Astrology
- Excerpt From Blog: 'south Node Astrology': How Love Sabotages And Saves Our Lives
Sabotage? My hope is that the word ?sabotage? in the title gave you a little jolt! Yes, ?love? itself doesn?t sabotage, but the distortions and poverty of love (such as when we didn?t get ?good enough parenting?) and our interpretation of what love is...
- Are Your Planets Lobbying For Their Own Agendas--or Are You Listening To Your North Node?
"Planets Lobbying for their Own Agendas" In the February issue of Mountain Astrologer, Laurence Hillman did a great job of explaining the Nodes, especially in saying that they operate on a soul level rather than a personality...
- Book Review (with Comments!) From "new Paradigm Newswire" For New Book: "north Node Astrology"
?The question after all is said and done is just how accurate and satisfying is the North Node section of the book?when I finally read my own North Node analysis, I was happily impressed by the accuracy of its description. For me, it was a true mirror...
- South Node Astrology; How Love Sabotages And Saves Our Lives
Sabotage? My hope is that the word ?sabotage? in the title gave you a little jolt! Yes, ?love? itself doesn?t sabotage, but the distortions and poverty of love (such as when we didn?t get ?good enough parenting?) and our interpretation of what love...
- North Node As Gateway, South Node As Essence
How interesting it is that the South Node is often the essence of the first part of life and the North Node can be seen as the gateway to the second part of life. There is no automatic passing through this door, but rather a gradual movement based on...
Astrology
South Node Astrology; How Love Sabotages and Saves our Lives
South Node Astrology; How Love Sabotages and Saves our Lives
I?m just beginning my second book, a sequel to North Node Astrology?this one with the title above (and soon a new blog) to focus on that South Node aspect of astrology and the ways that love, and expectations around love, both saves and sabotages us. North Node Astrology focused more on life direction and soul purpose from the point of view of who and what we are doing in the world, and this new book would focus on how love, and lack of love, shapes our lives.
It?s a huge subject?love and loving is intricately bound up with our early attachment experiences with our parents and, in my opinion, from past life re-incarnational experiences. And as we age we develop attitudes, expectations and assumptions about how love operates in our lives. I believe quite simply that the more conscious awareness and insight we bring to this subject, the better our choices will be, and the happier our lives will be.
These two books, on the North and South Nodes, are intimately connected, because how we feel about ourselves and whether we have a sense of life direction and soul purpose, is related to our capacity to give and receive love from others. These North and South Nodes speak to those issues in our charts and they are the two of main issues clients want to know about in astrological counseling. Who doesn?t want to know: ?How can I best fulfill my soul?s work and agenda, and how and when will I experience the sweetness of love?that which makes life worth living??
There are so many types of ?love.? Our culture is permeated with the ideal of romantic love as the saving grace--in music and movies we hear about the romantic ?falling in love? and what the psychologists, the Jungians, call ?anima/animus soul projections? wherein we lose our sense of Self/Soul by giving it (projecting it) onto the other person?the beloved. Ah?such a painful ecstasy. And there?s the soothing yet more sober love that can come at mid-age, with its loyalty, dependability, and willingness to work on the issues that inevitably arise in close one-one relationships. And then there?s the compassionate love that we feel towards others we don?t even know?those people who we may be sitting with us in the emergency room in the hospital when our hearts are open, and our mutual needs felt deeply.
In the astrological chart we look at how love plays out in our lives by looking at it through the lens of Venus and Neptune and all that they represent both in our personal lives and in myth. These two archetypes give us insight into this intense play of love and illusion in our lives. The planetary archetype of Neptune runs this gamut from illusion to disillusionment, escapism, co-dependency, addiction, and being ?swept away? or being deceived and sabotaged up to the highest forms of compassion, inspiration, and divine love. It?s all in how we play it out.
Venus is a more ?grounded planetary goddess? in that she represents human love in all its sensuality and messiness, and intertwined with all the dramas of relationship. Interesting too, how Venus in astrology relates to money! As a symbol of money, it reflects something of our power or lack of power to attract to us what we think we want or need?..for what we buy and identify with in the material world is a big part of how we define and judge ourselves and others.
So both Venusian love and Neptunian love help give us a sense of identity and purpose in our lives. In this new book, South Node Astrology, we?ll look at how they show up for you as principal players in your life story. The current book, North Node Astrology also delves into this realm, especially in the long chapters: ?What?s Venus Got to Do With It? The Alchemy of Desire: Healing the Wounded Heart? and in the chapter devoted to Neptune. Both books are truly part of a whole.
South Node Astrology will acknowledge the importance of both our early life attachments to our parents as well as our past life default patterns of behavior. These two contribute heavily to how we think and feel and act on love in our life right now. But always the good news is that we can choose to continue to reframe our stories with understanding and compassion. We can make new choices based on new insights.
I?d love to hear your comments and thoughts about this?..although I?d ask you to distill the details of your stories to what you?ve learned and what insights you could share on this with the rest of us. You can respond personally at [email protected] or leave a short pithy insight or suggestion below in the comments section. www.elizabethspring.com
I?m just beginning my second book, a sequel to North Node Astrology?this one with the title above (and soon a new blog) to focus on that South Node aspect of astrology and the ways that love, and expectations around love, both saves and sabotages us. North Node Astrology focused more on life direction and soul purpose from the point of view of who and what we are doing in the world, and this new book would focus on how love, and lack of love, shapes our lives.
It?s a huge subject?love and loving is intricately bound up with our early attachment experiences with our parents and, in my opinion, from past life re-incarnational experiences. And as we age we develop attitudes, expectations and assumptions about how love operates in our lives. I believe quite simply that the more conscious awareness and insight we bring to this subject, the better our choices will be, and the happier our lives will be.
These two books, on the North and South Nodes, are intimately connected, because how we feel about ourselves and whether we have a sense of life direction and soul purpose, is related to our capacity to give and receive love from others. These North and South Nodes speak to those issues in our charts and they are the two of main issues clients want to know about in astrological counseling. Who doesn?t want to know: ?How can I best fulfill my soul?s work and agenda, and how and when will I experience the sweetness of love?that which makes life worth living??
There are so many types of ?love.? Our culture is permeated with the ideal of romantic love as the saving grace--in music and movies we hear about the romantic ?falling in love? and what the psychologists, the Jungians, call ?anima/animus soul projections? wherein we lose our sense of Self/Soul by giving it (projecting it) onto the other person?the beloved. Ah?such a painful ecstasy. And there?s the soothing yet more sober love that can come at mid-age, with its loyalty, dependability, and willingness to work on the issues that inevitably arise in close one-one relationships. And then there?s the compassionate love that we feel towards others we don?t even know?those people who we may be sitting with us in the emergency room in the hospital when our hearts are open, and our mutual needs felt deeply.
In the astrological chart we look at how love plays out in our lives by looking at it through the lens of Venus and Neptune and all that they represent both in our personal lives and in myth. These two archetypes give us insight into this intense play of love and illusion in our lives. The planetary archetype of Neptune runs this gamut from illusion to disillusionment, escapism, co-dependency, addiction, and being ?swept away? or being deceived and sabotaged up to the highest forms of compassion, inspiration, and divine love. It?s all in how we play it out.
Venus is a more ?grounded planetary goddess? in that she represents human love in all its sensuality and messiness, and intertwined with all the dramas of relationship. Interesting too, how Venus in astrology relates to money! As a symbol of money, it reflects something of our power or lack of power to attract to us what we think we want or need?..for what we buy and identify with in the material world is a big part of how we define and judge ourselves and others.
So both Venusian love and Neptunian love help give us a sense of identity and purpose in our lives. In this new book, South Node Astrology, we?ll look at how they show up for you as principal players in your life story. The current book, North Node Astrology also delves into this realm, especially in the long chapters: ?What?s Venus Got to Do With It? The Alchemy of Desire: Healing the Wounded Heart? and in the chapter devoted to Neptune. Both books are truly part of a whole.
South Node Astrology will acknowledge the importance of both our early life attachments to our parents as well as our past life default patterns of behavior. These two contribute heavily to how we think and feel and act on love in our life right now. But always the good news is that we can choose to continue to reframe our stories with understanding and compassion. We can make new choices based on new insights.
I?d love to hear your comments and thoughts about this?..although I?d ask you to distill the details of your stories to what you?ve learned and what insights you could share on this with the rest of us. You can respond personally at [email protected] or leave a short pithy insight or suggestion below in the comments section. www.elizabethspring.com
- Excerpt From Blog: 'south Node Astrology': How Love Sabotages And Saves Our Lives
Sabotage? My hope is that the word ?sabotage? in the title gave you a little jolt! Yes, ?love? itself doesn?t sabotage, but the distortions and poverty of love (such as when we didn?t get ?good enough parenting?) and our interpretation of what love is...
- Are Your Planets Lobbying For Their Own Agendas--or Are You Listening To Your North Node?
"Planets Lobbying for their Own Agendas" In the February issue of Mountain Astrologer, Laurence Hillman did a great job of explaining the Nodes, especially in saying that they operate on a soul level rather than a personality...
- Book Review (with Comments!) From "new Paradigm Newswire" For New Book: "north Node Astrology"
?The question after all is said and done is just how accurate and satisfying is the North Node section of the book?when I finally read my own North Node analysis, I was happily impressed by the accuracy of its description. For me, it was a true mirror...
- South Node Astrology; How Love Sabotages And Saves Our Lives
Sabotage? My hope is that the word ?sabotage? in the title gave you a little jolt! Yes, ?love? itself doesn?t sabotage, but the distortions and poverty of love (such as when we didn?t get ?good enough parenting?) and our interpretation of what love...
- North Node As Gateway, South Node As Essence
How interesting it is that the South Node is often the essence of the first part of life and the North Node can be seen as the gateway to the second part of life. There is no automatic passing through this door, but rather a gradual movement based on...