Ever since I was in college I have been dabbling with
astrology, not seriously, just as entertainment. I understood most of the sun signs and what
they stood for, and it has always been fun to match people with their signs.
This all changed when I landed in Whitefish and started
getting to know a few real students of the soul. This small mountain town has some of the
wisest people I have encountered in my life; running shops, building houses,
running farms, and doing life on many different dimensions. With this group of friends and colleagues, I
have learned the beauty of astrology and developed the curiosity to know more. It has not been easy, for I am not a
scientist by nature, nor a mathematician (if you were to ask my dad or my 9th
grade teacher!). Yet the more I learn
about the planets and what energies they hold, and how they influence the other
planets and the earth, the more I see the connections.
I am a scanner by nature and a collector of pieces of
wisdom… I am sort of the packrat of bizarre information. I entertain myself with putting odd pieces
together and pulling information from them.
Astrology fits right in there. I watch the Sol Lunar tables for the best
times to fish, the tides and the moon cycles.
I play attention to Facebook and what my friends are experiencing, and what
is posted. I watch people in the grocery
store and notice who is smiling, who is in pain, who has joy, and what they
have in their grocery baskets. I pay
attention to the news. And then I read
the astrological insights for each week and I see the patterns. I see the influences at work and I put them
together with the outer actions of the world around me. Most times I feel the connection of all
things, and yet sometimes I feel like the crazy woman seeing the undercurrents
when no one else seems to see them.
As a coach, gently, I put these connections out there to
start building awareness. I post some
stuff on Facebook. I bring the weekly
influences into my sessions and bring to awareness how they might be
influencing the situation we are discussing, and I try to introduce the concept
that there are influences in our world, our lives, our energies, that are
bigger than we know and truly understand.
We have information presenting itself to us each day in the sky, by the
layout of the planets and alignments, by the squares and trines, and there is
information there that can make life so much easier and more fun.
Richard Tarnas say that the heavenly bodies show us the big
picture but don’t cause it. I would add
that once we can open our curiosity to this kind of big picture, there is all
sorts of information there to guide us. All
we need to do is look up.
Enjoy the stars, the planets, and the beautiful Full Moon
this Sunday!
Peace exists there.
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