Uranian Insights
To deepen into the wisdom of the body
To listen as she speaks
not with the hardened tongue of logic
But through the undulating dance
of sensation and emotion
To listen as she tells us of the stories
that lay entombed within our flesh
The stories that lie beneath
the habituated movements of our nervous system
When it rises to enfold us in the safety
of quietness
smallness
and numbness
Or to encase us in the armour
of righteousness and rage
As small children we lived with congruence;
Emotion and impulse rippling through us
like wind through a field of grain.
We felt and expressed in equal measure
dancing across the full spectrum of our being
But as our naked authenticity
met the harshness of the world
We imprisoned notes of our song,
Sometimes entire octaves
to ensure that they may never again
endure the pain of misunderstanding
abandonment
alienation
disinterest
disdain
But here,
Amidst the onslaught
of global suffering and confusion
And the demand that many of us self-resource
beyond what we have ever needed to before
There is an invitation to meet with edges
that would otherwise be concealed…
To catch the furtive movements of our inner captor
the hardening of our chest in defensiveness
the pointed finger of our condemnation
the flagellation of our perfectionism
the busying around our deepest longing
the fog of idealism we take refuge within
Moment-to-moment
we are given choice anew
To gently ask our captor to step aside
So we may take a step beyond
Into forgotten places
of old grief and fear
exuberance and too-muchness
The Uranus/Aquarius energy seeks
revolution and freedom
Not from external restraint
But from the prison of conditioned responses
that we have architected
to avoid being seen
in the vulnerability of our fullness
This is the work of softening ourselves
back into the universality of our human experience
From which fierce, heart-centred advocacy
can truly occur