Come On, Baby, Meet Me Halfway: Libra Season
This is the midpoint of Libra season.
The sign of Libra is dual, weighing one thing relative to something else. It's exquisitely attuned to composition, proportion, arrangement, symmetry, and a relationship between all parts. It asks, "What does this thing (situation, space, relationship require? What is the middle way?"
The relationships you are part of are consecrated ground for you to practice unconditional love. Loving for absolutely no good reason at all, loving without agenda, without constraint, without rules. Can you love yourself this way? Will you?
Consider:
What is the quality of your approach in your relationship with yourself? How are you approaching your relationships with others? Do you see any similarities?
What are the hidden parts of self you need to look into in order to be better in relationship with others?
What are you unwilling to see and acknowledge in yourself? Are those the same qualities that you end up face-to-face with in others you’re interacting with?
Where are you seeking validation from others when you really long for self-acceptance and and self-regard?
Where are you playing out in the present the same dynamics you had with a parent/friend/past lover hoping to finally get your unmet needs met or "do it right this time"?
Within and without, as you relate to self and other, what feels in balance? What feels out of balance? Where's the sweet spot here?
The body knows this, too.
You can feel it maybe in the subtle contraction of your jaw when tension rises in a conversation, in your shoulders tensing when you resist giving (or receiving), in your spine that stiffens when boundaries are breached. These sensations are the middle way speaking to you, marking where you are leaning too far, where the weight is uneven, where you’ve shifted out of your center. During my ritual massage sessions in Casper, Wyoming, we invite you to notice your body, your sensation, the feelings and thoughts that arise in all their subtleties and not-so-subtleties. You are witnessed and held with care so that bracing muscles can release, constricting breath can deepen, and you can experience finding your own balance.
In this sacred space, you begin to meet yourself halfway. You feel the in-real-time feedback of your own body as you navigate tension between yourself and another, or two internal parts of yourself, or even two parts of your own body. You discover that alignment isn’t only mental or emotional—it’s also lived, it’s embodied, it’s palpable.
Massage becomes a medium for that practice: a place to experience symmetry, proportion, and ease within yourself, so that you carry it forward into your relationships and daily life.
Can you allow yourself to linger in that middle space, even briefly? To notice the counterweights in your body, and soften into what is balanced, held, and aligned? The sweet spot exists, and your body will guide you there if you are willing to listen.
