Death is part of any healing process. Within the deepening of self-awareness, slowing down, not jumping out of the natural rhythmic process and onto the next ‘distraction’ is necessary, even if it is unglamorous. After all, surely if your mind has ‘got’ it, you can move on?
From the uncertainty, illumination will arise, as this dissolving chaos holds wisdom and an authentic truth, raw and beautiful, simple and honest, before countless layers of organisation takes hold of you.
This dissolution is an initiation. It offers in-sight and in-vision. But it comes with a cost – pain. And boy do we stretch for anything to numb us from feeling pain. After all, who really wishes to feel every ounce of the old dream and reality crumble away. Surely that is masochistic. So move on to the next, and on and on and on, until you are forced to grind to a halt, as you cannot run from yourself and the truth that lies inside.
Prior soul-companions – be another person or a member of the inner family, an image, a feeling, a lens through which you have been seeing yourself are also facets of your life that will cede from your path, as they no longer serve the ‘future’ you.
So as you face into this ‘seeming’ abyss, take time to mourn, to grieve all that you are inevitably ‘losing’ and tend to the pieces of your soul, the splinters of your heart, and the shattered fragments of your former psyche, whilst honouring the role that all has played to get you to this place.
Healing and awakening is messy, and I won’t lie, the pain and grief is profound. But, to care for your soul is to honour the full spectrum of colours, including blues and blacks, and not just the glorious vibrant and the bright. This is creation, and from chaos and disorder, arises life, and the mystery of being.
Art by Faith Harrison
Reflections on Venus’ opposition to Neptune and the Sun’s trioctile to Neptune
Author: Andrew Smith
https://www.andrewsmith.ieAstrology has been my sole source of income, my way of being and the way that I live since discovering it on the 17th Jan 1993. Self-taught, I did sojourn with a correspondence course with the Faculty of Astrological Studies under the tutorship of Christine Tate-Wheeler, completing three of the four year training modules in a little under a year. However, I never sat the exams due to my commitments to seeing clients and running a school of astrology called The Dublin Astrological Centre.I’ve been ever so fortunate to have attracted people who wanted to work with me from the very beginning of my path and I’ve worked with clients intensely on a daily basis since 1994. I have a varied clientele, located all over the world, and have worked privately with individuals and corporately with business, sports clubs, political parties and religious institutions for over two decades. My practise is based in my office in Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland, from where I write, divine, create and see clients in person or via ZOOM.Until the time of my movement onto my current path, I was reading Geography in Trinity College, Dublin and playing football, two additional passions I still have today. I currently reside in Greystones, Ireland with my family. My life-partner and wife, Karen, walks the same path as an astrologer and we have two children, Sarah and Maya. Together we run the Blue Rose, a school of astrology and spirituality and have students all over the world who download our classes, join in via ZOOM or attend in person.
My focus is evident in my extensive public writing. I am interested in helping people develop a deeper confidence in their commitment to what they lOve and living what they love. And I would lOve to share my passion with you and to work with you concerning what you love.I look forward to working with you.
