Caves Questions
Contemplations for greater alignment with your Caves Environment:
Do you prioritize feelings of safety and security in your environment? What are the things that make you feel safe? When do you feel good in your skin?
What are the spaces + nooks you gravitate to that make you feel good? That feel calming + grounding?
Does your lighting in your home support you? Do you have dimmers? Candles? String lights? Do you use incandescent bulbs rather than blue light? How might you better support yourself?
Do you keep your spaces at cooler temperatures?
Much like a one line or fear motivation, do you support yourself to get to the bottom of things?
How’s your closet? Do you ever escape there for some you time? If you have a caves kid especially… do you allow them to hang out in this space? Do you build forts with them? Or allow them a little hideaway spot? Cultivate feelings of safety in their environment?
Do you feel more comfortable with a single entrance?
Do you prefer having people over, controlling the guest list + environment, to going to a big party at someone else’s house? Do you honor your need for exclusivity?
What are the places in your home, work environment, etc.. where you feel the most secure + protected? This could be a room without a lot of entrances or windows, taking a few deep breaths in the supply closet at work to reground, or a long bath in a candlelit bathroom at the end of the day.
When sitting in a classroom, theatre, open concept workspace, restaurant, do you gravitate to the seat with your back to a wall or at least at the back of the hall/no one sitting behind you? A corner booth? Do you allow yourself to do this without judgement? To honor your bodies desire for safety? It’s also good feng shui to have your desk out from the wall so your chair can exist with your back to the wall rather than out in the room - so double support for a happy workspace!
Is there a basement in your home? Somewhere you can create a cozy cave? A space where you feel held, that you can close off, that’s just yours?
What kind of content do you take in? Do you watch things that startle you which can be destabilizing to your being? Do you do it in an environment you can control so you are approaching it from a stabilized space?
Does your nervous system feel regulated? How does dysregulation (lacking safety) affect your ability to think clearly?
Do you orient yourself in spaces to protect your back? Like if you are chatting at a party do you find a way to put your back to a wall rather than feeling exposed? Do you notice when your back is not protected that you feel unsettled in some way? If not, I invite you to experiment with protecting your back more. Try 30 days of bringing greater awareness + see how things shift. This is fairly key for a Caves person.
Do the people in your life feel safe to you? Do you know what’s going on in your relationships or does it feel like anything is going on “behind your back”?
If you are in a space with multiple doors, can you close some? Sleep with the doors closed?
Are you able to control the people who have access to you for the most part? In your frequented environments can you see people before they see you?
When exploring nature are there places that feel safer? More enclosed?
Does your life feel stable overall?
Do you spend ample time in cozy aligned places? Because Caves is part of the Splenic Binary it is most about concentrated and condensed experiences that serve you, that you can imbibe and marinate inside - this can be dedicated time to decompress and bring the body back to center + safety in your favorite nook.
ASTROCARTO: Are you supported or challenged by the energy of the location you’re marinating in according to your Astro? Members find it here.
Exploring your environment does not mean you need to pick up and move (though you can) but it’s more about how to utilize the resources in your environment currently, to lean in in the ways possible, to pay attention to how you feel. Our environment is not necessarily specific to an actual landscape/place but to resources, access to what we need, and how we uniquely thrive. Take regular inventory. Experiment.