Art:- Bedded Deep in Long Term Memories Painting ~ Skai Paints
WEBINAR MAY 1 :- The next Venus Star Point™ is at 14˚ Gemini, which is Mercury-ruled, on June 4th. It’s a big one for so many reasons. I am offering a webinar on May 1st that will look back at 2012, 2020, and ahead. Radical change is coming! It will be recorded and the slides will be available to download. Register at https://www.louiseedington.com/14-gemini-venus-star-point-june-4th-2024
I said yesterday that lately it “Feels like my whole life is flashing before our eyes as this massive rebirth continues. In a good way, as the old ‘me’ dies.”
I’ve also talked a lot about healing old trauma patterns and responses and, not only becoming more aware of both our trauma and our PTSD and C-PTSD responses and being able to restore balances more speedily. I am feeling it myself and witnessing it in so many clients and friends.
The shift is profound and appears to be speeding up. Both at the individual level and collectively. I share things I notice in me, others, and sometimes mundanely in the hope that you can add to it or that it pings memories and awareness in you too.
Sharing supports others in their healing so I am going to share a couple more stories as we approach the Scorpio Full Moon this evening, that’s conjunct my Midheaven/IC angles (parents amongst many other things.
Firstly, Taylor Swift. I know, I know, if you don’t get it yet or never will, that’s okay. But her Sun is at the same degree as mine, her Moon squares my Nodes, and I am now CONVINCED she’s Sagittarius rising (like me and Holly), as my Swiftie friend Holly Martin and I rectified on the latest album release day. Holly has been a Swiftie for longer than I and she mentioned that she wondered if she was Sag rising - we then spent most of the day pouring through dates of events in her life to figure it out. Here’s the video I made about that. Now to persuade Holly to come out of the Astrology closet.
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If you haven’t listened to Tortured Poets Society yet, every word is a poem crafted to express both women’s and human experiences. The lyrics are multi-layered and every time I listen I hear a line or two that is an OMG experience. There are also SO many literary references in her lyrics. The one that pinged me personally most so far was in “I Hate it Here” as I had just referred to The Secret Garden in the book I am writing (I wrote some yesterday so a new drop is coming for paid subs soon). She sang
"I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind
People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child"
One of my favorite books firstly, now being criticized for its racist/colonial themes. However, I promise that as a child it made me QUESTION the culture I was raised in. It didn’t maintain it in my mind. This is also me personally. I always had those secret gardens in my mind that were my escape from a life I didn’t love growing up in. Patriarchal, colonial, racist, and sexist as hell. I was also a precocious child.
Every time I listen I get something new. Now, I ADORE Beyonce’s new album too but I didn’t grow up in the American West and I am not black. That doesn’t mean I don’t learn from and love her songs and lyrics too. But they can’t be as much of a healing and cathartic experience for me. I say ‘as much of’, because both albums speak to universal experiences as well as the personal.
I do think we white, waspy, products of patriarchal, colonial society also get to heal before we can all move forward together and before we can more fully support each other.
Can we just say BOTH Beyonce and Taylor are amazing, cathartic, and of the current zeitgeist? The two women support each other and we can love both. I kind of dream that the Grammies give them a joint best album of the year award but then I also go to the ‘fuck the award shows’ with their competitive and hierarchical judging of who is ‘best’. It’s poetry. It’s art. Why do we judge and create hierarchies of art?
Here’s a clip from the Fortnight video (which Swift directed) that also pings. https://www.facebook.com/reel/960733555840608
This is a compilation of some of the literary references in her Tortured Poets lyrics. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-lyrics-literature
I am unashamed to say I am now a full-on Swiftie. Her lyrics are genius.
I share all this to say that the healing moments are coming thick and fast and so are the memories that emerge to help move through this cathartic period.
Today, the Moon moves into Scorpio and activates the Pluto in Aquarius square to Haumea in Scorpio. This square between the two transformation and rebirthing dwarf planets is one of the longer cycles that is both purging the old and birthing something new. It’s a square with 13 (Taylor Swift’s birthday, her favorite number, a number in the Venus/Fibacci/Golden Mean cycle) exact meetings between 2022 and 2028. I wrote about it last April https://cosmicowlastrology.substack.com/p/astrology-aspect-of-the-decade.
This adds to the deep memory emergence and purging aspect of this energy as we approach the Scorpio Full Moon. Another aspect of this is the much-overused word, empowerment.
Not all that comes up for you will be bad. There will also be moments that will trigger the feeling that your inner divine child was there all along, beneath the layers of pain and hurt. Though it might be tempered with a part of you that has been more reactive than proactive.
Another quick story for you.
This image popped up this morning. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is another heroine for me and her podcast, ‘Wiser than Me’ is also another one you might get something from.
My story is that I did this once. A friend of my parents called Terry ‘be careful’ by the women in my parent’s party posse (group) because women had to be careful around him. Another behavior that got laughed off as normal back then. I can’t remember what he said or did to me but I poured a drink right in his lap.
I have often been attacked and criticized for my ‘anger issues’ and reactivity. Of course, they are a trauma response and sometimes something very small can trigger that response. Mea culpa for those I have hurt but sometimes it was a good thing! All this to say, Terry never behaved that way to me ever again.
My feisty, precocious, side is a savior at times. And, it’s also good to acknowledge when our protector and firefighter parts have been necessary. It’s also okay to understand that your divine child within may just be feisty and fiery.
The Pink (I can’t help but think Taylor again lol) Full Moon at 4˚ Scorpio tonight. Video at
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This is BIG deep memory processing and release energy and also taps us into our deepest creative desires.
Both Jupiter and Uranus trine Black Moon Lilith in Virgo bringing up more areas of shame to be examined and purged.
What’s coming up for you today? I am grateful to those that are sharing in the comments. It’s not required of course. I write to inspire you to follow these potent healing opportunities in your way <3
Happy pink Full Moon. Now to walk and listen to Tortured Poets
I love you.
INVITATION TO YOU:-
Join me in Utah in October
I am a Peer Group leader at the wonderful OPA Retreat in Park City Utah in October. I LOVE OPA Retreats. They have a certain intimacy and connection lacking in some events (the other events have different strengths. I would like to invite you to the Retreat on October 16-21. There are fabulous speakers (and a day pass for just that day is also available) but what’s unique about OPA Retreats is the opportunity to do an in-person Peer Group, a track to learn a new technique or an in-person Consulting Skills class. At the core of all those options is becoming an ethical Astrologer. Plus we would get to meet!
The Retreat is called “Celebrating the Aquarian Shift”
And the theme is “Connect and Learn”
If you register this month there is an early bird price and also payment plans available! Check it out and register at this link.
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Have a good one.
I know I will
Louise
Wisdom Weaver
Tue April 23, 2024
America / New York, GMT-05:00
Uranus trine Black Moon Lilith 11:14 AM 21˚ 58’ Taurus/Virgo
Moon → Scorpio 11:19 AM
Moon conjunct Haumea 1:20 PM 1˚ 1’ Scorpio
Moon square Pluto 3:27 PM 2˚ 5’ Scorpio/Aquarius
Jupiter trine Black Moon Lilith 4:25 PM 22˚ 27’ Taurus/Virgo
Moon opposed Sun 7:48 PM 4˚ 17’ Scorpio/Taurus
Wed April 24, 2024
Moon trine Vesta 2:12 AM 7˚ 32’ Scorpio/Cancer
Louise. I'm so enjoying your site. New to you, and love you!!
Barb
Life changing positive results I could have never expected in a business I’m working in. As I was driving to a location in my physical efforts to manifest towards a goal, I received the notification. Almost as if my guides really truely gifted me within 24 hours or less of the Jupiter Uranus conjunction (the notice would have or might have been written the day prior?). My Jupiter is 18 Taurus. And this energy is so beautiful. More later…!