Progressed Lunar Returns…along with everything else.

So. Yeah, I think I’ve come to the point where I’ve realized that, nope, becoming a professional astrologer is not going to be my thing. 🙂 It’s a good discovery to make. I’ll probably still keep this blog around, just to make sense of progressions, transits, and whatever in my life – and if anyone else is reading, here’s some stuff that may help the interpretation process. I always find it helpful to know what’s going on in other people’s lives to understand astrological phenomena.

I still love learning about this stuff. Astrology, if anything, is an amazing tool for self-development, whether you’re trying to analyze yourself from your natal chart, figure out where you’re going in life (secondary progressions and solar arc directions), or you want to be prepared for the near future (transits, lunations, and planetary returns). And if you want to figure out how different people work together, there’s synastry. Am I missing anything? Probably. 🙂 That’s cool though – so much to explore!

 

Progressed Lunar Returns…that’s what I was getting at. So I’m not getting into what secondary progressions are (there are many awesome sites and books that describe this sort of thing –  and in fact, here is an awesome article on the subject of Progressed Lunar Returns and Saturn Returns:), but let it be enough to say that the Progressed Lunar Return happens for everyone at around 28, 56 and if one is particularly lucky, maybe, around 84. It could be sooner or later, depending on how fast the Moon is moving in the days after one’s birth. The Saturn Return follows the Progressed Lunar Return, usually a year or two afterward when one is younger, a few years apart as people grow older.

I’m about to have my Progressed Lunar Return, along with everyone else around my age (27). It’s a pretty important time, regardless of other astrological stuff going on – though if there are major things happening, a complete overhaul of one’s inner life can be expected. And that’s what I’m seeing in mine. The thing I want to get at is that, at 27, I think what happens is that you start figuring out who you are. By the time the Saturn Return rolls around, in a year or two, you start figuring out how to work with your outer circumstances. That…is what I’m getting from all the reading on the subject, at least about the Saturn Return.

In the past few months, I’ve been hit with a Pluto transit to my Sun (the second is in a week or so, and the last in December), a Uranus transit also to my Sun (two more of those coming up), some pretty heavy eclipses and lunations, and important progressions. And now this, the Progressed Lunar Return. I feel like I’m encountering the Shadow side of my personality (a very Plutonian thing to happen) and learning to accept it as it is. And I also now have a therapist to help me with this – yeah, I read somewhere that therapy is a good idea during a Pluto transit. Best. Decision. Ever. My therapist even has some knowledge of astrology – he knows what I mean when I talk about houses!

I don’t think I’ve ever gone through anything like this. A time when I am actively trying to find out who I am…and being cool with whatever I find out. And sure, there’s plenty of crap to work through, but can you imagine the sense of relief when you realize that you are who you are, and that you don’t need to fight it? It’s AMAZING.

I think this is the Progressed Lunar Return at work. And when my Saturn Return rolls around, two and a half years from now, I want to see where I am, with this newly accepted self. I know it won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it.