Before moving on to the next house and its themes, I just want to take a moment to look back on the starfish and the steps of the third house.
The lists are based on the inventories of my daily life, communication and my relationship to my sister and close friends. They describe what I wanted to do less of or stop doing altogether, as well as the activities I wanted to keep, do more of or start doing. I made these lists around the new moon in Aquarius and I will come back to them in the Summer, when the full moon occurs in the same sign, on 12 August 2022.
Looking back on these past few weeks, the first thing that strikes me is how my daily life wish list is urging me to take my sensitivity seriously. Which is a good thing. My fine wiring has many benefits, but it does mean I need a significant amount of time to process and recalibrate. What happens is that I sense and notice a lot of things and will quickly analyse information in great detail. My mind operates at a very high pace. At the same time, digesting all the information takes ages. All those details and sensations will keep buzzing around even if I do not need them. I know this, but have not really acted upon it before.
Consciously changing the way I go about my days is helping me to create more opportunities to digest the input. And as I take more time to meditate, potter, exercise and sleep, I automatically spend less time absorbing information. It is a real challenge, because my mind is quite dominant and loves to be active, but hopefully in time and with more practice all this will become easier.
Thankfully, writing this blog is both a nice way to engage my mind, to give it something to do, and a way to relax. I am glad that, after the short break when world events and worries about work took centre stage, I am typing up new posts again.
Another thing I am glad about, is the new perspective I have found on my professional contacts. It is a big and important shift, which is freeing up energy to further build my business. Because although I love my work as a coach and teacher, part of me was still holding on to the creative industry, the ‘world’ where I started my career. Now it feels as if I am releasing sandbags and the hot air balloon can finally rise.
When I reread my reflections on the industry and the dynamics at play there, the words that stood out were ‘comparison’ and ‘external validation’. The issues with self-worth I described in my House II inventory came to mind. The root cause of those issues does not lie in my previous work environment, but I do believe it may have further aggravated them.
The focus on my professional communication this month has also lead to more clarity on my offering as a coach. As well as helping me figure out what it means to be very sensitive, this practice is also helping me figure out what it means to be self-employed and how to successfully run my own business.
To which I would like to add that all the processes initiated in January as talents, assets and resources were in focus, are ongoing. I have been delegating more tasks and am clearing more and more time for the projects that really energise me and that allow me to do my best work.
Which is the type of work where I can put some of the qualities of Aquarius to use. As I wrote in my blog post on the sign:
I have heard it said that understanding the placements in your natal chart can help you work with it rather than against it. Now that I know more about Aquarius, I can draw strength from its outlier qualities in those areas where I need it (work, media, social media). And I can balance its mental focus and coolness in other areas (family, friends, daily life) by allowing my heart, body and spirit to join the conversation more often.
I have a feeling that my emotional, physical and spiritual self will also be part of the exploration that I am about to start. The fourth house deals with our foundations, ancestry and sense of safety after all. Although I might not write about all my findings – I want to be mindful of my family and loved ones – I will try to find a way to share the highlights here in this blog.
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