320: MONTHLY MEDICINE: August is Reclaiming Pleasure

So, um, the theme for the month of August is reclaiming pleasure.

Um, I would say that this month, the invitation of it is a little closer to, like, a pleasure audit.

Um, is thinking about, uh...

And, like, again, I just wanna name, like, fucking groceries have never been higher.

Like, bills have never been higher.

There's never been...

I mean, not never, but, um, there's so many fewer resources.

So many people are struggling with money, with work, to get by, to eat.

Um, and in speaking about, like, pleasure, it feels...

It may feel understandably, like, a little tricky, [laughs] you know? Like, a lo- well, or potentially very tricky.

Um, and I think I wanna start there because pleasure does not necessarily mean joy, and joy does not necessarily mean happiness.

Pleasure, I believe, is something that we...

It, it is and can be completely free and should be completely free and is an invitation to really look at, like, what do I derive, um, sensual, as in the senses, you know, sustenance from? Is there a tree that I just delight in? Like, the weather, the sun on my skin, a cool shower, the taste of that fruit, um, this walk.

I know what it is, 'cause I've lived this in my own way, to really be so tight, so frightened, so worried and scared about money, about what we're gonna do next month.

And I can say from my own experience with this, um, that it is still possible to retrieve, reclaim, to center ourselves in experiences, bits, moments of pleasure that happen on purpose, as I would say, an act of resistance, an act of profound self-care, an act of self-tending, I think might be a little bit more appropriate.

And those can come however we are able to retrieve them, right? And for some of us who are not necessarily as crunched as others might be in this season of life, still just as important, you know? Eclipse season, and we will be in eclipse season for the majority of August.

Our first eclipse in Leo is on August 12th, I believe.

And our second eclipse, which is in Pisces, happens on August 27th.

So this, A, makes sense because when we are in an eclipse portal or season or whatever, we're referring to, um, in a very direct way, the two weeks between eclipses.

So we have one on the 12th, one on the 27th.

That's, like, roughly two weeks, right? But then there's the shadow of the eclipse that happens before the first eclipse and after the second eclipse.

So we have to look at this theme, reclaiming pleasure, sort of auditing our relationship to pleasure, in the context of what eclipse season does.

So with eclipse season, many, many people, um...

I, I hate rules, so, like, you know, whatever.

Do whatever you want.

So, um, the theme for the month of August is reclaiming pleasure.

Um, I would say that this month, the invitation of it is a little closer to, like, a pleasure audit.

Um, is thinking about, uh...

And, like, again, I just wanna name, like, fucking groceries have never been higher.

Like, bills have never been higher.

There's never been...

I mean, not never, but, um, there's so many fewer resources.

So many people are struggling with money, with work, to get by, to eat.

Um, and in speaking about, like, pleasure, it feels...

It may feel understandably, like, a little tricky, [laughs] you know? Like, a lo- well, or potentially very tricky.

Um, and I think I wanna start there because pleasure does not necessarily mean joy, and joy does not necessarily mean happiness.

Pleasure, I believe, is something that we...

It, it is and can be completely free and should be completely free and is an invitation to really look at, like, what do I derive, um, sensual, as in the senses, you know, sustenance from? Is there a tree that I just delight in? Like, the weather, the sun on my skin, a cool shower, the taste of that fruit, um, this walk.

I know what it is, 'cause I've lived this in my own way, to really be so tight, so frightened, so worried and scared about money, about what we're gonna do next month.

And I can say from my own experience with this, um, that it is still possible to retrieve, reclaim, to center ourselves in experiences, bits, moments of pleasure that happen on purpose, as I would say, an act of resistance, an act of profound self-care, an act of self-tending, I think might be a little bit more appropriate.

And those can come however we are able to retrieve them, right? And for some of us who are not necessarily as crunched as others might be in this season of life, still just as important, you know? Eclipse season, and we will be in eclipse season for the majority of August.

Our first eclipse in Leo is on August 12th, I believe.

And our second eclipse, which is in Pisces, happens on August 27th.

So this, A, makes sense because when we are in an eclipse portal or season or whatever, we're referring to, um, in a very direct way, the two weeks between eclipses.

So we have one on the 12th, one on the 27th.

That's, like, roughly two weeks, right? But then there's the shadow of the eclipse that happens before the first eclipse and after the second eclipse.

So we have to look at this theme, reclaiming pleasure, sort of auditing our relationship to pleasure, in the context of what eclipse season does.

So with eclipse season, many, many people, um...

I, I hate rules, so, like, you know, whatever.

Do whatever you want.