Indulge me please :) .....

So regardless of what you believe, I am asking, if you are reading this to try and keep an open mind:) Please;-) I said yesterday that I had something fun planned while my kiddos were in school and I had a rogue day off......and I was able to get a reading with a world famous astrologer at a very discounted price and I took it:).....because I listen to some of his stuff, and I love the way his mind works.....he is a a historian at heart.....so one of the things I love to listen to him talk about is the astrological implications on the world's stage, and throughout history, what specific transits speak of certain big events, and what patterns live there.....like wars.....liberation of people, etc, you get the idea:) But in addition to that he also can play historian in our lives.....uncovering our own patterns.....and THAT is what astrology is......pattern recognition, and cycles, and there are inherent patterns within the planetary shifts that bring up "story lines" in our lives on repeat.....so yesterday was so exciting, we zoomed from his home in South Africa.....and the truth is, I could talk to him for hours, maybe even days lol:)......there was almost TOO much I wanted to know and absorb in the hour we spent together, and I find that to be the case whenever I speak to somebody that is schooled in astrology.....because one question leads to a rabbit hole of hundreds more for me....but we identified, within our chat about patterns in my astrology, the transits that have surrounded the challenging points in my life.....or when tragedy or trauma struck......and in discovering one particular time in 2002 that was challenging for me it was tied to a Venus retrograde in Scorpio, that will be playing out again this fall again after all of these years......timely right lol:) and my first reaction was ugh.......like OH NO lol:) But I have learned to not have "astrological anxiety".....just realizing that I am working with the energies that come, and I am for sure not the same woman that I was 24 years ago.....but this particular transit happens every 8 years as well, as another one we identified, and I was able to articulate what happened at each point, identifying the moment of impact if you will, but sometimes these transits cycle through a different planet.....like Venus retrograde in Gemini or another sign.....so the Scorpio one is here again......and one can never know how it will manifest or present in a person's life........themes can be present, or ideas about what could happen can be identified......and there are many ways it can present, and it will present for us all this fall, just in different ways based on our charts.....however for this one it is crossing close to the sky that was present at my birth.....so it comes carrying a specific set of circumstances....and the last time in 2002 it set my life in a completely new direction, in a crazy and unexpected way, and eventually brought me to right where I was supposed to be.....which by the way is my other overreaching belief......is that even if something feels awful in the short term, or challenging, it is normally bringing us to where we are supposed to be......divine intervention or redirection on repeat:)......but the transits that were identified that have cycled through my life have brought the loss of my sister, the discovery of my ex and his affair, his leaving, a miscarriage, even the end of my last relationship.........and some other very profound points along my journey, and well you get the idea....and I am not characterizing any of it as "good or bad".......I do not think it works that way......things can be looked at through different perspectives and lens, and normally, from what I have experienced nothing is one way or another......so.......it was fascinating to construct my timeline with this wickedly nerdy and smart man:), and see how the transits interact with my specific planetary configuration.....so I am meeting this fall and the spring of 2028, not with dread or fear lol:) But with an understanding that consciousness will need to be a part of it....and that these two cycles happen every 8 years but within two years of one another......and they are ones that will impact my journey, and well I have survived the last 50 years of it lol:) So I will the next 50........and embrace the change and redirection that I am being called to accept......and learn and evolve....so yesterday was a treat, I learned even more, and I would love to take a course from this man......he is really really knowledgeable, and his scientific presentation of it speaks to my nerdy gal for sure;) It also helped some of the why of some things that happen along the way, and within my own life, and orbit......So pay attention to Oct 3rd-November 14th yourself and see what you see:) Happy Saturday! Thanks for reading....:) xoxo