For seven years, I wrote weekly astrology forecasts which meant I always had a pulse on the astrological transits. Then I began to take a lot of time off — for travel, for health recovery, more travel — and I got to experience days, weeks go by where I was not super aware of what the transits were (besides some of the longer cycles I knew about and couldn’t unsee). I really enjoyed the space. I enjoyed the way that I met the oracle in other ways, in my dreams, in synchronicities. I felt a little unmoored sometimes. Sometimes wrapped up and immersed in pure, enjoyable, adventurous experiences — other times, more emotionally chaotic, because instead of meditating at depth on the week’s energies and channeling insight about them for others, I was just in the soup with less perspective than astrology normally offered me. Significantly, my relationship with astrology & anxiety went through a new development. In the seven years I showed up to write about the transits most every week no matter what, I actually had a lot of mental discipline about not building anxious stories about particular transits. If I did, I’d find a way to transmute […]