You haven't heard from me in a while, because I've been traveling. My daughter and I returned 2 weeks ago from a beautiful trip to India.
Most of my family lives there and we met many of them, filled up on love, delicious food and ancient blessings.
It was energetically an intense trip and I've been integrating much since returning, especially physically.
Pic below: Tithal Beach in Valsad, a place I visited countless times as a child during summer vacation to see my grandparents.
Choosing to be a conduit of higher energies
Traveling has a way of getting you out of your current frame of perception and allows you to notice things in a different way.I usually have an intention for what I would like to experience during my trip.In addition to reconnecting with my family, some of my desires for this trip were to
- Deepen a connection to the land and elements
- Receive a transmission from the Cancer archetype as Jupiter crossed the 0 Cancer point.
This is something I've noticed during my last few trips to India (in Aug 2022, March 2023 and now) - each happened to be exact on the day of a big rare transit. It is not something I planned, but given so many factors that go into booking a trip, many things are outside control.
- This time too, it was Saturn entering Aries, right after we took off from JFK airport.
- And I landed there on the day of the Gemini New Moon, which activated my own Gemini Moon (past and lineage).
- And Jupiter entering Cancer while there.
These things give me clues as to the energy that shapes the experience.And I've come to see that we are all conduits of these energies. So, my practice is to call forth the highest essence of the transits, and be a conduit for dispersing that higher intention.
Pic below: A mango tree outside my mother's home. It was a delight to watch parrots and bats eat those ripe orange mangoes!
Receiving transmissions from the archetypes
So not surprising, the Cancer and Gemini archetypes spoke to me loudly during the trip, through much of my family!Not having planets in Cancer in my natal chart, this is not an energy that I am deeply familiar with, unlike Gemini and Aquarius!But through my family, I received so many messages from Cancer about their
- Deep love of creating experiences of nourishment and nurturing
- Recognizing and being mindful of what others need to feel safe and comfortable
- Security that comes from having a group you feel deeply part of
- A sense of belonging to something where you feel held and loved
- Full commitment to that group
Through the trees, flowers and birds there, I received a higher essence of Gemini and its ability to help you tap into a higher vibration.
So much movement, aliveness, activity and creative fertility amidst the seeming chaos in the organic life there!
I felt this was preparing me for the other rare transit of Uranus entering Gemini on July 7th, which will be the topic of my next newsletter: Stepping into the wild unknown!
Tuning into a new rhythm
So no surprise, its taken me a while to integrate this trip.
This has been a year of intense inner growth for me and this trip sort of capped it all.
After returning, I tuned into what would support me through this integration phase and 'Rhythm and Movement' was the guidance.
What new rhythm is my body, mind and soul craving for right now?
With all the energetic changes happening, with transits and Solstice being such a strong marker for transition, it makes sense that our routines and rhythms need to be updated to support what the body is going through.
So I've been refining my own routines, bringing in self-care that supports stillness and rhythms that support movement.
Sharing pic of a painting I started last week.
One of my non-negotiable self-care practices is to do intuitive painting or Intentional Creativity to help me integrate a large experience.
And I'm curious how you are experiencing this transitional time?
And I'll be back early next week with my take on Uranus into Gemini.