Sarah Varcas
The final month of 2014 is dominated by the penultimate exact
Uranus/Pluto square mid month (14th/15th December). With it we enter the
grand finale of this potent alignment which has been with us since 2012
and finally begins to fade come April next year. No one has been left
untouched by the quickening power of this time. Many peoples’ lives now
bear little resemblance to how they looked before these two planetary
heavy-weights began their alchemical dance. Nothing and no one has been
protected from the
destructively creative grace conjured by the cosmos
these past few years. The challenge for so many has been to let go and
trust, to embrace the changes brought about no matter how devastating
they may have felt at the time. To look into the darkness, of self, of
other, of life and to
recognise that within it
lays the deepest wisdom,
the most enduring truths. This past year has been about acknowledging
and owning the personal and collective shadow in order to
recognise that
it is not some dreadful realm to be feared, rejected and
denied but
simply another part of ourselves to be embraced, accepted and, in doing
so, brought into the wholeness of all that we are. This year has
demanded the deepest
authenticity we could muster and then some! It has
been both brutal and beautiful in equal measure, destructive and
creative at one and the same time. To quote Joni Eareckson-Tada when
referring to the wheelchair that
symbolises her quadriplegia from the
age of seventeen, this year has been ‘a bruise of a blessing, a terrible
grace’. And this coming
month which brings it to a close, reminds us
that whilst the journey is nowhere near over, some of the more
challenging times are now behind us.