I opened a brand new guide just lately and a quote on the primary web page stopped me in my tracks.
“It’s simpler to attempt to be higher than you might be than to be who you might be.”
Marion Woodman
I don’t know if this quote grabbed my consideration so intensely just because it’s profound or as a result of I used to be studying it within the days earlier than Jan 1, when there’s a gentle stream of articles and content material about resolutions and being higher within the yr forward.
Possibly it was a mixture of each.
Both approach, it hit me arduous. It bought me fascinated by how culturally there’s a big deal with being higher, doing extra, attaining new heights, and maybe not sufficient consideration given to only being who we truly are.
It’s one thing I’ve been coming again to increasingly more in current months. Who am I? Not, what do I wish to do, however who am I?
What do I worth? What’s essential to me?
Typically it’s arduous to recollect and its for certain arduous to remain linked with my centre in a world that’s consistently exhibiting me what life ought to appear like or what I ought to aspire too.
Working with Saturn in Pisces: Defending Your Power and Time
I’ve been feeling threads of this for nearly two years now, as Saturn has moved by Pisces. (Should you too have a great deal of mutable placements, you could be with me.)
I’ve seen I’ve wished to do much less on the market, so I can spend extra time with me in right here. I’ve turn into extra conscious of my power and the way it fluctuates in varied settings and circumstances. I’ve been tuning into my very own guiding lights, my ascendant ruler and sect gentle, to assist me bear in mind who I’m and what’s pure for me.
As I’ve turn into extra attuned to my very own power and emotions, I’ve turn into extra protecting of what I do, who I spend time with and the place I’m.
Possibly this quote spoke to me as a result of it captures in just some phrases what I’ve been pondering and exploring for a while. Possibly it can additionally communicate to you?
On Resolutions and When to Make Them
Later the identical day, I learn a column by Aussie radio host and podcaster Chrissie Swan, who writes alongside the identical strains:
“I’ve all the time discovered that conventional resolutions are all about altering who we’re. They suggest we’re not ok simply the way in which we’re, proper now. They infer we’re not already doing our very best, and this has all the time irritated me. As a result of I’m doing my greatest. And I don’t want to be judged by another person’s requirements, thanks very a lot. Anyway, I favor to make my modifications slowly and thoughtfully and likewise ideally someday in March. Or June. Or under no circumstances.”
I really like how Swan speaks about the truth that most of us, more often than not, are already doing a lot, that we’re giving the perfect we’ve to who and what’s round us.
Swan additionally captures a number of the resistance I personally really feel about New Yr’s resolutions, in addition to one thing that has all the time bugged me, which is why can we all need to make resolutions firstly of the calendar yr?
As an astrologer I do know that we’re every exploring completely different cycles and developments on timelines distinctive to our charts and lives.
Your Birthday Brings Change and New Power: Work with Profections
I additionally know that if I used to be going to select at some point every year to make private tweaks or shifts in focus, I’d select my birthday. That’s when, by way of the strategy of Annual Profections, a brand new signal and home focus kick in, that can stay in impact for the subsequent 12 months.
Should you too really feel some apathy or reluctance to interact in New Yr’s resolutions round January 1, I’d encourage you to re-set your annual adjustment or decision date to your birthday that will help you align with modifications in your individual chart.
I like to consider timing in astrology as a information – to attract on instruments like profections, or transits, or minor durations or progressions – to assist clue me in to what matters could be attention-grabbing or what sorts of power I’d wish to categorical for any given timeframe.
As I attune to a few of my very own astrology timing cycles – which I all the time replace close to my birthday – I have a look at cyclical shifts as an opportunity to discover completely different aspects of who I’m.
A beginning chart is a multi layered, complete and complicated information to your internal workings, to who you might be, so it is smart that it’s going to take lifetime to discover and totally categorical. If you wish to get to know two of your most essential planets, this course will assist.
Coming again to Woodman’s quote helps remind me that being who I’m, not what I do or obtain, is the aim of being alive.
And that maybe being who I’m is the perfect decision and one I could make on any given day.
As we cross the brink into a brand new calendar yr, what’s going to allow you to be who you might be?
What’s your relationship to resolutions? Do you may have a deep sense of who you might be, or, like me, are you too a piece in progress?
The guide I began studying is Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. I’m not completed but however to this point I prefer it.
