Hello friends. A few words about me for the benefit of new readers. I am devoted to Land, Stars & Mystery. I explore connections between human and other-than-human and weave Nature, myth and magick into my offerings. I am a certified Western Astrologer and Life Coach. I’ve been reading star maps for over two decades. Currently, I am researching LUCK🍀 and how it shows up and plays out in the birth chart. My books are currently open for astrology and tarot readings.
On Thursday August 15th, asteroid Tyche was conjunct the Sun at 23º Leo. Here’s what came through…
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Imagine a circle. See yourself standing on the perimeter of this circle. Perhaps you are looking in, towards the centre, wondering what is at the core of who you are at this moment in time.
Maybe you’re not looking inward at all. Maybe you’ve got your eye on someone else’s circle or some shiny object in the distance.
Your ego haunts the perimeter of this circle. Round and round you go all the while believing that you are on a linear path, because that is how you have been taught to think. You line things up like cars in an assembly line.
You climb ladders. Up or down. Down or Up.
Someone is always “higher up” on the ladder. Someone else is on the lower rung. You think you’re living a line that starts at birth and ends at death but you are reborn daily.
Past, Present, Future.
You’re living in the past if you ruminate on what happened at a turning point in the wheel of your life to a different version of your self.
You speak in yesterday’s language. You smell of night sweat and regret.
Worrying places you in the future. There is no help for you there. When you’re in the future you’re in a hell of your own making.
You breathe in the present. Stay here.
There is no oxygen in the future.
Here and now you are crowned with power.
Open your eyes. Do what the eyes see.
Fate is the word you use to describe chance events that tug at the red threads that link the perimeter to the centre of the circle.
Fate has been compared as a turning of the wheel, but it is more like a thread being tugged in a spider’s net.
Fate is what happens when you are turned back to centre.
(The root word for “centre” comes from the Greek word kentron "sharp point, sting of a wasp,". You don’t get to centre without experiencing some discomfort)
The symbol of the circle and the wheel motif serve as reminders that life is not lived in a linear fashion. Round you go.
Like the planets orbiting the Sun. You too are born and reborn in orbit *.
* Rilke said it *beautifully*…
I live my life in growing orbits
which move out over the things of the world.
Perhaps I can never achieve the last,
but that will be my attempt.
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I have been circling for a thousand years,
and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm,
or a great song.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom and insights.