December Energies

December already!  The Holiday Season can be tough for a lot of people.  Make some new traditions of your own that add in relaxation time.  Sleep more, spend some time in silence, get a massage, find a great book, whatever really helps you relax and take time for yourself.  One of my friends has found an Advent Calendar with a different beer for each day!

If you schedule these in before what may be a stressful time, it will help you cope.  Acknowledge that you may not be able to do it all this month.  You may not always make everyone happy all the time, but you deserve to set limits on how much you will take on. Take good care of yourself this month.


Use the calendar below to help set the dates you will take some time to store up your energy.  There are some dates where the energy is telling you to slow down, Listen!

	December
1	Commit to others.
2	Open up to a relationship.
3	It’s not too good to be true.
4	What can be learned from this?
5	Appreciate how far you have come.
6	What have you created?
7	Let go of a past event.
8	What good has come your way?
9	Find an ally
10	Move with caution.
11	Lighten your burden
12	Be generous and kind.
13	Give your mind a needed rest.
14	Use your talents wisely.
15	Accept an offered gift.
16	Resolve a dispute.
17	Seize an opportunity
18	Wait for this to pass.
19	Be patient and relax.
20	An important decision brings renewal
21	Guard against pettiness.
22	Wrongs will be righted.
23	Don’t be hasty.
24	Approach with moderation.
25	Be kind but firm.
26	There is still hope.
27	Find harmony.
28	Don’t overlook a possibility.
29	This reward is well deserved.
30	Be open to new ideas.
31	Make a clean break.

Take Care,

Jessica Cross

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Scorpio New Moon - Shadow Work #5

This is the time to use your energy wisely.  Do what needs to be done and then take time to de-stress.  You can’t fix everything at once when you do Shadow Work.  It is important that you take one or two aspects that are causing you discomfort and look at those closely.

Depending on what issues you are working through in your Shadow Work, this meditation may be comforting or very difficult.  It should end with some relaxation to help you calm down if it was challenging. 

Read through the following meditation and then close your eyes.  Remember what you can of the meditation but there is no need to follow it exactly.  Let yourself use the meditation in any way you need to.

Take a few deep breaths and close your eyes.  Find yourself in a large, mostly empty room.  There are a few chairs against the wall, and a few doors leading out.  There is nothing on the wall or the floor and the room is quiet. 

Go and sit on one of the chairs.  After a few moments alone, someone enters the room and sits down next to you.  Who is it who joins you?  Do you have something you need to say to them?  Do they have something they need to say to you?

How do you feel with this person?  Try not to pass judgment on this feeling.  Just acknowledge it and examine why you feel this way.

If this person is new to you, think of what it is about the way they look, carry themselves and talk that gives you a certain feeling.  Can you think of others in your life who make you feel this way?

You may ask this person any questions you have for them.  After you have discussed all you need to say goodbye.  They rise and leave the room. 

I want you to focus on the feeling you had with this person one last time.  Now I want you to blow out that feeling on your breath.  It looks like your breath on a freezing cold day leaving your body.  It may also have a color or turn into a figure.  Even if it is a good feeling, breathe it out into this bare room.

On each inhale feel yourself fill up with peace and calm.  There is no feeling left just stillness.  There is no need to do or think about anything.  Just feel the stillness in your body.  Breathe deeply and sink into this calm feeling.  Sit for as long as you need to in this relaxed state.

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 think about, journal or pull tarot or oracle cards about the following questions.

How do certain people affect your emotions?

Are there some people who seem to drain all your energy?

How difficult was it to let the feeling go with your breath?

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Take Care,

Jessica Cross

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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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