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
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
Friday, September 13, 2013
Excerpt from book: "North Node Astrology; Rediscovering Your Life Direction and Soul Purpose"
Following
the threads
of chosen words,
One
crafts a story
as one crafts a life--
Following
the threads
of small acts of choice
and courage—
Raveling
and unraveling
the particulars of a life
Following
the story-line home.
Catching
hold of a purple thread of sorrow--
a
yellow line of joy—
I
needle through the cloth,
buttoning together the places of the heart
that must be bound.
Knarlly
and knotted; piecing and stringing
this tapestry together by such fragile
threads--
I hide the back-side
from view.
‘Such
a beautiful piece’ they say—
‘Strung
together
by
such rich, colorful threads’.
Yet
I know how I suffered the broken threads--
The
illusions, false engagements, subtle betrayals—
So much paradox and possibility;
At times, the fabric barely held.
For
far too long--
I’d
look at the torn places
And
tried to sew
through button-eyes—
Un-knotted—
They
released themselves--
As I sought to make connections
That
were not mine to make.
But
now the needle moves rhythmically
through the holy quartet
of a single button—
I see how the parts relate—
How
the singular threads
Need to be knotted and interwoven—
Buttoned with the belief
That there are meaningful patterns
In this life of fifty-eight years…
The
stitches are beginning to hold;
the torn places are mending.
Slowly
and persistently
the
heart still cries out—
And
what needs to become attached,
Attaches--
And
what needs to become detached,
Detaches--
And
nothing gets thrown away…
As I’ve become a keeper of buttons.
(c) Elizabeth Spring
Saturday, July 6, 2013
South Node Astrology; What You've Come Into This Life to Change~: What are the North and South Nodes? Vedic Nodes, v...
South Node Astrology; What You've Come Into This Life to Change~: What are the North and South Nodes? Vedic Nodes, v...: As many of you know, the North and South Nodes are mathematical points rather than planets, and are calculated by the intersecting orbit...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Astrology of Menopause
The Astrology of Menopause
Between the ages of 42 and 59 there is a revolution in
women’s lives that doctor’s call menopause. Astrologers have three names for
it: the Uranus Opposition around the age of 42, the Chiron Return at 51, and
the Second Saturn Return around 59. These three stages that span the entire
menopausal experience are the rites of passage into our wise woman years. Like
any journey they have their merciless moments of drama as well as quiet
epiphanies. But how might menopause be different if these times came with an
instruction manual like some of us received when we turned 13? “This is
menstruation! Welcome to Becoming a Woman.” How might it be different if we did
get a menopausal map?
Astrology offers us the closest thing to a wise woman’s
survival guide of these times that I’ve ever seen, although the links between
these three stages of menopause hasn’t been truly explored. I’m going to touch
on this huge subject and offer a few insights, although the exact timing of
these events is best explored with your own astrologer.
At the first stage of the Uranus Opposition we begin our journey by being slightly unnerved
and restless. The body’s electrical energy system begins to get reved
up---fired by new messages from our glandular system. Uranus rules the
electrical circuitry in our bodies, and the evolutionary purpose of Uranus is
to create change---our life opens up; we see new options and possibilities. Our
culture calls these years “peri-menopause” but astrologers see this as the time
when we begin to be more true to ourselves, and do things differently. We may
be shocked because repressed aspects of ourselves and long-forgotten dreams now
come forth and demand expression. The unconscious stirs as we hear ourselves
speak raw and out-spoken truths in a way that startles even us. This is the
same energy that makes us feel even sexier and stronger as we become serious
truth-tellers.
Peri-menopause is
powerful and underestimated, especially since it creeps us on us undetected.
It’s as if our internal “shit-detectors” are amped up, and we can smell a rat
or hear a lie a mile away. At this first entrance into the menopausal journey
it’s time to consciously make new plans, craft new intentions, de-clutter our
inner psyches and outer homes, and prepare for a new life. The Uranus
Opposition is the first call towards what the Jungian psychologists call
individuation; towards becoming who you truly are. Trying to maintain the
status-quo at this time is the worst thing one can do. Let this be your motto:
“Let’s do something different.”
As we move through our forties into menopause, it’s as if
we’re being stripped of the Teflon coating of hormonal agreeableness, as we’re
being catapulted into a time of intense honesty punctuated with times of
intense irritation.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
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