I feel very equipped to talk to you about this now because I’m going through it myself: working with the mind. And body, actually, because the two are always connected, never far apart.
And this morning I was going to write about Libra, I was going to begin writing about signs that I’ve been neglecting. But instead I’m working with the mind. My mind. And maybe these two go together since Libra IS the mind, it’s an air sign, like Gemini, like Aquarius. Air signs think. I’m a water sign: I feel. Libra balances. Libra re-balances. With Saturn in Libra, we are all up to this important work, but Saturn-style. Doesn’t always feel… nice (Libra). And yet the two, like body and mind, go together.
I need to get air (mind), get faith (or inspiration, fire) and get earth (solid) to work with the mind. Need to work the elements, especially the elements that you lack in your chart. This is easy to do: just count them up. And try counting ONLY the personal planets and your ascendent. Who are you? I am Earth, Water, Earth, Water, Water, Water, and Fire. Where’s the detatchment? Where’s the perspective? It’s hard to find. I need to find it. Now you may have a different combination. You may need to learn sensitivity or compassion. Balance, re-balance.
So what do you do when thoughts are bothering you? And you try to run from them and they keep coming. One of the best things to do is let them be there, off to the side a little. Not fighting them but not getting involved either. Ancient meditation practices of returning to the breath, focusing there, gently, never goes out of style. Unlike celebrity fashion 🙂 Try not to get involved in the story or get upset that thoughts are there. Let them be. Let them sit, the way the cats sit. Look at the cats in the room now. Do you see them? See how unconcerned they are with thoughts. Be like them. Because so much of the tension comes from fighting it. That’s where panic comes from. From fighting what is coming up inside. Be like Joy Adamson and Elsa the lion. Friends. Friends with your thoughts.
And I’ve talked about this before: that your thought is a baby in your arms. You don’t yell at the baby when the baby cries. you don’t hit the baby. You don’t insult the baby for crying. You soothe the baby. You love the baby. You tell the baby: there, there, it’s going to be okay. Whether you believe it or not. Faith.
This metaphor and this technique is the essence of Cancer, which is where our Sun is now so if you are having trouble with your mind, you can tap into this energy which is covering the earth, mother earth, mother energy, which is love.
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6 thoughts on “Working With The Mind: Sun In Cancer Advice For Moon Pluto People And Others”
this was a good post………..I have Cancer on the Asc along with Uranus in 1H……………when my someone hurts my feelings then I shut down really quickly…….and my relationship with that person is never the same after that………with my Moon in Virgo I get really tangled up….these Eclipses have been really intense for me.
Ah, redeppard, all of that is very familiar to me! Takes training to…. how to put it… work with that. Work with the shutting down. Learning NOT to shut down, if the relationship is worth saving, is important. Tangled up, yep.
I hope you find some ease… eclipsey ease…
Thank you… My mind is like a timebomb sometimes… Can’t seem to shake the thoughts and then I try to be positive but when things don’t go right I slip back into negative thoughtland… Awful place to be…
Don’t try to be positive. Don’t try to shake thoughts off. Just sit and observe your out breath, a few minutes each day, every day. With no expectation. Just, perhaps, enjoy doing something different. These techniques are there for us.
Thank you for that… I have to try to be a little less hard on myself. All I do is beat myself up… Bad… Thoughts in my head are hard to put at rest.. Omg it’s so hard for me. I love this post. Going to try to be nicer to myself and put those thoughts to the side..
Hnybr, take a couple minutes. Sit on the floor when it’s quiet, get comfortable and just observe your out-breath, exhalation. Do this for two or three minutes or longer if you want. Or you can do this when standing in line somewhere and you are waiting or cooking or dishwashing. And when thoughts come up… just… acknowledge it. No need to get mad at self. Thoughts arise. That’s the nature of the mind. But you don’t have to gather around the thoughts. Just touch them, notice them and then… return to the out-breath. No need to problem solve or ruminate. One of the most important things to remember is to be gentle with the self. Thoughts come. Thoughts go.