Many years ago I began a courageous journey, naive to what lay ahead, and the amount of consistent effort required to evolve with love and acceptance towards the continuous moments and events of my life.
Rather than stay stuck and stagnant, I stepped forward and stumbled. This led me back to myself, to searching deeper into my inner world. There I found desire, to discover what made me tick. In my discovery, I found the language of mythology, astrology, and the heroine's journey. These became my collaborative evolutionary tools (they are always cheering me on).
Now, twenty-two years later, Saturn, the planet linked to the heroine's journey, which galvanizes us into maturity, form, and responsible action, is making its way through the second quadrant of my chart, into my 5th house of creativity and children, slowly approaching my descendant.
I wonder what will my creative maturation bring to the world?
The final work is that of the return. If the powers have blessed the hero[ine] [s]he now sets forth under their protection, if not, [s]he flees and is pursued [obstacles]. At the return threshold the transcendental powers must remain behind; the hero[ine] reemerges from the kingdom of dread. The boon that [s]he brings restores the world.
~Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey
The heroine believes without the shadow of doubt that what she brings forth is for the greatest good. She knows her work and her creations are restorative to the collective somehow, by igniting courage and heart in those that have gone astray or lost hope. But, this idea, the heroine's journey, is but an ideal that can be usurped by the Virgonian-Scorpio mind (pulling the heroine away, obsessed with the perfection and the task, and over-thinking rather than being present and clear). The way to actualize the ideal is through the use of discernment (and forgiveness of self and other), an imperative to staying the course, as distractions always come along.
Once on course, creative juices flow again. Eventually, the heroine reaches the threshold, planetary transits clear away the illusory falsehoods within the psyche and life of the heroine, making way for the boon to come, if the soul's desire and requisite action (Mars=choices) to evolve is strong enough.
Whether the heroine improves the world in some minor or major way is not important. The magnitude of her contribution comes as she births her creative voice and creative power. If her mission is linked to her soul's evolutionary purpose, and she is dedicated to complete and utter soul-responsibility, she will succeed.
This is my creative mission now, as Saturn moves forth with its galvanizing force, to further prepare my creative boon to share with the world.
Thoughts for the journey along with way~
- Even in the midst of pain, resentment, and despair, one thing I know for sure, that which is projected outwards is a calling for internal acceptance, self-love, self-parenting, and the establishment of soul-responsibility.
- When we walk through the shadows and reach into the abyss, to face our darkest fears and enter "the dreaded cave", we most surely will find treasure.
- This is the work of Soul, to be responsible for ourselves and the birthing of a liberated new world--our personal and collective work over the next fifteen years as Pluto transits in Capricorn.
- What are you working with now? What is calling to you most deeply? Are you listening?
I am grateful to have learned from so many wonderful guides along the way, such as Clarissa Pinkola-Estes, Joesph Campbell, Carl Jung, Jeffrey Wolf Green, Louise Hay, and from the many and varied modalities of bodymind integration, and the many personal teachers who have graciously and willingly assisted me, including all my friends and evolutionary astrology soul family I have met on this journey.
Namaste~
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