An Aries Initiation: What Howls to Be Born?
We are well into Taurus season, now, with many planets lingering in Aries, which has been the site of so much activity this past couple of weeks.
Are you feeling the spark? Are you letting your sacred rage guide you? Are you learning to embrace the chaos?
The spread for this month offers much to work with, Strength crossed by the Page of Wands, King of Cups below, 3 of Cups reversed left, The Tower right, and 5 of Wands above.
Rooting into emotional intelligence (King of Cups) and our hard-won practices of regulation (Strength) can serve our hopeful visions, while things crash, bend, and break around us.
With Uranus in Gemini, things are speeding up and the chaos of our information environment is becoming clear (Tower, 5 of Wands). How can you embrace change (Tower), and stay rooted in compassion and care (King of Cups), without getting lost in the undertow?
We are living through a time of massive change, and at times it feels like too much to process.
The time for superficial relationships, hollow parties, and meaningless busy-ness is behind us (3 of Cups Rx). There is too much at stake now, too much exposed and revealed. To go on with business at usual, now, when so much is exposed and crumbling, is to miss this moment entirely.
What helps you tend to your fears, grief, and anger, so that the fiery, brave part of you can step forward, with a wild vision glinting in their eye (Page of Wands)?
Our work of self-knowing and healing isn't occurring despite the turbulence around us, but in conversation with it. A constant push and pull between self-steadying and outward-facing activity, between grieving the horror, devastation, violence, and injustice, and saying the thing, hearing the call, jumping at the chance to tend to the wound, with whatever medicine you have.
The time is now to stay steady and be brave, friends. Love and reparent the wild creatures within you so they can guide us through the madness.
The more we are regulated and embodied, the more we know how to act and respond in a way that is not our conditioning, but instead, our more authentic being – bold, individual, full of rage, and embodied.
Aren’t you full of rage? I am, I am fucking OVER IT! I am so over pretending that politeness and respectability is more important than shifting a culture where genocides are met with shrugs, where rape academies exist, where Epstein files are covered up, where the billionaire class can kill millions through “cost-cutting” measures, and still be lauded by the media as some sort of geniuses. Where politicians feign shock at political violence as if they haven’t spent a decade stoking the fires. As if American children haven’t encountered far worse for decades.
The normalization of fascism, violence and abuse, the weaponization of nationalism, religion and patriarchy, the marginalization of difference, the devaluation of science, the overt eugenics and conspiracism, it all enrages me! And I hope it enrages you, too.
Because we are being called to birth something from this rage. A vision of what can be, instead. Your vision doesn’t have to be huge and all-encompassing. It doesn’t have to be a single thing at all. The notion that we have to launch a huge initiative to change these systems has its place, sure, but is also perhaps a byproduct of being conditioned by these systems.
Instead, it will take millions of micro-actions, millions of tiny decisions, rooted in collective care, in compassion, in love, in a yearning for a world in which everyone is loved, valued, and respected.
In which everyone is safer from violence, has their needs met, in which these horrors guide us to ensure they can never happen again. A world in which the patriarchy is as reviled as the Nazi’s used to be.
