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Boundless Gifts of the Planet of Restriction
Living in the present moment requires the ability to bear reality just as it is. Avoiding negative emotions and shadow work sooner or later makes reality unbearable. Therefore, creating new realities on the basis of unfinished ones, seems more like a denial than expansion. What is the best thing to do when reality becomes unbearable?…...
How Darkness Can Help Us Unleash Our Genius
The jovial dark side of Pisces Genius awakens farthest from the visible, crossing the limits of awareness with imagination. It is not surprising that scientists obsessed with precise measurement usually have planets in elusive sign of Pisces, the debilitation point of the planet of intelligence. Physicist Albert A. Michaelson was mesmerized by the desire to…...
The Pessimism of the Optimist: Paradoxical Nature of Jupiter
If it’s not unconditional, the capacity to give becomes an extension of ourselves that we project, or literally displace from ourselves to others. In that sense, the feeling of love is neither within nor around us. The belief that we are not providing enough often comes from a place where we don’t feel authentic, trying…...
Trauma as a Key for Creativity: The Non-verbal Language of Ketu
We need to talk about trauma, the most unthinkable category of human experience. But what about traumas that our bodies have never experienced? Modern understanding of the mind often completely attributes the trauma to developmental and situational events that were shocking and painful to integrate. Although they make us like zombies, often scared for our…...
The Hidden Astrological DNA Code
As February marks the transit of Rahu, the planet of new age in Ashwini nakshatra, there are a lot of instant changes that can emerge, both on collective and individual level. Nodal changes provoke new cravings, as well as new direction in our lives. On a mundane level, Rahu brings constructive chaos in terms of…...
Speaking the Truth: Sun and Moon Energy
Speaking someone else’s truth is impossible. The need for constant talking often ends up as salad-words, and can be an indicator of a foggy truth about oneself, but it can also represent a natural need for change through connections. There are, conditionally speaking, two needs for the truth. One is that someone holds it for…...
The Galloping Power of Ashwini Nakshatra
Healing By Eternal Past The joy of living in the present is beautiful, but the tendency to erase the past can disturb this vital idea. The opinion that our parents are not our parents can lead to the separation from authentic connection with ourselves (spiritual bypassing), but if we live this philosophy authentically, by a…...
Crisis as a Chance for Healing: Out of Body Lessons of Jyeshta Nakshatra
A famous psychiatrist and a Holocaust survivor, Victor Frankl used to ask his clients a rhetorical question: “Why didn’t you kill yourself?” Although it may sound intrusive, this was a technique that initiates meaning, a typical trait of Jyeshta nakshatra: To provoke others in order to promote growth. The founder of logotherapy, Frankl faced the…...
Healing with Madness in Psychoanalysis
I Many phrases used for mental institutions sound derogatory, but entering one often means to be labeled. Mad, crazy or insane are social categories and much less a definition of our internal state. In order to be labeled as mad, we need to enter an institution, but for the madness to become normal, we need…...
What Can We Learn About Censorship From the Planet of Truth: Uranus, the Awakener
Uranus, the Great Awakener, is a planet that rules everything that is anti or above systemic. Inventions, sudden changes, aviation, astrology and transpersonal models of thinking. His modern rulership of Aquarius is associated with the revolutionary thinking and groundbreaking insights, so it’s often called a planet of rebellious revolutions. As it rules discoveries, let’s begin…...
