I've been going through another molting phase during this full moon fire season, in the midst of the potent astrology that is amplifying our collective shift. It's often not easy to find my voice from the middle of the gooey cocoon. It can be easier to wait until I'm on the upswing, out of the cave, and speaking from my triumphant, inspired nature. But I love the challenge, and I know that, for me, speaking from the hidden spaces always leads to greater integration. And while, yes, I do have a lot of authentic Jupiterian energy in my being (expansive, inspired, hopeful, triumphant), I have realized that one way I've carried split energy in my being is by hiding the other half (the vulnerable, soft, afraid part) even to the point of attracting people into my life who have mirrored that split - who love me for my positive, grounded, strong, emotionally resilient nature but would rather not get involved with the part of me that needs to soften, fall apart and receive grounding from another. It has been a profoundly humbling revelation to recognize how I've perpetuated my own split nature by continuing to feel shame about and hiding my vulnerable self. Walking a truly embodied journey of awakening, for me, has been about completely obliterating that false spiritual principle that liberation means transcendence. My experience is that every time I've truly shifted a pattern, shed a skin, unwound a layer of karma, and found the freedom to step into a radically new way of being, it has come from fully integrating and embodying the very pattern I was resisting. This doesn't happen all at once. It occurs in alchemical stages. 1. Disentanglement from the pattern through stabilizing neutrality (nervous system regulation & differentiation) 2. Re-engaging the pattern with conscious choice, and staying steady through the growing contrast (re-patterning) 3. Achieving a state of Unity Consciousness with the pattern, so that it is no longer subtly pulling my energy in a split direction, but can now lend its energy to the whole (expanding/identity evolution)