Greetings Helen and Wild Moon Compadres!

The dust has settled after the April 22nd Full Moon in Scorpio. Enough time has passed for me to contemplate and integrate as best as I can what went down during this past week's emotional roller coaster ride.

From Mystic Mamma:

"The Full Moon in Scorpio is bringing light to all the shadow dynamics that lie underneath the surface- the very things we don’t want to look at or have been avoiding dealing with are likely to come to Light right now."

Mystic Mamma sure got that right. What came to light for me were conditioned patterns and ways of being with myself and others that affect body/mind/spirit. Thanks to the Openhand community, I found the courage to release and transcend fear around health issues and align with higher truth. I received a timely and encouraging message from Archangel Raphael that deepened my awareness about how I manage stress and how these conditioned responses contribute to health challenges. The keynote of Archangel Raphael's message is to have patience as I progress and accept that it will take time to release these patterns. Patience has never come easily to my warrior self! There is a line from T.S. Eliot's poetry that has always resonated with me, "Hurry up, please, it's time."

Apart from health issues, I felt like a midwife of the spirit throughout the full moon week. Family patterns arose to the surface calling out to be healed. I have insomnia for at least a week around full moons which I resist big time and try to escape from. More surrender to come next time around. Exhausted as I was, I still managed to step up to the plate and facilitate and hold a sacred, loving space for loved ones to express their feelings with honesty, kindness, and compassion to help release and heal a longstanding, ancestral family pattern of building a wall of silence/anger/resentment/judgment rather than reaching out and expressing one's vulnerability and woundedness whilst opening to the same in others. Breakthrough was the keynote as I honoured the feelings of loved ones without judgment whilst encouraging a higher way of being. Let the healing continue. What inspired and helped me step up and facilitate a sacred space to catalyze shifts was Trinity's article on compassion, specifically her view that compassion doesn't mean we accept that anything goes and avoid confrontation around "sticky" matters that create inner turmoil and outer strife.

The week had its wonderful balances, as well. I am part of an author's writing circle with an awesome group of people courageous enough to dig into their pain and express it in their writing as I am doing. We support, encourage, and inspire one another. Ray 6 rules!

All this while the Openhand retreat was happening in Seattle. I was tuning in etherically to all the beautiful souls and energy shifts happening there. I was sad that I couldn't attend the retreat and allowed my sadness to just be. I accepted that it wasn't my path to be there. Looking back and feeling into the path of light that did unfold before me, I totally get why the signs and synchronicity pointed another way. My trust in the divine flow of benevolence continues to deepen. I am grateful for the grace bestowed under last week's full moon as challenging as it was.

Love to y'all,

Cathy