A Doorway to Your Desires

(Note: Even though this was published for the Mar.10-22 time frame, you can still jump into our e-course at the bottom of this post!)

As some of you know, I LOVE astrology. It’s been the best antidote in my life for taking my own shifting energies too personally. And I get really fascinated with the global astrological “weather”; the shifts that move all of us collectively, and we’re definitely in one of those now.

My favourite astrologer is Eric Francis of Planet Waves. He’s a former journalist and he has a gift for telling the larger stories in the current sky and for presenting the shifts as doorways and opportunities that we can take great advantage of in our lives.

And we’ve got a doozy of a doorway getting ready to open next week!

Since last December 21st, Mars, the planet of desire, passion, energy and movement, has been in retrograde. That means, from the perspective of the Earth, it appears to be moving backwards in the sky and what we experience is a slow down or a challenge with all that it represents.

In Eric’s words:

Now that we’re at the dregs of the retrograde, the sensation ranges from not being able to get anything done, to determination to accomplish exactly what you need (which may or may not be working)…In psychological terms, you may be feeling frustration over direction, initiative and/or desire.

I read someone speaking on her blog the other day about feeling like she’d been “sucker punched” over this winter. For some of us, this is what Mars retrograde has felt like. It’s also had a “frozen” quality to it, like all the heat has gone out of everything.

Well, it’s time to get ready, because things are going to heat back up starting next week!

And Mars is turning around and moving forward again in a very particular place on the astrological wheel – the first degree of Leo, one of the most fiery spots in the whole zodiac. Again, in Eric’s words:

Mars stationing direct in the first degree of Leo is all about desire, motivation and identity — and the place in awareness where the three meet.

What’s especially in our faces right now are all the things that try to tell us what we’re “supposed” to want and who we’re “supposed” to be and all the ways that we’re limited in our desires without even realizing that we let go of something that’s deeply meaningful to us.

So it’s like there’s a big wind coming next Wednesday and, if we want it to take us somewhere good, we’ll need to have our course set and our sails up.

Interestingly, I’m noticing as I’m using this wind metaphor that we’ve had one wind storm after another here in Atlantic Canada. The last big one a few days ago blew down a tree very close to the house (a near miss) and covered our front yard in roof tiles!

I feel like that’s the kind of power and energy we’re talking about here, and it’s going to be important to have a way to harness it AND some conscious intention around both moving the obstacles we might have piled up over the winter and which way we want to go with it.

That’s why I’ve created a FREE 20-day e-course called
“Ignite Your Desires”.

This is exactly the kind of process I often take myself through when there’s a big shift or doorway of this kind being offered. And, to be honest, it never occurred to me that others might like to go through it too.

But a couple of recent conversations convinced me that it’s time to get out of the closet with both my own process and with the astrological stuff that I get juiced about.

It’s time to get really clear about what we REALLY want!

I’ll be sharing 10 easy to apply e-lessons, 3 audios and 2 guided meditations between now and the end of March. The course will take about 25 days from whenever you sign up, and it will take you from obstacles to clarity to action steps so you can use all this great Mars energy to make great progress on your most important desires.

Go sign up here: Ignite Your Desires E-Course.

Then come back and tell us what you’ve been noticing about your desires, your obstacles and where things have felt thwarted these last few weeks and months. (It’s SO great to know that it’s not just you, isn’t it?)

And yes, it is free, so please share the link with others so that as many of us as possible can use this wind for the greatest good!

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