As Above, So Below
Astrology as a guide back to Self
NEW PERSPECTIVES
Did you know I have an intimate relationship with the cosmos? When I’m really in it and don’t have access to words to describe or share my experience, astrology gives me the language. Rather than try and talk about intangible intensities moving through my body which have no narrative, I can see all of the Plutonian energy currently highlighted in my chart and the different interactions it’s having with my emotions, my perception, and my communication. My ability to sense and feel the energies within myself and how they relate to the planets has become one of the most compassionate gifts I have given myself. Rather than fall into a rabbit hole of what’s wrong with me and searching for external validation or relief, I can say “Hey Ker, that’s a lot of deep, dark water you’re currently navigating, you’re in the underworld, of course you can’t find the words, there are no words.’
Scorpio, like all water signs, wants us to feel. It wants us to look in that dark cave and hold what we find, not because it’s sadistic, but because it wants to give us our power back, it wants to lead us towards transformation and growth by finding out what’s on the other side. It wants to bring decay and death to what is ready to fall away in the name of rebirth. Scorpio/Pluto is the phoenix.
I used to have a negative impression of Scorpio. Let’s be honest, it gets a pretty bad rep. Getting to know the planets more intimately helped me find the meaning that was true for me. I’ve developed a relationship with the energy of Scorpio that gives me back my personal power - which is exactly what Scorpio wants.
I also used to have a very different relationship with Capricorn (ruled by Saturn, also a rough reputation), who shows up a lot in my chart. I had a western, co-opted view of Capricorn and associated it with toxic capitalism, getting ahead in business, and ultimately the patriarchy. Did you know Capricorn is a feminine sign? It is not the patriarchy. Did you know that through a shamanic lens, it’s the blueprint for life held in the bones? That it’s the elder, the crone, the wisdom keeper? This changed my perception about myself and opened up new doors. I started connecting with the Divine Feminine in ways that felt true to me. I started practicing feeling my connection to the Mother via the earth and the coding for life within the acorn. My relationship with the trees, the elves, the moss, and the dirt - after all, Capricorn is an earth sign - were a reflection of the energetic signature of this healed and whole understanding of Capricorn. I began to embody the truth that at it’s highest expression, Capricorn is about creation. Did you know Capricorn is an inherently creative sign? Its ancient representative is the Sea Goat, not the Mountain Goat. The Sea Goat represents a spiritual depth, and the goat represents how that spirituality can manifest in order to create life. Capricorn, as a cardinal or initiator sign, turns chaos (the origins of all creation) into structure.
This new perspective of Capricorn changed my reality in ways that are still unfolding. Astrology has been a companion helping me understand who I am beneath the adaptive strategies, inherited stories, and masks I’ve always worn. My relationship to astrology offers me new perspectives to discover the facets of myself using my cosmic blueprint.
ASTROLOGY AS A WAY IN, NOT AROUND
I’m very conscientious about bypassing. It’s really easy to lean into spirituality and the occult as a way to escape what’s hard, to excuse ourselves from inaction, to sprinkle love and light on problems and wait for them to go away on their own. Sometimes, they do. Sometimes surrender is the only option, “letting go and letting god.” As Libra will ask you to lean into, there is always a both/and, life is a spectrum, not black and white.
I’ve had enough lived-experiences to know that I am here in this life, in this body, to learn about surrender; to trust in the unknown, to find safety in uncertainty. I think many of us are. There are foundational places where I’m being asked to surrender. To find faith. To lean into something bigger than me and trust in its capacity to hold not only me, but every single being. Neptune, the planet of higher planes, of collective consciousness, of spirituality, shows up in my chart with an angle of expansion and optimism with the planet Juipter. Meaning, that sense of idealism, of ability to believe that ultimately love is the highest force, is amplified. However, it also shows me where I could use these avenues as a way to escape, getting lost in a illusion.
I’m grateful for the ways in which Neptune's higher faith and Jupiters optimism shape my life, and I’m equally grateful that they’re met by my ruler, Saturn. Saturn says, ‘hey, this faith stuff is great, but what’s real? What’s actionable? What are the boundaries/limits? How do we use it to establish scaffolding that we can build from?’ This dynamic is my integrity check. The dance between idealism and realism has taught me to notice how the energy moves in my body when I’m making a decision or have a sudden idea. A flash of energy that moves upward like tiny bubbles getting released from its pressure chamber is like a balloon with no weight - it floats around and only ever lands when the ballon pops. Energy that moves down into the ground, that feels like the stomp of a mountain, these are ideas that want to be acted on, they are decisions that are building a sturdy foundation for the future. I’ve learned this embodied practice through relating to the planetary energies of astrology.
At a time when things are changing and uncertainty is the flavor of life, I would love astrology can be a way to connect deeper to yourself and the world around you. To create something that can be a resource in times that are and will continue to stretch us.
If you’re interested in exploring how your chart can support you with where you are, I’d be honored to connect with you.
xx,
Kerrie
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