Tawny Estrella
Jan 17, 20223 min
Today’s full moon in Cancer marks an emotional and energetic release point that many have felt building for days or even weeks. If you find yourself feeling extra fatigued, exhausted, or emotional, you are not alone.
With both Mercury and Venus in retrograde currently, many patterns, emotions, memories, and people from our past are coming through. This is not meant as a punishment — rather, we are being revisited by the past as an opportunity to close old cycles, make new choices, and see how much we’ve grown.
It can be difficult to see the true extent of your growth from moment to moment. The experiences that are coming up right now are meant to highlight your deep transformation from the inside out, allowing you to see yourself where you are now, rather than holding onto outdated beliefs and expectations of who you are.
What is different for you now than before? What do you no longer tolerate? How has your self love grown? These are just a few of the areas of review that are being presented to us now.
Our relationships and communication strategies are taking center stage right now. What do you no longer wish to experience? What new choices are you making in every moment to align more and more with what you desire?
When we allow the lessons to come full circle, we see how we’ve been contributing to our own hardships all along, especially when it comes to love and relationships.
Our past experiences, limiting beliefs, fears, and traumas can often dictate the type of partners we attract and connect with at different points in life.
Every person we choose to connect with is a match with us on some level energetically. While it often takes time and space to see the lesson each soul brings into our lives, there is always something to be learned from these experiences.
When we heal the parts of us that may have matched up with others in challenging ways, we begin to attract very different connections into our lives.
With this lens in mind, now is an excellent time to look back on past relationships (whether romantic or platonic) and connect any dots you may find.
What drew you to them in the first place? What did the experience bring out in you? What beliefs did you have about yourself at the time?
Every person who enters our lives has a major role to play. This may be as a teacher, a mirror, a critical experience, a long-term partner, or so many other possibilities. It is only as we continue along our journey with them do we find out exactly what purpose they’re here to serve for us.
Allowing yourself to reflect on these experiences and discover important information within them is a crucial part to exiting old cycles. Once we become aware of our patterns, we have a choice of what to do next, rather than repeating the same thing from an unconscious place.
If people from your past circle back around this time, keep in mind all you’ve learned as you choose how to interact with them. There can be a temptation to engage quickly, impulsively, or without thinking, but this easily can open you up for similar cycles to unfold all over again.
Before responding, ask yourself:
What did I gain from this experience? Is there more to gain from talking to them again?
Has anything changed from the last time this person was in my life?
What am I hoping for from this exchange? What expectations do I have?
Is there more work to do here? Is there something unresolved that needs to be revisited in order for me to progress?
Was my previous experience something I want to repeat? Do I want to open this door again?
Is this person in alignment with what I'm currently trying to create?
This is a very potent time as we let go of the past and open to brand new opportunities aligned with our current state of being. Allow yourself to experience everything as it arises. Make room for your emotions to safely come up and be seen, heard, and acknowledged (this begins with you!).
If things feel unclear right now, continue allowing them to unfold before taking action. It’s important to make decisions from a place of clarity and grounded awareness as much as possible, especially in the current moment.
Along with this emotional full moon, the retrogrades can cloud our ability to see things clearly and can make it hard to tell the difference between illusions and reality.
There is no rush to move forward. Give yourself all the time you need to rest, recover, and process what comes up for you right now.
You are not behind — you are right on track. You are blessed, supported, and guided. Trust yourself to feel what you’re feeling, and to take aligned leaps of action in perfect timing.
Sending you all so much love,
Tawny