Be Ruthless in your self preservation

This is what a Mars year is asking to me. Self-preservation includes community while putting on your mask first. To be well, to feel your most whole and alive is a blessing to all the ways we can achieve better futures.

Podcast episode https://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-self-preservation-community--61008563

Oppression ensures a lack of wellness. It keeps the stamina low and the immune systems weak. If we look at the statistics Black people and more so women and femmes suffer of a lot of undiagnosed and misdiagnose illnesses. Society ignores and harms us based on all the foundational systemic and historical notions.

So this year alongside with your vision boards — I offer you an invitation to self compassion and preservation via a Compassion Board.

Between the astrology of the north node going into Pisces and south node going into Virgo - self compassion is the most important. It is also a form of surrender and acceptance that comes with Pisces influence. Many times this axis of signs can lean into self sacrifice and a lack of boundaries but what if we do the opposite for the sake of being loved better by ourselves and those around us?

To overexert, to disassociate, to disconnect from our bodies is not the doorway to connecting with spirit. It’s mindlessly escaping into faithlessness. I am not one to live in despair despite that there are many reasons to but this is not a privilege I sit in.

Venus in Pisces behind now until Feb 3rd can indeed be romantic, ethereal, spiritual, creative. The dreamer but also the spiritual strategist, aligned into reality, this is the year for the lovers and the yearners. Let us lean into this versus spiritual extremism and bypassing, placing people on your altar, and not connecting the magic of the mundane into reality. Ground into the human experience with the soul that asks for expansion and miracles.

Softness in the harshness of life is necessary to continue. Love deep sincere self love is worth the ongoing intentional uncovering. It’s what our activist elders said. To be self preserving means to be wilin g to go against the grain and at times be the fire and sometimes be the water both nurture and both tear apart. May we not do this to ourselves or those in our communities.

While I was journaling and preparing for this new moon (tarot reading https://youtu.be/MGPgTvc9VJ4) that just passed it came to me. I don’t want to add obligation as accountability or pressure as a goal. How can I be held in softness?

A prompting is below if you so choose: then create a compassion board. A vision board for how you can honor yourself, your inner child, and softness in this year.