I have been frequently pulling The Moon for the last 6 month. Over this period of time I have been experiencing just about every major life transition that you can imagine... all at once! Home, career, relationship, health (myself and multiple loved ones) are all in transition. On top of that I have been excavating so many of my childhood imprints that I can’t keep track of them all. 🌑 This is The Moon.

The Moon is the card for Underworld journeying, something I feel is my life’s work. When I’m able to step back and see the bigger picture, the Moon is a sweet blessing, an opportunity to examine hidden aspects of myself, a chance to see what is possible beyond my narrow definitions of reality. Much like Mercury retrograde, it gives the gift of reevaluating those things that are ready to be let go of. What needs to die so that new possibilities can be born? What would happen if you released that tight grip on how things are supposed to work out? Are there things in your life that seem “right”, but are actually holding you back from realizing a higher expression of self?

Consciously being able to see and stay present to an Underworld journey is the only way I know to get through it without doing harm to myself. It’s like when you stub your toe - the impulse might be to tighten and clamp down on your injury, but when we can relax and give breadth to our pain, it doesn’t seem so bad.

This is hard work. I keep telling myself, how can I expect to help others through their own Underworld before I am fluent in the terrain of my own? Even with that knowledge and the intention to stay conscious, it’s still *really* hard. I am currently residing in the dark part of Persephone's journey. But I’ll never forget that in the darkness is where Persephone is Queen. There is so much power to be found in our own Underworlds.