Moving through the world with lightness and ease can feel impossible at times. There might be many things weighing you down, making you feel deeply unworthy of love and belonging. You might even be close to giving up hope. I know I’ve certainly felt like that. In fact, it was exactly the not-knowing-where-to-start-making-my-way-out-of-this-state that inspired me to develop this practice.
As I’m writing this, the new year has just started. Instead of setting many intentions, I have set just two: to stick to the practice I am about to describe and to keep writing about it for a year. I have set up this blog to support me in keeping my promise. I helps me to think that there might be others out there who are listening, who might even be inspired to take up this practice themselves and feel a little lighter because of it.
The practice is inspired by the sun and the moon and a belief that these luminaries, as well as the other stars and planets, carry an energy that resonates both within us and in everything around us.
Although we might not be able to change all of our life at once, we can look at aspects of it, one by one. Astrology offers us a list of different parts of life to work with: the houses. It also teaches us when would be a good time to look at what house. Each of the houses in your natal chart is connected to one of the signs. Your ascendant points to your first house and from there you just move on, following the order in which the sun travels through the signs. And it is indeed the journey the sun makes that you will follow during your practice, focusing on a new theme as the sun naturally shines its light there.
My rising sign is Sagittarius. It is early January now, which means the sun is in Capricorn, the sign of my second house. I will start this practice by examining the themes of that house: assets, resources and self-worth. Next month I will move on to the themes of the third house and by the end of this year, I will have reviewed all aspects of my life.
You will find a more detailed guide to this practice here. It is designed to help you take stock, establish what you would like to be different and decide which small steps you can take to create those changes. I shall also be writing about various ways to support yourself in staying with the practice, such as intention setting.
The exploration of a house starts on or around the new moon. During the lunar cycle you keep track of what is happening in that particular area of your life. Before moving on to the following house, look up what day, some six months later, the full moon occurs. It will be interesting to look at the themes you have worked on in January, from the new moon in Capricorn onwards, once the full moon in this same sign is brightening the sky in July. Has anything shifted since then? Hopefully you will notice more lightness and ease.
My rising sign 