This is the blog connected to NorthNodeAstrology.com--Come explore your life direction and soul purpose through examining the North and South Nodes. Elizabeth Spring MA, is a counseling Jungian therapist and astrologer who does most of her consultations/readings by phone. International readings are free of calling charge. Info on website.
All posts here are from sections of the books: "North Node Astrology; Rediscovering Your Life Direction and Soul Purpose" and "Lifting the Veil; Becoming Your Own Best Astrologer" and "Astrology for the Third Act of Life" and finally "Saturn Returns~The Private Papers of A Reluctant Astrologer" All available in paperback, Kindle and Audible on Amazon.com
To inquire about readings or for more articles on the North/South Nodes, go to: https://www.NorthNodeAstrology.com
To inquire about readings or for more articles on the North/South Nodes, go to: https://www.NorthNodeAstrology.com
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
"Astrology for the Third Act of Life" Just Published on amazon.com
Midlife gives you a chance to deepen and connect with your Soul. But when are the best times to make changes? When is the time to pare down, turn inward and draw the threads of your life into a tapestry? When do you have new beginnings in mid-life? You may be forty, sixty or eighty-eight but it's time to become re-enthused about your next chapter of life! By combining astrology, Jungian psychology and personal memoir, Elizabeth shows how midlife gives us a chance to deepen and connect with our Soul.
Jungian astrologer, Elizabeth Spring MA, has written a book that describes the life passages we all experience in aging: starting with the Uranus Opposition at age 41, to the Chiron Return at age 51, the Second Saturn Return at age 59, the Uranus Square at 63 and the Uranus Return at 84...and beyond. Written in plain English for astrologers and non-astrologers alike--in fact--you don't even need to believe in astrology to get something out of this book.
You can look backwards at the story of your life and see what feels true, and then look forward to what might be coming. Experiment! Each age--each transit--embodies wisdom that can help you navigate these potentially rich times. In describing each of the astrological transits of aging, Elizabeth gives tools to help you thrive through all these ages; what was once esoteric and unmapped territory is now known. So how and when can you do this?
By understanding the timing and character of each astrological transit you are more empowered to meet the challenges and see the gifts of each age. As she says" My hope is that as we navigate these waters of the Third Act of Life we will muster the courage to experience both a deepening of our sense of Self and--dare I say it---a re-enchantment of our lives. This journey of aging, marked by the wisdom of the astrological journey, is about meeting all our challenges, but it's also the well with the deepest joy."
"Astrology for the Third Act of Life" available now on amazon.com
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Many of you may know how my life has been consumed by my new book-- beginning last year with my blog: 'Ponderings On Turning Seventy.' After a year of work, (whew!)the new book is coming out this Saturday! It is a blend of memoir from my journal, astrology, and Jungian psychology. You can read articles and learn more here: www.astrologyforthethirdactoflife.com
NEW BOOK: "ASTROLOGY FOR THE THIRD ACT OF LIFE : TO BE RELEASED NOVEMBER 10TH ON AMAZON.COM (SOON ON AUDIBLE AS WELL!)
Here's a little about it:
Midlife gives us a chance to deepen and connect with our Soul. But when are the best times to make changes? When is the time to pare down, turn inward and draw the threads of your life into a tapestry? When do we have new beginnings in mid-life? You may be forty or you may be sixty but it's time to become re-enthused about your next chapter of life.
Jungian astrologer, Elizabeth Spring MA, has written a book that describes the life passages we all experience in aging. Starting with the Uranus Opposition at age 41, to the Chiron Return at age 51, the Second Saturn Return at age 59, to the Uranus Square at 63 and the Uranus Return at 84. Each age-each transit-embodies wisdom that can help us navigate these potentially rich time.
The gift of aging is that we can look at the canvas of our lives and know how connected we are...
Elizabeth has a Master's degree in psychology with an emphasis in the work of Carl Jung. She's been a professional astrologer since 1992 and has written 3 astrology books and a memoir. At the age of 71 she became passionate about learning how to age well, and how to use this time to ponder the Mystery that is us.
She has found the metaphors and symbolism of astrology to offer profound clues as to how to age with grace and wisdom.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Come visit my new website! http://AstrologyfortheThirdActofLife.com This site will connect to the new book I'm writing on Astrology for the Third Act of Life which I hope will be published and available in January on amazon.com I'm excited to be exploring how midlife gives us a chance to deepen and connect with our truest Self. I'll also be giving a workshop on this Saturday morning Oct 6th in Newport, R.I. Contact me at 401-297-5066 if interested with your birth info as well. Preregistration required as birth charts will be made for all participants.
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Seven Planets Retrograde this Summer!
Yes, starting with Mercury Retro on July 26th 7 planets will be retrograde this summer! Right now, there are 5 retros: Mars, Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto. What does this mean? As I've written about before with retrogrades, think of all the words that start with RE and do those activities: reflect, reorganize, repair, redo, repeat, review, redefine...etc. Turning inward is the key and sometimes retreating from action. Think again about your current course of action and let it brew a little. Is it truly right for you? Ponder and plan but don't jump ahead yet. And, this isn't the best times for risky new ventures, such as financial investments when Mars is retrograde. (JP Morgan always consulted his astrologer about this!) Remember too that the word recreate counts here...as in recreation! Enjoy the process...www.elizabethspring.com. Beautiful mandala art by Tamarah Alister Rose Antares at www.mysticalartofpeace.com
Monday, April 2, 2018
Astrological Weather Patterns
What is happening to me now? Why am I feeling this way? These are questions we ask ourselves or our astrologer or our Tarot reader. I often
remind myself how much my feelings are like a passing mood---like the clouds or changing weather patterns—they
come and go. As an astrologer, I should be keenly aware of this as I observe
the patterns of the Moon and planets continually moving through the heavens and
our lives. But it’s not so easy to always remember that ‘this too shall pass.’
Late
yesterday afternoon I fell into a low energy vortex and ended up on the couch
unable to do anything but question the aching in my spine and the complaining of
my psyche. I’ve been diagnosed with low iron anemia…and I’d forgotten to take
my pills for weeks. And then there was ole Saturn and Mars squaring my Sun
exactly. Saturn rules the bones, and squares bring out the tension or
underlying problem…so there was the arthritis in my back and the pain. I
reminded myself that I’m like a 1947 model car…what can I expect?
I wasn’t happy despite coming up with multiple
reasons for my sudden “downfall.” I lay down and forced myself to rest for 20
minutes then made myself get up and walk to the drugstore to buy iron
supplements. On the walk home I popped one along with a chocolate Cadbury
egg…and slowly I began to open like a frozen daffodil just cut and put into
warm water. It was Easter, so one can indulge a bit, I told myself. Tomorrow I
will start losing weight. Sigh…
Just as I
walked in the shop at home a FaceBook friend dropped by, and in the course of our
conversation she mentioned she hadn’t seen a blog post for me in quite a while.
Yes! Someone had noticed. That felt good.
Someone had
missed hearing from me! Here was more warmth, like sunshine, flowing in...even
better than the chocolate egg.
Spring is
slow in coming this year. Snow is forecast for tomorrow. My spine aches so
intensely I must lie down again, and plan on calling the doctor tomorrow. But I’m going to return to the drugstore and
buy sunglasses that will change the color of the world from mundane gray to warm
amber hues. Simple solutions! Followed by the hard phone call…
“God grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the
wisdom to know the difference”…and God bless friends who remember us…and notice when we are
missing.
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Ponderings: On Turning Seventy: "In All It's Moods I See Myself"
Ponderings: On Turning Seventy: "In All It's Moods I See Myself": “In All Its Moods I see Myself…” Yesterday after a perfectly lovely day—in fact a day m...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Ponderings: On Turning Seventy: Give Back Your Heart to Itself
Ponderings: On Turning Seventy: Give Back Your Heart to Itself: Give Back Your Heart To Itself “The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your ...
Monday, January 15, 2018
Putting On My Astrologer's Hat
Ponderings: On Turning Seventy: Putting On My Astrologer's Hat: I was just asking myself why I was feeling this impatient, edgy mood. I haven’t been in the “groove” of my life today. I’ve been flo...
Friday, January 12, 2018
Aries North Node; The Quest for Courage
Aries North Node; The Quest for Courage
With your Aries North Node you are called to bring
forth the independent and courageous side of you…even if it means putting
yourself in situation that stress you out! Courage is the high road for Aries,
and each time you step up to the plate and accept a challenge you are on the
high road. Aries North Node people are meant to be the one who goes first—the
pioneer, the entrepreneur and the sacred warrior of the zodiac.
You may not feel like the fearless one but in the
past—either earlier in this life or in a
former life you were likely to have been enmeshed in another person’s life and
you gave away the unique Self that you truly are. You may have heeded too closely
to rules of justice, reason and skillfully getting along but it came at the
price of compromising parts of yourself in a deadening attempt to please and
accommodate.
Now you are called to give way to a more exciting,
truthful, and passionate nature. Inter-dependence rather than co-dependence is
called for now. With your Aries North Node you understand the paradoxical
nature of people and life, and you have a keen intelligence and humor that
often surprises people. When you dare to act and speak outside the norm you can
delve surprisingly deep.
In a nutshell, your soul purpose has to do with
depending on your own resources and skills rather than enmeshment with others.
It doesn’t mean you can’t marry or partner with someone else but you must be
careful not to lose yourself in the relationship. And you may often need to
take “the road less traveled.”
“Going along with things” is not the route for you,
as it leads you into the shadows. Rather show others a new way to do and act
and do that with your natural enthusiasm and good taste.
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung both had North Node in
Aries. It was very important for each of them to break away from the norms and
conventions of their time and bring forth a new psychology into the world.
Jung’s break with Freud was necessary for both of them to come to their full
potential.
Thursday, January 11, 2018
The House As Mirror of the Soul
One of my astrology clients just wrote to me about a
book called: The House As Mirror of the
Self. I knew immediately that I loved this idea because I’ve been living
it, and perhaps you have too
Have you ever
walked into a house and felt it right
away? Has a house told you about the
unspoken life of the person who lived within it?
Have you ever thought of all the different places
you’ve lived in your life and how each space reflected something that reflected
your inner life as well? Think of the progression from your childhood room to
the dorm room, to the first apartment to the first house…can you see what has
endured and what has changed in each move?
Have you noticed how your living space reflects you?
Do you need to be spacious with an “open floor plan” or are you like me, going
for an older house of character that has “cozy rooms.” No place is perfect: we
must sacrifice something in every choice we make with a house, but we also make
conscious and unconscious decisions along the way: I want this color in the
living room, I want this comfy chair, or
I must knock down this wall…who knows all the reasons why?
The author of this book says that what is most
revealing about ourselves—and the inner/outer metaphor—is less about the
building itself and more about what we
choose to put in our space, and how we arrange things. How do we feather
our nest? How will we paint the walls? And what cherished objects will we
choose to have around us that we’ve carried from house to house?
Although our house reflects something about who we are,
it never seems to be quite perfect. Perhaps that makes room for growth to
happen, both within our psyches and within our rooms For me, as much as I love
the little rooms in this old house, I often feel the need to stretch those
walls out! But I can’t. However, I see myself in the objects on the mantel over
the fireplace: the old clock, my astrolabe, the zither, and that photograph. I see myself in the cozy kitchen with the
sturdy red chairs I’ve carried with me from house to house. Some things I need.
Interesting too how the rooms in this house feel so
different from each other—is it true too for the rooms in my psyche? For me
there are public rooms and private rooms. Rooms that are dressed and rooms that
are simply meant for work; rooms for comfort and rooms for utility. Like me, the
house “needs work still.”
The Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, had the resources
and time to play out this idea of house
as mirror for the Self. In his later life he built a separate house for
himself away from his family house—a stone
house on the shores of a lake. In this cherished house he cooked without
electricity in a primitive kitchen and painted oversized murals on the stucco
walls. What started out as a one room tower grew larger every year…and he wrote
that each addition to his house was a growth in consciousness. He saw himself
as being less of a Swiss gentleman and more of a “natural man” so his creation
reflected that part of himself. Ah…we should all be so lucky to be able to do
that!
But I love my home, and I’ll continue to live within
this space that holds me so well now. Yes, this house holds me, and I feel blessed to live in a place that has sheltered
people for almost 200 years. I am grateful too for the chance to have rescued this house in foreclosure and
bring it back to life. A house that was unwanted for so many years.
Hm…what in me
was rescued? Meanwhile I’ll continue to bless these sturdy wide floorboards and
these sturdy colonial walls that have kept the fury of winter away…
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Ponderings: On Turning Seventy: A Poetic State of Mind: a Revolution in Consciousn...
Ponderings: On Turning Seventy: A Poetic State of Mind: a Revolution in Consciousn...: I forget the words she said that day as we were having coffee together. But they were similar to a George Eliot quote I was familiar wit...
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