I’ve been writing about acupuncture lately, which I sought for a problem that developed (i.e. couldn’t ignore it anymore) this year but of course Mr. Lee isn’t just going to put one needle in one point. He’s going to take into account the entire body. Needles so far in my forehead, ear, hands, arms, feet, legs, stomach. I must look like a fucking pin cushion. I can’t look. I have a needle phobia. Have I mentioned that part yet?
And my acupuncture sessions lead me to tremendous emotional release (a topic I was also writing about on Christmas) which wasn’t why I sought out Mr. Lee in the first place. I thought I was dealing with the physical body only. Yeah right. As if. I’d prefer that a physical symptom be just that. Easily treated. Getting well can feel like an impossible dream.
But what I wanted to mention today is this: how just a couple days ago I was wishing there were a therapist on site to help process the feelings right after acupuncture BUT I realized today (drumroll please!) the release itself is the point. The release itself (tears, qi moving again) has value. THAT is the healing. Do you get what I’m saying because I just barely do. The release ITSELF heals. The processing/thinking is optional and may or may not lead you anywhere.
It’s like pee 🙂 You have to pee. You have to get it out. You don’t sit there and analyze (yes I have my Moon in Virgo) the contents and history of that particular pee, what you ate, what you drank. Sometimes the processing is a delay tactic, delays the healing. The body wants to hold on to its sickness until it is prodded into letting it go. Until the body knows, believes, it is OKAY to let it go.
So my question today for you isn’t about the current sky although the current sky includes Mars getting ready to move into my AHA 6th House of health and healing 🙂 my question is this: what does health look like for you? Do you think about it? Are you having a 12th House or 6th House transit? Or a 1st House transit?
Suddenly I also realize that the more I release these… children… thinking of trapped emotions in the body as my children, the more I let them go, the more I stop holding on, the clearer I’ll be able to see.
We have a Full Moon in Cancer on Friday and she’ll oppose (fight with, refuse emotional balance with) Sun Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto on the Sun intensifies the ego/identity/self of self while making it feel like shit. Pluto is the death drive and conjunct the Sun creates enormous strength desire will, will power, but easy for it turn paranoid tyrannical. Uranus in Aries squares this trinity. It’s a bad, very bad, dinner party. Somebody (or everybody) goes home crying. Doesn’t have to be you though. You can be the one to send the consoling message, the one who reaches out.
Before we get to that point though, the Sun in Capricorn is sextiling Chiron (right now) which is appropriate for my healing journey and yours too. The Sun is you. Chiron in Pisces is the Christ (and I mean that universally, in an Edgar Cayce way).
If you find yourself at a loss on Full Moon day, be Libra (as I was mentioning before). Grace under pressure. And who knows? Quite possible 7 Cancer is well aspected in your chart and that will soften any stress. Saturn in Scorpio trines the Full Moon. Your emotions are real. Your instincts are right on. I’m trying to think of a suggestion, a ritual, for you and what comes to mind is that movie Like Water For Chocolate. Remember the scene where the girl cries into the dish she’s making. Do that but in reverse. Not tears of heartache, but of freedom. To quote Elizabeth Bishop: rainbow rainbow rainbow and I let the fish go!
xo
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10 thoughts on “The Stars Today: Sun Sextile Chiron”
I’m glad it’s helping you. I loved the term “trapped emotions”, it could also be trapped memories hmmm. I’m sure some of us are afraid to really work on ourselves because we’re afraid of what’s really there.
My mom has Trigeminal Neuralgia which is severe facial pain, she had gamma knife for this & it stopped the pain completely. It returned less sevre years later & I took her to an acupuncurist. During the 1st treatment tears were flowing even though she wasn’t “crying”, she slept for hours afterward. She only did the 1 treatment telling me she was afraid of him triggering the facial nerve. Now I wonder if she was worried about a different kind of pain she felt during her treatment.
This is a very interesting post. Nothing transiting my 12th but my 6th has Chiron & just realized Uranus is close. SHIT! I suck at my own health care. I get the Like water for chocolate, I think of this often as I cook when I’m sad- I don’t lean over the food even if I’m not crying. GREAT STUFF!!!
Interesting, Tracie. On the acu table, I do not feel the emotional experience. It starts to happen an hour or so after…. A friend said this is why he does not get massages. Because he knows his “stuff” will come up.
Yes, I need to make sure that I sleep for hours after…. I think when I don’t, I suffer. THe body has to recover. Yes, many of us are Chiron/uranus transits now…
Ok…I typed “realize ” twice on my smart keyboard and it throws out “despise “…*sigh* It made other mistakes too. Typos. :p
MP this was an excellent post! Really resonates with me.
Also… it makes me want to get acupuncture done again. There’s a clinic I need to look up. I also have a phobia of needles. lol. But damn does it work. Indeed, release. (I like the pee analogy btw, lol).
More pee! 🙂 Ya know I wouldn’t be doing it, if it wasn’t for a physical health thing, the thing that got me in the door.
Sorry..I have to continue here…the tears just gushed forth. And I went to look in the mirror and had a conversation with myself…it’s time yo learn to value myself. And the release did bring me peace. I don’t know where I learner this not valuing of myself. But it doesn’t matter as much as the fact I despise it and can now DO something about it.
What does health look like to you?
Well I feel it looks like clarity, balance and the ability to value oneself. This is beyond just being fit. I am having a 12h house transit and I sm despising I don’t value myself. I came to realize this when this evening, I decided to do some Yoga. I was following a Dvd. At one point it was becoming very hard for me. I tried to have compassion for that. But as I continued, I felt tears rising up….and I knew I was releasing a deep pain…most likely Chiron related that I did not value myself. That I had let my health and body go. And sd this realization dawned on me…
I saw this idea somewhere else recently… the idea that the release IS the healing. Yes, it was in a book on tantric sex. (lol) It wasn’t about the sex part, but a thing they do in their relationship. A kind of ritual where they must get up and do something physically expressive such as repeatedly punching a pillow or jumping up and down, or screaming as loud as they can or sprinting across the street and back. I don’t even remember the exact context but the IDEA of it was that intense emotions require a physical outlet and that in providing that, afterwards, there is a feeling of peace.
I hear you. I am familiar with that totally. That’s my life in a nutshell. Intense emotions needing physical release. Something about the acu emotions though… they sneak out, they snake out….. it’s all very……. I think raw is the word. Ah I know what it is! Often my daily life intense emotions are imbued with a STORY, love or some other story (present day worries etc) but when this happens? When I cry after acupuncture, there may be an image or a word… but there’s no drama. It’s just…. deep sadness. And that may be inaccurate. But I (we) are brave emotional warriors. This is what we DO.
I would love to do that with someone, do those things with someone. Now that would be idea. not just the sexual release but… everything else