Receiving—A Variable in the Equation of Emotional Alchemy

Continuing on the Energies of Cancer Season 2024

Cancer season and the work of alchemy within our emotional bodies continues. But today, I’m taking a pause from the ocean-beach analogy!

I’ve been watching the British Sci-fi show Dr. Who. It’s all about a Time Traveller (an alien) who loves Earth and has adventures across time and space. The character is very emotive—ecstatically happy, wildly curious, deeply angry, and also detached. Watching the episodes had me ruminating on our attachment to emotions.

Can you recall the last time you were annoyed or angry or aggrieved? We enact that with our whole bodies and it stays with us for hours, days, maybe even years.

And can you also recall the last time you were appreciated, sated, loved? Did those emotions change the tone of voice, actions, posture? Did the memory linger for days and weeks? Did we talk about this to everyone?

This video takes a different angle on the equation of emotional alchemy and adds the variable of receiving our emotions.