As we enter into August, we are still under the influence of Mercury retrograde and that helps explain some of the confusion and lack of focus you might be feeling right now. It almost seems like your very identity is being challenged and things you thought you had under control or were sure you knew about yourself, are being challenged and to some degree, torn down. Thankfully Mercury goes direct on the 8th and though it will take a couple of days to regroup, it can be done.
So, as we look at the insight for the month of August it shows that in our lives, we need to exert extra effort and patience when dealing with people: tolerating situations and to some degree, just being able to walk a little to side of the melt down line, and holding it together. But there are definitely some over tones of the “whole world is against me” floating around. As some of you know, I look at two cards for these readings, one for the day to day world and the other for the spiritual world, and the world of spirit for August, is showing us that we need to be more open to seeing ourselves differently. We are being challenged in this month to not be so sure that you wouldn’t like “such and such”. Or you wouldn’t want to go this place or that.
Often things that we want to do and are drawn to are because we have energetically experienced them before in a positive way and they fall within our comfort zone. Such as a certain place, unconsciously could remind you of somewhere you went as a child and were happy, or you saw a film of and connected with that story, or there are colors connected with the place that you like; as in oceans etc., then of course there is the school of thought that lends itself to past lives, and if we consider that, then any infinity you have to something may be something you experienced in another time and place and have fond memories or a sense of identity with it.
For many of us, whenever we choose things, it is because we can see ourselves doing it or being there. This month the suggestion is to be open to going somewhere or doing something that you have no opinion of. You don’t connect with it, but you don’t have a dislike for it: you just don’t know or feel anything about it.
Being open to things of that nature this month will allow you to expand your own personal identity. We have all known someone who did something they didn’t think they would like and found that they had a great time and there is a sense of being renewed: a wow, I thought I knew everything about myself but I didn’t. What other surprises might there be if I explore a little more.
So, this month, be open to new experiences. Allow yourself to be coaxed in to going somewhere or doing something you “have no interest in,” and just see. Perhaps, it is not about the place, but more the people or the journey to get there. And please, I am not saying if you have a dislike for something you should do it anyway, though that is not a horrible idea, but more if you just aren’t open to something because it doesn’t seem “like you,” that maybe it is, but just the you, you haven’t met yet!
Shanon