Still Fridays - Chandra - The Moon

After the peak of the solstice — after the longest day has turned and the light begins its gradual, graceful retreat — the moon calls us inward.

In Ancient Ayurveda, Chandra — the Moon — governs our emotional body, our intuition, our capacity for rest and renewal. Where Surya illuminates and directs, Chandra softens and receives. The Moon teaches us that there is wisdom in the ebb, that restoration is not weakness, and that the most profound insights often arrive not in the blaze of full light but in the quiet of a cooling summer night.

Modern neuroscience understands this through the parasympathetic nervous system — the rest and restore branch that so many of us have forgotten how to access. Chandra's energy, when honored, is the felt sense of that system coming online. The exhale that finally reaches the bottom of the breath. The body that stops bracing.

Midsummer…