Q. I realise this is a year of change and transition, maybe especially for certain people. I guess I have a lot of conflicting thoughts and confusion. I do sit and chant. Painting also brings peace into my life. I feel I am getting more discomfort in my daily routine. Is this due to the current transits or …. ?

A. The urge towards your very own personal transformation and revolution is very present, probably stronger than your system is allowing yourself to feel at this point.

There is a point in the chart called the Midheaven which is the highest point of the chart, the cusp of the House of career and vocation and is the major indicator of how we project our individuality into the world via our professional life (even if that profession is being a mother, for instance). It’s an indices of our identity.

The Progressed Midheaven describes how the above is evolving and developing at this time in your life and is at seven degrees of Aries, which basically means that seven years ago something shifted significantly inside you in relationship to the world which was calling you to claim more and more of the fiery independent parts of your nature. And has continued to do so since… click ‘Read More’ below to continue…

This theme is now being radicalised as Uranus has started crossing this point only weeks ago and will continue to back and forward over it in the next 18 months. This is a very clear pointer towards the need for dramatic and liberating change in your life direction. At the very least you need to find something to do in the world that engages your passion, individuality and fire.

Your lifestyle is probably too passive for you. Even though you are a Libran, you have 7 planets and asteroids in Virgo and 8 in the Houses of service, the 6th and 12th, quite an extraordinary situation but with a Pisces Moon and multiple squares to Saturn in Sagittarius. It’s fair to say then that your chart has leaned you strongly in the direction of duty and responsibility, while suppressing more vibrant parts of self. Uranus is attempting to recorrect that along with the deeper transformative urges of Pluto.

Underneath all this Virgo energy lies an equally stacked 5th House, house of the Child, creativity, self-expression, play and love affairs. It’s no wonder then that your painting, and chanting soothe you, as the wellsprings of creativity and “being-ness” are deep here. Virgo is also a brilliant and profound energy system but with so much Saturn influence, its own gifts are inhibited as well.

What appears to be missing is the wild, dynamic and free child and the appearance of Uranus in Aries speaks of that Child breaking through to the surface, hence the restlessness and discomfort. So this calls on the adult in you to provide outlets that support this urge towards creative liberation, whether dance, movement, dynamic forms of art, anything that’s going to get your fire going. The more you can do this, the greater the insight and clarity about which new ways to direct your life.

This theme is supported by the progressed position of Eros joining your Pisces Moon, the son of Venus and Mars who is also connected to the playful, expressive and erotic aspects of the child and inner adolescent. Time for more fun, joy and risk-taking. Even on a superficial astrological level, the areas of good possibilities are study, travel, groups, new friendships and further spiritual, sexual, creative and healing explorations.

There is no doubt that this will challenge the overprotective and conservative parts of your nature, so you have to expect fear and resistance to surface, but in the face of these larger than life energies, change is inevitable. This urge is coming from within you as much as without and the best path is to get proactive in getting in alignment with this calling. There is much joy and freedom to look forward to after a period of relative chaos.

Go well!