Lessons from Sagittarius

Greetings Stargazers! Sorry it's been a while. I just really wanted to see if I learned my lessons for our current post.

As promised from Gemini, my next lesson came from Sagittarius. The traits that I reflected upon and implemented were, "You attract good fortune by being enthusiastic and positive," and "Let go of attachments to anything or anyone; be independent and don't get bogged down by messy entanglements."

So, without further ado, I loaded my trusty jet pack with the most robust Earl Grey and am floating over the constellation of the centaur.

Within the last two weeks, I divided the two traits by what helped me at work and what I was implementing at home.

At work, the trait, "You attract good fortune by being enthusiastic and positive," reigned supreme. As with Gemini, I saw enthusiastic and positive as using light humor to get through being the newcomer at my job. As with Gemini, "enthusiastic and positive" also meant not taking myself too seriously and learning how to use some constructive, self depreciating humor (believe me, with my nerves, being the joke helped with a load of tension).

With my teasing about how my chair sometimes had a persnickety manner and with making a light joke on missing a step, my customers seemed to relax and their attitudes changed from being apprehensive of me to going along with what I was doing.

I also relaxed a bit, making the first days of being back at work move a bit more smoothly.

To me, the "good fortune" part was Sagittarius' way of reminding me of the law of karma and how it works. Simply put, the more positive energy you place into anything, the better the outcome.

At home, "Let go of attachments to anything or anyone...." pointed to a more serious undertone to my life. Lately, I had noticed that I have had minor addictions that has kept me from living my life fully. While these addictions were to using the internet too much (to look more into Tantra), reading up on Tarot and watching a whole evening's worth of The Real Housewives series on Bravo, they were the epitome of living 1/3 of my life. I think there was even a time where I had not ventured out of the house for a whole week.

With Sagittarius' reminder of "Let go of attachments...." I was able to notice that I was acting on watery and airy energy by being too logical and intuitive. I was able to balance life by bringing in more fiery and earthy energy by getting back into Pilates again and take more walks. The fiery/earthy shift, alone, has helped me in keeping my back, neck ankles and shoulders feeling nice and strong for work as well as helping me to feel better about myself. When the effects of poor circulation start (i.e. cold feet and hands) you know it's time to move a bit more.

Letting go of attachments also caused for me to start an energetic practice that has aided me with difficult coworkers and customers and just darn, difficult people. It's in setting up healthy energetic boundaries for myself and sticking to these boundaries so that I'm not a lint trap for negative energy.

The exercise rests on differentiating yourself from the person dumping negative energy on you (in order to distance yourself from them), letting the energy go and reaffirming that you're not here to carry this other person's energy. You're here to live in your own spirit.

Let's just say, I've been a calmer person at the end of the day. Far calmer that I was in the past.

Overall, I think that the traits from Sagittarius has helped me to reach the more proactive and lighter sides of Leo. As with Gemini, I think I'll be revisiting these Sagittarian traits, maybe others.

So to all you stargazers out there, what do you think? Please feel free to leave comments for me, especially if you are following me in learning from different astrological signs.

For next time, I'll be floating over the constellation of our lovely fish-that's right, I'll be learning from you Pisces. The trait that I'll be following will be, "How to acknowledge people and accept who they are." I may have to take this trait in two separate steps. We'll see how it goes.

As always, don't forget to look up at the stars. Jupiter and Mercury are near the earth!!! They're so beautiful, especially near the new moon.

My Observations from Gemini

Greetings Stargazers! Alissandra Coffey reporting to you outside the constellation of Gemini.

Sorry it took so long. I just started a new job this week.

However, as promised, I have kept up with implementing a trait from each zodiac sign, other than my own, in order to learn from that sign.

From Gemini it was, "Having fun is obligatory in every aspect of life."

The first lesson that I learned? Over the years, I have forgotten to have fun. I don't know when or how this really sad situation came about, really. Maybe when I graduated from college? When I started to work? Maybe my natal Moon, natal Saturn conjunction finally caught up to me?

Either way, I take life way too seriously and Gemini's main challenge was to find a way to seriously lighten up. This was not an easy feat.

The one way that I could bring fun into my life was to tease myself and bring humor into my life's equation. Even though humor is very simple, it's the most effective way to cut stressful situations into fourths or eighths, even.

With using humor to diffuse tense moments, I was able to enjoy the moment I was in, slightly empower myself and, thusly, enjoy my day.

Whether it was to tell myself that obnoxious dog walkers were picking up on my magnetism or to remind myself to calm down for a job interview (I wasn't up for employee of the month, after all), I was able to center my attention on what really mattered in the moment.

I just had to be careful that I wasn't putting a smiley face on tamped down rage or oppressed emotions.

With Gemini, I also started to get interested in Tantra, Tarot and got back into vocal training for Opera. In a way, Gemini's thirst for new things in life rubbed off. Quite frankly, I needed the bit of extra fun with the interesting subjects that came my way. Another way to let tense situations lie.

I think that I'll keep in touch with Gemini's lesson of infusing fun into every area of life. It might come in handy for the first week of work (everyone's busy but me???).

Well, Stargazers, this is the time I have with you now. Next time I'll report from Sagittarius. The traits I'll focus on are, "You attract good fortune by being enthusiastic and positive," and "Let go of attachments to anything or anyone."

Until then, don't forget to look up at the stars. It looks as though Mercury and the Sun are starting to make their way towards Aquarius. I see testing communicative patterns more.

Virgo Findings

Greetings Stargazers! Happy New Year to all as, in Chinese Astrology, we move from Year of the Earth Pig to Year of the Metal Rat. Interesting eh?

As usual, I have loaded up my trusty jet pack with Earl Grey and am hovering over the constellation of Virgo.

As mentioned in my last post, I have chosen to act and reflect on the Virgo trait, "Having a routine can help prioritize mental energy," within the last week.

I have to say, most of what I learned was incredibly helpful.

In order to embrace the routine, I did what was closest to living routinely in my Leonine world-making a list, at the begining of each day.

The list mainly consisted of things that I needed to do (laundry, looking for work, physical therapy exercises) along with things I could do (take a walk, have a discursive meditation session, draw, read).

Overall, having the list helped me to live each day fully and do as much as possible with those days.

Unlike Virgo, I can be incredibly disorganized and haphazard. When I have a day off, or a moment to myself,  I usually ask myself as to what I want to do with the day only to come to some sort of an answer two hours later. By the time I get to the activity, the day is halfway over.

When the day is winding down, I'm quite the typical fire sign. I usually complain that I haven't really seized the day, in doing everything I wanted.

Making a list minimized the dreaded question, "So, what shall I do today?" or "What shall I do this instant?" I merely added what I had wanted to do along with what I needed to do, before the day was over. All that I had to do was look the list over.

Overall, the list had kept me from wasting time (i.e binge watching Frasier re-runs), so I could come close to completing my screenplay, or try my hand at drawing human figures (an enjoyable activity, by the by) or going to an indoor pool to conquer a fear of water. All of this with looking for work.

The only drawback with living this routine was the fact that there were days where I felt a little restricted. I could see where Virgo could box themselves up a bit, considering that spontaneity is the bane of their existence.

There were times where I had to remind myself to do what I could, since my day was coming close to, "Stop looking at jobs by 13:00. 17:00 promptly: take a walk.  Follow up with reading at 18:00 sharp! Don't forget your Yule candle. Go to bed by 22:00."

I not only had to omit times but add spontaneity to the routine by simply getting to things when I could. Close to the end of the week, I simply had to live with the fact that some items on my list (i.e. going to Manitou Incline) simply had to wait for another time, another day.

My conclusion would make a Virgo a little irritated: We're only human and can do so much.

While many fire signs would have found routine a little boring, routine freed me up a bit and had allowed to focus on what's important.

Whether it's living in the grown up world or self care, Virgo's message to me, was,  "Every day is an important day to live. One has to be open and ready to what awaits."

For the next week, I'll revolve around to the next Mutable sign of the zodiac: the airy and fun filled sign of Gemini (as with Virgo, ruled by Mercury).

The Geminian trait I will be focusing on is brought to you by Marianna Sharktooth of Thought Catalogue. It's from her article "20 Irreplacable Life Lessons I've Learned from my Gemini Mom." The trait of, "Having fun is obligatory in every aspect of your life," resounded rather heavily with me. Especially since I just started to suffer from Depression, just way out of the blue (no pun intended), since the Holidays.

As always, don't forget to look up at the stars.

Holly Moley! Is that Mercury joining the Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn?! It's no wonder why everything and everyone is so serious and hounded by matters related to careers. Poor Capricorn. He has a heavy load of planetary energy to deal with.

Hang in there, dear goat. This too shall pass. Hang in there Stargazers. This burden shall pass, in due time.