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Here’s a short and sweet shadow work spread for those times when you feel something heavy hanging on your shoulders but aren’t sure what it is.

1) The Poison - The source of your affliction, i.e. the experience(s) and resulting perspective(s) responsible for your distress. 

2) The Illness - How you’re being afflicted by the poison, i.e. how you absorbed the experience(s) and how it has affected your perspective(s).

Sometimes I think it’s gettin’ better And then it gets much worse Is it just part of the process? Well, Jesus Christ, it hurts Though I know I should know better Well, I can make this work Is it just part of the process? Well, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, it hurts

Overall the first half of March has a lot of time for introspective and some harder thoughts regarding self love, chapters are ending. The 2nd half of March brings the shake up we have been needing. We shed old layers of patterns that we have been carrying in order to make space for new beginnings. Getting there won’t always be easy but it will be worth it. Push through, start anew.

March 4th: Mercury retrograde goes back into Aquarius. Rethinking our hopes and connections to humanity.

March 5th: Venus moves into Taurus-we indulge the senses and self care. Stability and groundedness in how we show love.

March 9th: Full moon in Virgo-worrying and seeking perfection, ability to conquer and ground your worries. To serve yourself.

March 9th: Mercury goes direct! Communication hi jinks subside, time to start straightening everything out.

March 16th: Mercury direct moves into Pisces, ability to handle the issues that came out when mercury was retrograde.

March 20th: Sun moves into Aries-overall tone is one of impulse, bravery, going after what you want. Rebirth, new beginnings.

**March 21st: Saturn moves into Aquarius-big shift, brings attention to technology, humanity, hopes, the impossible becomes possible, thinking outside the box for solutions. What restrictions need to be broken that are limiting our freedom.

March 24th: New moon in Aries-powerful full moon that pushes us out and into a new path. If you have been stuck, this moon will un stuck you. Time to start a new cycle.

And then Joanna Newsom said, “I believe love will always surround you, brave as a bear with a heart rare and true.”

The 13 Full Moons of 2020

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🐺 Friday, January, 10th

❄️ Sunday, February, 9th

🐛 Monday, March, 9th

💗 Wednesday, April, 8th

🌸 Thursday, May, 7th

🍓 Friday, June, 5th

🌩 Sunday, July, 5th

🐠 Monday, August, 3rd

🌽 Wednesday, September, 2nd

🏹 Friday, October, 2nd

💙 Saturday, October, 31st

🐿 Monday, November, 30th

🥶 Wednesday, December, 30th

Retrograde Planetary Movements

Uranus Retro in ♉️ : Aug, 12 (2019) – Jan, 1st

Mercury Retro in ♊️+♒️ : Feb, 17th – Mar 10th

Pluto Retro in ♑️ : April, 25th – Oct, 4th

Saturn Retro in ♑️+♒️ : May, 11th – Sept, 29th

Venus Retro in ♊️ : May, 13th – June 25th

Jupiter Retro in ♑️ : May, 14th – Sept, 13th

Mercury Retro in ♋️ : June, 18th – July, 12th

Neptune Retro in ♓️ : June, 23rd – Nov, 23rd

Uranus Retro in ♉️ : Aug, 15th – Jan, 1st (2021)

Mars Retro in ♈️ : Sept, 9th – Nov, 14th

Mercury Retro in ♏️+♎️ : Oct, 14th – Nov, 3rd

Celestial Signs

♑️ Capricorn : Dec, 22nd – Jan, 19th

♒️ Aquarius : Jan, 20th – Feb, 18th

♓️ Pisces : Feb, 19th – Mar, 20th

♈️ Aries : Mar, 21st – Apr, 19th

♉️ Taurus : Apr, 20th – May, 20th

♊️ Gemini : May, 21st – Jun, 20th

♋️ Cancer : Jun, 21st – Jul, 22nd

♌️ Leo : Jul, 23rd – Aug, 22nd

♍️ Virgo : Aug, 23rd – Sept, 22nd

♎️ Libra : Sept, 23rd – Oct, 22nd

♏️ Scorpio : Oct, 23rd – Nov, 21st

♐️ Sagittarius : Nov, 22nd – Dec, 21st

Sabbat Festivals (Northern Hemisphere)

🕯 Imbolc – Candlemas : February, 2nd

🌺 Ostara – Vernal Equinox : March, 21st

🔥 Beltane – Mid Spring : May, 1st

☀️ Litha – Summer Solstice : June, 21st

🌾 Lammas – Harvest : August, 1st

🍁 Mabon – Autumnal Equinox : Sept, 23rd

🎃 Samhain – All Hallows’ Eve : Oct, 31st

❄️ Yule – Winter Solstice : December 21st

Sabbat Festivals (Southern Hemisphere)

🌾 Lammas – Harvest : February, 2nd

🍁 Mabon – Autumnal Equinox : Mar, 21st

🎃 Samhain – Witches’ New Year : May, 1st

❄️ Yule – Winter Solstice : June, 21st

🕯 Imbolc – Candlemas : August, 1st

🌺 Ostara – Vernal Equinox : Sept, 23rd

🔥 Beltane – Mid Spring : October, 31st

Shadow work is a type of self-work that involves looking at all the fucked up parts of yourself, and coming to grips with them.

For example, my shadow work started with facing my anger and rage. Then I moved on to dealing with my anxiety and lack of friends, family and comrades. I then moved into dealing with sexual assault baggage and baggage tied to abuse.

Now I am working on handling my anxiety in a slightly different fashion, and taking all of the smaller pieces I’ve worked on and molding it into something more useful.

Dusken and Sat have written about it. TheRoseBell has a whole series on it. I know there are others here who have written on it- feel free to hook this anon up with any links you have that I don’t.

How you do it will depend on what needs to be done and what you respond best to. Set locked me inside of a big ass hole to force me to focus on it. Osiris drowned me in a river. Other variations of my shadow work have involved me asking a lot of questions about myself and my situation. Asking myself why I am acting or feeling the way I am and drilling down to the point of everything. And slowly accepting what I can, and letting go of what no longer suits me. It can take years to figure out how to reach a point of acceptance or letting go, and you really never entirely stop doing shadow work in my experience. And sometimes you’ll think you’ve got something figured out only to have to re-address that bit of shadow work a couple of months or years later.

What is it? How do you do it?

WHat is it? What is it’s purpose?

An ask

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What are some methods of shadow work?

How to shadow work: a guide

The Beauty of Pain

Ideas on understanding trauma and breaking through traumatic experiences

Shadow work tag

Shadow work involves integrating the other (lesser, hidden) aspects of ourselves in order to be whole. Don’t condemn the shadows. Understand them and know how to utilize them. Allow them to guide internal exploration. Let them be the greatest teacher of compassion and understanding.

Often the people and situations we judge are those that trigger the shadows we are trying to avoid.

To run and hide is to give power to the aspects of ourselves that we are trying to evolve past. But is spiritual evolution truly necessary? If transcending means that an aspect of yourself no longer exists, then the answers are maybe and in the right time. We are as we are for a reason. Nothing is without order. Your so called gluttony, lust, anger, and fear could be the catalyst and guide to attaining your greatest wisdom. No theory can soothe a passion away. No disciple can conquer a yearning whose source remains foreign. Know thyself.This is not only a call to know your strengths and talents. Know the intricacies of all aspects of your being. Biological to spiritual. Remain curious and courageous about discovering the underline drive behind your impulses and ways of being this lifetime.

The only way to develop understanding and true compassion is to look at the parts of ourselves that bring us shame, without judgement. Although we hide these dimensions of ourself from the world, and sometimes from the conscious mind, they weigh on our internal being and delay our personal growth. Learning to embrace ourselves and forgive our past mistakes removes the blockages and makes room for the light in us to grown.

As we traverse the valley of our inner world, we must release the “demons” we posses in love instead of turning away in fear. This is an act of mercy. Mercy does mean we justify our “negative” aspects, it means that instead of burying, denying or imprisoning these traits we choose to release them to return to the source. The love is the compassion to end suffering caused by attachments and confusion. The release allows the closure that is needed to begin a new phase of the soul journey.

Releasing our shadows with compassion encourages us to extend this mercy to others. We are in the classroom of life to gain wisdom. Along the way mistakes will be made. Our personal healing work helps us recognize the battles common to all people. We have much more to gain when we align our efforts, show love, and raise even the weakest parts of ourselves and community up.

What if the shadow consumes us? God can not abandon all that God is. If we choose to separate it will only be in the limits of our minds. We will always remain united to the source because we can’t really be separate. The fear that has been placed in our hearts is largely for control. If we explore the terrains of our inner world and get lost, we will find our way, if that is what our heart truly desires.