This week brings a huge tone shift to the collective field of reality, as the axis of Virgo/Pisces gets activated with the dance of Sun & Moon. This axis turns our attention to the multidimensional nature of Healing & Service in the world.

How do you offer yourself in service to the collective human family, that actually energizes and nourishes YOU in return? Reciprocity is the nature of true service, that creates a feedback loop of mutual care; giving and receiving in the same act.

‘Service’ in the capitalist frame can insinuate giving ALL of yourself in order to be worthy of existing — without the birthright of also receiving in return. It is not selfish to receive care, it is vital. Our human capacity requires it, if we are to truly be of service in sacred reciprocity with all of life. Reframing the notion that we must give in order to be worthy of receiving is necessary to truly be resourced and serve in the world from a place of true balance.

This is where Virgo’s self-care rituals come into play; carving time out of your day to be present with yourself and connected to your own individual experience is deep medicine, and allows us to more clearly negotiate the balance we hold internally. In a way, it is our responsibility to ourselves & others to check in and understand our own needs in this way. Virgo corresponds to the Hermit tarot card, which reminds us of the necessity of alone time, to resource our capacity and truly move from a place of resource when turn towards the world.

Just make sure your self-care rituals aren’t actually just ways to disconnect / protect your personal life experience from the larger experience of humanity’s very real suffering. If you feel overwhelmed, absolutely take what you need — however, modern-age self-care mentality can very quickly serve as avoidance of turning towards the world with real care regarding the collective human family’s experience. Self-care without collective care is only half of the picture; at a certain point, it becomes self-interested and self-serving, only. No one is free until we are ALL free. If your self-care rituals act as total distraction mechanisms from this truth, you’re missing the point. Know when to pull back, and when to continue onwards, turning towards the truth of our SHARED reality.

Saturn will be closely opposite this Full Moon, which asks us to still identify our boundaries within the larger pool of human experience. Noticing where our heart feels open to the world, and where it feels closed. Negotiating where & when its right for this balance to pulse. Making sure we don’t cut ourselves off from the larger web of humanity completely — yet also not getting exhausted from being too immersed in collective suffering that we can’t tell where our own experience ends, and the rest of the world begins. Boundaries are necessary, yet in excess, they isolate us from the larger web of collective belonging.

If you are feeling depleted by the weight of the world’s suffering, take some time to Hermit and resource yourself. Part of our responsibility as members of the human family is that we also take care of ourselves, just as we show up in service to healing others. Small acts of kindness go a LONG way — healing takes so many forms, radical and simple.

LOVE + KINDNESS TO YOU ALL <3

xoxo, Teagan

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