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“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”

— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

The Compass is Within

Just look outside of yourself and see who’s cheering for what, and for whom, and who sees that is carrying the truth. And how many idols are collapsing every day, all the time? How many fake spiritual gurus are showing their true face?

How many distorted, economical gurus are pushing your way based on your own deficiencies?

How many of your friends have stopped being your friends because you started seeing them for what they are? And most important, you started seeing yourself for who you are and what you’re longing for and how you’re not integrating it, because you are distracted with so much going on.

There’s so much noise right now that is incredible, but within it, there’s a static noise that we can hear inside of ourselves, and that’s the one I love to be.

This week has been amazing; slowly, slowly, this new moon—it’s an amazing new moon to set up intentions of how we want to project ourselves in the big space of emotional intelligence, as opposed to trying to rely on those deficiencies by projecting into others, outside of ourselves.

Relationships serve a purpose, but they’re not the purpose. I think I learned that one the hard way. I had to find a balance between the inner and outer authority, so then we have to go back to the individual and the way we project our relationships. If we look at those cardinal points, we’ll see that the answer is there. It is in the “I”. It is in the “you”. It is in the inner emotional body and the outer projection of one’s own authority.

This cardinal dance is one that is very charged right now because of the potential that we’ve been offered at the moment.

Because we’re talking about the cardinals, let’s start with—Saturn right now in Aries is helping us define who is that “I”, the individual. And is the I the same as the ego, the perception, or is the I the full potential of what’s being projected? We don’t know yet that the ego is ruled by the Moon and the emotions. Neptune is also in Aries, and Neptune is going to help us via confusion. Keep the veil and keep ourselves in La La Land. So the question right now for me is very basic. Where am I lying?

It’s time to really look at myself in the mirror and see the places where I’ve been lying to myself—and to others, for that matter.

Then we go to a very sensitive place: the Moon, Cancer. Because we need to feel embraced and secure, we feel out of place. The environment is the first mirror—and Cancer, or the Moon, is always related to the environment. It is where the first conditioning begins: our family, our home, our early school, our primary attachments.

Remember, we carry our emotions in our bodies, and alas many times we define ourselves unconsciously by them.

The next cardinal point is Libra. It’s all about shared needs—but it’s all about leverage. If I know what I need, I know what I value. I give meaning to it, and I would know how to leverage myself in relationship to “you”.

Last but not least is Capricorn—Saturn.

-Have you done the homework?

-No? No? Well,

-what are you going to do about it?

-Are you accountable?

-Are you responsible?

-No?

-What are you going to do about it?

Because there’s nothing more horrible than being codependent on anybody else—especially institutions and society.

So, we have a beautiful Jupiter right now in conjunction to the Sun and the Moon. It’s a beautiful expansion, an opportunity to see how to seek this emotional alignment. But you see, alignment and emotions are almost like an oxymoron. Why? Because emotions are waves. They’re waves of feelings and sensations that we perceive at times. And many times what we’re perceiving is our own p