I have presented a talk about the shadow in the horoscope on the 21 of December. The theme was chosen in relation to the season, it just made sense to talk about the shadow on the darkest day of the year.
When I was back at home I did my own private Yule ritual to honor and welcome the Sun’s rebirth.
And that’s when I fully realised that for the past month, whilst preparing my presentation (this time I had a projector available to use), I was doing intense shadow work myself.
{It is amazing to see how we naturally start resonating with whatever subject we decide to put our minds into.}
The last month has been one of the quietest, with no other occasional work to do, and I felt thrown back at myself.
A lot of anxious feelings and many of my insecurities came out to stare me in the face.
It was interesting to be going through yet another layer in this process, which, even though very challenging, seems to be strongly offering me an opportunity to grow and find my sense of self and solidity within rather than without.
(I truly feel that Pluto in Capricorn transiting my second house, and aspecting my Moon from there, symbolises my search for a different, perhaps more authentic, sense of security…)
With Saturn moving into Capricorn in the winter solstice as well, I also had the realisation that my ambitions were somehow being tested and needing reassessment.
My natal Sun is in the 10th house and vocation does seem to be the arena where my light shines the brightest, but it must come from the heart, not from an ego seeking validation!
My spiritual values and integrity have also been challenged throughout this shadow work period. The choices that I have been making so far, based in what I believe rather than “social ideas of success”, versus the incredibly intense insecurity and fear of being “wiped out” and not surviving in this world.
The whole thing got me thinking about community living once more and with a strong urge to move closer to nature again.
Liz Greene said in one of her Pluto webinars that when you are going through a Pluto transit, all of the profound changes that you experience individually are part of your role in the collective changes that Pluto’s cycles are actually reflecting.
Our personal drama gives us the guts and impulses that later on will compound the social transformation.
We are talking about survival here.
And with Pluto in Capricorn (and Saturn as well) I really feel that our survival depends on changing many of the basic values that our society is built upon, and that Donald Trump seems to be the personification of it, in a rather exaggerated form.
I am talking about patriarchy here.
The lack of connection and devaluation of the feminine (objectification of women, lack of connection and caring for the environment, profit coming before wellbeing, etc) and a distorted manifestation of masculinity, if not changed, will destroy us.
All of these rather important questions are the foundation of my need for reassessing ambitions.
How do I want to develop my astrology business in this world? What kind of contribution can I truly make without changing my life style? How can I put my skills into service without feeding the patriarchal structures in our society?