Are you ready to shed a layer of your being to make way for creation?
Ashlesha is known as "The Clinging Star," and is perhaps the most challenging energies to handle and channel correctly. Ashlesha is in the final stages of Cancer. Cancer is the Mother of the Zodiac caring, nurturing, and freely absorbing all that ills those she nurtures. For in these final stages of Cancer is where all the toxins accumulate. This final stage of Cancer is ruled by the Naga's (Snake Gods.) Similarly, when a worn-out nurturer or healer gets to this point, they instinctively begin a smilier process of shedding their skin like a snake.
Before a snake sheds its skin, it looks somewhat bluish, and its eyes look opaque or clouded over. They can't see well during this time, and it makes them extremely anxious and vulnerable. Instinctively they become reclusive, less active, and lose their appetite until the shedding begins.
Their reclusiveness is as much for their protection as it is for anything that dares interrupt their vulnerable state. Having to defend themselves during their transformation process leads to venomous strikes.
The process of removing the old layer of skin is painful for a snake. It drags itself on rough surfaces repeatedly, contracting and expanding to aid in the removal of the old layer.
With the Sun and Moon in Ashlesha, this New Moon cycle is signally for deep transformation and shedding of all the accumulated toxins. The Sun will be entering into the Gandanta Zone (Karmic Knot) on August 13-20th to begin the shedding of the old layer and entering into its sign of Leo on August 16th. Saturn is in direct opposition to the Sun, Moon, and Mercury. You can expect Saturn to use every precious second of this transformation to prolong the process of removing the old layer.
Four planets are retrograde during our New Moon: Saturn, Jupiter, Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus turns retrograde on August 19th, making it five. This is an inward process that often feels as if you are repeatedly going over rough surfaces. You may feel vulnerable, anxious, and reclusive as you turn inward, looking at any layers of the self ready for shedding.
Mercury rules Ashlesha and is in a rather fragile state, combust with the Sun and entering the Gandanta Zone. Be mindful of your communications with yourself and others. Perhaps letting others know that you need space or solitude at this time would be preferable over impulsive reactions.
For the past few weeks, Venus has been in Leo and soon will transition into its point of debilitation in Virgo on August 11th. Take a note from Mercury and the snake. Use your voice to ask for what you need, not strike out with venomous nitpicking just because someone can't read your mind. For the rest of us, be mindful that the women in your life are under a great deal of stress, feeling anxious in a world that needs immense nurturing and, above all else, love for one another.
Mars has also been in Leo with Venus. Mars's sexual energy needs to redirect from the hook up with Venus to holding the door, being a gentleman, and finding another outlet for its fiery energy. Trust me on this.
On a deeper level, Ashlesha's intense transformation, contraction and expansion, and shedding the layers of toxins is to make way for what resides below in all of us. Kundalini Shakti. Kundalini lays coiled at the base of the spine as divine energy. This energy holds the entire balance of the universe and is the causation of creation.
Are you ready to shed a layer of your being to make way for creation or will you stay coiled in the toxins?
Love & Wisdom
Sachi
