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The Weekly Glimpse Guide - The Moon Who Chose to Shrink: A Kabbalistic Take on Criticism, Cancer Season & Leo Energy · The GLIMPSE Method Podcast: Your Guide to Raising Your Vibration, Spiritual Awakening & Breathwork Practice

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, happy Sunday.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Glimpse Weekly Guide.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: A Sunday snack for your soul.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: Today we are talking about well, I'm gonna tell you a little story.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: The moon who chose to shrunk shrink.
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  SPEAKER_00: So right now the moon is moving into Cancer, and by the end of the week, she'll pass through Leo.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Quick, bold, and fiery Leo.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a Leo.
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  SPEAKER_00: But before Leo season officially begins, the sun, meanwhile, is still sitting steady in Cancer and won't make her move to Leo for another week, week and a half.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: So this week we've got the moon trying on that Leo energy early, that desire to shine, to be seen, to take up space.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: While the sun stays quietly in her own lane.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that tension, that's exactly the energy of the story I want to tell you today.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: So in the beginning, before there was day and night as we know it, there was just light.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Two great lights, equal in glory, hanging in the same sky.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: And the moon looked over at the sun and said, Hey, master of the universe, is it possible for two kings to wear one crown?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now here's where it gets interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the plain telling of the story, God shrinks the moon for complaining and um, you know, comparing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of a punishment.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the mystics, the Kabbalists, they saw something different happening in the sky.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: They saw the moon choosing to become small, not out of shame, but out of service.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because here's the truth about light: infinite light can't be received.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has to be constricted, folded down, or made smaller before a world, before a person, before a heart can actually hold it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The mystics call this tasum, the sacred contraction.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: The moon didn't shrink because she failed, she shrank so she could actually be received.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the sun?
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  SPEAKER_00: The sun heard the whole thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Heard the moon question its worth, question the whole arrangement, the comparing and the complaining.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the sun didn't defend, didn't retaliate, didn't gossip to the stars about what the moon had said.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sun just took it in and sat with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let it become fuel instead of a wound.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: And we can learn a lot from the sun in this in this story.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is the piece that nobody talks about.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: We tell the moon story, her humility, her shrinking, her surrender, but the sun story is just as sacred.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: The sun grew into its fullness not by approving anything, but by staying quiet, staying whole, and letting the criticism move through instead of control, controlling it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this week, whenever the moon is moving through your sky, ask yourself, where am I being asked to shrink?
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because I'm less, but because it's my season to be received rather than to dominate.
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  SPEAKER_00: And where am I being asked to be the sun?
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: To hear the hard things someone said about me.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: And instead of defending or gossiping or spinning it, just let it actually sink in and refine me.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: I have a devotion, kind of an affirmation for this week.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: And if you want to, you can repeat after me in your head or out loud.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: Divine light, source of all becoming.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: Let me hold criticism the way the sun held the moon's words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Without flinching, without retaliating, without needing to be right.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: Let what stings become fuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let what humbles me become room for more light.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: And when it's my season to shrink, let me trust that smallness is not failure.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's how I become able to be received.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: I am not too much, and I am not too little.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: I am exactly the size this moment needs me to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it is.