Portland, Maine. USA
I was fortunate enough and grateful to have assembled with my family up in Maine via Boston for a long weekend. Portland, Cape Elizabeth and the Boston area are part of my childhood and I and we haven't been in decades, so it felt wonderful to be back!
I grew up with the sea. The smell of it, it's changing tides, changing waves and the seafood that comes out of it. It’s truly an old “sea” vibe out there, the word “ocean” doesn’t seem to quite fit right to me up in Maine, even though it is the Atlantic Ocean.
I’m so impressed by how things line up sometimes. Astrologically this trip was super Cancer energy. Cancer season on this visit, being with family, memories, eating comfort food (lot’s of lobster! not a Crab but a Crustacean at least!), and being by water and on water. We stayed on a little island north of Portland and spent some time on a Casco Bay ferry as well as visited some of our favorite seaside parks.
Lighthouses
Symbols of safety, strength, course correction, vigilance, shining a light in the dark. In daylight, a commanding presence. 24/7, they’re constant. A watch-out of danger. A beacon. A signal. A signal that is powerfully seen or heard over great distances. It makes itself known for the safety of travelers. A guide. A point of navigation. A point of directional reference. A sign of land after being at sea. A point of relief from a treacherous storm or a long journey coming to harbor safely arriving. A solitary light, kept in remote locations, kept and operated in isolation sometimes by a single occupant. The light and the house require continual upkeep. The Lighthouse would be associated with The Hermit Tarot card.
Personally and briefly with the Astrology, the South Node was transiting my Pluto, Venus and Sun in Libra; I was returning to the Past and the familiar, remembering and seeing so many things and familiar places from my childhood past. It was quite amazing, the past being present before my very eyes, in the present moment. It certainly was emotional. Venus and the Sun transited my 9th House of long distance travel Cancer. Jupiter transited my South Node in Gemini again an expansion of the past.
It makes me think about how far we come from our childhood. All of the Astrological cycles that shape us over the years. At each ending and onset of a cycle we gain new perspectives, learn and grow. We come born out of and into families at birth. Every childhood experience is very different from another, even within siblings. For some, returning to a childhood home or place can be traumatic, sad, very difficult emotionally. Depending were you are on your Journey visits like that can be a leave behind, a let go, healing or rejuvenating, a relief in some way or a celebration. Either way, personal, and a part of us. A part of us to show self-compassion towards perhaps or forgiveness in some instances to release past pain.
Think about a winding trail up along and around a small mountain. As you walk on your journey you come to the same place yet the view is slightly different, it's not exactly the same place but a ring around the mountain higher and so a slightly different perspective as you wind up. We left where we were, to be were we are, with the experience of the past.
On another note on the past. Pluto, the South Node, The Moon (and also Cancer to an extent) play big roles in what we come into this world already with. These energies are like pre-installed programs. We are familiar with them, it's known, it's a safety zone, we've done it before, we are comfortable and secure in these energies, yet some of these energies are unconscious to us. Astrology helps bring some behaviors to light. And so with Evolutionary Astrology we can see in these placements what we gravitate to and hold onto with an evolutionary intent and desire to leave that safe "harbor" and travel into unknown lands that help us evolve and grow in this life and into the next. With these new, and sometimes challenging experiences, we can return, evolved, transformed.
Have a safe Journey,
Christopher
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