Spirituality
A look within to our inner child; The New Moon in August
BY GARCIA AKUA
Greetings family! Sending you all love and light as we can never have too much love and light!
August was action packed with cosmic movements. The energy was direct and intense in many cases. As the Sun went to it’s home sign of Leo, we definitely felt the cosmic heat. Leo is a fire sign with masculine energy. It is regal, noble, brave and creative. Leo rules the heart chakra, bringing life to the heart’s desires, pleasures and creative energy. As Leo also influences the inner child, this energy is usually light and playful. It’s fitting that the energy lines up with the middle of summer, when many love being outdoors having fun with our friends and family. We have had to get quite creative this summer in how we gather with our loved ones. As each city reopens at various stages, we have had to find ways of complying with the ever-changing laws and safety measures while desperately reconnecting with our families and the activities we love.
The New Moon on August 18th gives us an opportunity to look within to our inner child, our true hearts desires and set goals to set your inner child free. What truly makes you happy? Despite all the changes of 2020, what does happiness and pleasure look like to you? How can you take the steps to create that happiness you are looking for? Looking to your inner child may give you some insight and clarity.
Our inner child is still alive within us. For some, revisiting the inner child is not as playful and joyful as it sounds. Where we find our inner child, we usually find our inner fears, insecurities, unresolved trauma and pain. However, it is by facing these fears we find the strength and the freedom to be who we truly are.
The Full Moon in Aquarius on August 3rd highlighted our unique talents, gifts and ideas in correlation to the greater cause of humanity. Aquarius is the opposite sign of Leo. Under the Leo New Moon, we focus on developing our unique gifts and talents. We ensure we are truly loving ourselves, inner child fears and all to truly appreciate and honour all of who we are. I often say, healing isn’t always love and light. Sometimes it’s walking through the dark room until you find the light switch. Sometimes it’s growing pains and fear of facing what happens when the pain stops. Sometimes healing the wound is more painful then the initial wound especially when you didn’t cause it but it is your responsibility to now heal it.
Uranus, the planet of change and originality is now retrograde until January 2021. It stations retrograde on August 15th, we will feel some of this Uranian energy during this New Moon phase. Retrogrades are times to reflect in whatever area of life is ruled by the planet in such retrograde. In this case, Uranus is asking us to reflect around our ideas of freedom, liberation, our future. Uranus is the planet of sudden change, electricity and revolution. It is innovative and outside the box approach to things. It also helps us to unlock our inner will and secret powers. We can use this energy to support our inner child, with our inner strength and will to come out into the Leo royal and regal light. This New Moon gives us the opportunity to take the good, bad and ugly about our lives and create a brand new story for ourselves. We can crown ourselves with our struggles, or we can turn the struggle to our success story and wear a crown of true victory. We can use the combination of this energy to make shocking discoveries about ourselves and those around us and then choose how we would like to show up with this newfound knowledge.
I also quite often say the Universe is always conspiring on our behalf. We can use the natural elements within and around us to change our story whenever we choose to. We can choose to use this New Moon in Leo to honour our inner child, to free him/her, or her to teach you all you missed out because of fear, judgement and trauma. Uranus is asking what is freedom for you? How can you use your unique energy to create and support your most inner desires for yourself and loved ones? How can we choose to show up for ourselves more? The choice is yours. Are you truly conspiring on your own behalf?