If there is one thing I know for sure, it is that children will forever change you. As someone who holds the title of mother, an unexpected title that came to me at the tender age of nineteen, my experience of motherhood has been a unique journey that not all experience. Whether you waited and planned for the exact right moment, had a surprise baby with someone you barely knew, or had to jump through extraneous hoops to have someone to call your own, the journey that children bring is one of immense delight, grief, exhaustion, and growth. I believe that those of us who do walk the path of being parents find immense beauty in reconnecting to the parts of ourselves long buried, fossilized in the depths, and equally, it can be quite traumatic to recognize the patterns we have received passed down fro generational trauma, which we share with our children, along with our own personal patterns that do not serve us.
As I am learning and growing on my path of motherhood, I acknowledge that each experience with my created human has brought me closer to my most authentic version of self and, each age that had pivotal or traumatic moments during my childhood are innately activated and re-lived during my experiences parenting my human. The journey my child and are on together is one of learning, expressing clearly, and showing up to embody the full people we have come into the world to be.
Being a Pluto dominant human, my lessons are that of uncovering the depths and revealing the truth. With a child who holds opposite synastry, her lessons are more on the lighter aspects of life and bringing fun into her life. In a nutshell, we complement each other.
As this year comes to a close and a new season emerges, I wonder who I will become in the new year. The year of the wood Dragon is close, and as someone who quite strongly identifies with the archetype of a Dragon, I am bursting with excitement for what 2024 has in store.
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Written under a Sagittarius sun and an Aquarius moon, feeling introspective, sleepy, and slow.