Manifest it
Mercury retrograde in Cancer
Welcome to the grand finale of our mini-course in heart-felt listening with Mercury retrograde in Cancer! In case you missed it, jump back to Part 1 on using thoughts to create the safety we need to feel feelings, Part 2 on cultivating supportive self-talk to help our feelings flow freely, and Part 3 on embracing our softness in the face of challenging circumstances. This week I’m sharing the results of my efforts, and I’m glad to make them public for all to see.
It’s been a month.
And I don’t just mean that it’s been three and a half weeks since monkey-minded Mercury began its backwards journey through tender-hearted Cancer, I mean that it’s been a time of deep internal change. This kind of change has required dredging out our emotional trenches, and it’s taken all the courage we can muster to reveal and feel the slippery sludge that has been secretly seeping into the crevices of our cells.
Or, at least, that’s been my experience. There are as many ways that astrology can show up in our lives as there are people who live these lives, so please don’t take my word as gospel and instead give yourself full permission to notice what is true for you. So I invite you to look back on where you were in your heart and mind in late June and reflect on how things are different now. Feel it, know it, and let Our Universe show it to you. If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll even look up from your perch at the window of your local coffee shop and see it emblazoned on a bus passing by.
And right there - if you can read between the lines - is the remarkably simple essence of what this month has taught me about life.
Feel it, know it, and let Our Universe show it to you.
It’s Manifesting 101, I know, and also please bear with me because there’s a reason there are endless articles, posts, videos and courses about manifestation on the internets.1 Presumably if we were all waking up in fully-empowered creative consciousness and seamlessly walking into exactly the kind of day we envisioned, there would be no need to go deeper into studying manifestation. So clearly we are still learning how to manifest.
Personally, I am grateful for the chance to go back to the basics about how I create my experience of life - how I choose the reality I live in. This happens often in my life: I think I get something fully, and then I discover there is deeper wisdom hidden under the surface of my understanding. Perhaps my bigger self knew exactly this last month, which is why it pulled me into the fathoms below. It needed me to witness my dense resistance to the truth that I am the ultimate architect of my life, to remember that it’s all coming from me.
Those feelings stuffed way down in our subconscious? They are reverberating in our bodies; they are speaking with the field of existence all around us; and they are laying out the pitfalls that drop us right out of those perfect days we can see so clearly in our minds. Even if we can’t point to them, we know they are right there manifesting our lives with us because we feel it when we fall.
Maybe this is why we keep coming back to manifesting, because we realize we have been unconsciously doing it all along. Our stagnant emotional energy can silently sabotage our relationships, our careers, our health, our happiness, and there is evidence of this all around if only we stop to listen. This is why it so worth creating a supportive dialog between your head and your heart, and it’s also why we’re so lucky to have Mercury in Cancer by our side. We can learn to follow the thorny trails of our thoughts into the tinny echoes of feelings that we are somehow unworthy of joy, love, or success, and we can let the contractions in our hearts guide the way back to feeling whole.
And then, with more of us present, we can come back and try our hand again at consciously manifesting a better life. We can make a choice about what we wish to step into - we can feel it, we can know it, and we can let Our Universe show it to us. And we can appreciate how things are different this time, because we have more experience to work with.
For me, this month’s mini-course in heart-based listening has completely changed the way that I know. It happened in the funniest of ways, as I sat unexpectedly watching YouTube clickbait on Living a Millionaire’s Life Before the Millions Arrive. The message itself was nothing new: if you want to be wealthy, start acting like a wealthy person. But as I listened (and laughed a little at myself for tuning into a get-rich-quick life hack), it landed in a new way.
I have for many years worked with the systems of feelings and beliefs that shape my life, and I can readily light up my body with enthusiastic energy for a possible outcome just as I can quickly clear away any mental snags that would hold me back.2 But do I know how to know? Heart-felt knowledge has been sorely and at times painfully lacking, and it turns out it’s exactly what Mercury in Cancer so brilliantly gave me: a passport from accepting something as valid in my brain to knowing it as true in my heart.
And now I’m glad to share the key to this knowing with you: it comes from within. It involves zero verification from external circumstances, and - while looking at the world around you as safe and supportive of your wishes can help you to relax - the work of knowing must happen in your heart. This does not mean ignoring, discounting or responding to what shows up in your life; it simply means recognizing at all times that you know something more.
Take, for example, knowing that you are prosperous. If you know this, you do not need to look for evidence of your prosperity - you do not need to see it reflected in your bank statements, your paycheck or your possessions. Yes, you can certainly look at these things with the attention they ask for, and you can notice how your body feels scared or soothed as you witness the currently available evidence about your finances. You can also be aware of prosperity as you move through the world, and you can pick up on other people’s perceptions of where you stand. You can observe where and how you spend money, and where and how you save it.
But you cannot let any of this touch your deeper knowledge that you are prosperous. Because as soon as you start looking for signs of prosperity outside yourself, you fall out of your center where the truth of that knowledge exists. You make your knowledge contingent on something in your environment that will inevitably change, and you get sent right back to Manifesting 101 when it does. In other words: your cup will start to look empty when you try to fill it from somewhere else, and this is a fast track to forgetting that it’s your energy in the driver’s seat of your life.
The same is true for prosperity as it with beauty, brilliance, success, satisfaction or any of the other feelings we might wish to know. The reward for anchoring them within is that we get to feel these things all of the time, and we can also marvel with surprise and delight as Our Universe mirrors those feelings back to us in physical reality. I say this with recently reinforced certainty as Our Universe just gave me a slogan for my new manifesting strategy on a t-shirt in the Tube: “Be you. The world will adjust.”
It’s no surprise to feel such a shift in my awareness with the basket beaming down on us from the skies above, and I’m sending this message out early to help you work that energy to bring your wishes closer. We’ll also focus specifically on manifesting in this week’s Class on Sovereign Self-Love, which you’re welcome to join for free if it’s your first time (I trust you). It starts TOMORROW, July 23 (Thursday) at 8:00 am Pacific / 11:00 am Eastern / 4:00 pm UK / 5:00 pm Europe, and just click this link here at the class start time to join.
Thank you for sharing in my revelation, and I hope this mini-course has brought you more in touch with the kind of knowledge that lives in your heart. Mercury will wrap up its retrograde on Thursday, and in the spirit of revision I’m including a new feature this week: a written run-down of this week’s Golden Opportunities as the Sun makes its way through Leo. The Sun (very literally) brings everything to life, and these messages are specifically designed to bring you in touch with your natural radiance, vitality, and sense of purpose.
Enjoy!
Love,
Patrick
Golden Opportunities this Week☀️
Monday, July 27:
☀️Sun opposite Pluto in Aquarius:
Get below the fear that shining more brightly will leave you out in the cold. Remember that your power lies in your brilliance, that your gifts and talents are unique to you, and that you can break through feelings of isolation by inspiring other people to be more themselves.
☀️Sun trine Neptune in Aries:
Anchor your sense of self in your ability to create. Know that you can be any version of yourself you want to be, and ground that ability by choosing to feeling something fully right now. Choose to feel bright, to feel expansive, to feel magnanimous, to feel brave.
☀️Sun sextile Uranus in Gemini:
Free yourself from restrictive thoughts about who you are or who you need to be. Notice where you have been attached to a part of your identity - a label, a characteristic, a personality trait - and give yourself permission to play with another way of being. Show yourself that you are more than what you think.
Wednesday, July 29:
☀️Sun conjunct Jupiter in Leo:
Take pride in how much you have grown and expanded this year, and appreciate all the times and ways you said “yes!” to exploring a new possibility. Remember that true abundance comes from the heart, and that your heart beats to the tune of self-love. Commit to appreciate yourself this year. Know that the more you do, the more the world around you will appreciate you, too.
☀️Sun opposite Moon in Aquarius (Full Moon 🌕):
Reflect on the ways you create community, how you do (and don’t) fit in with the world you see around you, and the ways your beliefs about life shape what you walk into every day. Open up to the ways you have felt excluded from the collective conversation, and know that you are always being heard on a higher level. Fill yourself with faith, hope and joy, and bring these into the world with the charm of calm.
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Huge thanks to this (free) series on Quantum Manifestation for getting things going all those years ago.
Yes, Patrick! Recently I’ve recognised that comparing myself and my wealth in the relative world always reflect back a limited and unresourceful feeling. Then I am reminded during meditations of my absolute truth and I come to realise that my relations and resources are vast, ultimately unlimited! So thankful for your gifts today <3