're grieving, for we try to alleviate our emotional pain by imagining that our loved one is still alive. As your brother is experiencing a similar dream, he would probably be a good person for you to grieve with. I recommend the two of you look through old photographs of your grandmother and share memories of her.

Of course you yearn to have her back, but it's in the natural order of things that grandparents and parents pass before we do. In their wake, we have an opportunity to parent ourselves. It seems that something prevented your biological mother from mothering you. Perhaps she died young or was unavailable to you due to illness, addiction or other circumstances. What a blessing that you had a grandmother who could fill your mother's shoes! It's very possible you have some grief work to do about your mother as well.

Your mother's absence or dysfunction likely prevented you from internalizing and developing your own strong inner mother, which may have left you overly dependent upon your grandmother. You might now turn to a therapist or a reader here to serve as a surrogate mom, and also strengthen your ties with your female friends. I'm certain your grandmother is watching over and protecting you, but your task at hand is to develop your own maternal energy so that you can directly nurture and comfort yourself.

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.