LIFE STEPS COACHING

Yesterday I went to Santa Cruz for an Astrology reading with Vicki Noble.  More and more I've come to believe that astrology has more to offer me than just mere curiousity.  The moment I remember being most convinced by that was when I realized how strong the pull of the Moon is on my monthly menstrual cycle.  An impact so physical is hard to deny.  I reckoned that if the Moon has this power, why wouldn't all the other celestial bodies have elemental powers over life cycles as well.  I definitely can't say that I can give a very grounded explanation for why I feel Astrology is so enlightening, but its a belief that is growing over time.  I do know that for the value to be there you must receive a reading and the interpretation with a very open mind and heart.  By that I mean you might hear, for example, that you have a life-lesson to learn in your lifetime that you would rather deny.  I did my best to keep my natural "filters" out of what my astrology reading was telling me.  It seemed to me that if I remained open to the reading, while simultaneously holding an honest sense of who I am and always have been in the world, that I found a LOT of resonance in my charts. 

Life Map
My reading ended up giving me a greater context for some of my historical struggles, and how these paradoxically have to do with my future destiny.  I liked having something "neutral" besides my husband, a friend or a parent to validate my exprience - both in the past and as a vision for the future.  I learned how some of the struggles and blindspots in my life have their place in the bigger picture of my astrological consititution.  I also learned that so many of my natural impulses and leanings are part of this bigger picture, and that in this astrological model, it is important that I follow them because they are part of my celestial life map.  Perhaps most imporatnatly this helped me to see how i can let go of fears that I should live up to, or behave, or be anything other than myself. 

Heavenly Sky
The sky is so vast - by day and by night.  Heaven.  It's such a big part of our symbolic mental view.  Every time you walk out the door the sky envelops you like a great big endless pillow. Its very sweet to entertain the thought and the imagination with the notion that all those twinkling lights up there in the sky represent the many different life energies we experience here on Earth, and that if we let them, they can help guide us on our path.