Nov 23, 2023 | by Susan Marshall |
Life by The Stars
Our planets dance in slotted houses
Domains that reign and guide the train
The signs give flavor, adorn with stars
Personas, masks and costumes worn
The aspects speak to storylines
Dynamics fuel and fill our minds
Those places where we love and bleed
Our hunger, desperation’s need
Easy riding or challenge fierce
Defining lines like arrows pierce
The mettle of our soul is tested
Along divine degrees divested
We live to learn the lesson Rising
Our struggle is to do its biding
Within the bounds, our tribe in life
The face we show, our deepest strife
Though in our heart of hearts we know
The path we’ve trod, our Moon does show
A journey picked up where we ended
The class we passed, arenas tended
From this we earned our PhD
An easy strength, a firm degree
Our inner world is filtered through
The waves imbued with lunar hue
Our role within this destined course
The node will guide expressive force
Unfolding in ascending space
Expansion slow, at one’s own pace
Venus shows a woman’s face
The strengths she brings, her favored place
Along with rising’s filtered glow
This archetype her truth does show
The same for Mars, a man revealed
Towards what great end his soul is geared
How he shows his passion best
The way he builds a sturdy nest
The Sun is simply fuel we burn
The stuff of ego, how we churn
A whirlwind of persona lived
Structures pegging complex whims
Juno speaks to what we yearn
How love can live, what feels secure
Relating in a comfy manner
Our hearth and home, a solid standard
Chiron’s wound is where we’re crippled
Broken down to seed a ripple
Building up from weakness, strength
To offer healing’s deepest length
The MC points our north star clear
A stage on which our gifts are cheered
Vocation, calling, dharma pointed
Our talents find their home anointed
Across the sphere, we find what’s dear
A cozy place, safe inner-near
The home we knew, the one we build
A space where hearts will be fulfilled
Descending from the Rising angle
Our soulmate’s sketch the heavens dangle
The colors of our inner longing
Completion found in union’s bonding
The rings of Saturn tie and bind
Constrict the breath for late unwind
Demanding that we do our duty
To earn the prize, the precious booty
Expansion lives in Jupiter’s berth
With joy and hope and feckless mirth
The steady route to wisdom’s promise
Dharma seeds our soul’s great purpose
Our complex lives the sky defines
Each soul unfolds its grand design
Awareness offers insights deep
To choose our path, to wake from sleep