Everybody Loves the Sunshine (507 Words)

Photo by Clarissa Poff, Montgomery, AL

LIFE + PLANETS

Sunshine! Everybody loves the Sunshine!

You know that song, right? ← **scroll to the bottom of this post and enjoy the song while you read!**

In Kabbalistic spiritual teachings, we’ve officially entered the Year of the Sun. The Sun is said to be the seed for the next 9-year period. This year is a powerful year to set the tone for the following 8.

 

⭐️THE DAILY KABBALAH⭐️ 🌞2017~YEAR OF THE SUN🌞 PART 1/2 This year is going to be full of far more ease than 2016, say goodbye to the challenges, battles, partings and endings of the Mars year we just had and thank every lesson you learned. We have all grown from this, for there can be no Phoenix without the fire… A Sun year, is a very powerful thing. The number of the sun is 1 (calculation 2+0+1+7=10, when you add 1+0 it becomes the 1). This number symbolises beginning, this is the time in which we start a whole new cycle and putting our best foot forward this year pays off in a multitude of ways throughout this next nine year cycle. The 1~the sun is the seed, what you plant this year you will reap in the following 8. To bring out the best in this year model your behaviour on the magnificent shining sun, who shares its light, warmth and life to all without discrimination, who shines confidently and sure of itself day after day, who radiates sparkling energy and animates everything around it 🌞🌞🌞

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I don’t know about you, but I’m so ready to be in the sun!

The picture above was taken when I was actually in the midst of a very dark year. It was 2012—the year I mentioned in my previous post that I took a year-long gig I didn’t feel aligned with.

I numbed myself out for a large part of this year. I ate lots of pizza. I drank bourbon. I was dazed in malaise—vaguely knowing something was wrong—that there was an emptiness, but not knowing why or what to do about it.

I blamed my outside circumstances. I blamed the people around me for not being cooler, better, more inspiring. I blamed my boyfriend for not distracting me from myself and my own feelings. 

The truth is that I placed myself around those people for a reason. They were mirrors, reflecting what I truly thought of myself.

My closest friends that year were people who suffered from depression. I didn’t get at the time that that was me.

I was depressed. Why?

Well there are layered reasons. But the biggest one is that my creative self that I had worked so hard to cultivate in two years of music artist development and two years of intensive acting training, was unearthed and alive. And I was ignoring it. My creativity wanted to be accessed and I was numbing it instead. Because I was so busy doing the right thing for my career. 

2012, by the way, also began my Saturn Return period. If you don’t believe that’s a thing, just think back to what was happening for you at 27, 28, 29, and maybe 30. What ringer did you go through? Trust me, there was one. My tip for people in their 20s who haven’t gotten there yet is to get ready to submit to the lessons coming your way.

And just submit. Be open.

And for the skeptics: I used to ignore the planets, too. But that period of my life they DAY I turned 27 made me a believer. It made me say “ok, planetary bodies created by the Architect of All Things, what do you need me to know?”

We are in the Sun now. But we also each have our own personal planetary relationships to pay attention to. Learn your ruling planet and your sign’s planet and more about the celestial bodies roles and influences over your life. 

Can it hurt?

Sure, it can get overwhelming and eye-rolling-level complicated. But isn’t that beautiful, too? Such a mirror of the complexity of The Human Experience.

At the very least, I think we can agree to celebrate being in The Year of the Sun this year and figure out the rest as we go.