Aligning With The Retrograde Season
A Special Spring Somatic Therapy Offering for Retrograde Season
Holy retrogrades Batman! With 7 planets currently or soon to be turning backwards in the sky, you can expect a whole lot of flux in your inner and outer worlds for the next little while!
Wild times call for wilder agility and I'm here to help you return to yourself through the chaos and change.
I've had some of the most breakneck speed changes over the last couple of weeks! From having to pivot my Yoga retreat location to an entirely new country, to it doubling in numbers in the same time frame, to once-in-a-lifetime opportunities landing on my plate, to almost daily cancellations of clients also facing trying times keeping up with these wild and chaotic days.
How is this related to astrology?
If you don't know what a 'retrograde' is, once upon a time I wrote a post about it so you can find all the technical details there (https://wildsagewellbeing.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/what-on-earth-is-mercury-retrograde/). Basically it's the appearance of a planet in our solar system tracking backwards in the sky, instead of forwards on its regular trajectory.
Astrology, a metaphorical practice divined from ancient myth, places much weight on these reversed periods of time. Depending on the planet, they may occur rarely like once a century or so (like the outer, larger planets whose orbits around the sun are longer), or more frequently for the closer planets like Venus and Mercury.
Mercury gets lots of press as it's the governing planet of communication, and in the digital age, it's known for not just verbal communication snafus but technological ones too. It gets a bit of a bad rap though - reverse cycles, just like pauses in our natural cycles of life and fallow seasons in nature - are rich times for reflection, regathering energy, resting and realigning plans to move forward when the time is once again right... or ripe.
So over these next few weeks until September 16 you have an open invitation from the universe to take a few deep breaths and allow yourself to slow down. As this retro is in the sign of detail-oriented Virgo, it's an especially good one for going over what needs your time and attention with specificity.
The other 'inner planet' going through a retro right now is Venus. This is one of my fave mythological stories, based on the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna. Her O.G. Heroine's Journey of descent from the heavens to the underworld and back mirrors the journey that Venus is currently going though right now as it transitions from the evening to the morning star.
Venus' retro began a few weeks back in Leo and as Venus is all things feminine, I have been enjoying the rise of women in all kinds of wonderful ways, from the Women's World Cup garnering more interest than ever before locally, to Taylor Swift's multi-billion dollar economy boosting Era's tour, to Barbie's box office domination it's positive (even if not to your sporting or media tastes) to see women gaining and unapologetically claiming the light, recognition and rewards they deserve. Way to go Venus - what a wonderful world this can be!
The rest of the 7 are outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune... and if you still consider it a planet as the astrologers do (astronomers don't!) - Pluto too! Their themes touch on: luck and expansion; structure and time; addictions or indulgences; creativity and revolution; and personal power and your unconscious. So pretty much all aspects of yourself can get a 'spring clean' these next few months!
How can Somatic Psychotherapy help?
If you feel ready to dive in and address any of this wonderfully transformational content and reconnect with yourself in new and deeper ways I'd love to support you!
I've got a special offering on Spring Refresh Sesh's - 3 x 60 minute sessions for $397 available to begin between now and 23 October to help you dive deep during these valuable windows of reflection.
Contact reception to book on 6295 0400.
Ramone Bissett
Somatic Psychotherapy
