Responsibility
Response Ability
The Ability to Respond
Just after the Solstice, a big turning point as always and this topic seems to be showing up all over the place.
It can be a loaded word, responsibility.
What do you feel when you see or say it?
For the most part I think it is seen as being a heavy word to carry.
It is hard work; it can be boring and it usually is not our most fun thing to do. In fact, it likely doesn’t even make the top 10.
Maybe it is time for us to get a different perspective on responsibility so that we can do it better.
Now for the astrological reasons I am feeling into this theme.
Disclaimer, ignore and get the message from my musings rather than the astrology if you are not trying to learn and understand it.
Pluto (power and change) and Neptune (collective unconscious and the dream) in a happy sextile, supporting one another.
Venus who has a lot to do with personal worth and value within relationship is going to be going retrograde in Leo (the ultimate sovereign, who more needs to be responsible and accountable than he/she).
For those cycle and pattern lovers look back to the last Venus retrograde in Leo, Aug 2015, 2007, 1999 (keep going back in 8-year increments if you want to). This will help see the types of new chapters you began the last few Leo Venus retrogrades.
Personal Accountability
For us to tap into responsibility, does not just mean – I am responsible for getting dinner on the table, the kids to bed, my work project completed.
These are all part of our responsibilities, to be sure. And they are important for our practical day to day lives.
But it goes further, for us to have the ability to respond in the way that is self-honoring and honoring of others we need to pepper it with large doses of personal accountability.
I posset, and I am still practicing too, that the more practiced we get we get a being personally accountable the more responsibility is just a byproduct.
Our nervous systems are remarkable super computers and when our sympathetic nervous system is triggered, we have three main response functions;
1. Fight, flight or flee
2. Freeze
3. Dorsal
Just a reminder that these responses are not something we have much control over.
They are triggered by all the experiences we have had in our life to date (including way back in the womb) and our traumatic experiences are what leads our nervous system to decide what is safe and what is NOT.
See my full blog post on my website to get the explanation on what these responses are and some ideas of shifting them or we may get a little long winded here.
Because these sympathetic responses are designed to keep us safe, but are largely unconscious they may be operating under the assumption that you are a scared child even once you are not.
When our sympathetic nervous system is triggered, we are reactive rather than responsive.
Do you see where I am going here?
The ability to respond rather than react takes us getting to know who we are, how we tick, why we believe this or react to that.
Becoming personally accountable is your full-time job.
You need to be able to sleep at night, without your inner critic judging and criticizing how you handled situations throughout your day.
This is what your soul signed up for when you came to Earth school.
We forget of course what we classes we signed up for and many of us live a perfectly satisfactory earth experience without learning how to evolve and grow our souls light.
That is absolutely a choice we all have; we can look at Earth as our soul’s vacation destination.
But for those of us who have a constant niggle, who hear the whispers and know there is work to be done, well for those I have so many tools to offer.
For I am one of those souls, and have been for many lifetimes.
I struggle as much as the next person with all life throws…my soul didn’t choose easy because it wanted to re_member quickly and to evolve.
Personal accountability, own your shadow, your bad decisions, your choices, because we always have a choice. Learn to apologize, that what you judge in in you too.
Now respond from your heart. Change what you do not like, not overnight, change takes time. Just ask the butterfly.
If you want to know which sympathetic nervous response you default to, check out this blog post.
Astrology Buzz
Cancer Jun 22nd to Jul 23rd This Cancer season is very tied to our changing values and nurturing the new values which require us to be emotional warriors for our and the collectives greater good.
Be aware of where you default to over giving, smothering even…are you focusing on what used to be really important to you or what is becoming more and more important to you?
Take some rest and time to reflect, it’s not indulgent, it is self-care.
Leo Jul 24th to Aug 23rd as the sun moves into Leo, Venus stations retrograde in the same sign and she (Venus) is drawn towards the sun, like a moth to the flame. This is a huge part of Leo season. To learn more, watch my video on the Venus’ Leo Journey
Full Moon
July Full Moon is in Capricorn on the 3rd see my forecast around this Full Moon.
New Moon
Cancer New Moon is on the 17th of July.
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As we explore and uncover more about ourselves (shadow and light) we become more authentic and accountable.
I am very excited to teach on the Nodes as this is a little less known and so very important in our charts. This links to eclipses.
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The crystal I want to spotlight is Jasper, and more specifically because the Jasper family is very big, Yellow Jasper.
I am a huge supporter of working with Jasper in general.
They are known as the supreme nurturers.
And one reason this is, is that they work slow and steady.
Jasper is not a quick fix and neither is starting to work on taking responsibility and accountability where you may not be used to is (she says from personal experience).
Yellow Jasper is linked to the Solar Plexus chakra which is about our self-esteem.
When this chakra is in a good place, we are able to shine in our authenticity because we have taken responsibility for ourselves and our life, we are accountable and autonomous.
On the flip side the biggest challenge for this chakra is shame.
Some shame may not even be yours to carry, perhaps you have an over active sense of responsibility and take on the shame of other people’s lack of responsibility.
If the shame is yours, the way to clear it is to…you guessed it, take responsibility and make amends, make different choices and learn the lesson so you can shine again.
These are the kinds of things that we need to keep showing up to, even when we stumble, even when it’s hard and even when we are ashamed.
Yellow Jasper (especially as a touch stone or pendant) will absolutely support the consistent showing up even when it seems impossible.
Like the wonderful quote by Madiba, ‘It always seems impossible, until it’s done’.
This magical stone reminds you that you are not alone, it has your back and congratulates you for your efforts.
Slow, steady, consistent, calm, grounded and stable…supreme nurturer indeed.
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Eucalyptus, is in the spotlight this month.
I was thinking back to when last I focused on this humble oil and couldn’t even remember.
It is first and foremost not an expensive oil which makes using it regularly and consistently very achievable.
One big breath and you open your lungs, heart and mind while engaging that diaphragm muscle (Solar Plexus chakra) and dropping into your body.
When moments before you felt panic, fear, shame, overwhelm, uncertainty…suddenly you expand your awareness and become more present in you skin and in the moment.
Then you are better able to take responsibility for whatever it is that you were feeling, and to objectively look at how you got to that feeling.
A little example;
I am so ashamed that I just snapped at my child/partner/pet but they should not have __________ (justifying takes us away from taking responsibility for our actions).
Open the Eucalyptus bottle and take three deep breaths.
Why did I react that way? What activated that trigger for me? Wow, now I am even more ashamed because it actually had nothing to do with them.
Another few deep inhales of that Eucalyptus, bringing in the expanded awareness and the freedom to choose how you respond (not react) now.
“Hey, I am so sorry I behaved that way. You did not deserve that over reaction, I was triggered and took it out on you, I will do my best not to react that way in the future”.
Then obviously you need to be vigilant of that trigger point and reactive response and try to change the patterning.
When you feel it coming on and are able to pause before reacting, grab that bottle of Eucalyptus and breathe deeply.
You are creating a visceral memory of getting out of your small self so that you can come in with your higher consciousness and be accountable for your actions, reactions and choices.
Remember, practice makes perfect sense (taught to me by my then 3-year-old daughter).
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Cindy
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