It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel
fine)—REM
Earlier this year I left an unfulfilling (well paid)
job to follow my heart. No safety net. No new position in the works. Up and out. Gone. Goodbye.
Why in the world would I risk security (or a shallow example of it) for the pain and anxiety associated with jumping into the unknown? Because I had to. It was though my very life depended on whether or not I gathered the courage to take the leap and answer my true calling. In short, I needed to follow my heart.
Now here I am months later, answering my calling by way of astrology, where I work helping others answer their own. Am I happy? Yes. Has this journey been easy? No. Yet every day, the Universe offers me comfort and validation that every choice that I have made that has led me up to this point has been the right one.
In talking to some of my clients I have found that I have not been alone in wanting more out of my professional life--then yesterday I serendipitously found this article
"The Siren Call of Starting Over" in
Psychology Today.
What I deduced from this information being presented to me is that the outer planets (the planets associated with serious transformation) are aligned to redefine
what work (among other things) means for us. Work is important because this is where we focus a lot of our time and energy. Work brings us material comfort. But what if we could actually do work that brings us both material AND emotional comfort? In the old days, we had to choose. Blessed was the person that could find that needle in the haystack job that offered both options. However, change is afoot.
Yesterday, I sent out a few tweets highlighting my thoughts on this planetary activity. Though brief, I decided to post them below because I think they speak to the heart of this shifting energy:
- Saturn & Pluto have traded homes;
Saturn in Scorpio and Pluto in Capricorn. Neptune is in her home sign of Pisces; Uranus in trailblazing Aries.
- Saturn in Scorpio asks for more depth in
our everyday transactions; such as work. Hence, this trend of feeling
dissatisfied with the daily grind.
- Pluto in Capricorn asks us to reprogram old
systems. The work world as we know it has shifted. The past is fading. The
status quo is nil.
- Neptune in Pisces aims to connect us back
to Spirit; we are all connected and it shows. When we work to improve life for
others, we improve our own lives.
- Uranus in Aries asks us to think outside
the box and follow our own lead. Where in our careers can we be the innovators
& do we have the courage?
- Couple the current planetary energy with
the oncoming cosmic shift of 12.21.12 and yeah, we totally have some work to
do--new work, fulfilling work. Fresh starts, anyone?
Before I sign off, I want to leave you with this beautiful quote that I found by way of a couple ladies that I look up to professionally--the
AstroTwins. It's a quote from philosopher and teacher, Terence McKenna. He states:
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and
nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible
obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you
under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these
teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the
alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic
dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself
into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
Word.
