To recap last Sunday’s blog post, self-love is the foundation of truly loving relationships with everyone and everything in our lives. Without love for ourselves, we aren’t able to discern or distinguish what love is in our interactions with others or with the things or activities that are important to us in our lives. Self-love is granting ourselves permission to be who we are truly and fully. The Sun is still moving through Cancer is still important. And that heart’s desire energy of Cancer + Taurus takes on a new twist as you may discover that you are now beginning to find your voice for communicating your desires in many areas of your life as Mercury has moved into Leo. Through our communications of all kinds, we reveal where we are in our development of self-love.
When it comes to assessing where we stand in the development of our own self-love, we may find a great deal of value in looking at the current cycles of societal Uranus in Aries and the generational Neptune in Pisces.
If we remember back to Aries energy, we are reminded that it is initiative energy – active and assertive. It starts things, and usually leads what it starts by the simple fact that it is the first one to take the step forward or take action. It’s not a follower – it’s a pioneer. Yet in its enthusiasm to be the one to start, it may be alone in taking that first step.
With Uranus in Aries, it’s a Universal nudge to take your first step(s) out of your comfort zone and into the risk of the unknown to find yourself in ways you never have before. These nudges come in very subtle moments, or they come in bold, sudden and/or surprising events. Either way, the guidance of Uranus in Aries leads you to opportunities to choose, declare, create, and manifest the life of your heart’s desires…if you choose to heed the guidance being given to you.
The possibility to discover and/or embrace our unique roles and contributions to the world is stronger than ever right now. And even though Uranus is a collective energy, we aren’t becoming aware of said roles and contributions in a collective way. Instead, we are becoming aware of them in very personal and individual ways.
I’m a bit in awe over how many people in my life (including myself) are making major life changes right now – changing jobs or careers, long-time relationships ending and/or beginning, relocating/moving. The shifts are amazing! What is even more interesting to me is how some of these changes have been intended and planned, yet many of these shifts seem to be unexpected or unpredicted.
Quite a few of us seem to be surprised by the events of our lives right now – we didn’t see certain shifts coming, or we chose to be in denial about all of the signs being given to us. There are even some of us who thought we would get away with certain behaviors we knew weren’t in our best interests yet carried on anyway and are now “getting caught”. Now seems to be a time of “seeing the light” or “being exposed by the light”.
As relationships of all kinds end and begin, as workplaces and careers change and evolve or are left behind, you may awaken to who you are choosing to be and what you are choosing to bring into or release from your life. If your communications and actions are in are in alignment with those choices, things will move forward smoothly and effortlessly.
This Uranus in Aries energy will be with us until May 2018, giving us ample time and opportunity to make significant changes to our individual and collective life course(s)…if we choose to.
With Neptune in Pisces, we are highly aware of our roles in All-That-Is and our interconnection with everyone and everything. We are in acceptance of this Oneness, or we are deeply in denial of it. This interconnection is more than the common thread of humanity. It is an awareness of how each and all of us are connected to each other and everything around us – energetically, emotionally, and spiritually.
This Oneness may sometimes surprise you and even upset you as the more aware of it you become, the more it demands you to live into the fullest expression of your unique self. You are a one-of-a-kind piece of the puzzle – an essential part of the whole picture of All-That-Is. And because we are each and all striving for love and connection, you may find that you are upset or angry when you cannot truly connect with others. Yet how can you connect with others if you haven’t connected with yourself? It’s difficult to connect with others if you aren’t aware of what you individually have within you to share outwardly with others or if you are resisting or denying your inner truth and your true soul identity. You simply cannot connect with others while denying, avoiding or suppressing the truth of your very existence.
If you have gained clarity and confidence in who you are and what you have to offer as part of the greater whole, this Neptune cycle is likely to be a fairly easy one as you will allow yourself to collaborate with others in a healthy flow of energetic and emotional consciousness and interdependence.
However, if you have not gotten clear about who you are and what you have to offer as part of the greater whole, this may a time of great emotional distress for you. You may find yourself playing victim to others and/or your circumstances, or you may find yourself engaging in escapist or delusional behaviors to avoid facing or fulfilling your unique role in All-That-Is.
The fact that Neptune is moving retrograde in Pisces right now gives us a brief taste of this transcendent awareness and the possibility (or idealism) of our spiritual and emotional Oneness that comes with it. Neptune will move back into Aquarius come August, bringing us back into a more human and intellectual experience of Oneness. That intellectual human awareness and idealism of Aquarius will be around until February 2012 when that Pisces awareness and possibility comes back to plant roots until 2026.
But for now, these Uranus in Aries and Neptune in Pisces energies combine to encourage each of us to take our first steps in to our true identities and into loving ourselves as those identities. After all, why choose to be a follower of others when you could be choosing to be the leader for yourself? How can you possibly embrace, accept and be at peace with your place and your role in the world if you don’t allow yourself to find and be the proud owner of your unique expression first?
Take actions to create the life you want to have, empowering yourself to choose what is in alignment with your deepest truth. Stop reacting to the circumstances of your life in ways that has you creating a life that has you be subject to the power of others…and start choosing what is in alignment with the truth of who you are – the truth of your soul.
Whether by conscious choice or by force of circumstance, we are now being encouraged to take steps in our development of self-love. As we each learn and increase our capacity to love and trust ourselves, we individually and collectively begin to live and share a new experience of our lives in a new world created by Love.
Until later this week when I post about the Full Moon…
~ Light, Love and Blessings,
Grace
