Seeing Is Sowing
Today's second consecutive full moon in Capricorn keeps our eye on the prize.
Hi, doll.
Today’s post was all queued up to begin with an inspirational Octavia Butler quote. Then—classic full moon energy!—I was pulled out of sleep at 3:40am by aggressively loud, aggressively bad techno music.
Nobody expects a New York City neighborhood to be placid on a Saturday night, but it truly felt like the dim-witted brothers of A Night at the Roxbury had opened a club in front of my house. I needed sleep to be of use in my readings today, so I went outside to investigate.
My block was still, except for a black SUV idling at the corner. In it, a lone 20something sat motionless in the driver’s seat while his vehicle vibrated with said aggressively loud, aggressively bad techno music.
It was literally rocking from side to side.
Anyone in their right mind might have assessed this was not a situation to pursue further, but my policy is to treat everyone as if they are reasonable and reachable until proven otherwise.
I tapped on the passenger seat window. The guy didn’t respond, so I tapped again.
Without turning down his music, he lowered the window a crack and stared at me blankly.
“Hi,” I said, pretending to be undaunted. “Are you OK?”
He continued to stare for another minute. His pupils were enormous, and he was sweating in a way that seemed excessive even for a Brooklyn summer. Then he nodded very, very slightly.
“I’m glad,” I said, though I highly doubted his response was accurate. “Do you mind turning your music down? I have to work in the morning.” He kept staring, but I didn’t move nor drop my gaze.
Finally, he reached out an arm and lowered the volume. I thanked him and began to move away. As I did, he abruptly peeled down the street.
Should he have been driving? I doubt it. Should I have approached a possibly disturbed individual alone in the middle of the night? Also doubtful. But given everything in this complicated cultural moment, I had done my best, and so had he.
I went back upstairs, prepared to fall back asleep.
Instead, heart pounding furiously, I began to fret over the extreme have-and-have-not chaos destabilizing the city and the country. Staring into the darkness, I listed over and over the ways this chaos was spilling into everyone’s lives, including my own.
Just as I was really starting to lose it, the advice I’d recently been given for a tailspinning client flashed before my eyes: Take some of the energy you’re using to run the worst possible algorithms, and put it into envisioning your best path—the one I so easily can see for you.
Setting a timer for 20 minutes, I placed my hands on the heart chakra, breathed deeply into the diaphragm, and let myself imagine a house in nature where I thrived. I pictured kind, respectful neighbors down the road. I smelled air sweeter than it had smelled for decades. I saw electric cars parked in our driveways, and thermometers with lower summer temperatures. I saw bank accounts with enough for everyone, and none with far too much.
Still breathing deeply, I let myself envision harmony and health everywhere. In the White House, in the Middle East, in our oceans and air. Even in that fraught 20something’s SUV.
Feeling foolish, I almost stopped. Then I thought, It’s only 20 minutes! Keep going! When the timer went off, I was already asleep, my unconscious joyously filling in the details my conscious self could not conceive (though it often does for others).
When I woke, I’d been downloaded with a better sense of how to serve.
The very act of trying to look ahead to discern possibilities is an act of hope.—Octavia Butler
Today’s buck moon, so named because this is the time of year when buck deer sprout new antlers, is a rare consecutive full moon in Capricorn. This grants us a unique opportunity to deepen into its lessons of investment and integrity, and do we ever need them.
Essentially, we are being empowered to seed what we fear we cannot grow.
Especially with the Sun in safety-oriented Cancer, our increasing instability has been highlighted over the last month. We’ve lost many esteemed elders, the Presidential race has devolved into dangerous mayhem, climate change has grown even more problematic, and last week’s Microsoft disaster revealed our over-reliance on technology is rearing up against us.
You don’t need to be a pessimist to see that our way of life has worn out its welcome. Nor do you need astrology to frame the upheaval.
Even at 3:40 am on my NYC block, it’s patently obvious that our timeline has grown bleak.
One might argue it’s too late to make positive changes given the dystopia that is our present, but I beg to differ. I may advise against new-moon intentions, but full moons present wonderful opportunities to release obstacles from our paths.
Ruled by good-daddy Saturn, Capricorn is all about integrity and what I call resourcery—namely, the ability to marshal materials at your disposal to transform the world into one you wish to inhabit.
In its highest form, Capricorn simply wants everyone to have enough—and enough includes sufficient rest, room, nourishment, joy, and justice for everyone. Put simply, the sea goat has no issue with wealth, but it does have an issue with poverty.
Today’s full moon abuts Pluto in Aquarius, an aspect that prompts systemic, utopian transformation. A utopia is defined as both a perfect place and no place, so the striving for a utopia comprises a utopia unto itself. How so? By reflecting its possibility in your actions and thoughts.
Am I saying that we can save our world simply by imagining a better one? No. Am I saying that all we need is good astrology to sidestep a Trump presidency? Hell, no. Such myopia is an example of the willfully blind, arguably cultish toxic positivity that always has been the downfall of the American Experiment.
But this second full moon in empire-building Cap does fuel our dreams, not just our nightmares. It keeps our eyes on the prize, to align our energy fields and nervous systems with what we want, not just what we fear.
So take some time today to get really granular. Unplug from electrical devices, so your own energy can take the lead. Then envision the news you want to read, the environment you want to inhabit. Envision ethical expansion in every area of your life, especially the ones causing you the most stress.
Even the shit at this stage of the game could fertilize a tomorrow that is better than today.
So especially envision the ways you most wish to serve that tomorrow. If you’re not sure what your unique service should be, envision finding out. The energy of your thoughts and actions sows a better way, and seeing is vital to sowing.
“Change is god.” –Octavia Butler
Thank you for reading this, and for putting out the good word about my services.
It is my honor to see your best path, and to share this vision with you. As always, you are welcome to book a reading for yourself or a loved one, and to forward this newsletter to whomever it may help.
May we all learn and lead with love and grace.
With waggling eyebrows and slow kitty blinks,
Glad you are OK and that the music rode away., though sorry for the 20 something guy.
Thank you so much again. And yes earth sis there is a chance to change positively