Since mid-October, I’ve spent every spare second I have, many long three-day weekends, at my mother’s getting her house ready to sell. Sorting through closets, drawers, garages, trunks, rummaging through old photos, baby cloths, letters, old jewelry, etc. My mom has lived at this house for 20 years. There’s a lot of stuff to go through. We are also painting bathrooms, updating hardware, reframing broken artwork, repotting plants, selling old beds, buying new ones, and putting together IKEA furniture for the staging of the house.
We are re-viewing and re-making a life.
Astrologically, this is a pretty powerful time to be sorting through my mother’s basement. Mercury went into retrograde on Nov 24th and will stay there until Dec 13th. We are also in the middle of a solar eclipse (Nov. 25th) and a lunar eclipse (Dec. 10th). Mercury retrogrades invite us to review, revision, reorganize, revamp and retell our story before moving ahead with the business of manifestation. The two eclipses push hidden energies from the unconscious into the light. There is an emotional volatility to the process as eruptions in the psyche make their way to the surface. (more…)