Take a chill pill, it’s over…
BUCKLE UP, BUTTERCUP - IT’S DONE!
Can you hear that? - the sound of my full body exhale - now that Pluto (aka Hades, Lord of the Underworld), has FINALLY left my Capricorn sign, after 16 years? If you are a Capricorn (or have Cap as your rising or moon sign in your natal chart) you have felt the intensity of life since Pluto arrived in 2008 too. Put on your party hat though - it’s OVER, as today, November 19, marks the commencement of a brand new era. (Even if you don’t have a Capricorn connection, you might be able to relate to what I have to share today, so keep reading.)
According to Chronogram Magazine, “Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun. Being such a slow mover, it represents long and thorough processes of irreversible transformation through destruction, death, and revelation that lead to regeneration and rebirth. Pluto puts us in touch with the zenith of our powers as well: birth and creation. Those lessons don’t come cheap.”
But 16 years worth of lessons must count for something… in 2008, I was far from feeling fulfilled, purposeful or spiritual. I was 42 years old and was feeling like all the hype I’ve been fed about how wonderful it was to be in your 40s was straight-up bullshit. I was living one of the hardest times of my life: my ex-husband‘s business was buried in an FBI investigation and legal turmoil; my teenage son was diagnosed with a rare liver disease with a potential outcome of transplant or death; and another family member was headed to recovery for prescription drug addiction. Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on legal strategies that could have instead of built us a vacation home we dreamed of, and the rapidly shrinking business wee relied onto sustain our lifestyle. I was scared as hell, living on fight-or-flight adrenaline and trying to keep my family afloat emotionally. This is when and why yoga became my savior.
I left my unfulfilling career in interior design to become a yoga teacher. By the time I was looking ahead to my 50th birthday, I began to see a glimmer of the paramount awakening I was about to experience.
Some people call this a midlife crisis; while I hate the commonality of the phrase, I do agree that it is an extreme spiritual crisis of self to not know who you are deep down inside or what makes you happy and fulfilled.
I left my marriage. I shifted my teaching portfolio, adding TRX, HiiT and Strength classes to my repertoire in addition to yoga. I moved out of family-friendly suburbs to a chic top floor apartment. I traveled to new places, ate all new foods, and so much more. I literally embodied the legend of the Phoenix, burning it all down to ashes and rebuilding and rebirthing myself into the next (and best) version of myself.
Covid, 2020. Like all of you reading this, I lost so much. As a yoga + fitness teacher, I lost 6 jobs in a single day, when shutdown / quarantine happened. In 2021 I moved to Arizona, for no reason other than I had nothing left to lose and just followed my intuition, and decided overnight to just do it. My ex-husband suddenly died, the morning after I arrived in Arizona. While working through the shock and grief, I again reinvented the kind of work I was drawn to, stepping away from teaching for nearly a year while I studied Reiki, hypnosis, and other quantum healing and spiritual paths. Damn, Pluto, you were NOT messing around when you sat your slow-moving butt down on my Capricorn sign! Again - destruction ✅- , death -✅ , and revelation that lead to regeneration and rebirth - ✅.
I have been feeling the heaviness lift over the past couple of years as this energy has slowly started moving away from me (remember, Pluto is slow 🙄 ). I have so much pride and clarity about mySelf. I have love, happiness, ease of flow in my life and incredible work opportunities that have been coming my way. The lessons didn’t come cheap; that’s for sure. But I am pretty unshakable now as a result of having proven my own strength to myself through all of these dark times.
I’m not any kind of expert in astrology, but there is no mistaking that the past 16 years of my life synchronize with what the astrological charts called for. And in case you’re not really into horoscopes and Sun signs, here’s a little humor for you to finish it up today:
xo,
Karen
