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HAPPY SOLSTICE! ☀️ Today is the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest night in the Southern Hemisphere. 🌌 May you rest deeply in your light. May you learn and know your shadow. May you trust your wholeness. 🌏 Love. Love. Love. Peace. Peace. Peace ✨ Thank you dear @janna_dorothy for this visual meditation
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The planet #Neptune begins a #retrograde cycle today which lasts through November 24th. Days, like today, when a planet stations retrograde or direct, often have wobbly, weird feelings to them, and can instigate delays and confusion with projects and forward-moving momentum. Neptune is the #modernruler of #Pisces and as a #planetaryenergy it symbolizes the need to #transcend the #illusion of material reality. Neptune knows that everything in the manifest world, including your body and identity, the bodies and identities of those you love, and all of the possessions and ideas you get attached to, are merely momentary configurations of materials colliding and believing in themselves. When we think of anything as permanent and real, we get attached to maintaining it, and lose the knowing of ourselves (and everything) as constantly shifting #spiritualexpression. Don’t let this idea lead you to #spiritualbypass or to discount the suffering of what is here and now though… Neptune’s gifts come when we open our hearts in #compassion and #empathy, and when we allow ourselves to co-identify with everything and everyone. This then, will #illuminate the temporary nature of our egos, and help us to remember the love and #oneness that we are made of. Neptune retrograde is a time to reflect on the dream of your life. Seek to see through the #unreality of your identity, job title, gender, race, and class by comprehending the ways that your identities have been constructed by the illusions of larger systems. Seek to weed out ego constructs which contribute to yours and others suffering. Offer yourself to awakening and liberation that extends infinitely beyond yourself.
“In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my own mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for in my life, however short it might be, priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light and what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? To question or to speak as I believed, it would have meant pain, or death. But we all hurt in so many different ways, all the time, and pain will either change or end. Death, on the other hand, is the final silence. And that might be coming quickly, now, without regard for whether I had ever spoken what needed to be said, or only betrayed myself into small silences, while I planned someday to speak, or waited for someone else’s words. And I began to recognize a source of power within myself that comes from the knowledge that while it is most desirable not to be afraid, learning to put fear into a perspective gave me great strength. I was going to die, if not sooner then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. What are the words you do not have yet? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language.” Thank you Audre 💜 #mercuryoppositesaturn #venustrinechiron #venussquareuranus
Your New Moon Horoscopes & personalized affirmations are now available! Thank you to @janna_dorothy for this cycle’s visual musing. Wednesday’s new moon in Gemini reminds us of the need to stay open-minded, flexible, and (as much as possible) amused. Gemini is the sign of language–its words, gestures, and power to connect. Gemini rules elementary education, socializing, short-lived connections, close-in communications, and deals and exchanges. It is the sign of The Twins: sometimes mortal, sometimes divine, one lives with the gods and one in the underworld. The twins represent the two sides of the coin. They are mischief and magic both. Helpers to humankind and patron saints of travelers, they bring favorable winds to those who honor and trust their own need to know. To learn more about this new moon astrology, how language is a malleable art and for your personalized horoscopes follow the link in bio. xx, Renee
Preparing the #astrologypodcast for tomorrow’s #newmooningemini . Recorded your #horoscopes yesterday. 🔮 Just finished practicing #yoga and made a #guidedmeditation for you. Moving with #awareness in my #centralnervoussystem, and feeling the way my #breath and #mind are one and the same. ⚡️ Gemini’s ruler #Mercury moves into #Cancer today, just ahead of tomorrow’s #newmoon . Gemini’s #wisdom comes through when it relates to the #heart, and not just to the head. Please… talk about your #feelings! Be very, very tender. And listen… deeper. 🌑 #astrologymusings #astrologynotes #dailyastrology #astrologyandyoga #embodiedastrology #cosmicmeditations 🌏💫🌈
Join Renee & Zoja Smutny for a 5-day #yoga, movement, #meditation, art & culture #retreat in Folegandros, #Greece. This five-day retreat focuses on the 5 elements and how they manifest physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, and spiritually. Each day includes yoga, movement, art, writing and #mindfulness rituals with Renee. Zoja will lead afternoon hikes to sacred beaches and arrange nightly curated dinners at local tavernas. Join us for this unique experience that will integrate, and inspire, your body, heart, mind, and spirit. September 1-7, 2018 Registration and more info here: www.curatedliferetreats.com (and linked in bio♡)
Today we reach the #lastquartermoon in the #lunarcycle - the process of development from the #sagittariusfullmoon to today’s #quartermoon in #pisces is one of #mutability and #adaptation The quarter square is emphasized by conjunctions of #mercury with the #sun in #Gemini and the #moon with #neptune in Pisces. These vibes might feel like a challenge between alertness and #dreaminess or between thinking and #intuition . If it feels hard to focus your mind or attention, then look for #opportunities to open your mind through #creativity, #play and non-linear options. If you are struggling with issues of #co-dependency and #addiction, practice #meditating on #liberation and  #spiritualoneness Today wants you to tune into #energy that’s bigger than you, but which supports your unique offering. Ask for #guidance from #ancestors and #angels. Cleanse yourself of karmic suffering by releasing attachments to people, outcomes, and the need to know. Embrace the fluid and ineffable nature of life  by asking yourself, “Am I dreaming?” And then committing to seeing the #dream in the #everyday. Big love - Renee Image by @janna_dorothy