Whose plan are you following?
September has a way of bringing plans back into focus.
The summer ends.
The year suddenly feels as though it is moving again.
And with it comes that familiar feeling that you need to get organised.
Make some decisions. Set some goals. Work out what comes next.
But before you decide what comes next, perhaps the real question is:
Whose plan are you following?
The one you actually want?
Or the one you absorbed somewhere along the way - from family, school, work, relationships, expectation, comparison
Or simply the idea of where you thought you would be by now?
This is what we’ll be exploring in my next workshop.
Because very often the plan we make is a perfectly good one.
It is sensible.
It uses what we are good at and builds on what has worked before.
And it may work very well.
But there can still be that feeling that, despite everything looking right on paper, something no longer quite fits.
In astrology, this is where the Nodal Axis becomes so useful.
The South Node describes the territory that is already deeply familiar to you.
The qualities you fall back on without thinking.
The roles you know how to play.
The ways of approaching life that have often worked for you before.
Which is why it can be so easy to keep building your life from there.
You know how to do it.
But there comes a point when becoming even better at what you already know may not be the same as moving forward.
Directly opposite the South Node sits the North Node.
The North Node points towards the part of life that is less familiar.
The place where you may not feel quite so confident or fluent, but where there is the possibility of growth, fulfilment and becoming more fully yourself.
It is often where the deeper direction of the chart lies - not necessarily the easiest path, but the one that can feel increasingly meaningful as you move towards it.
And this will look completely different for each of us.
For one person it may be about money.
For another, being seen.
It may be about learning to ask rather than doing everything yourself.
Or speaking when you would normally stay silent. Trusting. Taking up space. Letting go. Beginning again.
Often it is the area of life where other people seem to find something much easier than you do.
Which can make it very easy to think you are somehow behind.
When actually, you may simply be moving into territory you were never meant to know already.
I’ve kept this workshop to just eight people.
Before we meet, I will find your North and South Nodes - not only the signs they fall in, but the houses too, because this shows us where this story is actually playing out in your life.
And then we can look at your plan.
Where are you automatically returning to what is familiar?
Where might an old plan no longer fit?
And what is your North Node asking you to move towards instead?
Perhaps the most useful question this September is not simply what you have planned.
But whether it is taking you towards the life that is trying to emerge.