astrological midlife crisis

“Change is terrifying. However, its alternative — stagnation — is even more frightening.”

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“Yeah, so my intuitive was saying that…” —> You’ll sometimes catch me uttering this most LA sentence ever as I relate to someone’s story, or speak to something serendipitously coming up. Cringe, but also, true.

One of the things that my intuitive WAS saying (can you feel my eyes rolling AT myself) recently was about this idea of a Uranus (I will forever have the humour of a 10-year-old) opposition. This is when, basically, our world turns upside down (no biggie). At around age 40-42, transiting Uranus opposes our natal Uranus (roughly half your life has passed and the other half is ahead - leading to a Uranus return at around age 84). This is a period of major personal awakening - or, if you will, an astrological midlife crisis.

I am very much in mine right now. I can feel the urgency. Not in a factual, planned, logical way, gosh, that would be too simple. But it is deep in my being. Is it related to work? Relationship? Or living situation? Yes. The answer is Yes. It’s ME relating to all these things, not those things proper.

Problem is, those are BIG things to be re-negotiating with yourself without a lot of fact, plan or logic. The FEELING is that of a breakthrough with nowhere to go.

So where does that leave me? I feel the shifts will happen regardless of my resistance to them or my insisting on them, so the key (once again) is to surrender. To explore what feels right. What feels clear. Thanks midlife transits for pushing me in a direction I would have needed to be pushed in at some point anyway. Time to put boundaries, action, and grit into action.