"Reject the seductive impulse to encapsulate the mystery by reason." Jim Hollis, Jungian analyst
The movement from the outer-world orientation of the tenth house, to the fourth house of one's inner world of family and personal mythology, suggests the wisdom of not sacrificing your personal life in the pursuit of worldly ambition. It hints of a need to focus more on the process of doing things rather than the goal or end result. We also hear a suggestion implying that the personal subjective response to life is the right one for you--and that as Jim Hollis mentions in the above quote, it's best not to reduce the mystery and process of life to logic, reason, and anything that diminishes the depth of the inner response. Here the mystery can be felt, not analysed.
In former lives, or earlier in this life, you may have trained yourself to repress feelings, instincts, sensual enjoyment for the sake of what needed to be done. You may have achieved positions of authority or respect, but you may have been separated from a sweeter flow of family interactions and personal reflection. This life is now meant to create a better balance between accomplishing things and nourishing and supporting yourself and others.
Although you'll want to show empathy and validate your own feelings and those of others, and to work for emotional security, you would be wise to focus more on yourself than others, and not try to take charge without fully understanding the situation. Use your intuition! You don't need to feel overly responsible anymore. You also don't need to hide feelings and fears in intimate relationships or do just what is socially acceptable rather than totally honest. By understanding and accepting other's fluctuating moods without judgment, you can find that things get done anyway, and people's feelings are, at times, most important.
You are bringing gifts with you into this life that make you a natural leader and person of authority; use these 'default patterns' of behaving to stretch into the realms of emotion, mystery, and deep connection to Self. Inner work is as valid, or more valid, than outer work in the world in this life, so keep that soul-ful connection to your spiritual, meaning-making Self. And in loving yourself for that, you will love and honor others for their efforts to do the same. Be the mystery you see.....
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Thank you for this. This is me, and the words of advice couldn't have come at a more opportune time. I have asked a lot of questions of astrologers over the years, given that this very nodal configuration appears in my chart, from Libra in the South to Aries in the North, and is powerfully emphasized with a Moon (Aries) oppostion to Neptune conjunct Mercury (Libra). All of this more or less conjunct. It's decision time again, with my mother just having passed away, and me going to move on now to a different location (Sun in ninth house). Some magic (intuition) appeared in my life over the weekend, and I think you've given me the courage to follow it. --Thanks
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wow... this one will be a bookmark, for I want to return to your advice often as a reminder. I often times stress myself out with what I am supposed to do in this life, this is a reminder to slow down, and LOVE others. Be, not do, as much.
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This is all fine and good, but what happens when you have this placement with A North Node Capricorn!!!! It turns everything inside out. What do I do?
ReplyDeletei too have this configuration but there is a paradoxical approach to this situation: in order to be able to have a happy family life you have to be level zero, namely already having acquired power and money, because it is otherwise impossible nowdays to have a happy family in the present days system of values.
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