Since this is an Astrology blog after all, I thought I would get back into the swing of things by finally looking at the horoscope for the day of my accident. I have always gone back to astrology when life gets overwhelming, and boy was this overwhelming. It was 23 days after I had posted my last horoscope here, for the upcoming month of February, when I plowed head-on into the side of a car that had run a red light. Not only had the car run a red light, it was barreling down the road the wrong direction for the lane it was traveling.
I don't normally let the people in my life be privy to the inner workings of my brain and how I analyze events through the lens of astrology (mostly because I lose them somewhere along the way and their eyes start to glaze over), but I think this is such a great example of how I use astrology in my life, I knew I had to share my process. For any of you other astrologer types out there, my birthday is May 16, 1974, 4:18 AM, Aberdeen, WA. My life changing car accident happened on February 8, 2014 at 3:25 pm in Colorado Springs.
There was so much going on in my life; yet, I had felt hopeless and stuck for a long time. Although I was struggling through the practice of writing horoscopes and keeping in touch with clients, I was feeling very detached from astrology, friends, clients and all the things that used to make me... well... ME! I can remember talking to an old friend that was telling me she wished I could post horoscopes more consistently because she got so much from them. I thanked her for the complement, but I didn't feel anyone else was getting much from them. I actually shook my head and laughed a few days ago when I actually logged back in here and read what would have been my horoscope for February. The very first piece of advice I gave Taurus: "You are being asked to shake up your routine and bring your focus back to career, the exchange of information, and expanding the idea of what you have to offer the world."
Up until that day, I had resigned to making astrology a hobby. I was actually in the last semester of a medical assisting program. After the accident, I wasn't even sure if I was going to be able to physically finish the program, let alone do the job once I was done. I had pinched nerves in my neck causing anywhere from 3 to 7 of my fingers to be numb at any one time (not good for phlebotomy, my other certification), I had a pretty sever concussion, and literally sprained the muscles in my jaw and skull. While looking at the horoscope for the day, the first thing that strikes me is the intense tension of all the aspects. Transiting Pluto (the planet of destruction, rebirth, confusion and conflict), is moving right over my mid-heaven, giving my desire for rebirth and change, even if it comes in the form of destruction, a full audience for everyone in my life to watch this play out (my car accident was even in the news that night).
As Pluto was separating from my natal mid-heaven (Pluto was at 12 degrees Capricorn that day, my natal chart mid-heaven is at 8 degrees Capricorn and transiting Venus, my ruling planet, was at 14 degrees Capricorn and in the middle of it all), these planets were all moving into closer opposition to my natal Mars (The planet of energy, impulsiveness and activity) at 15 degrees Cancer (my natal 4th house and the place where home is felt for me). All of this was happening while Mercury was retrograde (Of course! Did you notice the car I ran into was even going backwards!), and only 2 degrees away from Neptune (chaos) forming a quincunx (discord) to my natal Pluto! For those of you following along that don't fill in the astrology blanks, what this says to me is that I was reaching a huge turning point in my life. It was coming suddenly, possibly violently, was created by confusion, would definitely cause confusion, and there was no way the universe was going to let me keep the status quo after this event. Another important aspect to the "crash" of the day, is brought together with transiting Mars just starting to separate from a conjunt with my natal Uranus and both of these planets are forming a very tight quincunx to my natal Sun in Taurus. This is probably the most telling of all the other aspects from the day. A sudden, unexpected event, coming together with raw energy and sparking action, all touching off the elements my 7th house of partnerships, connecting with discord to my natal Sun (the planet symbolizing vitality) which sits in my first house of identity. The accident was the final straw my marriage could no longer withstand. My husband moved out about 3 month later, and it was a huge relief.
There is so much to the reading of this chart, I'm going to pick it up again sometime, I'm sure. What I can say in short is that with all of the chaos, disillusionment, and forced growth caused by the 8th of February 2014, Jupiter (the planet of expansion and opportunity) was also sitting right in the middle of it all. So, to sum it all up, as I was going through this I knew I was going to be a better and wiser person when I reached the other side. I was being asked to reevaluate who I was and what I had to offer the world - and I was being told to dig deeper; there was more.
I was given a once in a lifetime opportunity to be helped by outside circumstances (Transiting Saturn was quincunx my natal south node in Gemini) to force through the blockages concerning the past lives and Karma I was ready to be free of. So, for all these reasons, and all the ones I haven't mentioned yet, I don't look at my accident, my surgeries on my neck, my wrist and my jaw, or my divorce as a tragic set of circumstances. I think of these events as the culmination of all the universe was willing to provide in order for me to learn to be the best version of myself. I would never have done the work I needed to do without the catalyst. The Universe, God, the supreme force in the ether, whatever it is out there that I feel never leaves me in the dark longer than I can handle, gave me just as much as I could handle. I didn't handle it perfect, but I know I'm on the right path, because I am right back here where I belong, feeling like Sarah again, and knowing I can survive any test I am given.
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