Lunar Living

[From the Beach!]  Journal Prompts:  Define the word beautiful.  Where can you add more beauty (ritual/communion with self/nature/others) to your daily life?  What rationalizations and justifications can you come up with to NOT add these joyful flavors into your day?  What does your wisest self, that has just chosen to listen to this episode, have to say in response to those convincing arguments?  Define the word beautiful again. 

Journal Prompts:  What new project/person/cause/situation is calling your attention right now?!  What might have to shift in your life in order to make room for it?  What scares you about the process of letting an old obligation go?  How would you benefit from adding a little but more flexibility to how you spend your time and energy, toward what's actually feeding you right now?

Content warning: this episode contains strong language. As a piece of our anti-racist journey, let's learn how to re-wire and purge the racism inside us through excavating poisonous limiting beliefs. I am not claiming to be an expert or qualified to talk about this topic - I am researching and stumbling and doing my best, alongside you. If you are white like I am, this is work we will do for the rest of our lives, and we are about 400 years late. In honor of the Sagittarius Full Moon on June 5th, a global illumination (full moon) of where we have trapped ourselves and others as an opportunity for liberation (sag), this is an honest conversation about how I’ve been excavating racist ugliness that’s been living inside me, inside all of us, for generations. The growing number of black-bodied deaths as a result of police brutality and hate crimes is inviting white people into a new level of honesty for change, away from guilt and denial paralysis. and The Three of Pentacles, the medicine that showed up for this episode, reminds us that it's time for all of us to play new and updated roles. Anti-Racism work is our soul work now. No more standing on the backs of black people to solve problems they didn't create. It's time to hold ourselves accountable. As for feedback, I would love to hear from white people who have taken the time to think about these topics to point out ways that I may have misspoke or perpetuated harm. Black people, I apologize in advance for anything I say here that perpetuates violence against you, in addition to the ways that I already have. You do not need to spend any of your time correcting me, but know that that door is FULLY open.  connect@meaghanoherron.com. References: Resmaa Menakem. “Racialized Trauma” FREE course on his website. Visit the pages of activists Brittany Packnett and Rachel Ricketts for more education resources.

Journal Prompts:  Name something your soul is gently nudging you toward right now that you're ignoring. What does the brain say to you in order to keep you from it? What else does it say? What happens when you accept what it says? What would happen if you denied that invitation, and chose your soul instead? Lessons on choosing yourself through the lens of the Page of Wands. Whether picking up the guitar, leaving a harmful friendship, opening to a new identity of sorts, changing up an old habit, whatever it is, courageously look inside and say: Soul, I hear you, I won't push you back into the closet today. Take the leap toward what you feel DRAWN toward, and notice the contractive brain noise as simply part of the process. You are certainly not alone in that. It happens to all of us, for every decision, always. Learn how to get familiar with it instead of consumed by it.

Journal Prompts:  Who has made you feel the most loved in your life?  Describe what that love is/was like.  What would showing love like that to yourself look like?  Lessons on love through the lens of the Six of Pentacles. Honoring. Tending. Witnessing. Holding. Growth-supporting. Love. What even is that?!?! Through the lens of the 6 of Pentacles and The Lovers tarot cards, Meaghan channels divine wisdom about radical self-honoring and tending, in your relationship with yourself, and with others. Practical tools to get you started on your own true love journey. 

Journal Prompts:  Where have you felt agitated/annoyed/hurt/bothered recently?  Who/what pushed your button?  What is that button? What wound is being poked?   How can you tend to your heart directly, the wound BENEATH the wound?   What would change in your life if you tended to your button, rather than the button-pusher?  Lessons on triggers through the lens of the Three of Swords. Meaghan discusses the importance of radical presence when we are triggered by something outside of us. How close can you stay to your heart - to the original wound - and offer the simple, healing nature of your loving attention?

Journal Prompts:  What are you seeking/desiring right now, outside of yourself? (What place, job, an ex or imagined partner, are you deeply yearning to arrive at?) What quality does it/do they represent? What are you actually seeking there?  What would change if you let yourself see that this quality already exists in you, and is simply asking for your hand, now?  Lessons on mirrors through the lens of the Lovers card. Happy New Moon time in Gemini! Learn about the ways in which we project parts of ourselves onto things outside of ourselves. What you yearn for and admire outside of yourself is simply a reflection of what is already inside of you, calling to be integrated within you now.