In any given moment in time, there is an overarching planetary dance which infuses our Earthly experience with a particular ambience. We often don’t notice or pay attention to these subtle infusions and way-showers, as our focus tends towards being understandably Earthbound. And we are encouraged to notice with our minds and to trust that way of receiving and processing information.
Yet we are able to listen to these cosmic resonances and shifts, in our bones. Airy-faery? Too Totnessy? Hippy dippy? Nope…The majority of elements in a human body were forged inside ancient stars. So we really do ‘know in our bones’, as a tuning fork, a barometer, or a divining rod. Behold the sky at night in all its wonder and beauty. Create a quiet calm space of ‘being’ which enables dropping down into your body. And humbly listen to the music of the spheres.
And then wonder. And be curious. And explore.
This is how I believe the wisdom of astrology began. With a deep bone knowing. A deep memory of belonging, touched and moved in ancient people. A watching of the wandering stars dancing in the vault of the heavens, with wonder and awe. A noticing of resonances. A curiosity. A desire to map. A wish to track rhythms, cycles and to make correlations. A hunger for sense-making. A wish to honour heaven and earth entwining, A seeking of some primal connection, remembered in our bones. We thus began to listen to the song singing through the stardust of our bones, and to weave it into our everyday as an offering. A weaving of earth and cosmos, an opening dialogue, an earthly creating and crafting with varying ambience, style and vibe, the bringing of each moment into matter, in response (often unbeknownst to our conscious minds). And ceremonies emerged, as an honouring of cycles and thresholds – a singing back to the stars.