June Full Moon - The Time for Deep Purification and Resilience ❤️

Dear Beloved Community,

As the summer light fills our days with warmth and possibility, the Full Moon of June 29th rises in the expansive sign of Sagittarius, illuminating the sky and our inner landscape alike. This is a powerful moment for reflection, release, and renewal — a cosmic invitation to align your body, mind, and spirit with the wisdom of the stars.

☽ Core Vedic Alignments

🌙  Sign Sagittarius (ruled by Jupiter) ✦  Nakshatra Purva Ashadha ☿  Notable Transit Mercury Stationary Retrograde

Key Themes for This Full Moon: ✦      Philosophical exploration & truth-seeking ✦      Purification & washing away difficulties ✦      Resilience & inner strength ✦      Introspection & reviewing long-term goals ✦      Optimism, expansion, spiritual vision

✨ Purva Ashadha — The Invincible Star

The Moon rests in Purva Ashadha Nakshatra, symbolized by a winnowing basket — an ancient tool for separating the wheat from the chaff. Its presiding deity is Apah, the goddess of water, whose energy speaks to deep purification, emotional cleansing, and the graceful endurance of life's challenges.

✦  Reflection Prompt  ✦ "What in my life is ready to be winnowed away? What truth am I being called to stand in, even when it is difficult?"

☿ Mercury Goes Retrograde

Adding a powerful layer of introspection to this full moon, Mercury stations retrograde right at the time of this lunation. This is a cosmic pause — a moment to slow down, review decisions, and revisit old paths. Rather than starting new ventures, the cosmos is asking us to look inward and ensure our foundations are solid before we leap forward.

Harness this energy wisely:

✦      Journal about long-term goals — what still feels aligned?

✦      Revisit unfinished projects or conversations

✦      Pause before signing new agreements or making major commitments

✦      Meditate on past lessons and how they guide your future path

✦      Allow space for intuitive downloads and creative insights

 ♃ Jupiter's Transit — An Auspicious Boost

Jupiter in Cancer (Exalted) is the luminous gift of this full moon. Jupiter has newly attained its exalted status in Cancer, and this elevation benefits the signs of Sagittarius and Pisces — as well as any planets currently occupying those signs. Most beautifully, the full moon creates a mutual sign exchange between the Moon and Jupiter: the Moon sits in Jupiter's sign of Sagittarius, while Jupiter sits in the Moon's sign of Cancer. This rare and auspicious Parivartana Yoga radiates an energy of growth, positivity, and divine grace. Purva Ashadha is ruled by Venus, so this nakshatra carries the combined energy of both Jupiter and Venus, who are also placed together in Cancer at this moment alongside retrograde Mercury. This convergence amplifies creativity, beauty, abundance, and spiritual wisdom. We may feel genuinely encouraged to move toward our goals, sensing that things are truly coming together.

♃  The Planetary Picture at the Full Moon  ♃ Expansive forces at work: ✦      Jupiter exalted in Cancer — growth, optimism & divine blessings ✦      Moon–Jupiter sign exchange (Parivartana Yoga) — rare auspicious alignment ✦      Venus & Jupiter conjunct in Cancer — beauty, abundance & spiritual love ✦      Mars from Taurus (Krittika) aspects the Moon — foundational confidence to push forward Energies asking for discernment: ✦      Saturn in Revati (Pisces) — finishing cycles, releasing the defunct with responsibility ✦      Rahu in Shatabisha (Aquarius) aspects the Sun — too many doors opening at once ✦      Ketu in Magha (Leo) with exact Mars aspect — sudden liberation, igniting transformation ✦      Mercury retrograde in Gemini (Ardra) — unstable communications, review before acting

The fire of Mars aspecting the watery Moon in Sagittarius continues the alchemical theme of fire meeting water — the transformational energy that helps us break through old patterns. Meanwhile, Jupiter's warm light touches Saturn in Pisces, offering a positive attitude toward completing karmic cycles, letting go of what no longer serves, and moving forward with both hope and wisdom.

✦  Integration Prompt  ✦ "Where in my life am I being called to break through old patterns? How can I harness Jupiter's expansive blessings while Saturn's wisdom keeps me grounded and karmically aligned?"

🌿 Holistic Health Guidance for This Full Moon

The Sagittarius Full Moon governs the hips, thighs, liver, and sciatic nerve in body-mind medicine. Purva Ashadha's watery energy supports the kidneys and lymphatic system. Here are holistic practices to support your body during this cosmic window:

🥗  Nutrition & Herbs ✦      Liver-supporting foods: beets, dandelion greens, artichoke ✦      Hydrating fruits: watermelon, cucumber, coconut water ✦      Herbs: milk thistle, turmeric, ginger tea ✦      Reduce inflammatory foods, alcohol & processed sugars ✦      TCM tip: nourish Liver Qi with sour foods like lemon & apple cider vinegar

🧘  Mind-Body Practices ✦      Hip-opening yoga poses: pigeon, lizard, low lunge ✦      Full moon meditation at moonrise (9–11 PM local time) ✦      Journaling & intention release ceremony ✦      Grounding walk in nature — connect with earth energy ✦      Dry brushing to support lymphatic flow

 

💧  Water Ritual for Purification  💧 Under Purva Ashadha's purifying water energy, draw a ritual bath on the evening of June 29th. Add a handful of Himalayan salt, a few drops of lavender or frankincense essential oil, and set an intention to release what no longer serves you. As the water drains, visualize old patterns, fears, and limitations washing away. You are being renewed.

🌟 Full Moon Affirmation

I release what no longer serves my highest good. I am resilient, I am purified, I am aligned with my truth. I expand into wisdom, health, and infinite possibility.

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With love and lunar blessings,

Lucy Liu, RD

Registered Dietitian  •  TCM Practitioner  •  Healer  •  Vedic Astrologer

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🌕  May this Full Moon illuminate your path and fill your heart with light.  🌕

The Missing Link in Insulin Resistance ❤️

If you have been following this series, you already know that insulin resistance is one of the most common — and most underestimated — metabolic challenges of our time. In Part 1, we explored what insulin resistance is and why it matters. In Part 2, we covered foundational dietary strategies and lifestyle shifts that set the stage for healing. Now, in Part 3, we go deeper — exploring powerful herbal allies, targeted acupressure points, hidden healing spots, and additional natural tools that Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and holistic nutrition have to offer.

What makes this approach so transformative is that it doesn't just manage symptoms — it works to restore the body's own intelligence. TCM views insulin resistance not as an isolated malfunction, but as a reflection of deeper imbalances in the body's Qi, Blood, Yin, and Yang. When we nourish these systems with the right herbs, stimulate the right acupoints, and support the liver's detoxification pathways, we create conditions in the body where healing becomes not just possible — but natural.

Most people think of blood sugar as a pancreatic problem. But the liver is your primary blood sugar regulator. It stores glucose as glycogen, releases it when blood sugar drops, and plays a direct role in insulin sensitivity. When the liver is burdened with toxins, fatty deposits, or chronic inflammation, its ability to manage blood sugar is compromised — creating a vicious cycle that worsens insulin resistance.

There is a unique blend of ancient wisdom of TCM with modern science. For example, the blood sugar regulator is behind your ears. Why does this work?

• The Vagus nerve is densely distributed in the area behind the earlobe
• Vagus nerve stimulation activates the parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) nervous system
• This promotes insulin secretion and helps lower elevated blood sugar
• Combining with deep breathing amplifies the calming and metabolic benefits
• Regular practice after meals helps moderate post-meal blood sugar spikes

In my new video, I target different methods in TCM to unlock unbreakable blood sugar from ancient remedies, acupressure points, liver support, superfoods, and much more. Please check my new video.

By the way, I will be at the Psychic & Spiritual Art Fair in Victoria next Saturday. I am adding a new service in my readings, which is life predictions with the ancient Chinese 1 Ching, which gives you detailed predictions about your life journey. I will offer holistic health consultation, intuitive readings including medical palm readings, face/tongue readings, Tarot card and Oracle card reading, and Vedic astrology readings, especially related to health, relationships, past life emotional traumas, etc. The healing journey is about self-discovery, self-empowerment, and self-awareness. Please check my poster below for more details. I am looking forward to meeting you there. 

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Gemini New Moon - A New Cycle of Curiosity, Connection & Sacred Seeking ❤️

Welcome to the New Moon of June 14, 2026 — a luminous threshold of new beginnings occurring in the airy, curious sign of Gemini, graced by the gentle cosmic deer of Mrigashira Nakshatra. This is one of the most enchanting lunations of the year: a moment when the sky invites you to pause, breathe, listen deeply, and plant seeds of intention in fertile, open-minded soil.

New Moons are nature's built-in reset button. The Sun and Moon align in perfect conjunction, creating a powerful blank canvas — a cosmic invitation to begin again. In the Vedic tradition, this dark moon phase (Amavasya) is considered deeply sacred, a time when the veil between the seen and unseen is thin, and our prayers, intentions, and inner work carry extraordinary power.

♊ Gemini: The Curious Communicator

With this New Moon in Gemini, the universe is inviting you into the energy of mental curiosity, dynamic communication, and the joy of learning. Gemini is ruled by Mercury — the swift messenger of the gods — and governs the mind, breath, language, ideas, and our connections with others. Under this sky, you may feel a renewed hunger for knowledge, a desire to reach out and reconnect, or a spark of creative ideas bursting through.

This is a beautiful time to begin a new course, journal, creative project, podcast, or any form of communication that lights you up. Are there conversations you've been avoiding? Gemini energy encourages you to speak your truth with lightness and grace. Are there new skills you've been longing to explore? Now is the time to take the first curious step.

Gemini also rules the lungs, arms, shoulders, and nervous system — reminding us that breath is the bridge between body and mind.

🦌 Mrigashira Nakshatra: The Gentle Seeker

Mrigashira translates as 'the deer's head' — and its essence is one of gentle, sacred seeking. Symbolized by a deer forever searching through the forest, this Nakshatra carries the energy of curiosity, sensitivity, restlessness, and spiritual longing. Ruled by Mars and presided over by the god Soma (the Moon itself), Mrigashira is a deeply mystical lunar mansion.

When the New Moon falls in Mrigashira, we are called to search — not anxiously, but reverently. To follow beauty. To look within rather than constantly outside for answers. The deer is an ancient symbol of grace, gentleness, and intuition. You are being invited to trust your inner sensing, your body wisdom, your soul's compass.

Mrigashira also holds a deeply romantic and creative vibration. It is a time to reconnect with what truly nourishes your spirit — whether that is art, music, nature, sacred study, or quiet contemplative time. Let yourself be drawn toward beauty.

 

"The deer doesn't find the spring by force — she finds it by following the whisper of her own longing. So too must you."

🌿 Holistic Health Guidance for This New Moon

In the spirit of mind-body-spirit integration, here are your holistic health intentions for this lunation:

 

🫁 Breathwork & Nervous System Nourishment

With the New Moon in Gemini activating the lungs and nervous system, this is a potent time to focus on your breath. The mind under Gemini energy can become scattered and over-stimulated. Daily pranayama (breathwork) — even 5–10 minutes of Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing) — will calm your nervous system, sharpen mental clarity, and anchor you in the present moment.

🌿 Adaptogenic & Nervine Herbs

Support your Gemini nervous system with these plant allies:

✦     Ashwagandha — calms anxiety, supports adrenal resilience

✦     Brahmi (Bacopa) — enhances memory, focus, and calm clarity

✦     Passionflower or Chamomile — soothes an over-active mind

✦     Lion's Mane mushroom — supports cognitive function and neural health

 

🥗 Nourishing Foods for Gemini Season

Focus on foods that support your lungs, nervous system, and mental clarity:

✦     Warm broths and soups to hydrate the lungs and calm Vata

✦     Omega-3 rich foods: walnuts, flaxseeds, wild salmon for brain health

✦     Leafy greens: spinach, arugula, moringa for nervous system minerals

✦     Berries and citrus for antioxidant brain protection

✦     Avoid excessive caffeine — it amplifies Gemini's airy restlessness

 

🧘 Mind-Body Practices

This New Moon is calling you to slow down the mental chatter. Dedicate at least 30 minutes each day to stillness — meditation, gentle yoga, a walk in nature, or journaling. The Mrigashira deer energy thrives in quiet, natural spaces. Even a barefoot walk on grass or a few minutes watching the sky can profoundly recalibrate your nervous system and restore your inner guidance.

🙏 New Moon Intentions & Ritual

New Moon rituals are simple and powerful. On the evening of June 14th or within 48 hours, find a quiet space, light a candle, and write your intentions. Gemini and Mrigashira energy supports intentions around:

✦     Learning, studying, or beginning a new creative project

✦     Improving communication in relationships

✦     Starting a health or wellness practice

✦     Spiritual exploration and intuitive development

✦     Releasing mental anxiety and cultivating inner stillness

 

After writing your intentions, take three slow, deep breaths, visualize each desire as already blooming in your life, and offer your list to the Universe with full trust and gratitude.

 

"This New Moon, give yourself full permission to begin again — lightly, curiously, and with absolute faith in the path ahead."

💜 A Message from Lucy

Beautiful soul, this is such a tender and powerful time. The New Moon in Gemini and Mrigashira is asking you to trust your search — to follow the quiet voice within that knows exactly what you need. Whether that is deeper healing, a new chapter in your health journey, or a spiritual awakening that is gently calling you forward — the Universe is supporting every courageous step you take.

If you feel called to explore your personal astrology, receive intuitive healing guidance, or get personalized nutritional support aligned with your body, soul, and cosmic blueprint — I would be honored to walk with you.

With love and lunar blessings,

Lucy Liu, RD | TCM Practitioner | Healer | Vedic Astrologer

 

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The Tiny Superfoods That Can Transform Your Diet ❤️

Are you getting tired of limited options in your kitchen? Do your meals feel repetitive, uninspiring, or lacking that fresh nutritional boost your body needs? If so, it might be time to discover one of the simplest yet most powerful additions to your diet—sprouts.

Sprouts are excellent sources of antioxidants, essential amino acids, and a variety of vitamins and minerals. There are many health benefits of eating sprouts. Today, many people are fighting against their weight. Sprouts are great choices for weight loss due to their low-calorie content and dense nutrition. Sprouts contain a high amount of fiber that makes you feel full longer. It also inhibits the release of ghrelin, which is a hunger hormone that can trigger you to eat more.

Some of the most common sprouts include:

• Alfalfa
• Broccoli
• Radish
• Clover
• Wheatgrass
• Mung
• Lentil
• Chickpea

Sprouted grains are also used in foods like Ezekiel bread, which contains approximately 5 grams of protein per slice, making it a more nutrient-dense alternative to traditional bread.

Why Sprouts Are a Nutritional Powerhouse

Sprouts are excellent sources of antioxidants, essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. But what truly makes them special is how the sprouting process enhances their nutritional quality.

During sprouting:

• Levels of folate and other bioactive compounds increase
• Anti-nutrients such as phytate decrease
• Antioxidants become more abundant
• Nutrient bioavailability improves

This means that even if the total amount of nutrients doesn’t change dramatically, your body can use them more effectively.

Sprouting essentially represents growth, and that growth translates into enhanced nutrition for your body. Let's dive into the specific health benefits of sprouts and yummy recipes. Please check my recent blog.

The Metaphysical, Psychic & Wellness Fair is next weekend, don't miss out! Please check my poster below for more details. I am adding a new service to my readings: life predictions using the ancient Chinese I Ching, which gives you detailed insights into your life journey.  I will be offering palm reading, medical face/tongue reading, Sidereal astrology chart reading, especially related to past lives and chronic health challenges, tarot card reading combined with Sidereal astrology for one-year predictions and predictions for specific events in your life, and much more. I am looking forward to meeting you there. Please check my poster below for more details.

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May Scorpio Full Moon: Where Deep Healing Lives ❤️

Dear Beautiful Soul,

Something rare and sacred is stirring in the heavens — and I want you to feel it fully.

This May brings us not one, but two Full Moons — a celestial gift known in Western astrology as a Blue Moon. When a second Full Moon rises within a single calendar month, its energy is amplified, deepened, and made extraordinary. It carries within it all the unfinished business, unspoken feelings, and unresolved cycles of the entire month — and offers us a profound opportunity to finally, truly, let them go.

This Blue Moon rises on May 31, 2026, in Scorpio (Vrischika Rashi), one of the most spiritually potent signs in the zodiac. And it falls in the sacred Lunar Mansion of Anuradha Nakshatra — the Star of Dedication. Together, these energies create a rare portal for healing that goes deep: beneath the surface, beneath the story you’ve been telling yourself, and into the very roots of who you are becoming.

♏  The Scorpio Full Moon: Where Deep Healing Lives

In Vedic astrology, the Moon is considered debilitated in Scorpio — meaning it operates outside its comfort zone. Rather than flowing freely and openly, the lunar energy turns inward, becoming highly sensitive, psychic, and attuned to what lies beneath the surface. This is not a weakness. This is an invitation.

Scorpio is ruled by Mars — the planet of courage, drive, and transformative fire. It governs the realms of deep emotion, hidden truths, shadow work, and spiritual awakening. When the Full Moon illuminates Scorpio’s waters, what rises to the surface is everything we have tucked away: old grief, unspoken resentment, fear of vulnerability, patterns inherited from our lineage, and the tender, hidden places within us that quietly long for healing.

This Full Moon is asking you a powerful question: “What have I been carrying that is no longer mine to carry?”

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the energy of transformation and release is deeply connected to the Kidney and Liver meridians — governing fear, willpower, and the ability to let go. When we suppress deep emotions, this stagnant energy can manifest in the body as fatigue, hormonal imbalance, digestive disruption, and chronic tension. This lunation is an invitation to move that energy — gently, deliberately, and with great self-compassion.

⭐  Anuradha Nakshatra: The Star of Sacred Devotion

The Moon rests in Anuradha, the seventeenth Lunar Mansion, spanning 3°20’ to 16°40’ Scorpio. Its symbol is the Lotus Flower — a sacred image of beauty emerging from murky, dark waters. Its ruling deity is Mitra, the Vedic god of friendship, partnership, divine compassion, and sacred covenant.

Mitra’s message at this Full Moon is a gentle but powerful one: the way through intensity is not force — it is love. Not the surface kind of love, but the devotional, tested, enduring love that stands firm even in the depths of emotional turbulence.

Anuradha asks us not “what do you feel?” but “what do you stand by?” It calls us into the heart of true loyalty — loyalty to our healing, to our relationships, to our soul’s purpose, and most importantly, to ourselves.

The Star of Dedication rewards those who show up consistently: for their practices, their commitments, their inner work. If you have been wondering whether your healing path is truly working, whether your devotion to your own wellbeing matters — Anuradha whispers: It does. Keep going.

ἳf  Holistic Health Guidance for This Full Moon

The Scorpio–Anuradha energy directly influences the reproductive system, kidneys, bladder, and the deep fascia and connective tissues of the body. During this lunation, these areas are more sensitive and more responsive to healing attention.

•  Nourish Your Kidneys. In Chinese Medicine, the Kidneys are the seat of our deepest vitality (Jing). Fear and unprocessed emotion deplete them. Warm, cooked foods — black beans, walnuts, bone broth, dark leafy greens — nourish Kidney energy. Stay warm around the lower back and feet this week.

•  Release Through Movement. Scorpio rules the pelvis and sacrum. Gentle hip-opening yoga poses — pigeon pose, yin butterfly, supported reclined bound angle — allow stored emotional energy to flow. Hold each pose for 3–5 minutes with slow, intentional breath.

•  Hydrate with Intention. Scorpio is a water sign. Drink warm water with lemon and a pinch of sea salt to support your lymphatic and urinary systems. Add a few drops of rose water for heart-opening energy aligned with Mitra’s frequency of compassion.

•  Herbal Allies. Consider sipping a blend of ashwagandha, passionflower, and rose — this combination supports the nervous system, opens the heart, and gently moves stagnant emotional energy. Motherwort tea is especially supportive for heart palpitations that can accompany emotional processing.

•  Create a Closing Ritual. On the night of the Full Moon, write down what you are ready to release — a feeling, a belief, a relationship dynamic, a fear. Read it aloud under the moonlight if you can. Then burn it, bury it, or place it in water. Intention + action creates change.

ᾫ7  A Message from Mitra

The lotus does not force its way through the mud. It grows through it — cell by cell, day by day, in quiet, unseen devotion. So too is your healing.

This Blue Moon in Anuradha is not asking you to have all the answers. It is asking you to be devoted to the process — to trust that the depth you are willing to go within is directly proportional to the beauty and freedom you will experience in your life.

You are not alone on this path. Friendship, community, and the sacred bonds you tend with love are medicine in themselves.

ἱ9  Ready to Go Deeper?

If this Full Moon is stirring something in you — a question, a longing, a readiness to transform — I would be honored to explore it with you in a personal Intuitive Reading or Healing Session.

Together, we can look at your Vedic chart, the Nakshatras influencing your current life themes, and create a personalized holistic healing plan using natural remedies, Chinese medicine, and energy healing to support your soul’s healing journey.

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With devotion, love, and healing light,

Lucy Liu

Registered Dietitian  ·  TCM Practitioner  ·  Energy Healer  ·  Vedic Astrologer

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❖  May you bloom — as the lotus does — from the depths of your own beautiful darkness.  ❖