My astrologer told me this would be the year everything shifts, and I can already feel it happening.
I know what you’re thinking: astrology? Really? But hear me out. Last night was my annual chart reading with my astrologer. Now, before you laugh, let me just say – I have had an annual reading for the past five years, and each year has been incredibly accurate. For a start, five years ago, when I was focused on finding a stable, loving relationship, Twink said “you’ll meet someone in April and think he’s the one, but he’s not – and then you will meet someone later in the summer who WILL be the one.” And she was right – even more amazing because I had basically been single for the 15 years before that.
But the experience of having your chart read is much bigger than that. “Written in the stars” has begun to make sense to me as something real and tangible. Twink’s readings have helped put my life in context – why I have always felt slightly out of place (I was born when Mercury was in retrograde), why I am drawn to communication, facilitation, and coaching (Mercury, Chiron, and Chariklo all feature prominently), and why I am still not sure I want to be a mother (“children were always coming late, if at all”).
Her readings have also framed experiences I am currently having or anticipating. For the last few years, I have been pretty low on energy and my path forward didn’t seem clear (naturally – the planets were all clustered together chaotically). But this is the year it all begins to shift. This is the beginning of my multi-year dance with the planet Uranus, which is a major disrupter that comes around once every 29 years in our lives (at different times for each of us). This Uranus shake-up can be a tremendous period of growth. However, without knowing that it’s coming, we may feel like we are at a crisis point rather than on the cusp of something exciting. Like what used to make sense to us no longer does, or that we no longer want what we used to.
Since my reading last night, I have been buzzing with energy, and I feel a delicious sense of anticipation for what’s to come. This week’s poem, by the wonderful Julia Fehrenbacher, perfectly encapsulates this moment for me. I share this story not to dwell on how sweet life feels right now – it hasn’t always been for me, and I’m sure it doesn’t feel sweet right now to some of you who are reading this – but in the hopes that my experience reminds you that life isn’t static, to notice ‘this thing in you’ that will not go away, and to listen when it comes knocking. After all, it’s written in the stars.
