Is this enough?
cancer new moon, trusting when it's enough, and mercury meets the sun// july 12 - 18
It’s taken me nearly two full months to settle back into life and routine in new york. I’ve had to push to make things happen, re-work schedules, ignite new projects, and take initiative. It all felt so good! It was aligned with the season of summer and the rising yang energy around me. But this week I noticed something strange. In so many different aspects of my life and work, I realized the only thing left to do was wait. (ugh) The systems are in place, the offering is out there, now I have just have to commit to consistently showing up and trust in the accumulation of my efforts.
As many of you know, there is a restlessness inside me that often manifests as a need to learn more. To acquire more skills, to be constantly improving, and filling my toolbox. Although I think that aspect of myself will never fall away, I felt in myself this week a deep sense of ‘enoughness’. Instead of cramming 3 more things on my to-do list, I finish my tasks and say ‘that is enough for today’.
In a world where it feels like ‘there’s not enough time in the day’ or ‘we can never get enough done’, we create our own sense of false scarcity by constantly trying to max out our capacity.
Within my own practice and business, I am certain there is more that I could be doing. I could market myself more strategically, I could teach more classes, reach out to more clients, create more content. But I feel, for now, that it’s all perfectly enough. I’m not scrambling, I’m not rushed, I trust in the structures I am building and let that be enough.
When I started offering private yoga sessions, I took an ad out in a local services newsletter. The ad has been circulating for a few weeks now. I questioned whether it was even effective. About an hour after I questioned myself, an inquiry came through about starting private sessions… from that ad. Everything I am doing is perfectly enough.
But we have to be honest with ourselves. Sometimes what we are doing is perfectly enough, and it’s still not working. That doesn’t mean we need to panic, and do more, and prove our worth in meaningless ways. It means we need to change direction, restructure, and start again. It means we need to make a new plan, write it out, then close our laptop for the day and know in our bodies that we have done enough for the day.
As we prepare for this week’s gentle new moon in Cancer, I remind you that in every single way possible, you are more than enough. Everything you do is perfectly enough, even when it doesn’t feel like it.
In the Sky
☉Don’t forget that Mercury is currently retrograding through Cancer. Today on 7/12, Mercury collides with the sun at 20° Cancer. This might inspire an aha moment or may cause you to short circuit in some way. Take it easy. Listen deeply. Move slowly. This particular mercury retrograde season has me on edgeeee. The MTA is playing games with me every single day, and I am taking lots of daily deep breaths. Are you feeling it too? As best as I can, I am trying to let things come in and out. I am trying not to hold on to my frustration and fumbles this month. They are either lessons meant to be learned from or hiccups meant to be let go.
☾ Moon moves - This week, we will see a new moon in cancer on Tuesday 7.14 - This gorgeous and nurturing lunation wants nothing more than for us to feel at home. It wants us to feel full and warm and taken care of. Do you feel that way? If not, what are ways that you can get yourself closer to feeling more nurtured and at ease? It can be as simple as baking yourself cookies, watching an old movie from childhood, or letting yourself sleep in later this week.
Your invitation: This week, I invite you to feel full in your enoughness. Take at least one item off of your to do list each day. Feel satisfied when you complete what you can and restructure the rest of it for another time. You deserve time to rest and rejuvenate. The moon in Cancer said it, not me!!
In the Studio:
A lot of prep and behind-the-scenes work in the studio these days.
I met with some lovely astrology clients and read quite a few charts at a birthday party at the Chelsea Hotel.
A recurring theme in the astro-studio this week (that is actually quite closely related to my own musing above) was this idea of being so close to what you’ve been dreaming of or working towards but feeling still so far out of reach. I talked with clients about different ways of reframing our perspective on this, not to exert more effort necessarily, but to perhaps bring in new boundaries, take a break and come back, or find more honest alignment within ourselves before expecting external alignment.
All great and interesting conversations. Holding space for investigating these parts of ourselves continues to be a gift!
UP NEXT - MOON CENTERING
LATER TODAY!! I am hosting my first in studio yoga nidra meditation to celebrate the Cancer new moon in mid-July. I will guide us through a deeply relaxing guided visualization that allows the body to rest while the imagination plays. Afterwards, we will journal and share space to honor the dark sky! It is free and open to everyone!
THEN - SUMMER PARK SOCIAL
Join is for a fun, friend-filled summer afternoon in the park! We will meditate and contemplate the themes of summer and creativity. We will probably do a bit of journaling and hopefully be sipping on refreshing beverages!
UP NEXT - LEO FLASH READINGS
Starting this month, I will be holding 30-minute in-person flash readings for each season! This is a perfect sneak peek into your birthday month (hello LEOS!) or a way to learn more about where each sign lands in your chart (what the heck does it mean to have Leo in your 2nd house?) I only have 8 spots open per month - they will be held in my greenpoint studio on Saturday July 25th!
ONGOING - WEEKEND YIN ON INSIGHT TIMER
In addition to building up my in-person practice, I wanted to share the love and the work we are doing out in the world. Every(ish) Saturday at noon, I will offer a donation based weekend reset practice on the insight timer app!
I taught my first class yesterday, and 104 people from all around the world joined in!
Until next week! xx
Anna, You are more than enough❣️Everything you do is more than enough. Trust. And, I love that you’re doing Insight Timer … I use that app.✨
You words and offerings are so rich Anna....and balm for my soul. thank you for your authentic sharing, wisdom, guidance and transparent self. BEAUTIFUL! I have also been feeling the pull to "be enough" and to be okay with that....and in fact to celebrate it. I had been questioning myself on it until I read this today from you. Thank you! I will fully embrace it and hope to enter more flow state as a result. Light and Love your way!