I LOVE working with the Elements in a birth chart! They can tell us so much. So simple, and you don't need to know a thing about Planets, Signs and Houses. <G>
One of the first things I learned when studying with Debra Silverman, I have 4 planets in Fire signs, my Sun being in Leo, and I never really "felt" the Fire in my life, never really recognized myself as a Leo.
I took Debra's Elemental survey, and learned that my Water was very high, scoring 9.5 out of 10. Basically, my Water was drowning out my Fire.
The survey showed me where I was now in my life.
My birth chart showed me what I was born with, what I am called to be.
And an astrologer was able to give meaning to all of this in a reading. For me, I learned that I needed to work on my Fire. It was suggested that I try dance and exercise. I got a personal trainer. I was exercising regularly. Everyone would keep asking me, "Don't you feel the "rush"?" What rush? When I exercised, all I could feel was tired and sore. No rush. Awhile later, I was blessed with a reading from another astrologer. In that reading, we looked at my relationship to power, how I filter a lot of things, how as a young child I was afraid of speaking up, of using my own voice for fear that I wouldn't be cared for or for fear of what would happen if I did. I lost my voice. I lost my words. I had put myself into a self-protective loop, fearing my emotions, learning that it was safer to be seen but not heard. I didn't want to contribute to the difficulties that my parents were going through. My astrologer was gently but firmly letting me know that it was time now to let that go.
I was at a crossroads, having experienced a tremendous amount of grief over my lifetime, and it was important now to get out of my head and stop intellectualizing those experiences. It was time now to use the Water that I was gifted with and feel the feelings and let them go.
She told me directly that I was afraid of my own power, my own self-value.
That was one of the reasons why when I exercised, I could not feel the rush. She encouraged me to continue to push myself beyond the limits that my trainer was setting for me, and that led me to boxing.
Boxing has really helped to ignite my Fire. I can feel the "rush", the emotion, and most of all, I love it and it's fun! And this is with over 50 years of lived experience and I'm just now learning this about myself!
Forever learning and growing.
She left me with the challenge to use my Water (intuitive, spiritual, feels deeply) and the power of Neptune (letting go, surrender, sacrifice, forgiveness, finding peace) to give voice and power to my feelings, to tell the truth, to stop filtering what I'm going to say in order to keep others happy and not rock the boat, to let what I say come straight from my feelings, to have the courage to just talk and not write everything down, to be authentic.
She told me that Leo is really good at pretending. It's time to step out from the shadows, to trust my Heart and all that Water and then let my Heart shine from the inside out, and to show what being a Leo is really all about.
Now THAT is the gift that an astrology reading can give, an honest description of ourselves, encouragement, direction and support, gift-wrapped in love.
The question is, am I open to receive the gift? What am I going to do with the gift after it's been unwrapped?
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Namaste!