MidLife Astrology Part 2 - The Gifts

The real gift behind midlife transits is that it prepares you for self realization. To know yourself as Divine Creator.

Now, if you are in the eye of the midlife storms, then it may not seem that way. It can be hard to see that as a gift when you are experiencing mid life as a crisis.

But those outer symptoms are just bringing to light the inner patterns that needs to be transformed. All that is in misalignment that needs to be transformed into alignment.

Here are some of of the gifts that emerge when you treat this time as a catalyst for positive change rather than a crisis to respond to:

• Heart opening time (HOT) due to Ego Eradicating Events (EEE). This is a big deal. Now the ego is a structure that keeps you in separation from the external world and can be very much about its own purpose and a fixed way of creating life. During mid life transits, a more expanded purpose for your life starts to reveal to you if you allow it to do so and opens your heart along the way. As a result of ego dissolution, compassion and self love amplify, leading to opening of the heart and vice versa. Eg Chiron transits will bring opportunities to dissolve self-judgment and self-blame, and develop unconditional self compassion. Pluto transits may dissolve what you thought was secure, and give opportunities to transform fears into courage. Outer world success either dissolves, is harder to come by or you are disillusioned with what you have created. Both these transits can be a humbling time and open hearts. This means that you allow things to touch you and you may cry a lot because they move you to tears. If you don’t let it harden again, and keep the heart open, you start to receive the real gifts of the transits. The soul is asking you to dig deeper here, because an old chapter is closing. But the ego can be very tricky and very sticky and can hold onto things past their prime. This is something to watch out for, because it can prevent you from reaching for authentic gifts. eg. If I had let the ego run the show, I might never have embraced astrology. But its one of my strongest gifts and opened me to a brand new world and paved the way for a new career. I had to let go of what the ego thought was ‘feasible’, ‘viable’, ‘practical’ etc and open my heart to the unknown.
• Awareness of how you use your life force to create your life starts to emerge. You see that life and relationships mirror the energy within. As your learn ways to purify your life force energy, this clears karmic patterns. You become more intentional with what you choose to commit your energy to. This is one of the three keys we will dive into in the next section of this series, called the Bridge.
• Sovereignty: As a result of the above, the focus starts to change from your life run by external triggers and inputs (what the Ego LOVES to go after) to being informed by the divine creator impulse within. You start to listen to the Authentic Voice within and respond to that instead of responding to the outside inputs. Now that your heart is wide open, you are aware of what you really desire to create, and create from the joy of it rather than what the outside world is clamoring very loudly for you to do.
• Creativity unlocks leading to your life/soul purpose amplifying. You start to feel ALIVE! Self expression flows, resulting in the gift of new identity that is authentic. As new light comes in through various transits, as the body embodies more light, our expression changes. It needs to change! It needs to become more authentic or else it gets suffocating, it feels stifling, like something is off. There is an urgency to heal this. This impacts our relationship with everything, others, our career and all of life. What is authentic self expression? It means you think, feel, speak, be, your truth, the things that give you joy, the things that you care abut. It doesn't just mean creative expression, although that is a big part of it. But that you know your real strengths and have chosen to express some or more of the strengths through the way you live your life.
• Embodiment of higher and unique skills and superpowers are awakened by the sacred timings of the transits and strengthened by life force mastery. Higher next level skills come through.
• Creator state awakens, a you start to know yourself as Divine Source. Trust in the unknown and your creator ability awakens as you give authentic expression to the Divine Creator within you.

Why it is a big deal, how you deal with these challenges!

If you understand what is going on transit wise in your life, you can lean into them and work with them instead of against them. Planetary transition points offer the most incredible opportunity to experience the above gifts and a container for accelerated awakening to become genuinely powerful, self realized, authentic. Our Soul speaks to us VERY loudly during this time and it can be an important turning point in our lives.

If you don’t take advantage of the transits, the energy builds up in the next transit, and it likely gets harder due to a greater energetic overload that needs to be resolved; there is heavier stuff to deal with.

Wherever there is misalignment, wherever there is stagnation in our life, the transits bring lessons in the form of challenges. Our job, is to know the big picture and meet these challenges with courage, knowing it will transform. Not treat it like a ‘crisis’, but catalyst.

You can’t find meaning in life if you are not expressed authentically. If you don't find your job emotionally satisfying, ask yourself, are you being expressed?

Are you actually being who you really are? Do you know who you really are? And are you expressing your truth?

Your identity is meant to change during these midlife years. If you stick on to who you were, you risk going through life on autopilot, not fully realizing the level of aliveness that is possible.

The midlife planetary transits open doors to your next higher level expression. In the final part of this article we will look at the Bridge and how to receive the gift of these transits.