Creating A Space For Yourself At Home

Do you feel ‘at home’ in your own life? There’s a sense of potential in the air, but it’s veiled and we can’t quite grasp it. That’s because the abundance flows from the feeling of ‘home’ within each one of us, and we’re not quite there yet. But this week will bring us so much closer.

The Sun is in the Gate of Family, bringing our attention to cooperation, sharing, finding common goals and investing our time, attention and material resources in each other. True home and family are constant, safe and completely accepting. They are the place you can go when you feel hurt and need to recuperate and recover. They are where your growth is encouraged and supported unconditionally.

Our task this week is to look at our own inner and outer relationships, to figure out who we want in our home, who is family. On the inner level we are learning to let every aspect of self be at home within us.

We can’t evolve into who we are meant to be if we are isolated within ourselves, with no shared community. We’ve been building these communities, slowly and almost imperceptibly, over the past few years. This week we will discover who is in our lives to support us to take our next level of evolution out into the world.

There’s another important aspect to the Gate of Family (37).  It represents the respectful relationships between our inner selves.  Our inner feminine is a constant and nurturing presence within.  Our inner masculine is sincere and protective.   There is abundance, love, respect and appropriate boundaries for our inner child.  We are getting our internal household in order.

And speaking of the inner child, the asteroid Child (11.5) is conjunct the Galactic Centre (11.5) just now, with Quaoar approaching in Gate 11.1.  Huang says of this line:  One should choose only able and virtuous people to be with, people who are humble, gentle, kind and generous. Focus on the harmony you want to create in your life.

The Galactic Centre is reworking the way we think about our own childhood and allowing us to find new ways to respond to life.

The Channel that connects the Solar Plexus Centre to the Heart Centre – Gates 37 and 40 – is about finding a community that values us, a place where we can relax and be ourselves, where we have the freedom to love and be loved, to engage and relax, where we can be encouraged and supported on the emotional and material levels.

Also in the Solar Plexus Centre we’ve got a planetary pile up in the Gate of  Abundance (55).  Chiron, Mars and Snow White (55.2), the Black Moon Lilith (55.4) and Mercury (55.6) are all there.   There could be aspects here of releasing rage against men into the conscious mind, to let it go, grieve the past and move on because there is a cornucopia of opportunities for a new life waiting to replace the old relationships.

Black Moon Lilith can also bring a sensitivity to areas of our emotions that we have not been able to express before.   Line 4 says ‘you will meet what you fear and bring it into alliance with you’.  I want to stress that this doesn’t mean you will bring a particular ‘person’ into alliance with you, although you may find a limited cooperation.  But it does mean that you will be able to find your own fear – what you’ve projected onto that person – and realign with it.

It’s fascinating to find Snow White and Lilith together with Chiron (wounds) and Mars (masculine).  Chiron is partly about redemption and healing, and conjunct Mars it can put us face to face with our own childish belief that if our suppressed anger is released into the world it will be destructive.  Centaurs were half man and half beast, so can represent the parts of ourselves we try to keep hidden and what we may feel ashamed of.

Snow White tells us to wake up and watch who we entrust with our vulnerability.  Again the message is clear – “find good help and support and continue steadily on your way”.  Just because he’s an amazing kisser doesn’t mean he’ll make a good husband and father. And just because she looks cute when she’s asleep doesn’t mean she’s going to make a good wife and mother! And let’s extrapolate that silly example out into all areas of our lives.  Don’t give up your self, we’re not merging into one being, but creating a vast grid of love and cooperation.

And the last example that drives this point home is Ceres conjunct Nessus, also in the Solar Plexus Centre, also dealing with emotions and also calling for a change in the way men and women relate.  Nessus is a Centaur who can heal the bad blood of continuing cycles of violence and cruelty by leaving it naked and obvious.  By bringing it to conscious awareness in other words.  Ceres shows where we lacked nurturing as children, and where we may have had something of our innocence stolen from us (Persephone) and taken to the underworld (Pluto/Hades).

Ceres and Nessus are in the Gate of Revolution – the place where we have to let go of everyone around us and risk change.

So there are some quite amazing ideas turning up repeatedly in the current transits.  We are clearing a space in our life for our most vulnerable inner child, the wild one who’s perhaps been hiding in fear.  I’m curious to hear how you are experiencing these transits.