An Ode to Getting Free (Hello Uranus!)
As in breaking down conditioning and being the freest version of yourself
Hello dear one!
This Friday, Uranus and Venus conjoin in the last degree of Taurus. I’m really feeling this energy build right now, and I’m excited about what is about to pop in our lives with the shift Uranus making into Gemini next week.
Anytime Uranus is involved, Freedom is the theme. Fitting given the US holiday this week, the French holiday in a couple of weeks, and so many more.
So for a moment, I want to dream into the future with you. As we go into this week that is about “Freedom”, I want to reimagine with you what freedom means.
Freedom from questioning yourself.
Freedom from doubting your decisions.
Freedom from needing other people to confirm for you to feel comfortable moving forward.
Freedom from forcing situations that deep down you don’t feel good about.
Freedom from over-compensating for others’ mediocracy.
I know I said this in my last email, but the dumpster fire is real. Unfortunately, we don’t have the option to be free of that. However, we can be free within it.
We can be so aligned within ourselves that the clarity is unmistakable, and that clarity is the gold. Often we think that what that clarity gets us is the gold, but whatever comes next is fools gold. The actual clarity is what gives you everything because it’s constantly adjusting to the external circumstances, no matter what is changing.
In my last article, I shared about this idea of building from “true self”. True Self is freedom. True Self is who you are and what you do when you are following your inner guidance system.
True Self is not selfish. It’s deeply interrelated with your community, friends and family. It’s just intertwined in a life giving way where you get to be fully yourself, and everyone around you gets to be fully themselves too. I know this sounds impossible, but over and over with my clients and in my own life I see how it is actually the way we are designed to live!
When Katie listens to her sacral no, it creates a situation where her partner, her kids and her family have to step into their roles because she’s no longer doing everything for everyone out of not-self feelings of proving her worth.
When I listen to my spleen about not making a change in something Courtney and I are doing together, it creates a conversation that is clarifying and redirects us in a way we didn’t expect.
When Jess stops investing in friendships where she’s feeling bitter, as a projector she starts having more energy to connect with the people that recognize her gifts and can be in equitable energy exchange.
Each of these scenarios can be really confronting, which is evidence that conditioning is breaking down. Yet, as conditioning breaks down there’s so much space for new aligned energy to move in!
True Self is not a magic pill. True Self does not take you out of the reality we are living, no matter how much I wish it did some days! Yet, True Self builds the capacity to be a part of a loving and just world in the midst of whatever is happening in the “not self” so that you can show up and bring the unique solution that only you can give.
From True Self, we can problem solve in a way that creates more opportunities and resources for everyone involved. From True Self, we can design the structures we need so that they are regenerative and eradicate burn out. When we are using our energy for what it wants to be used for, it actually generates energy. Burnout would cease to exist.
Freedom is the ability to be the most vibrant, most wildly unique version of you in the midst of whatever is coming. We know from astrology and human design that the cosmic weather is full of challenging aspects, but that is not anything we can control. We can only witness it and get context from it.
To wish for smooth waters is a delusion that will end up costing us more in the end. To wish for something that isn’t (life has always been a roller coaster) just cuts you off from the power of life because it comes from what IS. However, to wish for your own peace and well being in the midst of a fire storm is absolutely worthy - and not just worthy, it’s our highest calling.
I know this all sounds dreamy and your inner critic is probably asking “what’s the catch?”
There’s no catch. We do have to put in the sweat equity to make it tangible and embodied, but this is a very possible reality that we can dream into every day. We are in a season of massive change, which is going to be kicked up about 10 notches on Monday when Uranus changes signs.
Let’s use the energy of these changes to create a wildly generative reality for ourselves. While you’re celebrating the day off of work this weekend, please also celebrate you for being here and doing this work towards genuine freedom.
