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\"\"<\/a>One of the challenges I run into often with clients who \u00a0come to me for Visioncrafting<\/a>\u00ae work is a complex combination of emotions relating to success in our chosen field. \u00a0On the conscious level we want to be successful writers, business people, artists. \u00a0But lurking in the subconscious are old patterns and belief systems that keep us from bursting out and claiming the sense of accomplishment that rightfully belongs to us.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we can address those patterns and change the tapes that continually reinforce those belief systems once we can identify them, but digging them out of the subconscious isn\u2019t always easy. \u00a0Fortunately we have a map in the form of a birthchart that helps us to discern where these patterns likely originate but then the rest is up to us.<\/p>\n

I was just selected to speak at the United Astrology Conference 2012. \u00a0This is the biggest astrology conference in the United States \u2013 members of several different organizations convene every few years to illuminate each other. \u00a0This conference draws the best of the best so when I received the email informing me that my application to speak was accepted I was shocked. \u00a0Like other astrology bloggers I consider myself an outsider in the world of astrologers. \u00a0I don\u2019t hold a certification, I haven\u2019t published an astrology book \u2026 yet!! \u00a0Those of us who blog instead of publish books are renegades \u2013 we seek our own path to public recognition.<\/p>\n

My friend April<\/a> evidently also was shocked by her being selected to speak at UAC:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a big name, I don\u2019t have a gift for schmoozing influential people, I haven\u2019t spoken for a lot of astrology groups. If you have any two of those things going for you, and you keep at it, I\u2019m willing to bet your odds in the future will be much better than mine were. As for me, taking nothing away from the hard work I\u2019ve done in the last 20 years to establish myself in astrology \u2013 my progressed Sun is trining Jupiter this year, and to be honest, I think I just got lucky. That\u2019s not to say I haven\u2019t worked to earn it; it\u2019s just that a lot of the people who didn\u2019t get chosen have worked hard, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is one thing I hate about competitive sports. \u00a0A team can work hard all year, have a great season, and then in one game lose everything. \u00a0But I digress\u2026<\/p>\n

I have the Moon in Leo, so you know there\u2019s a big part of me that longs for fame. \u00a0My fifth house Sun echoes that need to seek experiences that will enlarge me and give me greater self-expression. \u00a0However, Pluto conjoins my Moon, which has a tendency to make one afraid to peek out the door of one\u2019s secure space, and Saturn conjoins my Sun with its relentless pressure of inadequacy. \u00a0I\u2019ve been an astrologer since the mid-1980s, yet it was years before I felt confident \u00a0enough to put myself out there with any real comfort.<\/p>\n

For some reason this isn\u2019t true of my life in real estate. \u00a0Perhaps it\u2019s the Saturn component, and the fact that my Mars is in Capricorn, but I have always felt comfortable achieving in my real estate business. \u00a0I have practiced what I call Visioncrafting\u00ae for twenty years now and it has helped me to create great success in that world. \u00a0It is only recently that I have been able to unlock my fears around success in astrology.<\/p>\n

I like to think that I\u2019m perfectly happy in my small astrological world, where I speak occasionally at the local NCGR chapter and write my blog where face it, I am pretty much an anonymous face. \u00a0But SOMETHING made me send in my application to speak at UAC, and I suspect it was the part of my soul that knows without a doubt that practicing astrology is my true path and it\u2019s time to stretch out of my comfort zone.<\/p>\n

Like April, I have some guilt around having been chosen. \u00a0To renew the sports analogy, lots of other astrologers have played an excellent game all year and my winning one of the coveted 30 spots for new speakers means that 210 others did not. \u00a0But guilt is one of the major monsters that can prevent us from living the life of our dreams. \u00a0It encourages the idea of scarcity and keeps us from continuing to expand and grow.<\/p>\n

Chiron and Neptune have been transting back and forth over my midheaven for the past two years or so. \u00a0The midheaven is the point that refers us to the calling that we feel from the soul to impact the world. \u00a0Typically this is considered to be the career, but it is not always the job that we hold.<\/p>\n

In the early days of the Chiron\/Neptune conjunction I wrote:<\/p>\n

Chiron facilitates this aspect of soul work by uncovering any wounded places that have been left unresolved so that we can be freed of the blocked energy that our unreleased wounds hold within the body\/mind\/spirit system. Neptune assists by reminding us that there is a world of experience that lies beyond the boundaries of the material world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Chiron and Neptune complete the passage over my Midheaven, it appears that it is time for me to start opening those doors to that world of experience and walk through them.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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