Knight of Cups

Allow me to break this Pisces season down for you: Last week we experienced an ending of a major maturing cycle. The 10 of cups can generally be considered a card of wishes fulfilled, finally getting all the things we want, feeling emotionally FULFILLED, and living the “dream”. With everything else that is unfolding, YES, we may have seen these beautiful gifts in our life, but felt challenged by the strange sensation of, “Well, now I have this beautiful Dream, why does it not feel more magical?” In fact, we may have instead experienced a bit of an anti climax if we replaced our anticipation and gratitude for these gifts, with EXPECTATION of them. 

Some of us are totally basking in the glow of our dreams! (Good on ya!! Keep glowing!) but for those of us that are a little HERKEY JERKY right now, consider this:

When we expect that we will feel a certain way (fulfilled, happy, at peace, complete) once we achieve X, Y, and Z, there can be a underlying DIS-appointment when we finally do achieve it. Our dream can be unfolding right before us, and we can acknowledge, “This is it! This is what I have been wanting and working for!” Yet, somehow, it doesn’t quite feel like hitting the jackpot. 

WHY is this? 

Well, our life has been teaching us this lesson all year. Our state is an inside job. Nothing ever “out there” will make "in here" feel fulfilled for longer than a hormonal wash through our body. 

This is good news for those of us who know how to shift state, see the bigger picture, and understand that our circumstances are just a movie projected from our inner workings in the first place. We are often not even seeing what is REALLY happening anyway. We actually see the layer of meaning that we blanket over all the players and props that show up. 

So what to do? Practice reversing the flow of your focus. Instead of looking out to see how we should feel, look in to see how we actually do. The experience is there. 

We have a whole week as a the Knight of Cups now to gain some maturity here. We may stumble and fumble with this. Practicing Awareness, Acceptance and Acknowledgment of our feelings and emotions will give us a good starting point. We don’t have to change them. Just be with them. 

As the North Node of the moon is calling our collective to expand and grow through our experiential selves, we are going to really need to turn this feeling part of ourselves on. The pain we cause ourselves and others will be the alarm bells that signal that we are operating from mind not heart, drive not pull, roles not souls. The results will be felt and tangible. 

This week is our training wheels time with this Knight of CUPS Energy. As the Queen arrives next week, we will, if we have done the work, step into our internal mastery of our emotional feeling climate, and just before the equinox, the KING will arrive and we will be able to observe ourselves and others acting from this maturity and mastery allowing pure PRESENCE (tall order, I know, but the wheels are guiding and supporting this! Growth! DON’T FIGHT IT!) 

So much love to you all, E-Motional Experiencers! 

Christina Luna