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Waking up the morning after the election was traumatic for many. It was for us. My husband turned over and said, \u201cthe last time I felt this way it was 9\/11.\u201d A component of trauma is shock and surprise, along with feelings of powerlessness.<\/span><\/p>\n The shock was perhaps made more surprising because it was occurring on home soil, in a place we thought we knew, in this land we\u2019ve lived our whole life\u00a0and so maybe have taken its familiarity for granted. We woke up to a new world, that day. Clearly, we\u2019d been asleep in more ways than one.<\/p>\n Waking up in America on that particular day reminded me of\u00a0a visit to\u00a0Egypt. A strange land with odd customs, faces with expressions I couldn\u2019t interpret, Egypt thrust me into raw, messy, undigested and unfamiliar life. In a taxi screaming down the highway, barely missing entire families crossing the road, Egypt felt chaotic, and terrifying. It was my first experience of culture shock. I remember balling up on the bathroom floor in tears, my nervous system overwhelmed by too many differences that didn\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n Yet in the world of Sagittarius, that\u2019s called growth.\u00a0If you don\u2019t want to grow, says Sagittarius, don\u2019t ask the big questions, and never leave home.<\/strong>\u00a0Don’t\u00a0seek higher knowledge, and don’t\u00a0expand your mind. Certainly, don’t interact\u00a0with anyone who sees the world differently from you.<\/p>\n In Egypt, I had to open my mind, look at life, culture, people, from a different point of view. I didn\u2019t\u00a0argue with the clothes required in this one-hundred degree heat (even though it was crazy). I learned to embrace being on totally foreign territory, externally and inside myself – because disorientation isn\u2019t just a physical, material phenomenon, but a spiritual one. As a traveller and journeyer, we accept disorientation as part of the price of the journey. By being thrust into the unfamiliar, we learn to expand our inner boundaries.<\/p>\n Lately<\/strong> living in\u00a0America is a study in being\u00a0on newly unfamiliar terrain.<\/strong>\u00a0Yet something beautiful is happening. Emboldened or appalled by the changes occurring, people are sharing experiences, ideas and beliefs on levels that we haven\u2019t in many decades. Misogyny, racism, the electoral college, new cabinet appointments are all being questioned and discussed.<\/p>\n Sure, it\u2019s messy, and ugly, at times, but like it or not, political upheaval is opening us up to having discussions about important things. People\u00a0are being forced to deal with their emotions, anxieties and fears, and to be adults about it. This is what it means to be alive during uncomfortable times; we have uncomfortable feelings. As passivity is looking much more like apathy, the invitation is to engage, in the way that feels right for you, but to allow your self to engage in new ways. I can\u2019t help but think that this is what it looks like to wake up from a slumber.\u00a0As many others have said, the election results have shown us to the extent we have been living in a bubble.<\/p>\n This New Moon is square dissolving, illusory, uncertain Neptune.\u00a0We don\u2019t exactly know what\u2019s next.<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019re all a little disoriented. We do know is something has been permanently altered.\u00a0We may not\u00a0know what to do, but temporary non-action is actually part of figuring out what to do.\u00a0Our consciousness needs time to process, assimilate, and that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n Yet those of us who heed\u00a0astrology know it provides a reliable GPS, giving us instructive advice for any season in which we find our selves. Astrology can be quite grounding in times like these. Rather than place our peace in precarious external\u00a0influences, by flowing with the planets, our inner compass clicks into place and we connect with our own guidance.<\/p>\n Sagittarius season always asks us to expand our perspective: read a new book, talk with a wise man or woman, take a journey, venture\u00a0outside your culture or comfort zone. You might want to befriend your inner traveller or\u00a0journeyer at this New Moon, as\u00a0cranky\u00a0or weary as they are.\u00a0<\/strong>It’s been a long, harrowing and surprising\u00a0journey.\u00a0Chances are, they are, you are<\/em>, tired, in need of refreshment, inspiration… and perhaps a nice\u00a0foot rub (Neptune in Pisces)? With Neptune’s involvement, remember\u00a0that We Are One<\/em>, that\u00a0behind all the rhetoric of ego consciousness, we all come from and return to the same\u00a0place.\u00a0\u00a0We\u00a0can hold the paradox of taking the world seriously enough to remain\u00a0awake and aware about\u00a0what\u2019s happening around and within us, but not so seriously that it undermines our basic goodness and confidence in our self, others, life itself.<\/p>\n And allow\u00a0Sag to remind you\u00a0of this very important fact: life is good. Even if you’re barreling\u00a0down an Egyptian highway (so terrified, your eyes are closed) wrapped in blankets of clothing\u00a0in\u00a0one-hundred degree heat. Even then. Because while being disoriented in unfamiliar territory is shocking, as we have these very different experiences, we eventually regard our self, our world, differently. If we can see this time as\u00a0an exciting adventure, ripe\u00a0with opportunities for\u00a0growth, that\u2019s the spirit of Sagittarius.<\/p>\n The post Sagittarius New Moon: Culture Shock<\/a> appeared first on Moonkissd by Jessica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Waking up the morning after the election was traumatic for many. It was for us. My husband turned over and said, “the last time I felt this way it was 9\/11.” A component of trauma is shock and surprise, along with feelings of powerlessness. The shock was perhaps made more surprising because it was occurring […]<\/p>\n The post Sagittarius New Moon: Culture Shock<\/a> appeared first on Moonkissd by Jessica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n