Start Here Now
Everything is already perfect in its unfolding once you have a practice of being receptive.
Or: if every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs. And I rather like sausage!
Steven Universe aside: Actual Universe and I are good friends. It gave me some wild experiences that only recently have been revealed to me as having had greater purpose, and while dear friends have encouraged my writing for some time now, insight from recent new connections have finally convinced me that what I write about may take many different forms.
A mentor once tried to help me see how I would often "put the cart before the horse," and so in my efforts to challenge and rewire the unhelpful patterns in my brain, I'm deciding that structure and organization of content will come when the time for that arrives. The important thing is to begin, and not limit myself to what I think something will be.
Even as an astrologer, I cannot possibly imagine what will be – I could not have ever imagined becoming who I am, despite all the evidence in my chart. This may have more to do with my being a novice in the academic pursuit of astrology at this stage, but far more to the point: astrology does not predict so much as delineate windows of possibility and a likelihood or predisposition of certain things to occur, as it is built on observed correlations between things happening in the sky and things happening down here, plus a whole lotta math.
It was always POSSIBLE to become Myself – and yet certainly foreknowledge would have terrified me into making different choices. But then I wouldn't be who I currently am, rather struggling with different problems altogether – and, irony of ironies, given limitless possibilities, you might even imagine me in an alternate reality where the foreknowledge I receive would push me closer to desiring or achieving the life I have now!
Supposing this is possible for everyone and everything with a natal chart, it could also be possible for both fate AND free will to coincide from a quantum perspective: each chart being able to coexist simultaneously means that we are all making choices that permit (free will) or prohibit (fate; collapsing of quantum timeline) other opportunities from occurring, for ourselves and for others. Most folks are behaving unconscious of this and often the mundane impacts and implications of their behaviors, so karma and whatever our soul clings to inform what reincarnates into the next chart.
All that to say: I cannot possibly know what, precisely, will happen. I can get close with the tools I have, but that is mostly projections (what I can delineate, which will never be the complete set of possibilities) of my mind onto the future (which thus prevents certain quantum possibilities from occurring), which can be limiting. This is one very important reason I can discern why certifying organizations for astrologers have ethics: when clients come to us in a vulnerable position – for some reason they have decided to invest their faith and money into a reading concerning some problem, decision, or desire to "know more" of something obscured from their perception or understanding – we have a great responsibility to remember that our words have real, practical impact and must be careful with what we say, both in terms of accuracy and with deference to and disclosure of the burden of foreknowledge.
Probably at some point much of this will be worked into a Practicing Philosophy, but for now, I think it suffices to say that I look forward to whatever comes of this.
Now that I've gotten that out, I recall that mundane Uranus, leaving my first house for the last time, joined my progressed Mercury at 28° Taurus yesterday. (My natal Mercury is trine my MC, where mundane Pluto has also passed over for the last time this past year.)
Everything happens right on schedule. Time for breakfast.
