Moonday Musings Week of 11/6-11/12: Break the Analysis Paralysis

If this is your first Monday Musings , welcome . We're so happy to have you here on our little cosmic voyage . This is a little astro cast to really dive into the energy of the astrology of the week and anchor into it with a lot of human first earth energy , putting our humanity at the forefront . Meaning what can we actually do with this information ?

How can we embody the lessons of the celestials right now ?

So , at the very top of the show , we always start with a wonderful self check-in at the beginning of the week , something that I personally look forward to so much , because we are constantly checking in with all these other little things in our lives that demand our attention and our focus , and it is so easy to get so wrapped up that we go days , weeks ,

months , sometimes even years go by without really really checking in with ourselves . So we use Monday , the top of the week , the top of the show to do just that .

So wherever you're listening to this , whether you're sitting , you're standing , you're walking , you're whatever it is you're doing right now , you don't have to stop physically , especially if it's not safe .

What I want you to stop right now is kind of get all the gears and all the different systems that are moving forward at their natural pace right now , bring some nice slowness and pause to everything by taking three nice and deep cleansing breaths . Take a big , deep inhale in from the bottom of your lungs .

Barely hold that at the top of the breath and exhale . Open your mouth and really allow all that air to come out . Push it all the way out of your lungs and then , from all the way at the bottom of that belly , take a big full breath in again through your nose , gently , gently hold at the top of your inhale and exhale out your mouth .

Really sigh that out , push all the air out and let's make this last breath really count . When you're ready , big , deep breath in right here , hold for a moment and exhale . Whoosh , all the air comes out .

Push it all the way out of your lungs and let your breath come back to a natural place If it feels comfortable or you feel called to close your eyes right now and it's safe . You can go ahead and do that .

Place your hands wherever they feel most comfortable or wherever they feel most called right now top of your legs , over your knees , maybe over your belly or your solar plexus , which is right above your belly button . Maybe your hands come together over your heart , maybe they're in some kind of position that feels sacred or prayer-like to you .

And I want you to let yourself in your mind's eye to a nice little scan , a little energetic scan , all throughout your body and your energetic field right now . If there's any part of your physical being that's in any pain or having any tension or discomfort right now , simply pay attention to that , bring your awareness there .

If there's anything you can do in this immediate moment to bring some relief or peace or tenderness to that area , please go ahead and do so . Or if that looks like offering yourself a little gesture , a little promise right now , maybe going on a walk , maybe going and sitting next to a cracked or open window later taking some breaths of nice fresh air .

Maybe it's scheduling into your calendar right now , little five minute breaks , schedule a handful of them throughout the rest of your day or tomorrow , schedule five minute breaks and drink water or eat a snack or read a page or a few paragraphs of a book or an article , sometimes being present with ourselves and listening to what's calling out to us from our body ,

our own physical and energetic and emotional needs , sometimes just being an observer , being a present observer and listening and receiving that information from your body , from your ethereal body , and whether it's in that moment or making some kind of sacred promise to come back to the moment later , sometimes that amount of acknowledgement makes the biggest amount of

difference . That's exactly why we do the self-check-in at the beginning of the week every week , because it doesn't have to be this long big thing on your to-do list to pause and take a breath and check in with yourself , really listen to what it is that you need right now and take even the tiniest little action , step toward fulfilling that need .

This moves us beautifully into our moon scope for the week , because the moon is representative of how we feel , in every multi-layered sense of that word , how we feel , and so , if you would , or you are able to right now , you can pull up your birth chart and take a look at where the moon is going to be transiting this week , starting Monday November 6th

through Sunday , november 12th . Today the moon is starting out technically in Leo and then later this afternoon , eastern time , the moon is going to move into Virgo , where it will stay until Thursday , the 9th , in the extremely early hours of the morning , eastern time . The moon is going to move into Libra .

It will stay there until Saturday , the 11th , in the afternoon , where it will move into Scorpio and we will round out our week with the moon in Scorpio . So if you are looking at your birth chart , that the whole the circle , like your real birth chart , and you can make note of where Leo , virgo , libra , scorpio all span in your chart .

This is where the moon is going to be transiting this week , bringing some heightened awareness , maybe increasing some sensitivity in these areas of life and potentially triggering certain aspects or traits about yourself if you also have placements in that area . So this week we do have a couple of important planetary transitions taking place .

First , on Wednesday the 8th , we have Venus moving on home into the sign of Libra . Venus is all done with its cycle in Virgo , which just felt particularly fast . I don't know , it just felt particularly fast . So Venus was in Virgo . Let's take a look . When did Venus enter into Virgo ?

I'll tell you who went super fast , and it was Mercury , who's also moving this week . Venus has been in Virgo since Sunday , october 8th , so exactly one month in the sign of Virgo , and although did we have a retrograde ? I believe that we did , didn't we ? Yes , we did over the summer . So Venus was in Virgo from October 8th till November 8th .

Mercury is moving into Sagittarius let's see here , on Friday the 10th this week and that might be happening on the late hours by the way of Thursday the 2nd for you , or it could be happening , or , sorry , thursday the 9th , or that might be happening Mercury into Sagittarius on Friday the 10th for you , depending on your time zone and your part of the world .

But we're looking at late Thursday into Friday the 10th for Mercury into Sagittarius . Mercury has been in Sag since I mean , sorry has been in Scorpio . It's about to go into Sagittarius .

There we go since Sunday October 22nd and sometimes , when you just put those dates out there , you know Venus spent one month in the sign of Virgo and Mercury is spending a few weeks in the sign of Scorpio before it moves into Sagittarius . Sometimes it really helps putting those time frames around it .

I really encourage you to check your chart or just check out what you were doing during this span of time . So , since October 8th , since October 22nd , what are some of the events that have transpired in and around your life ? If you want to take it that step further , I highly encourage that you pull up your chart as well .

It's super easy to do this in time passages , which is my favorite app not sponsored , just a favorite and pull up the transit date . So I'll pull up my birth chart itself and then I'll plug in some transit dates and take a look at , say , october 8th of this year , october 22nd Maybe I'll take a peek at another couple of dates in there .

You know , while Venus was transiting , while Mercury was transiting in the signs they were previously in , and when you take a look at what events have transpired in and around your life , it's much easier to embody the lessons that you're learning and really integrating everything that you've been gaining in your experience recently .

And this is one of my favorite ways to use astrology when we get these beautiful , hard dates like that and we can use it as a sacred reminder to go back to these dates . And again , you can . There's all kinds of ways to look and see what you are up to . You can take a look at your social media activity . You can look at what you were posting .

You can look at your engagement and the things you were liking or the posts you were saving . You can take a look at who you were interacting with and your DMs and your text messages and your email inbox . That's a really fascinating one . What did your email inbox activity look like , especially leading up to that eclipse , all throughout the eclipse season ?

It's really really fascinating to do that . And then you can also pull up your camera roll . If you have any kind of driver's app or your location sharing turned on , you can even take a look at places that you've gone . Keep it simple and just look at your calendar .

Look back at your calendar , your physical or your digital planner , and take a look at what you were doing during those dates and just jog your memory and taking this information , really refreshing yourself with your hard experiences when you're reflecting on a transit , on a , on a planets cycle , through a sign .

This is how we get our heads out of the clouds , so to speak , which we can sometimes get a little bit stuck doing in astrology and really making those hard connections to okay , this is what planets were doing . This is what those planets looked like in my chart . This is where they physically showed up .

Even if you don't know the symbols very well , that's okay . Especially if you're in that witch school . We have all kinds of reference charts available to you right now . If you need help remembering what symbol means what , which planet has what symbol , which zodiac sign has which symbol , which house means what .

If you're in that witch school , we have reference charts like that right now , super easy for you to to go on and access on the blog .

But this is what I did when I was studying astrology or when I was just learning how to track it . I would take my time and I would get my chart out .

I would take a look at my calendar and saw what I had been up to during again in this example , while Venus was in Virgo since October 8th and maybe I need to use my reference sheets and go oh yeah , this is the symbol for Venus . Okay , now I see that , and this is a symbol for Virgo .

So now when I look at this transit in my chart or I pull up the chart for that date on one of these websites or apps that I use , I can see where that was , where it was in relation to my , my planets , my placements and the areas of my life which are your , your houses .

Um , this is how you get your head out of just the study books , out of just the charts , and you make those real life connections . So I really encourage you to do some reflecting and , based on the cards that I pulled for today , I definitely think that this was some , some welcome advice .

Venus moving into Libra and Mercury moving into Sagittarius we could spend a whole episode on each of those , on what those look like , but , for the sake of time , know that Venus is moving home , into a sign that it rules Libra , whereas very naturally shining in its strengths and skills as a relator , as a connector , as a friend , as a partner , as someone who

interacts with people on so much more than a surface level and the surface level is there too , but it's so so , so much more than that and it's so much deeper than that . This is a time that our relationships can seem effortless . This is a time where we might feel really , really on our game when it comes to connecting and relating with people .

Now , with Mercury moving into Sagittarius , technically , mercury is in its detriment when it's in Sagittarius , and this is one of those planets going into detriment that I view a little bit differently than some traditional astrology , because I definitely can see where Mercury can have its struggles in Sagittarius , because Sagittarius has a very zoomed out , laid back

approach and does not get hung up on the details , because it is all about the big picture , the overall , setting our sights on the long game and the horizons , etc . Whereas Mercury is very , very detail oriented and really likes focusing on those things . But this is an excellent opportunity .

As always happens when a planet goes into detriment , this is an excellent opportunity to get out of our comfort zone , especially if you are somebody who is naturally very detail oriented , maybe even neurotic to a point . This can be a great time to get out of your comfort zone .

Take a step back , take a big look up from all those nitty gritty details that you've been so so , so focused on , and what does the bigger picture look like ?

So these are a couple of just like really bite-size interpretations of what it looks like when these planets move into these signs , and that's something that we'll definitely continue experiencing as these planets move through these new cycles .

But today I felt really really called and then it got really backed up by the card reading that I pulled I felt really , really called to focus on how , how the previous cycles went down and I think that some much needed , very well-placed reflection here is what is going to help you really open up to this new cycle , this new chapter of Venus moving into Libra

, mercury moving into Sagittarius . And then I was like , what is this ? From the Tarot deck , from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck , we pulled Reversed King of Cups , and from the Oracle of Oddities my only Oracle deck I read in reverse . Well , I read Reversals , we got Observe in Reverse . So I'm going to get really straight with you about this .

I think that there is a whole lot of analyzing going on , an analysis paralysis , some might actually say when you're analyzing so much you get frozen into that state of being and all you're doing is overthinking and analyzing , analyzing , analyzing .

If I told you to reflect on something like we're talking about today , how would you differentiate those two processes , the process of analyzing , the process of reflecting ? How do you feel those are different ?

Well , for me , analysis comes from a solution-oriented mindset solution-driven , that's more accurate , because I'm not necessarily solution-oriented when I'm in that state , but I am driven by solution . And what's driving me towards solutions so much is fixating on a problem , fixating , fixating .

Fixating on a problem , fixating on what's broken , fixating on what needs to be repaired . So much so to the point where we're not really doing that much talking about how to actually repair . We're doing a lot of saying to fix . There's a lot of this needs to improve and not a whole lot of action plans being created or taken .

Reflection , on the other hand , reflecting , is a slower process and it's not driven typically by anything . It is a state of mind and we allow ourselves to open up and think more thoughtfully . You know , let our reflection and our pondering become more profound , become more expansive , and there's not necessarily an end goal . There's no rush , there's no driver .

We are simply reflecting for the sake of reflecting . King of Cups reversed . And Observe , reversed is saying that right now there's a whole fuck like none of that happening . That's like there is a lot of expressing a lot . King of Cups reversed , we are expressing emotion . Trust me , that's happening .

There is not a lot of receiving , there is not a lot of listening , there is definitely not a lot of allowing , and so this is creating very disruptive , big , large , crashing waves in our lives , in our emotions and in our experience Getting Observe reversed .

It's really interesting because it actually made me think of maybe that naturally detail-oriented Mercury who's been so hyper-fixated on the details . What it really needs is to stop , take a break , put the pen down , sit up , roll the shoulders back , rub its eyes a little bit and just take it all in .

That's what observing is , that's what reflecting is , and I think that this Mercury in Sagittarius and this Venus in Libra cycle upon us . I think that it is an excellent turning of a chapter to get really intentional and reflect on some of those dates that I gave you , back to October 8th , back to October 22nd .

Whether you look at your chart and the cosmos or not , whether you're just kind of reflecting what transpired for you during that time , look at it from a reflecting and observant standpoint . Don't go in there looking for problems . Don't go in there looking for what needs to be fixed . Simply observe and notice and make note .

Take this information with you Now , simply file it away on your pack and step forward into the new chapter . So I think I think this is a good week for a nice big breath , some open eyes and I would probably balance any kind of overactivity out with some good earth anchoring and grounding this week while you do it .

I am so appreciative of you , my friend , thank you for spending your Moon Day with me . I hope that today's episode offered you some helpful insight , some new information , maybe even a little bit of inspiration for the week ahead . I love getting to spend my Monday with you . I hope that you have an absolutely Beautiful rest of your week .

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