What Are You Waiting For?
Q: What Are You Waiting For?
A: In this moment, anticipation runs hot...like a fever. The temperature rises as Mars and Uranus come together in exact conjunction with today’s moon in the realm of Taurus. The United States is inaugurating a new president and the world is on the edge of their seats. Some are waiting to exhale, others’ to see if their conspiracy trip manifests at last. Today is a day to remember, and much like every other day in this fearless decade, it is a day of powerful change.
Regardless of our political party, current philosophy, or socioeconomic background, each of us are living in this present moment here on Earth. Every heartbeat accounted for, swathed in the epic tumult that is occurring in one realm of life after another. No one gets out of here alive and no one will leave without having a very human experience in some form or another. To be human is much like living in a kaleidoscope while pointing it in the direction of your choice. It is bizarrely intoxicating, we live the life direction as we walk it, and yet there are so many fragments outside of our control.
Despite the intensity of what cannot be “controlled”, in surveying the astrological scene, it is clear that there is one commitment each of us is being asked to make. The commitment to change. Without leaning into the discomfort of necessary alterations and adaptations, we may become stagnant in our own resistance to it. And let’s remember, resistance is futile… because change is coming for us regardless.
Astrology has a lot to offer us as human beings and most explicitly, a mirror. The stars and planets have been shouting “self-responsibility” from the rooftops since the beginning of 2020 with the Saturn/Pluto conjunction on January 12th, a potent seed of transformative power that is still reverberating through the ethers. Not to mention our last new moon in Capricorn on January 12th, 2021, instilled a precise echo of this tenacious duo exactly a year later. So what does it mean to be self-responsible?
To me, being responsible for myself means approaching my life through an objective lens. And I can only truly explore a lens as such with self-observation. Observing my thoughts and how they fuel emotions which in turn lead to an expression of words and actions which equal my behavior and attitude. Once I am observing myself, hopefully this can become a full-time gig, then I analyze and self-inquire as to why I do the things I do? While in inquiry, I can learn so much about myself, gathering self-information that I can transmute into self-knowledge through understanding. Eventually, as I live this understanding and integrate it into my daily life, I achieve a certain level of comprehension. And now I am different.
How is being different than I was before a key to my self-responsibility? From my perspective, life is a school. It is a wild, ferocious, psychological and alchemical laboratory of being that requires me to evolve from one moment to the next. The pace to which I choose to transform is my own and I can lie dormant or press on the gas depending on my chosen velocity or as experience chooses me. Life will ask of us great emerging tasks to take on with a fervor or to recoil from in cowardness. The choice is ours. What are you waiting for?
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