Aries (March 20–April 19) ▲Top Do we ever really reinvent ourselves? Sometimes we do. Often we do not. As much as we strive to turn over new leaves, write new chapters, get a spiritual makeover, make a new effort at self-improvement, change our image, color our hair, strike off in a new direction, stop letting the family define our reality, we do very nearly everything in our power to resist real change. We have many tools for this, and most of them are relationships. Then one day it happens. Despite everything, we suddenly find ourselves rapidly becoming someone else, doing something different, living another life. It may be wildly different than anything we thought possible, or thought of at all. These are the changes that emerge from the inside and then somehow take us to other places on the planet, or make us thirst for new knowledge, or crave freedom from everything we knew in the past. And that is the moment you are in. You've had plenty of time to consider your potential, and by now you know what you want: to be at peace, all you need to do is admit your truth to yourself, and then let go into the flow. There will be time later to reflect on what you've done, to revise your ideas and to try a new approach: but this first go is the most meaningful one. It's the moment when you say yes to yourself: a moment of faith and adventure.
Leo (July 22–Aug. 23) ▲Top It's time to stretch every horizon. The first one to expand includes your vision of what is possible, of who you are and of what you can achieve. I'm aware how challenging it is to do this even if you're 'good' at it, though you do have help. What you're really changing is your idea of who you are, as if some 'higher self' version of you contained on another level is flooding into your personality, displacing your ego and offering you the sensation of your most enlightened self. While you're stretching horizons, don't forget the boundaries of place that so often seem to hold you back. You're someone who can make anyplace interesting, though now unusual locales are calling you, as are friends from other parts of the world—some of whom you may not know today. And while you're stretching, take the next few weeks and lean into some expanded ideas of what is possible. The truth is: you can do anything, particularly using this moment as your fulcrum. How do you get there? In a word, faith. Faith is not something you need a lot of. All you need is a little. What some spiritual traditions call the 'greater faith' reaches back to you, responding to your call; the greater light joins your small light. You initiate the process, with your commitment to dare, to see, to embrace your life. That is the invitation for divine providence to make the next move.
And now for me............
Virgo (Aug. 23–Sep. 22) ▲Top Relationships either help set us free to be who we are, or they limit who we are. This is the choice we have. Generally, every relationship is an agreement to live one way or the other, until we remember that we only have one relationship: self to other. The decision you're now making involves reaching from your core and seeing the continuity of every encounter that you have: long-term, short-term, 'sexual', 'platonic', committed, casual, or whatever. At the core of that continuity is your understanding that relationship is an agreement to be free or to be a slave; to give yourself, or to be taken; to exchange, or to take advantage of. Our society is not as clueless about this as it was, say, even 50 years ago. Yet the marriage contract, society's model of relationship, has not fundamentally changed in that time, and there are many movements to make it more restrictive, not less. You, however, can no longer be defined, or limited, by these kinds of unquestioned, prefab contracts. Your Self must have the freedom to explore, to expand, and to individuate in every encounter. It is true that you have chosen relationships as your own primary method of getting to know yourself, so withdrawing is not an option—and given the incredible potential of your human encounters, there seems little point in that. Indeed, current aspects are likely to represent the actual moment when you're drawn out of your shell, into experiencing the true potential of love.
HOLY SHIT!! That must have some bit of something to do with the fact that after my weekend in heaven, clearly spent with Mr. Leo, I finally feel I know WITHOUT A DOUBT that the only thing important to me in my life is love. I'm so anxious to follow my heart right into the love of my life's arms that I can barely contain myself. I think I've told at least 3 strangers that I'm moving (it seemed pretty harmless to divulge such information to someone that doesn't know me). I'm finding it easier to be frank with Mr. Aries when he needs it. I think it all has to do with finally truly understanding (for the time being at least) it's MY life.
Looooove this post. LOVE the picture! LOVE the symbolism! And again, SO happy for you!!!! xoxo
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