Pressing Pause

Music pauses.  Silence in a song packs a profound punch.  When the music starts to play again, the melody will be drastically altered.  The Saturn-Pluto conjunction in January and Saturn’s ingress into Aquarius March 21 signify turning points leading up to this pause.  

Positive thinking has its merits, yet forced positivity stifles emotions crying out for expression.  How can pain and suffering be sensitively acknowledged?  How can the stars be read accurately without sugar coating their message?  A fine balance is sought between communicating astrology truthfully and having those words seen as prescriptions.  Interpretations are suggestions, as astrology is not one size fits all.  Each person has an individual way of coping, yet people are being asked to come together as a cohesive group in radically different ways than before. 

3 planets have recently entered air signs (Saturn & Mars in Aquarius and Venus in Gemini). Along comes an uptick in surfing the airwaves through technology to communicate with one another when meeting physically isn’t an option.  It goes without saying that technology isn’t accessible to all and staring at a screen for hours on end can have negative impacts.  Communicating and expressing oneself need not be limited to technology.  

Wild expressions of ideas through music, journaling and poetry while convening with nature as spring reawakens deepens the connection to oneself in the natural world.  Uranus in Taurus, planet of rebellion in a slow moving earth sign, radically changes how the earth is treated.  Reveling in nature and listening to its rhythms becomes its own form of worship of the sacred earth.  The decrease in car traffic has begun to lower air pollution as the rampant, frenzied pace of the modern world is brought to a halt.  Ancient earth-based wisdom such as herbalism, gardening & farming are revered as the old world ways renew.