When I was in college, my roommates and I had a tiny black and white TV and on Saturdays we would gather around it to watch The Golden Girls. We would laugh so hard! Sometimes my friends would tease me and compare me to Rose, played by the late Betty White, which I didn’t appreciate at the time, but now I find it quite endearing. Those who have known me for decades know that I can see things from a lighter or even sillier perspective than most and yet be dead serious at the same time.
This Monday happens to be Betty’s 100th birthday
and it’s quite poetic that we also have the first full moon of 2022 arriving that
same day in the sign of Cancer. The
cosmos is opening doors for us to connect with several different archetypal
patterns starting with the Divine Mother.
The moon which represents the mother archetype also happens to rule the
sign of Cancer, creating a beautiful flow of energy to nurture what is ready to
be Re-BEarthed in your life.
We all carry the Divine Mother within us. It’s the energy that encourages kindness, love
and care for yourself and others. I can’t
think of a better way to shine a light on the mother archetype than by
celebrating the life of Betty White. While
she didn’t become a mother herself, she mothered the world at large with her loving
kindness, and the sweet joys of life that she shared with others. She showed the world how you can be both kind
and fierce.
The full moon in Cancer always opposes the Sun in Capricorn
which represents the Divine Father and so when the full moon rises around this
time each year, you can call on the mother and father archetypes to marinate in
the supportive energies that will help create something new. This could be a new sense of healing and
wholeness, something you are wanting to manifest, a new way of being of service
to the greater whole, or simply a new pattern of relating to yourself and
others.
We have also just entered a new and powerful Mercury Retrograde
cycle that moves backwards from Aquarius into Capricorn. Aquarius is the visionary while Capricorn is
the cosmic CEO that makes sure the vision becomes reality. This is a wonderful time to reflect on your
higher vision and how you can align your daily actions with what is truly
important to you. And at the same time, ask
how this contributes to the Re-BEarthing of the planet as a whole. Capricorn reminds us that in taking the baby
steps with focus and patience, we do indeed get to the top of the mountain. If you ever find yourself overwhelmed by the world’s
problems, remember that each small but positive action contributes to the collective
and over time makes a bigger difference than any of us can imagine.
Every winter this dance between the sun and moon creates the
setup phase to support and prepare for the generation of new life come springtime. However, I foresee 2022 having an overarching
theme of connecting with the Divine Mother throughout the year to heal and
restore our energy and to discover how we will be giving BEarth to a new world
in the coming years. It’s natural for us
to want to jump ahead and make plans for when the worst of this pandemic is
over, but before we can move on, the collective needs time to recover, heal and
connect with its higher values once again which will naturally guide us towards
a clearer vision.
The human psyche loves to celebrate the new but when we
equally embrace the stages of life that call on us to slow down to heal and
recover, our experience of the new is that much more fulfilling.
How can you answer to your own personal needs for healing
and recovery?
How can you in turn encourage others to do the same in their
own unique way?
There is no right answer here. It’s an invitation to listen unconditionally to
yourself and others, just like a mother listens to the needs of her children.
(Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash)
