In Balance Life

01/17/2026

🌞🌘 Namaste and Good Saturday, Saturn’s Day Morning. Moon is expressing Krishna Chaturdashi, his 14th waning tithi, and he is almost ready for his auspicious silent Dark Moon retreat tomorrow in Uttara Ashadha. We begin Mauni Amavasya today at 12:30pm until 1:50 pm CST tomorrow. Its a time to fast, meditate, and practice Mauni, silence. We can extend this practice and continue Monday during Moon’s visit with Shravana.
It’s a powerful time to rejuvenate and gain victory over our lower nature and clarity of our Dharma.
Moon remains with Purva Ashadha until 10:45 pm tonight preparing for his visit with the family in Uttara Ashadha. He fluctuates between ready and unsteady but Apas (water) is contained so emotions respond from within.

The family of planets, waiting for Moon’s arrival, have gathered in Capricorn with Saturn ruling and waiting in Pisces and Jupiter looking back and watching across from across the sky in Gemini with Rahu and Ketu defining the context. Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Moon, all in close proximity to Sun in Uttara Ashadha, begin to celebrate our upcoming spiritual focus. Mars rises to the occasion to lead the way to victory with Sun a bit tired but gaining more energy each day. The others are subdued by Sun who influences Abhiji, the victorious region of the transition region from Uttara Ashadha to Shravana overnight Sunday/early Monday morning. Venus pauses and Mercury quiets. All are attentive to Sun. We thrive, waiting for the direction to clarify, even with Moon surrendering in dark retreat. All are settling and adjusting to Earthy Capricorn ruled by Saturn. Saturn’s containment provides focus and introspection guided by the Vishwadevas (the Universal deities) as we learn to liberate in our internal world while fully present.
Purva and Uttara Ashadha create one attribute…simplicity. We turn away from unnecessary attachments, external and internal. We thrive on the ambiance of retreat within unfettered and uncluttered open space. We shrink to expand.

May we enjoin with the family of planets in Capricorn during Moon’s Mauni Amavasya attending to details and structure knowing that our most profound intentions may bring us through our potential discomfort during this spiritual growth gifting us peace, harmony, tranquility, and healing (not burning) light from Sun.
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Bath day…

(She was soooo good!)

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01/05/2026

🌞🌖Namaste and Good Monday, Moon’s Day, Morning and Moon is expressing Krishna Tritiya, his 3rd waning tithi. Overnight, at 1:55 am CST Moon navigated to Ashlesha’s Lunar Mansion aligned with watery Moon-ruled Cancer. This visit completes another soul cycle which includes a journey just before midnight across the Cancer/Leo Gandanta in Leo and Magha Nakshstra. On our way, we prepare for our leadership lessons coming in Magha while in Moon’s home, Cancer today, visiting Ashlesha influenced by Mercury.
On today’s journey, Mercury’s influence strengthens Moon’s (our mind’s) need for answers to resolve karma. We look to the serpents’ (Nagas) wisdom of Earth. Our growth areas become obvious as our search and awareness flits from intellectual to emotional to spiritual coiled like the serpent ready to slip away, shapeshift, or strike. This coil/spiral may be fulfilling or overwhelming...our perception creates our readiness and our reality!

Tonight’s Gandanta hours are opportunities to balance karmic debt and release what has embraced us to hold us captive. We may work to resolution as we enter the “leadership region” of Magha in our dreams.

Today...we receive the energies of Ashlesha’s “embrace.” This is a spiritually powerful Nakshatra. The serpent is the symbol and the rulers are the Nagas (serpents with wisdom of Earth’s secrets). These energies are captivating and strictly follow the Laws of Nature. Ashlesha is influenced by Mercury so intellect and emotions are often in conflict but are keenly aware of movement and vibration.
The energy of Ashlesha is a soul transforming experience with immense opportunity to change our perspective and opinions by questioning and burrowing deep into Earth wisdom to discover energetic gifts. These gifts help us answer our compelling karmic questions and embrace our embodiment.

Take time to break the cycle and let Moon/mind assimilate karmic perceptions to make peace with Self and resolve karma before moving on.
It may seem like thoughts generate a sense of chaos. However, as our perception shifts ( or drifts) to the practical, Moon/mind settles and releases concerns and anticipation about the upcoming Magha leadership opportunity on the horizon tomorrow.
Ashlesha brings us motivation to work hard to decipher mystical knowledge...we rely on our intuition today to guide us. The Nagas gift us with Earth’s metaphysical knowledge and our intuition helps us filter this knowledge to accept, adopt, or release.
Once we arrive on the Leo/Magha side of this Gandanta, we relax, focus on friends and family, and “rest on our laurels.” Tomorrow is a day to release attachment to past karma, giving space for it to play out in natural order.
Tonight Moon arrives in Leo, ruled by Sun in Magha Nakshatra influenced by Ketu. More tomorrow!

Contemplate to Consider:
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May Earth wisdom temper the stereotype of the Nagas to guide us toward balancing our perceptual strengths and weaknesses as we welcome peace, harmony, tranquility, and healing light.
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