Sunday Reflections and birth-chart oscillations
There was a pretty interesting discussion going around on a friend’s FB recently about how Sundays feel different to other days - for a lot of people of course it’s Sunday Blues and anxiety/anticipation of having to get up and go back to work on Monday, but a lot of us are not in that position at the moment. I haven’t worked Mondays at the day-job for several years and so I don’t think of this as applying to me but I do feel differently on Sundays.
Partly I think it’s because the world in general is quieter. Things outside are less hectic, people tend to lie in, take things at a slower pace or not even go out at all. I wonder if there’s still some overhang for many of us of Sunday being a day for family or religious observance, but it does seem to be energetically a little bit different - even in a life where every day is pretty much similar in terms of daily doings or work or routines. For me, at the moment I find it’s a day to go seeking internally, I don’t really want to socialise in a rowdy way or have interruptions but it’s also the day I’ll be most aware of being alone. Part of the new challenge for me in having free weekends is deciding how to use them to feel good - even if I don’t have to have anything to show for them.
Anyway, I do have a bit of something to show for yesterday’s contemplative time! This is a prime example of using some kind of understanding of my birth chart elements to my advantage. I’ve got a lot of oscillating energies in my birth chart - things where two sides of the coin alternate or different energies are pulling at the same time. I’ve got the Gemini facing-both-ways quality of not just my sun, but Mercury and Venus as well. I’ve got (like a lot of people my age) Jupiter and Saturn in Libra trying to balance things out within themselves and also, with a 3-degree conjunction, with each other. And I’ve got Uranus as a ruling planet throwing in unexpected twists and turns, sextiling them both. I’ve also got north node sextiles to Sun, Jupiter and Saturn.
I looked at this in quite a lot more detail than this but essentially the question I’m always trying to answer with my birth chart is: what do I need to do or know to marshal these forces? And what became really clear to me yesterday is, it’s a chart full of oscillations, seesaws, back and forths, balances. The equal opposite of what I’m doing is also the right thing to be doing at any one time. I shouldn’t get too hooked on any one feeling as it’ll flip as time passes - Jupiter’s expansiveness or Saturn’s restrictions - they will play themselves out given time. That Jupiter/Saturn relationship feels crucial to me and accounts for a lot of the push and pull, the running ahead towards my dreams and then cutting off my feet, that wastes my time and energy. However the answer to getting these oscillating energies to work together is in the sextiles - with my north node I can push on to my destiny, lay the path, and ebb and flow of Jupiter/Saturn will work to my advantage. It is down to me as Sun to decide on the direction though. So I’m using this practically now when I’m working creatively: sometimes I will feel like anything’s possible and sometimes I will be more practically minded and aware of just how much work lies ahead and the need for persistence in order to succeed. What matters is these are both good times to get to work, in their way, not reasons to get paralysed or stuck in limbo.