Sometimes awareness comes in the form of something bugging the crap out of you until you\u2019re finally motivated to do something about it. Other times, it\u2019s more subtle \u2014 wow, I keep doing this thing I say I want to stop. Or, if I made this one slight adjustment, my life would flow a whole lot better.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eclipses bring endings that make room for new beginnings. But here\u2019s the rub: We have to do something with whatever we\u2019ve realized.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Awareness on its own doesn\u2019t do squat to change our lives. Eventually, we must take what we\u2019re learning out for a real-life spin. We can\u2019t change diddly if we don\u2019t do something new.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s where Mars and Saturn come in. This week, these two square each other, providing a motivating boost to act on your eclipse awakening. Pondering isn\u2019t enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mars is our \u201cdoing\u201d energy \u2014 where the rubber meets the road. If we want to end up somewhere new, Mars insists we steer the car in a new direction. Saturn is the planet of concrete structure \u2014 the foundation our everyday lives are built upon. Saturn helps us stop just wishing for change and places us onto the road of real life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just before the eclipse portal closed, I completed my second year of advanced life coaching training. I\u2019m so excited I snuck in under the rope. Talk about a major ending that opens new possibilities. I\u2019m proud of myself. I feel like I just earned a master\u2019s degree.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m also so ready to get all that time back in my schedule. One of the things I most want to do now is finish my astrology coaching book. So, Saturn tells me to add more writing time to my calendar and Mars directs me to sit my fanny in the chair and start typing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
These clear instructions are what Mars square Saturn offers us this week \u2014 because it\u2019s scarily easy to have an epiphany and then let life keep slipping by.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
We\u2019re busy. Dinner needs making. Work needs doing, but the couch looks awfully inviting. It takes zero effort to simply skip the conversation we realized we needed to have during the eclipses. It\u2019s way too comfy to plop down in front of a screen and numb out instead of following through on the promise we made to ourselves.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once the heat of the moment passes, and change feels hard again, what felt so important can quietly fall by the wayside. If we want to end up somewhere different, we need to do things differently.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no magic wand I can wave and \u2014 abracadabra \u2014 I\u2019m on a book tour promoting my wildly successful book (insert smiley face emoji). I have to sit my rear at the desk and write the freakin\u2019 thing. Then rewrite it, edit \u2026 and rewrite it some more. Then I\u2019m one-tenth of the way there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your version of my book dream? What called out to you, over the last couple of weeks, during the eclipse window? What did you see about yourself, your relationships, your habits or your life that you don\u2019t want to conveniently forget now that the portal has closed?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Most importantly: What\u2019s one tiny, specific, Mars-inspired action you can take this week to put what you gleaned into motion \u2014 instead of letting it slide, yet again? Saturn says make it real and Mars says just do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you need a little celestial inspiration, look for the waning moon aligning with Mars before sunrise on Sunday and next Monday mornings. Sometimes communing with the sky provides just the kick in the pants we need to actually do something about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sheridan Semple is the creator of the Astrology for Real Life Method. She helps women who feel stuck in the same patterns understand why they keep repeating them \u2014 and what to do differently. Learn more or work with her at sheridansemple.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes awareness comes in the form of something bugging the crap out of you until you\u2019re finally motivated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-831351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}