MidLife Astrology Part 1 - The Energy

In this 3 part series, we will look at how to catalyze strong, sustainable, powerful transformation during midlife so you can step into the next phase of your life with clarity, confidence, and commitment to your higher potential.

As part of this, we will look at 3 sides of this story: The Energy and Challenges, the Gifts, and the Bridge.

Lets start with the energy, both the outer energy and the inner energy. 

• Why the Midlife time period is an important checkpoint in life
• What happens during the midlife years, that creates a beautiful opportunity for awakening authenticity 
• Why many people very predictably experience challenges (often labeled as midlife crisis) which awaken a desire for meaning and purpose 

Outer Energy:

The energy of midlife shows up in many different ways and here are some of the outer indications of it:

• For some its a time of reaching their life goals, accomplishments and hard work and enjoying success. You may be stepping into greater levels of self leadership or power.
• For some its a time of intense change, often not self-initiated, possibly loss due to death, loss of job or relationships.
• For many its a time of increased responsibilities, both at home and career. And maybe even responsibility that feel more like a burden.
• Often there is a soul searching aspect to midlife—whether you have succeeded in checking off your life’s todo list or there are many items still remaining, this can be a time of evaluating where you are and where you still want to go. You may be longing for expressing in a different way. Maybe your career doesn’t feel right anymore, even if you once found joy and success in it. You maybe experiencing career burnout and are tired of the proverbial rat race. You may desire to be seen and heard for your authentic self, your uniqueness. You may feel that you are not living up to your potential. Worse, you may feel guilt for feeling this way, even asking, what is wrong with me that I’m feeling this!

All of the above may lead to an experience of feeling you are juggling a lot, possibly burnout, and even underneath the surface, a thread of discontent, melancholy or anxiety at having to handle so many things.

Inner energy:

What’s really happening during midlife is that anything that is not in higher alignment, comes up to be resolved. This inner change or outer change, in your career, relationships or health are the outer reflections of this time.

Whether you are going through change OR looking for more meaning, this energy of midlife is directly related to the energy of outer planetary transits that happen during the ages of 35-55, which act as a major checkpoint in life.

Outer planets represent the energy of soul evolution. Hence they may bring up major karmic patterns to resolve, which may first show up as big emotions and outer change, often in relationships, career and health. Many create heart opening due to ego eradicating events. When we learn to recognize them and consciously work with them, positive transformation results.

Predictability of midlife crisis:

These are the 6 main transits that happen, the energy they bring up and what their higher purpose is.

• Pluto: this is about transforming fear into empowerment. The challenge is that there is a need to face our fears of loss, and so this is a big energy to move through. An invitation to release grief, anger, resentment and fear. To step into courage and get out of our comfort zone.
• Saturn: this is about stepping into our personal authority, developing maturity and mastery. The challenge is that we could face issues with external authority figures when we don’t fully own our authority. The invitation to stop making choices driven by external needs or triggers, but recognize your sovereignty and make choices from your inner preferences.
• Neptune: this is about our connection to the divine creator energy. The challenge is that it could cause disillusionment with what we have created in our life thus far, especially ego based success. Doing what we were programmed to do or conditioned to do by parents, friends, others, external triggers, ego based goals, accomplishments, that serve only the self. Invitation to create from inner impulse rather than a response to external triggers or motivations.
• Chiron: is about stepping into our unique gifts that can help others. But the challenge is that we do need to resolve the pain of the past and any feelings of inadequacy, in order to transform it into the gift. Invitation to let go of self judgment, self hate, self rejection and reclaim all parts of you.
• Uranus: brings access to our unique genius and authentic skills and allows for accelerated awakening but it works through unexpected events that may feel chaotic if we are not fully present. Invitation to open your perception to your higher gifts, not just what you studied, or got an education in or experience thus far.
• and finally Jupiter is about connection to our higher self, higher purpose, but it could easily expand the negative in our life, if we focus on that. Focusing on the higher aspect of you and embodying your innate wisdom, rather than relying solely on the wisdom ofothers you consider more wise.

The reason that mid life challenges are predictable (mid-life crisis), or at least that many will experience some form of transition in their life during this time, is due to the predictability of these transits and the cycle of planets around the Sun.

Everyone will go through some form of it in their midlife years. We have the Pluto square and Neptune square in our late 30s, then Uranus and Saturn oppositions in our early 40s, Uranus going over Chiron at the same time etc.

Incarnating into a body is serious business. The soul has an intent, an agenda and sets up these transits as wake up calls, regularly waking us up to our deeper purpose. They provoke us to see deeper answers and become more powerful and self realized, wake up new parts of yourself that have been asleep.

We tend to set goals in our teens and 20s, when we are asleep! Over a lifetime, we build up facades that hide our true uniqueness. It could be roles, job, career etc

During midlife transits that facade starts to crack, making us feel disillusioned with success and what we've achieved or not achieved. Making us feel disillusioned with who we are.

If you are wholly focused on the physical aspect of life, meaning, dealing with the lower level details of everyday living, but not tuned into the cosmic picture and rhythms, it can be very easy to ignore the bigger reason why change is needed and hence miss out on the larger opportunities to activate your potential.

That is why, if you understand their energy and the challenges they may bring up, you can work with them consciously to receive their gift. Working consciously with these provides an opportunity positive transformation. In other words, the mid life phase is a very important time to get in alignment with our original soul purpose.

So to summarize, midlife can bring up deep desire for inner change or a response to outer change.

• Its really an awakening to life’s higher calling, a wakeup call, a strategy used by soul.
• It invites us to align with the rhythm of the cosmos through understanding the planetary transits that activate it.
• It awakens a longing to express authentically
• And provides opportunities to clear the old, uplevel our life and grow, raising our consciousness in the process, to evolve the soul. We are meant to grow and change, and embrace the new during the time.

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