Astrology

I don’t know how much you know about Astrology but for me, I knew very little growing up and I’m sure I still know very little about it now. I learned from a young age to dismiss Astrology and completely avoid paying any attention to it, aside from the tiny fragments inserted into the local newspaper or bestselling magazines. Even when I did glance at these, I saw very little in them that reflected the way I saw my own world moving and so I did not take much notice, but I did always somehow feel drawn to know more anyway.

In my early adulthood, a woman began presenting an Astrological forecast on a popular breakfast program I watched each morning. I began to really enjoy her segments and paid more attention to the details she shared. I found that as I learned, I began to see more of myself in what she was saying but I wondered if that was from accuracy or from my exposure to it? I also became interested in Chinese Astrology and regaled my family with the tiny bit I learned over a decade.

Over the years, my interest in Astrology was quite minimal until my late forties when I had another major life change (aka traumatic experience). As I began seeking answers to the questions that had built up inside me again, I began to rediscover Astrology and become interested in just how fascinating a subject it can be. Until then, I had no idea how many different styles and schools of Astrology there are in the world; I had no idea that Astrology is a big part of most main religions - or at least in the founding of those religions originally; I had no idea of the limitless possibilities that Astrology contains and sheds light on.

I had opened Pandora’s Box and did not want to close it again!

I have been opening myself up to Astrology for the past decade or so, particularly Western Astrology, Chinese Astrology, Vedanta Astrology (Jyotish) and Medical Astrology.

I don’t immerse myself in any of them to the fullest level I usually give to learning, because I do not feel that Astrology is my main purpose or calling but, I do enjoy spending time reading about and listening to articles and learning how my life (and the world at large) has been impacted in various ways by planets, stars, asteroids, moons, The Sun, Houses, and transits. It really does fascinate me and creates a whole new platform for me to view the vista of life from.

I’m aware that I have the power to step outside the energy of the Solar System and forge my own destiny and I am on that path already, but also aware that until I fully detach from my smallness, the energies continue to pull me this way and that. I’m thankful that I have some small measure of Astrology to help me understand the cycles and dramas of life through, because it feels easier somehow than the old unconscious journeying I did in my youth that seemed to have no real pattern or direction to me at the time.

I’m still contemplating which system feels the most aligned for me and I recognise and accept that each system gives me a different set of parameters and placements to work with. One system says I have Moon in Sagittarius, while another says I have Moon in Scorpio but they all say that I have Chiron in Pisces in the 4th House (ouch) and they all say I have Saturn in 5th House in Aries (again “ouch). My ascendent is Sagittarius in one model, and it is Scorpio in another. My Sun is in Capricorn in 2nd House.

Then I add in the wonder of receiving a spiritual name from my Guru in 2016, which apparently provided a whole new natal chart to overlay my birthchart and, according to the placements in 2016, my whole life changed suddenly, which it certainly did feel like at that time. I have spent the past decade accepting that change and learning to lean into the energies of an entirely different style than what I had previously felt as my own. This puts my Sun in 8H Sagittarius with Saturn right next to it! Zesty!!!!

It has been tricky but Astrology has really helped me to understand myself and my life better and I hope to continue learning and growing with Astrology as my guide. I am currently experiencing my 2nd Saturn return and when I first learned what Saturn return was, I saw with great clarity the impact it had on my life at a certain point. It had been so horrific that I almost did not survive it but this time, I am aware of Saturn and I am also aware of all of the work I have put in since last time. This time, I know I will be okay, no matter what comes, and I’ve been looking forward to it.

Until next time……xxx