Happy Solar Return!

Well, belated Solar Return at this point…

Sunday was my 36th Birthday! Which is a little strange to think about, honestly. It’s not necessarily because of the age, though funnily enough, my husband and I were talking and he asked “how’s it feel to be 35!?” to which I responded, “Uh, you do know we’re 36 right??” He did not know we were 36 hahaha.

Sunday was also Father’s day, so the celebration with my family was a combination. We had lunch, then celebrated with some cake (which caught on fire too haha), and then hung out at my parent’s house. I ended up working on some stuff for my business, which I felt very inspired to do, so I enjoyed it.

Ahead of this though, I decided to celebrate ending my 12th house profection year with a compilation of things I’d learned over the past year for the latest episode of the Avoiding Average Podcast. And trust me when I say this past year was full of learnings! It’s actually kind of wild to reflect on it and what I actually did over the year because much of it felt like a blur with the birth of my daughter only 4 days after my 35th birthday. For my astrology folks, needless to say, it was a very spirituality-focused year.

In any case, I found it interesting because on the day of my birthday, I was not as focused on myself as I usually am. Usually birthdays have been a big deal for me because it is the one day of the year that I get attention (hello, middle-child syndrome!) so when I found out it was on Father’s day this year, I was a little annoyed. The last time I had shared my birthday with Father’s day in 2014, I was annoyed and agitated because I was not the center of attention and I was trying desperately to repress that anger, but also likely because of some major changes that were coming that I didn’t know how to navigate.

I mentioned some of the shadow work I had been doing on my Leo South Node placement in previous blog posts, but I think this is the first time I began to see the benefits of it, which was really cool. It felt like any other celebration day with my family, but I definitely did not feel hard done by like I did in the past. I suppose that’s the power of shadow work!

Through the shadows, I’ve learned a lot, so here are some of those learnings!