SATURN’S LESSONS FOR YOUR AUTUMN SELF CARE
Slow down, Release + Reflect
We are shifting into a new season! It may be my preferred season, as it comes with my two favourite celebrations –Halloween and Navratri (the Goddess festival that stems from my own cultural tradition)!
Autumn is the season of Vata, the ayurvedic element that gives us the qualities of air, wind, dryness, roughness, lightness and cold. Pay attention to your physical body and where these traits may also be manifesting. Following guidance from Saturn who influences the vata dosha is a good idea! (Rahu and Mercury also impact the energy of this season).
Saturn goes direct in his own sign of Capricorn on 29th September. If you’re a highly sensitive person, you may be feeling the slowness and heaviness of this transit in your physical body. He gives you what you need, rather than what you want. Turn inward, slow down, simplify your actions, take rest, create more balance and honour your boundaries. These are his lessons for the purpose of your evolution.
Are you taking care of your needs? Now is a good time to reflect on this.
Mirror the trees, look to how the leaves change colour and shed! The change precedes the letting go. Offer no resistance to what is ready to fall. Allow the baggage in your life to drop off!
Resetting through detoxing and cleansing is what is often recommended in Ayurveda as we transition into a new season. We are also shifting into a new season, a new version of ourselves, so take some time to pause and let go of an old identity.
Moving towards balance means to give yourself the opposite of the cold and dry qualities of vata, it means to offer yourself warmth and nourishment, in your choice of foods, in your relationships, in your environment etc.
In the Jyotish chart, Saturn is a karaka (an original ruler) of the house of career/professional status — amongst others. Have you given thought to what needs restructuring and change in your work life/business/offerings?
What are you holding onto that is outdated? It’s time to shed the old here and offer more of your true self-expression into the work or service you’re putting out into the world.
JOURNAL THIS
1) What are my current needs? Am I honoring what I NEED? (Look to work life, relationships, home, basic habits like diet and sleep etc.)
2) What is life asking me to release and let go of?
3) With what is gone, with this empty space, what will I grow in its stead? Write down your ideas or give more details to your goals and plans — more structure, make it more real.
4) Where am I feeling cold and dry and how can I offer myself more warmth and nourishment? (Pay attention to your inner dialogue, the mental critic, as in yoga, look to all levels of your being.)
5) What are my autumn self-care rituals for inner balance and clarity? (Commit to these for the rest of the season! Saturn loves consistency, he loves when you take care of your body!)
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YOGA ORACLE GUIDANCE
R A J A S
dynamic movement, aggression, and energy
Rajas is a ‘guna’ or quality described in sāmkhya philosophy as passionate and active. Rajas is needed to bring our desires into action and this card suggests that you are deep in the development phase. Use your determined energy to complete projects, focus on behind the scenes work! Watch the mind for its overthinking, channel restlessness into thoughts of your greater purpose. Remember to balance action with rest; otherwise you’ll lose sight of your true goal in the pursuit of achieving more. Rajas offers the energy of transformation, of dark to light.
Where will you focus this energy of ‘movement’?
Be the Warrior!
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