Podcast | Mid Life Initiations - with Astrologer Marcia Wade
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Exploring the meaning of life.
Chronic regional pain syndrome crps, is a leading cause in health crises and trauma, seeing them as messages, not random or divine punishment. The role of purpose in the health crisis. The astrologer Caroline Casey used the phrase, "My dangerous, beautiful assignment," in a conversation with Sophie Strand over a year ago. Setting the stage for the diagnosis. Every life is a compromise with the understanding at the time and the larger understanding of who one is moving into. One day near Christmas, a long cashmere scarf knocked her off balance.
How did you become aware of your physical health?
She was 55 years old and had broken her right arm four times since she was six, the fifth and last time she broke it. She was working for a private university. She was finally diagnosed with a complex regional pain system called reflex sympathetic dystrophy, or RSD, which is a misfiring of the nervous system. RSD is very mysterious and can start in one part of the body and then spread to others. It is unpredictable. She was fired from her job in her mid 50s.
How did you know you needed help?
She went to every major medical center in the south face and was all the same thing, a sad diagnosis. She started working with an herbalist and neuro feedback. The first several times she went over a period of months twice a week, she was fascinated by the brainwaves. The flare-ups continued to get more and more infrequent. The four transits beginning at 50 and ending around age 62, beginning with the chiron return and ending at 62 with the chariklo return. Being in the window of the second saturn return. The four transits that are our guidepost and initiators through our 50s, which is the journey when we realize we are on the track. The four yin yang pairs.
Connecting back to the bigger picture.
As a woman in her early 50s, she relates to how this is unfolding in her own life right now. When she stops thinking about herself, things flow the best. The last time he had a flare-up was in 2010, and only in the last few years has he begun to realize she had lost everything. The framework of how she lives her life. The most devastating betrayals are the ones where the person always knew, but pretended they didn't know. We can't get enough of what we don't really want.
Numbing yourself to pain.
We live inside a pain body where the payoffs are so large, comfortable and generous that we believe we just have to learn to live with this pain. Success is a way of numbing. The process of breaking her arm five times to avoid her own healing process around her complicated relationship with holidays and holidays. The pattern of breaking one's right arm three times or four times, and how this pattern was fundamentally threatening to her. Broken arms lead to an opening of space for the left hand pass in the right hand. A book of Greek myths, persephone and her journey to the underworld.
How do elbows and forearms relate to saturn?
The earth rotates one degree on the ecliptic every 72 years, and the Earth rotates by one degree. The average carrying angle of 90 degrees is 72 degrees. Bones, crystals and rocks hold the oldest memories, and there is a whole physiology about how bones connect to the brain. The astrology of her foot fracture was so hilarious. We are all here to see these things and how they happen for us and for the collective vs. to us. Black holes are the most luminous structures in the universe.
