I opened a brand new e book 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 gradual stream of articles and content material about resolutions and being higher within the 12 months forward.
Perhaps it was a mix of each.
Both method, it hit me arduous. It obtained me fascinated about how culturally there’s a big deal with being higher, doing extra, reaching 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 in current months. Who am I? Not, what do I wish to do, however who am I?
What do I worth? What’s necessary to me?
Typically it’s arduous to recollect and its for positive arduous to remain related with my centre in a world that’s continually displaying me what life ought to appear to be 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 means of Pisces. (If you happen to too have a great deal of mutable placements, you is likely to 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 develop into extra conscious of my vitality 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 develop into extra attuned to my very own vitality and emotions, I’ve develop into extra protecting of what I do, who I spend time with and the place I’m.
Perhaps 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. Perhaps it is going to additionally converse 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 indicate we’re not ok simply the way in which we’re, proper now. They infer we’re not already doing our best possible, and this has all the time aggravated 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 desire to make my adjustments slowly and thoughtfully and likewise ideally someday in March. Or June. Or by no means.”
I 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 now have to who and what’s round us.
Swan additionally captures a few 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 will we all must make resolutions in the beginning of the calendar 12 months?
As an astrologer I do know that we’re every exploring totally different cycles and tendencies 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 annually to make private tweaks or shifts in focus, I’d select my birthday. That’s when, through the strategy of Annual Profections, a brand new signal and home focus kick in, that can stay in impact for the following 12 months.
If you happen to 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 can assist you align with adjustments in your individual chart.
I like to think about 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 subjects is likely to be fascinating or what sorts of vitality I would 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 totally different aspects of who I’m.
A beginning chart is a multi layered, complete and complicated information to your interior workings, to who you might be, so it is sensible that it’s going to take lifetime to discover and absolutely categorical. If you wish to get to know two of your most necessary 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 edge into a brand new calendar 12 months, what is going to provide help to be who you might be?
What’s your relationship to resolutions? Do you’ve gotten a deep sense of who you might be, or, like me, are you too a piece in progress?
The e book I began studying is Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. I’m not completed but however up to now I prefer it.