FULL MOON LUNAR ECLIPSE // YOUR PERSONAL POWER & THE POWER OF YOUR PATTERNS

Most of us are deeply unaware of how much our 2nd Chakra impacts everything in our lives. Our 2nd Chakra is home to our emotions, our subconscious and primal desires, the seat of our sexual power and our individual expression. 

This part of our body also carries deep patterns, and any wounds that have been stored here come out yelling and screaming (usually being thrown at others) until we bring our awareness to them and take appropriate action as a result.

Enter the Lunar Eclipse.  The Moon, also home to our subconscious and emotional selves is Full, which provides additional ILLUMINATION into the parts of our bodies or lives that have been suppressed or shoved into the shadows: and during this time, if you haven’t done work to heal these shadows, it’s highly likely that this suppression of surrounding any unresolved secrecy or shame will be amplified during this time and come up to rear it's head. 

But the 2nd Chakra is also the home of your personal power.  In Sanskrit, the word for the 2nd Chakra, Svadisthana literally means “one’s own abode”.  

Because the thing is, we all experience conflict.  Pain, trauma, shame.  We've all got our shit.  Life isn't meant to be free of chaos and conflict, the chaos and conflict is there to carve you into who you are and you are meant to claim your power from the conflict that’s been created here.

Without conflict we can’t learn, grow and transform.   And when we look at patterns in our bodies, nervous systems and minds, most of these conflicting patterns are created in our younger years, and Svadisthana is no different. 

Psychologically this chakra develops in adolescence, and we create conscious or subconscious patterns of self defeating behavior or disassociation because there was something that happened to us during these younger years that was just too uncomfortable or painful for us to face.

So then we go through life ignoring the pink elephant in the room, hoping that if you just keep closing your eyes and pretending it’s not there that it will go away.

But this Eclipse is showing you the pink elephant, it’s showing you that it’s real, it’s showing you how much it affects your life, and it’s giving you the opportunity to take away it’s power over you as you reclaim your own.

The most important thing to know about Eclipses is that they ECLIPSE one part of our awareness so that we may gain insight into what needs to be made conscious.  

This Eclipse is giving you the opportunity to witness a problem so that you can bring about a solution that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.   

Because she says it so well, here's Astro Babe Chani Nicholas’s words on it: 

“We can know all of our emotional patterns. All the triggers that trigger us. All the spaces that are unsafe for us. All the ways something can get stuck in us.

We can do all the therapy. Read all the books. Go to all the groups and still need schooling. Still be struck with an insight that floors us. Cracks our hearts wide open. Knocks the wind right out of us. Knowing is one thing. Feeling is another.

That’s what eclipse season is for.

Occurring near the south node of the moon, a point that is associated with emptying out, releasing and letting go of the old, this eclipse is pointing towards the emotional patterns within us that need to be made conscious. Known. Felt.

This is a time of great vulnerability. A time where much gets exposed in order to be let go of. A full moon is a time of fruition, the apex or fulfillment of an intention. A south node lunar eclipse is both the realization of something in our lives, and the illumination of what gets in the way of future fulfillment.

Eclipses are a time when the most subtle of our issues get magnified. The ones that hide behind larger, more obvious issues. Eclipses are a time when we witness what lives in the shadows. The aspects of self that feel unloved and unloveable. Neglected and not worth paying attention to. Forgotten and forgettable. South node eclipses are a time when old stories lines return. Asking us to revisit and re-experience feelings we forgot existed, feelings embedded deep inside the tissues of the body of our lives. 

We might feel frustrated. Foolish. Afraid that we are back at this place. Reliving this issue. Revisiting this pattern. But our healing process is non-linear. Nonconforming. Nonjudgmental. It feels no way about bringing up something that we thought we solved long ago.

Our healing process knows how to call us out. Knows how to call us in for our next healing initiation. Knows how to call us by our real names.

Our job is to answer the call.”

The immediate effects of an Eclipse aren’t felt for a few months, but the impact of the lack of light, has a huge affect on the Earth and on our bodies.  It penetrates our psyches and opens up what’s been under lock and key.

The most important thing I can stress about Eclipses is that whatever happens, however you are involved, YOU ARE INVOLVED.

So let’s say someone gets angry at you.  Let’s say you get angry at another.  Let’s say someone displays behavior that you think is completely uncalled for.  It’s easy to place blame.  It’s easy to say it’s not your issue, that they flew off their rocker or whatever your default response towards them would be.  

Your invitation here is to LOOK DEEPER into what is presenting itself to you, to objectively bring your awareness to a pattern that is emerging.  

It’s true, emotions are hot right now.  So eruptions might happen.  Ideally if you have an idea of what’s going on cosmically (aka what this Eclipse is about) it will help cool the tensions that might arise.  But regardless, I’ll repeat it again: if you’re involved, there is a reason you are involved.

This Eclipse, it’s your job to answer the call. To be real and accept your responsibility in the situation.  Take away all blame and be objective about it.  How have you been acting?  What’s been driving your operating system?  What are your own patterns?  How do you disassociate?  Where do you place blame or call yourself a victim?  What do you feel shameful about?  Where do you lack belief in yourself or your personal power?

Because Moon and this Eclipse are presiding over the 2nd Charka, they greatly have to do with relationships.  So what’s unfolding in your relationships?  Are there patterns emerging that you didn’t have the ability to perceive before?

This Moon and this Eclipse will provide some real come to Jesus moments when it comes to our subconscious patterns. 

Our bodies are essentially walking patterns of energy, the primal response of our nervous systems drives our behavior unconsciously so much more than we realize. 

A helpful thing to look at is your patterning through the behaviors that manifest through your nervous system.  The easiest thing to tune into is, what’s your pattern: FIGHT, FLIGHT OR FREEZE?

When you get triggered emotionally, when you 2nd Chakra shame shows up, do you get angry: do you yell or fight?  Or do you run, do you flee to avoid what’s happening?  Or do you freeze up, with words being hard to come by, your body numbing out or disassociating from what’s unfolding?

Mine is to Freeze.  As a kid I went through so much Fight and Flight that my body couldn’t do it anymore, so I went into Freeze.  This pattern affects me deeply, and used to paralyze me completely.  Stress from work would shut down my whole body, any discomfort I felt in my body I sought to numb out, and arguments would verbally shut me down, but over time I became aware of this pattern and once I became aware of it, I became able to work with it.

Similarly, with this Eclipse, these moments are arising for you to become aware of and BREAK patterns.  And yes, I'll be real: failure to do so will just keep the patterns repeating until you choose to do something about them (... and who wants that)?

Because this is an emotionally charged time, a very practical tool to help balance and calibrate the energy of the body is Breath of Fire.  If you want to learn how, join the private FR Facebook Group where I’ll provide more insight on how this ancient yogic technique helps break patterns and re-balances your body. 

Sometimes it’s helpful to remember, we’re all just humans.  We all have our issues.  Eclipses help us work through them if we have the awareness and drive to do so.

This Moon says: break the pattern, own your power, you are up to you, do what you need to do.

ACTION ITEMS // Tune into your patterning, do you know your default pattern (fight, flight, freeze)?  Do you know what patterns are emerging for you to witness and heal at this time?  What personal power is waiting to be revealed underneath the chaos or conflict?

Insight without action is meaningless, so apply this awareness to BREAK THROUGH the subconscious patterns that keep you from your personal power.

With love,
Ashly

You can get your Full Moon Playlist HERE.

LEO & THE LIONESS

Leo is fierce, sensual and highly instinctual.  Leo’s typically have huge beautiful mane’s … literally, all the Leo's I know have big thick beautiful long hair.  My sister and my best friend are both Leo's and in addition to their hair flair, they're also incredibly charismatic, funny and insanely intelligent ... and what I love the most about both of these women is that their intelligence isn’t limited to intellect. 

My sister is super dyslexic (and like me) math is really hard for her.  But she’s one of the smartest, most creative and driven women I know.  She picks up languages in a snap, she’s an animal whisperer, she has a farm, she runs a barn, she welds, she’s a Mama to two (and twentyish (?) more if you count all the animals she cares for with love) and despite her lack of proper grammar, she’s writing her first novel (and it’s insanely good).

My best friend on the other hand has an incredible intellect, and truly has the best brain I know.  She also has extremely high emotional intelligence, can talk to anyone (so can my sister for that matter, Leo’s are very well versed conversationalists) and has successfully been successfully navigating a progressive kundalini awakening for the past few years.

She has access to an incredible reservoir of energy, creativity, and vision, and what’s more, she can express her ability to grasp large and complex topics (anything from financial algorithms to cosmic topics) in a way that other’s can understand with a sense of ease and awe.

Each Leo expresses her instincts and sensuality in her own unique way: for some it’s by being absorbed in nature, for others it’s an almost otherworldly ability to connect with animals, some have a very loud personal expression while others are incredibly talented athletes (many are a combo of these traits). 

The shadow side is that Leo has access to so much sensation and instinct that sometimes it’s overwhelming and so sometimes Leo tries NOT to feel - which can result in numbing out with food, booze, sex or substances.

Something else I’ve witnessed from the Leo’s in my life is that they have an incredible ability to seduce.

This seduction isn’t always intentional (sometimes it’s badly misinterpreted from those on the other end) … but what is so alluring about Leo’s is her instincts and that her ability to communicate what arises from those instincts.

She lives and breathes from an instinctual, sensual place, which is an incredibly attractive quality.  It’s something that others sense and also respond to instinctually.  

What's more, is their charisma and instinctual natures are NATURAL expressions of who they are … which lends them a sense of comfort and confidence with who they are and and what they want, which is also, incredibly attractive.

So: you might be thinking, that’s great Ash, but what’s all this Leo jazz got to do with me?

Well, the reason I’m sharing about the qualities of these Leo ladies is because these are some of the energies that you may want to cultivate more of in your life right now, they may speak to you and draw something out that says, “ahhhh yes, that's something I want too"! 

And all attractive qualities and seduction aside, the other thing these Lioness ladies have in common is that they take swift and determined ACTION. 

Just like the lion, the see what they want, they have a tenacious edge in not only going after it, but getting it.  Leo is also a fire sign and these are all qualities that you may want to draw on over the next month as you ignite your own inner fire.

Fire in our bodies corresponds to our Solar Plexus, the 3rd Chakra or source of our personal power, our WILL or where we take action from a place of alignment.

Fire is the fastest path to transformation but if this fire isn’t tended to, it can lead to a tendency to try to do it all, which can lead to burn out.

A huge issue with “transformation” is that a lot of people keep chasing things that they want without truly slowing down to TAKE ACTION to implement lasting, sustainable changes into their lives. 

Leo is driven by instincts and action.  Leo knows there is a time to lounge and a time to pounce.

Basically Leo doesn’t fuck around.  Leo get’s to the point and get’s it done. 

Leo says, you want results you gotta do the work. 

So look at your to-do list. 

What’s been on your mind for some time, what’s been eating your energy, what’s been draining you in terms of what you “should” do?  

Leo uses her instincts to guide her action, so take some time to reflect on what you want and how you really want to FEEL. Take action based on what will support that FEELING.

Some feeling based examples ar: strong, sensual, free, powerful, expressed, confident, radiant, energized, devoted, sacred, soft, fierce, abundant, calm, etc.

Take anything off your list that is a “should” or anything that doesn’t need to be done to support that feeling right now.  Literally cross that shit off. 

It’s easy to get stuck in the ongoing cycle of gathering information, tools and techniques but not actually APPLYING THE ACTION NEEDED to create the change / breakthrough / transformation we need.

Now, with laser beam focus, choose the ONE THING that you want to take action on.  What’s the one result you are READY FOR in your body or your life? 

And this month, get really real and REALISTIC with making it happen.  Choose this one thing, knowing that igniting positive change here will create a cascade of positive change in the rest of what's ready to alchemize for you.

Leo can light a fire under your ass but it’s got to be a sustainable burn, so be realistic and implement sustainable change.  

#1 How do you want to feel?

#2 What do you need to do (daily or regularly) to feel that way?

It could be breath work for 30 seconds to help deal with stress, it can be working out 3x a week to gain strength, it can be consciously crossing things off your calendar so that you can use that time for creative or sensual expression.  

It could be practicing getting sensual to your fav music while you get ready in the morning, meal prepping once a week to make sure you have healthy choices for nourishment, or leaving a toxic relationship.

THINK OF THE ONE THING THAT YOU NEED TO GIVE YOUR DEVOTION TO in order to be who you want to be.  The one thing you need to do now.  The one thing you can’t afford to wait on.

Hone in on what it is and use Leo’s fire to take action and transform. 

Then literally, plan ahead and prepare on HOW and WHAT you will DO to TAKE ACTION.

New Moon’s represent NEW BEGINNINGS. So use this to plant a seed of intention, tend to it, nourish it, stick with it, have patience and one day your seed will bear the fruit of your action, and know that energetically all of August lends us an opportunity to access Leo’s edge.  

If you are ready to call on the Lioness when it comes to activating your feminine instincts: to feel sensual, confident and at home in your skin then STAY TUNED FOR A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! And make sure you are signed up for the newsletter because everyone on my love-list will get first dibs!

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Jai Ma,

Ashly

Why Investing in Yourself Is Directly Connected to Your Personal Power

I’ve had a lot people complain about the cost of my upcoming OYoga Workshop, which is a perfect example to speak on investing in yourself and how choosing to invest in yourself is directly connected to your personal power.

What it comes down to these 3 things:

1. If you want something bad enough, you know you *need it bad enough, you’ll make it happen.

2. If you don’t want it or need it enough, you’ll say you do but won’t do anything about it.

3. You’ll blame everything and anything, come up with any reason to NOT to the thing you need to do the most.

If you aren’t willing to invest in yourself, you are sending a message to the universe (whatever your beliefs may be) that you aren’t willing to do what you have to do to say YES to yourself and stand in your power.

Because if you are ready for something, if you commit to it and say YES, the universe will literally conspire to make it happen for you. I’ve seen this happen time and time again with my clients, friends and colleagues.

Take my best friend: she's a single mom of 2. She KNEW she had to work with this one coach. It was a fully body immediate yes. She said yes and manifested $20K. Thats TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS that she didn’t have that came to her by way of standing in her power and declaring YES this is what I need and this is what I’m doing to do to do it.

I’ve had clients who had investments come to fruition at the right time, who cleaned out the closets and took stuff to the consignment store, who stopped getting Starbucks daily or stopped going out or eating out to direct their finances towards coaching with me.

And I GET IT. There are bills to pay, kids to feed, expenses that come up.

But all too often, the BIGGEST reason women give for not doing the work, showing up for themselves, and getting the tools they need to move on, heal, thrive and grow comes down to money.

“My husband says not now” … “I feel too selfish because that’s money that could be going towards the kids” … or the most heartbreaking, "I don’t feel worthy enough to say THIS IS WHAT I NEED."

Coaches who charge big rates usually do so because it reflects the amount of transformation and breakthroughs that come from working with them.

All the powerful life changing things I've I’ve said yes to have had big price tags (yoga training, therapy, biz coaching, the list goes on) and everything I’ve said yes to has provided me with massive results.

I would NEVER be the woman I am if I hadn’t seriously invested in myself.

These investments provide me with the opportunity to be seen, held, understood, pushed and supported.

And I really hope you get that this post honestly isn’t about my workshop, because I have the tools, I know they work, I know they change bodies, lives and create inner strength. I know what I offer and I stand by my work.

So if my workshop speaks to you, that’s great. And if it doesn’t: WHAT DOES?

What is that thing that you have been thinking about or knowing deep down that you need but haven’t been willing to pull the trigger to say YES or fully admit to yourself that you need it?

Because this is the truth Buttercup: not investing in yourself financially is an excuse for not *investing* in yourself.

Yes there is so much you can do on your own, learn, grow, read, and get help or handouts when you need them.

The problem is when we come to RELY on help and handouts. When we won’t agree to grow unless someone gives us a discount. And the bigger problem really, is that there is only so much we can do on our own.

We NEED other people to see us, guide us, hold us up, show us the way, lend a perspective we haven’t been aware of. We need to be able get out of our own way and have other people tell us how it is.

Whether it’s, "hey, you’re okay, hey you’re doing a hell of a lot, hey I think you’re holding yourself back, hey I see this unhealthy pattern in your life, or hey, I can give you the tools you need to move froward."

Not investing in yourself is will drain you of your personal power because you are denying yourself the very thing you need to be able to STAND IN your personal power.

Whew. Rant complete.

My final request: PLEASE say yes to yourself. INVEST in yourself. Take the big jump. Do what you need to do. THIS is what leads you deeper into your power. Showing up, saying yes, doing the work and having support is part of the process once you ACKNOWlDEGE WHAT YOU NEED AND GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO GIVE IT TO YOURSELF.

With a loving nudge, Ashly

And PS honestly, with my hourly rate at $200, the workshop is a STEAL of a deal. This post isn't about my workshop but I’m using the workshop as an example because it’s a realistic one and I'm using numbers because sometimes I think provides perspective.

My hourly rate is $200. My coaching programs are $5k The workshop is $244 if you sign up with a friend or $344 if you pay in full. The VALUE you are getting from the whole weekend workshop rakes in financially at over $2k.  

The value you are getting in terms of your relationship with yourself as a woman is honestly priceless.  You can't put a price on healing, confidence and feminine power.

And honestly, I started the workshop out at $444 but lowered it to make it more doable - to make it EASIER for you to say yes to yourself.

Because I know price is a factor. But I also know it’s an excuse and it’s interesting all the excuses I’ve seen surface around women who “need to do this work” but “can’t afford it”.

Honestly, the price of this workshop is a steal: $244 for nearly 20 hours of life changing content to not just thinking your way into being the woman you’re ready to be, but leaving the weekend AS THE WOMAN you are ready to be.

But, like I said, this post isn't really about my workshop, it's just too good of an example and I feel like it may be benefit for you reading it, not to mention, that when women stand in their power in what they charge, it gives other women permission to do the same.

Ok really, rant complete <3  If this piqued you're interest in the workshop you can check it out or sign up HERE.

SELF RESPONSIBILITY = SELF LOVE // CAPRICORN FULL MOON

Happy Cap Full Moon Beauties. I love Capricorn because it lights a fire under my ass, it gets me moving in an aligned, energized and determined way.  It balances my lack of motivation or feelings of being scattered.  When I have access to Cap, Im methodical, realistic and determined.  Cap gets me to ACT.

The part this most specifically applies in my life is towards my business, I take the most action there: but what I love the most is that it comes with a sense of EASE.

It positively affects the rest of my life too, my workouts, my motivation and flow in response to everything I've been saying yes to.

In many ways, Cap shows us who we are capable of becoming if we take the action necessary to get there.

It shows us that self responsibility is a form of self love. Cultivating the ability to take more aligned, determined actions over time: changing, responding, adapting to the trail Cap calls life is what continues to lead us deeper and deeper and deeper into integrity and deeper into alignment with who were meant to be. As a result of continuing to take responsibility for our selves, our choices, our actions we can move forward with aligned action that can *consciously* billy goat through the peaks and valleys of life.

I LOVE Laura Anne from The Rhythm Way's on pointe astro description:

"This full moon in Capricorn is closely conjunct Pluto - the planet of transpersonal will, of chthonic depth, and transformation. Pluto in Capricorn is a placement that challenges and disturbs unethical and outdated paradigms of authority, inspiring each one of us to take personal responsibility to question and challenge what we assume is business-as-usual in service of a more life-enhancing world. But to challenge or change any system we must be willing to change ourselves - to expose and bring to light our own assumptions, habitual patterns, and unconscious drives that keep us safe and may, in fact, reinforce the very system we are wanting to change."

So what desires to change within you right now? What habitual patterns, assumptions, shadows, unconscious drives? What inner authority, self acceptance, healing, integration, awakening wants to shift, transform, release or come alive within you?

This moon wants you to look at yourself: identify who you are and what you need to be the you you are meant to be.

What are the actions you need to take to look yourself straight on and say yes, "I knew what I needed to do and I did it, and I did it all for YOU" ... (with YOU being YOU of course)!

Because THAT is self love. Honestly, integrity and a sense of devotion and aligned action; that's what leads us home to ourselves.

Sometimes we are cast out into the wilderness, have to get stuck in the mud or run up and down peak after peak; but we do it CONSCIOUSLY.

Another think I love about Cap is that it's Earthy. Is sure footed. Climbs with intention. When it gets to the top it's ready to take action to do it again.  It also uses it's instincts.  It nourishes itself on the way up.  It calculates risk vs consequence and it knows that NOT taking action is the biggest risk of all.

What's calling you to act?  What form of self responsibility is calling from a deeper place of self love?

If it's in service of your feminine confidence, cultivating sensuality or awakening your sexual power (aka activate your Shakti) join us for the OYoga Workshop happening July 22, 23 in Denver!

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