Your emotions are your power

I’ve been thinking a lot about my first Astrology and Birth Chart reading. I think I was 21 years old living in Cape Town working as a model just after completing University. I was feeling a lot of internal turmoil at the time. A photographer friend suggested that I have my birth chart done to help me make sense of what I was navigating through. I knew nothing about Astrology at the time and decided to go with this suggestion because something about it felt very right to me. 

It was indeed an intriguing experience, something that I will never forget. One thing the Astrologer mentioned to me that I have been recalling many times over the past week is: “Your emotions will be your downfall”. Over the years I contemplated this statement, and as many of you know including myself today after many more readings since my first time, is that readings are to be interpreted the same as riddles. They are never straightforward. Your unique answer comes to you when you are ready to receive it. When I finally understood that I should not torture myself for being an emotional being but that my emotions are powerful, I could harness the magnetism of my feelings rather than being its victim. As a result, I used my will to channel those emotions to where I want them to go, while the opposite is true also. Thus, either allow the negative emotions to run me into the ground or convert them into positive power to fuel what it is that I want. 

During times of change, of emotional hardship, ones emotions can put you through the wringer especially if you’re also an empath. I’ve had to learn how to become a witness to my emotions, rather than a victim. That is how I have been able to make a choice when it comes to how I am feeling and how I want to feel. Meditation has been an invaluable tool to support this awakening and awareness. I finally came to understand that I can shift my emotions from a deep state of inner turmoil to complete bliss by just engaging in what anchors me. That which raises my vibration. I finally figured it out. It took me a very long time to get to see how simple it all was. And that’s ok, because it’s all about the voyage to that point of enlightenment. Knowing all that I have and can overcome during a storm by just using my emotions, makes the rainbow that emerges beyond the dark clouds just absolutely blissful.