Aquarius & Vesta
Today the cosmos is taking our hand, and leading us deeper.
Astrologically, this entire week has provided us with fertile ground for self-insight through the upsurging of buried reservoirs of truth.
This is supporting us to move further into our process through Winter - the season of Kidney energy and the element of Water.
A season that asks that we reacquaint ourselves with our inner landscape;
To confront our shadowy depths and the fears that linger there,
For the Kidneys bear the imprint of our programmed survival responses.
Atop these deeply rooted fears we have each constructed elaborate belief systems and ways of relating which ensure that we don’t have to confront that which scares us,
or the reverberations of pain from our past.
But in doing so, in the staying safe,
whole octaves of our expression can become muted.
Our deepest longing can remain unvoiced;
Our heart’s offerings unseen.
If you felt an element of unravelling around Monday’s Full Moon, it was likely because of the Uranian influences at play.
Wielding lightning bolts of shock and revelation, the planet Uranus is known for orchestrating necessary breakdowns.
He sets fire to the tattered scaffolding that our old, habituated beliefs cling to.
He demands we re-evaluate and revolutionise our ways;
Urging us from the refuge of remaining quiet and small.
As he rules our nervous system, this can sometimes be experienced as disruptions and eruptions of patterning forged amidst life’s earliest challenges
- defensiveness, fear anxiety, anger or disassociation.
But this isn’t merely for the purpose of evoking our suffering.
Uranus is the planet of awareness and liberation.
He’s highlighting to us, what is unsustainable;
What must be confronted in order for us to break-through.
Known also as the archetype of ‘The Awakener’, Uranus carries strong associations to Prometheus, the Titan who stole the fire from heaven and gifted it to mankind.
As such, he is the personification of the firey Yang energies of inspiration, insight and intuition.
This Uranian energy, together with the medicine of this Leo season, is gifting us with the illumination of our Shen spirits – the spirits that reside in our Hearts.
It is up to us to the nurture these bursts of insight, so that they may support us to alchemise life’s pain and challenges into heart-embodied wisdom and compassion.
“It is only after the Shen has been bathed over time in the yin waters of life on earth, after it has endured the losses, disappointments and suffering of its descent into the realm of time, space and gravity, that the true alchemical transformation of the Shen occurs. This is what the Taoists referred to as the ‘birth of the golden flower’ - when the heavenly light of spirit, after a long immersion in the transformational darkness of the earth, rises up from matter as a flower: the enlightened soul of a sage.”
Lorie Eve Dechar, from “Five Spirits”
Right now we are each feeling the bourgeoning of our own Golden Flower.
Perhaps you’re feeling the discomfort,
as it thrusts up through the compacted soil of old stories;
Truth’s that you’ve silenced;
Passions you’ve sedated with rationalisations;
Gifts you’ve harboured in the shadows.
This week, the asteroid Vesta has been lending her medicine to our process.
Vesta speaks to the ways that we attend to the sacred in our daily lives.
Goddess of the Hearth, she nurtures the fire of insight.
Through small acts of devotion,
She stokes the flames so that we may draw warmth and nourishment from them.
Through her touch, our medicine is embodied, heart-felt and an integrated in our everyday.