Leo Season

I’ve been neglecting this blog quite a bit (you should follow me on Instagram for more regular updates @theprismtarot). A lot has happened since I last posted here. I’m still working on my oracle decks and I ran a successful Kickstarter for them so they will be available soon. I’ve honestly just been so busy. I feel like I’m working 5 jobs at a time, and for real I kind of am. There is something to be said for the feeling of being needed consistently, but there is also something to be said for needing yourself. In a weird way, working feels like self-care to me, because I love everything I do. I’m happiest when I’m going non-stop and making things, but even I get burnt out sometimes. Things get put on the back burner, priorities get shifted, sometimes not to where they should go, and I lose track of any sense of focus. I also know it’s hard on the few people who care about my presence in their lives when I’m gone from it so often. My husband tells me this in no uncertain terms.

In the midst of all this busyness and “overworking,” my mind has also been running. I’ve been doing a lot of soul-searching during this Leo season specifically. Chaos craves organization. Why am I like this? Why am I drawn to the things that I’m drawn to? What drives me to keep going? Those are some big questions, but I feel like the pieces have been coming together the more I focus on my independence and sense of self. When we’re young, we don’t know who we are, only what people want us to be. Growing up, in my opinion, is letting go of that.

Obviously, as an astrologer, I look to my birth chart for answers first, or if not answers at least a little direction. One of the things I’ve always been inherently drawn to is lions, so I started to wonder if maybe Leo has a greater influence over me than I thought. So imagine how confused I was when I searched my birth chart for any Leo placements and came up with nothing.

But I knew it had to be there somewhere so I dug a little deeper and realized that, though it isn’t outlined here, my South Node is in Leo, opposite of Aquarius, my true or north node.

The south node governs past life lessons and regressions,  the things we excel at and the things we cling to that hold us back. So in fact, I do have a deep soul connection to Leo. I’m very interested in exploring this further, but intuitively I know that this is definitely one of the missing pieces I’ve been looking for and the reason for so many things I’ve never fully understood about myself. My life path seems to one of learning to connect with others in spite of my strong sense of self.

This is my collection of leonine talismans (not all of them) and evidence of my fixation on them from The Prism Tarot. They are the only non-human figures I created crystalline models of.

Until next time.