My intention immediately was to speak a bit in regards to the upcoming photo voltaic eclipse, occurring at 29 Virgo this weekend, on Sunday September 21.
I’ve recorded a detailed podcast on the Photo voltaic eclipse in Virgo, together with suggestions for working with this eclipse for every of the 12 completely different Ascendant indicators. You possibly can catch the podcast right here or wherever you take heed to podcasts.
However as I’m writing, I can’t assist however discover the date – September 18. That’s an vital milestone for me personally, because it was on this date 17 years in the past that I first landed at Toronto airport, to reunite with Peter and start my life in Canada.
Assembly Peter
We met just a few months earlier than, on the UAC astrology convention in Denver. Since then, he’d come for a go to to Sydney, and we’d met – jokingly we are saying for our third date – in Maui for a weeklong journey. (Effectively, it was solely the third time we had seen one another! 😊)
That was throughout the Beijing Olympics, and we watched a few of the occasions in Maui collectively, together with the Males’s 8 Rowing, the place Australia didn’t do in addition to hoped and Canada gained.
After which just some weeks later, I used to be on a aircraft, suitcases in tow, to ‘See what would occur!’ if I moved international locations and we explored what being in the identical city may imply for our blossoming relationship.
Shifting to Canada
Wanting again, it sounds completely wild, in the best way that a few of life’s most vital experiences could be. We hadn’t even recognized one another for six months.
But there I used to be, strolling by customs, getting my work visa stamped – and magically prolonged from the usual two 12 months to a few years – and there was Peter, ready to satisfy me.
I’d like to say we left the airport collectively and by no means appeared again however since actual life is messy, there have been undoubtedly some moments in these first few months the place I struggled. It was a harsh winter, I used to be extremely chilly, the quantity of snow was insane, and I used to be sort of lonely.
Life Was Messy
I used to be comfortable being with Peter, however beginning my profession nearly from scratch was intense, and the lengthy winter nights have been so completely different from what I used to be used to. At one level that winter, watching vehicles piled up excessive with snow drive out of the neighborhood (to assist hold the roads clear) I questioned if I’d landed on the Moon! It was so utterly international to this lady who’d spent her early years in Fiji and had grown up in Sydney.
And whereas that was a season of exploring the unfamiliar, Peter and I continued to stroll on collectively. And since we’ve now been married for 12 years, I’d say it labored out nicely.
Wanting Again + Appreciating the Current
I may by no means have imagined life now from the attitude of again then.
The wildest goals of that younger lady, beginning a brand new life in a spot that was so vastly completely different from something she’d recognized, have been exceeded past all expectations, personally and professionally.
Repeating Virgo and Pisces Eclipse Cycles, 2006 – 2008 to 2024 – 2026
After I assume again to that point, I’m additionally reminded that it was throughout late 2006, 2007 and early 2008 that the nodes have been then the place they’re now – the North Node was in Pisces, and the South Node was in Virgo.
The eclipses from then are just like the eclipse season we’re in now.
So, whereas that was my private stroll down reminiscence lane, as impressed by these present eclipses, I’d invite you to reminisce in regards to the particular person you have been, and the sorts of adjustments you made in 2007 or 2008.
How a lot have you ever modified, grown, developed since then?
The echoes of what was stirred up then are carried inside the swirling shadows of the present eclipses.
Longing, Goals and Shadows
Is there a longing from then that you’ve got but to meet?
(I actually did wish to depart Sydney then, to maneuver someplace hotter. That joke was completely on me – however that eager for extra saltwater lingers inside.)
Is there a dream from then that you just’ve fulfilled after which some?
No matter all of the fantastic skilled alternatives which have come my means since I moved, I’m most happy with my marriage and the robust partnership Peter and I’ve constructed, by elevating youngsters, navigating households in two completely different international locations, finding out life and profession and well being and all the things that goes into sharing a life with one other fantastic, wild, inspiring and messy human.
Letting Go to Develop
As this Photo voltaic eclipse in Virgo is fed by the South Node to encourage launch and clearing, figuring out what dream you most lengthy for may show you how to let go of what is perhaps in the best way.
I may by no means have imagined precisely the place I’m now, however I used to be prepared to go away behind what I knew to strive one thing completely different. Beneath this South Node eclipse, what are you able to let go of?
For extra on this Photo voltaic Eclipse in Virgo, try my podcast right here. I’d love to listen to your eclipse reflections and experiences. Let me know within the feedback beneath.