Time for some real talk / pep talk.

I often get the “when will it get better?” comments. I hear you. S**t is hard right now. Real hard. Why can’t things go back the way they were??

I wish things were easier, but the reality is that we’re in a passage of time when everything is coming up — every last knot of karma, everything we ever swept under the rug, all the pain we tried to forget, all the words we never said. Our world is shaking. We have to change, we have to evolve; the pressure is too great.

Astrology isn’t making us do anything. It’s not making the world hard. It’s not making our lives fall apart. The planets, however, are marking the time. This long Uranus and Pluto aspect that we’ve been experiencing is telling us that it is time to make a major breakthrough in our lives … or risk breakdown. Chiron in a long aspect to Jupiter and the nodes isn’t making us feel pain. It’s telling us that it’s time to be conscious of something that was always there … and make a decision to heal.

Astrology is just another way to tell time, to reveal the seasons of our lives, to guide us to make better decisions.

We live in a free will dimension. That means that we have to make a choice everyday, but our choices have consequences — hence karma. So when we have difficult astrology, as we will the next couple of weeks, we have to make a choice to how we will respond. If an old issue comes up this week and you know we’re in a time in humanity when we have to make a change, will you keep reacting the same way or make a conscious decision to react differently?

I don’t have to tell you that there are dark things going on in the world. We can’t ignore the darkness that was always there. We have to own our part of it. We not only have to choose the light, but we have to heal the parts of ourselves that are not aligned with the light. It’s hard work, I know. I’m feeling it too. But how else is the world going to change?

Take this difficult astrology — the astrology that is telling you that something has to change — and use it as the fuel to make your life better.

The Sun is in Aries now. Be brave. Take action. Be the leader that you’ve always wanted.

You can do this.