Taurus Full Moon Meditation - Shadow Work #4

We have come to the halfway point in our Shadow Work for this season.  How are you holding up?  It can take a lot out of you to delve this deep into the things you haven’t wanted to see. 

Make sure to take good care of yourself.  Factor in at least a half-hour of true relaxation (not TV, alcohol, drugs or other means of escape) every few days.  I know that can be tough, I’m a working mom, but you have to carve out the time in your schedule or months will go by and you will wear out. 

Self-care is especially important when you are doing Shadow Work. You need to refuel. Even if it just means a cup of coffee or tea when you don’t look at a screen or a book, or talk to anyone.  Just let yourself be.

This is not an easy meditation, so that is, even more reason to make sure your tank is full before starting.  Read through the meditation and when you are ready, close your eyes.  Remember what you can of the meditation but also allow yourself to follow your own path.

Take a few deep breaths and close your eyes.  Find yourself standing in front of a wall of vines.  Each vine is the thickness of an arm and they are covered with thorns.  The wall surrounds a tunnel made of these vines.  The vines create an archway in front of you that you can enter.

The tunnel is menacing with all the thorns but you know you must enter.  Steel yourself, and when you are ready, enter the tunnel. 

You are occasionally scraped by thorns as you proceed.  It stings a bit but it is not too bad.  Continue to move forward. 

Focus on the beauty of the green vines around you.  Ignore the rare discomfort of the scrapes.  See the sunlight through the vines and the green glow they send through the tunnel. 

You find that your clothes are occasionally torn by the thorns.  Small pieces of fabric are ripped away.  Let them go.  You begin to feel cleansed by your trial through the tunnel of thorns. 

This tunnel is long.  Eventually, you see some brighter light and you are almost sad the ordeal is coming to an end.  You feel lighter and refreshed by the process you have undergone. 

You exit the tunnel into a bare meadow.  The sun beats down hard onto the ground.  You lay down on the grass to recover. 

Feel the lightness and clarity of this experience.  Now that it is gone, can you identify some of what was cleansed away from the tunnel?  What did you need to let go of?  What were you unwilling to part with easily?  Are you willing to bear the pain for the clarity it has unveiled? 

Don’t grasp onto the things you have released or you may draw them back to you. Just identify them and try not to connect too many emotions on to them.  Take a few more deep breaths and enjoy this feeling of renewal. 

When you are ready begin to hear the sounds around your physical body.  Wiggle your fingers and toes. Open your eyes.

Take some time to journal or choose tarot or oracle cards on the following questions to gain more insights.

1 – What do you need to let go of?

2 – Are you strong enough to withstand the pain of letting go?


3 – What can help you cope with the pain?

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Take Care,

Jessica Cross

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November Energies

The air here is getting crisp and I have started making lots of soups.  I love this time of year.  I have an excuse to get cozy at home at night but many of the days are still warm and sunny in my part of the woods.

Have you been doing your Shadow Work with me?  I hope so.  I like this time of exploration of my psyche.  It makes me feel refreshed and ready to take on the world in the Spring.  Check out my last few posts for Shadow Work meditations.


The energies of November seem to be leading us to deal with problems and release old patterns.  I hope you have a wonderful month and work with the energies to make it awesome!

	November
1	Divide the problem into sections.
2	Make a rational decision.
3	Release an old obsession.
4	Find a focus.
5	Don’t underestimate someone.
6	Don’t show off.
7	Relationships are more important.
8	Be willing to trust.
9	Be gracious in triumph.
10	Be patient in the moment.
11	Stop being stubborn.
12	Let things run their course.
13	Whose footsteps are you following?
14	Design your plan.
15	Look for Lady Luck.
16	Some choices can be remade.
17	Create your own path.
18	Face unlikely odds.
19	Waiting is worthwhile.
20	Celebrate your harvests.
21	Get things started.
22	Concentrate on a task.
23	No need to demand.
24	Prepare to succeed.
25	Consider others opinions.
26	Let go of useless action.
27	Accept a setback.
28	Think of a solution.
29	Share your time.
30	Be different but ethical.

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Take Care,
Jessica Cross
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New Moon Meditation - Shadow Work #3

Shadow Work meditations can be intense.  This is the third of this Shadow Work series so they are starting to delve deep into who you are. 

We can often feel controlled and defined by strong emotions.  This can hold us back from taking the actions we want to make changes in our lives.  This meditation will explore a feeling that may be trapping you. 

If at any time this meditation gets to be too much, stop and you can always try it again at a later time or with a feeling that is not as intense.  Take good care of yourself in this process and remember to seek help if this is too overwhelming alone.

Take a few deep breaths and close your eyes.  Find yourself in a pine forest with a soft breeze blowing.  Smell the pine and hear the crunch of pine needles under your feet.  The forest is dark and cool. 

You see a hooded figure up ahead walking through the forest.  Walk towards them and they greet you with a nod.  Ask where they are going and they wave for you to follow. 

Your guide walks through the forest until they come to a small cluster of rocks.  The rocks form a tiny cave just large enough for one person. Your guide waves for you to enter. You crouch down and sit just inside the mouth of the cave as it is not very deep. 

Your guide begins to collect sticks from around the cave. Your guide stands the sticks up in front of the cave like a makeshift door.  The sticks are light so you know that you can push them to exit the cave at any time.  The sticks are also not too close together, so they make the cave darker but some light still filters in. 

You sit in the darkness of the cave and feel the cool air around you.  The air seems to breathe with you. 

As you sit with your eyes open in the cave, colored balls of light appear briefly in front of you.  Watch them for a bit, until one seems to persist and solidify.  Reach out to touch the ball of light in front of you.  A feeling seeps into your body from this ball of light.  When have you felt this feeling before? What does this feeling make you think of? 

Try to feel this feeling while letting go of the situations in the past that made you feel this way.  There is nothing you need to do or fix.  Just have the feeling.  Where does it reside in your body? Is the feeling bearable without feeling you have to act on it? 

Does this feeling define who you are? Is it the only way you can feel?  Imagine when you have not felt this way? Recognize this feeling as one of many you can experience.  When you are ready, I want you to push this feeling away and watch the ball of color fade away into the cave.

Take a deep breath and clear the sticks away from the door of the cave.  Your guide sits by a campfire in front of the cave.  Your guide reaches out their hand to you.  Sit next to your guide and take their hand.  Feel the love and pride your guide has for you enter your body.  This guide has given you an ordeal and you have completed it.  Feel your body release any tension from the cave as the love of your guide fills you up.

Silently thank your guide with a nod as you stand.  Release your guide’s hands as they nod back to you.  Walk back through the pine forest away from your guide.

When you are ready, begin to hear the sounds around your physical body.  Wiggle your fingers and toes and open your eyes.

Take some time to journal or pull oracle or tarot cards to explore the following questions:

How do feelings control your thoughts and actions?

Are you able to sit with difficult feelings without needed to change them?

Do your feelings define who you are as a person?

Take Care,

Jessica Cross

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Shadow Work Meditation #2

We are fully in the season of Shadow Work.  It is time to dive deep into the thoughts and beliefs that are holding you back.  Sometimes those issues are clear to you although you may not be sure how to work through them.  Other times you have hidden the root of the issue even from yourself.

In either case, this second installment of Shadow Work Meditations will help you explore these issues.  Be gentle with yourself.  If you have mental health issues or severe trauma in your past you may want to do this work with a therapist that you reach out to.  If these meditations become overwhelming, you are in control and can stop the meditation at any time.  Take things slowly, there will always be time to delve deeper when you are ready.

Take a few deep breaths and close your eyes.  Picture a dark pool in front of you.  The moon is covered by clouds so there is a diffuse light shining down.  The water in the pool looks black.  You are a bit afraid to approach the pool. 

Soon you are joined by a small guide.  This guide is you as a child.  This guide takes your hand and pulls you closer to the pool.  You are less afraid with your little guide joining you.

Get down on your knees so you are eye level with your guide.  Your guide does not say anything but they look deeply into your eyes.  Take this time to deeply connect with this part of you with no words needed. 

Your guide then waves at the pool and you take a deep breath.  When you are ready, look into the mirror-like black water.  There may be a picture or a memory that appears in the water.  Watch it as if it was a movie. 

This picture or scene may bring up emotions for you, but it is just a story you are telling yourself.  Try to consider if there are other interpretations of the emotional story you connect with the picture.  Try to step away, even for a moment, from the interpretation you have always had of this story or picture.

Memories are seldom accurate. Open yourself to the possibility that your view of what you are seeing has been clouded or changed over time. 

If you have a feeling or worry that appears in the water that is fine.  Explore this feeling and consider why it is arising.  Again, consider that your default interpretation of this feeling or worry may not be the only option.

When you are ready, look away from the water and turn back to your guide.  Look in your guides eyes again and feel the overwhelming love from this being.  They are there to support you and appreciate all you have done to allow them to grow up.  Let this love calm you if the memories or feelings from the pool were strong and painful.  Let your guide see that you have survived and grown stronger.  Take one last deep breath and feel bathed in the love from your guide.

When you are ready, stand up and release your guide’s hand, knowing they are always there for you if you need them.  As you and your guide walk away from each other enjoy one last wave.  Then begin to hear the sounds around your physical body.  Wiggle your fingers and toes and when you feel ready.  Open your eyes.

Take some time to journal or pull some oracle or tarot cards for further insight:

What emotions arose from this meditation?

What alternate interpretations did you consider?

How could your default interpretation of a past situation keep you from moving forward?


Take Care,

Jessica Cross

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October Calendar - Shadow Work

I can’t believe it is already October.  This is the time when I slow down and start to do more work on myself.  I take the Fall to explore what may be holding me back and the secret emotions I’m ignoring.  This is all Shadow Work.

I will be sharing Shadow Work meditations with you on each New and Full Moon over the next few months.  If you missed the first Shadow Work meditation, check it out HERE.

Time your Shadow Work with the natural energies of this month.  I hope you have a great month and don’t be afraid of your Shadow.

	October
1	Do something new.
2	Follow a spiritual path.
3	Change something uncomfortable.
4	Trust yourself.
5	Everything makes a difference.
6	One step leads to the next.
7	Create joy consciously.
8	Still your mind.
9	Self-love opens your heart.
10	Learn from this experience.
11	Make room for something new.
12	Listen to inner wisdom.
13	Express what you feel.
14	Control your shadow.
15	Test your ideas.
16	Do more than expected.
17	Take charge of the situation.
18	Get back to the basics.
19	Look at alternative views.
20	Manage your resources carefully.
21	Make an important decision.
22	Tap into inspiration.
23	Questions authority.
24	Make the most of resources.
25	Face your self-deceptions.
26	Find a way to relax.
27	Weight the potential rewards.
28	Bring about order.
29	Celebrate a completion.
30	Be ready for a shock.
31	Let your dreams lead the way

Take Care, Jessica Cross

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New Moon Shadow Work Guided Meditation

We are just starting to edge into the autumn and I am already hearing the knock of Shadow Work. For those of you are new to Shadow Work, it is a way of looking at the aspects of yourself that you try to keep hidden. These can often keep you from moving forward.

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Use this meditation to begin looking at your shadow and see what information you receive.

Take a few deep breaths and close your eyes. See the darkness in front of your eyes. How do you feel in the dark? What sensations do you have in the dark place?

Feel a presence near you. They are also dark and clouded. They are a guide who has come to lead you into your shadow. They are not a light and happy guide but you do not feel afraid of them. They are there to help you.

Move with your guide further into the shadow. In a small crevice, you come upon a being. This being is an uncomfortable feeling you have been having lately. What is that feeling? Where does that feeling arise from?

Can you reach out to this feeling without judgments? Can you see it as a part of you and embrace it? This feeling is a culmination of many experiences in your life and is not something you need to push away. Do not suffer because you feel this way, accept that this feeling will come and go. Understanding where the feeling comes from may help you have compassion for yourself in feeling this way.

Just sit with this feeling for a while and acknowledge it. Make friends with your feeling.

Does this time just sitting with your feeling and examining it give you a hint on what would calm this feeling? What would make you feel more comfortable? Give a final hug to this being and join your guide again.

If you feel like you have the energy you can follow your guide to visit another feeling. If not, you have done enough for now and allow yourself to return to your physical body. Hear the sounds around your physical body. Wiggle your fingers and toes and when you feel ready, open your eyes.

To explore deeper think about or write down answers to the following questions:
What feeling did you visit?

How did it feel to sit with this being?

Did you gain any insights into this feeling?

Are there any changes you could make to calm this feeling?

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