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The astrology girlies are saying that those of us who are Cardinal signs (Libra (ayeee!), Aries, Capricorn, and Cancer) are completing a 16-year karmic cycle by the end of the year.
Here is what they're saying...
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The quoted text below is from astrologist Laura Freeman, see sources linked below.
"The cycle is filled with some of the biggest issues a person could ever grapple with in their life, and it’s all “been going on for the past 16 years.”
"The four signs have spent the last decade and change dealing with “themes of death, destruction,” and “transformation.” Due to the severity of these issues, the cycle has impacted everything from work to friendships, romance to “what brings you joy,” with “lesson after lesson” hitting the signs.
"So, if you felt like you were forced “to reevaluate everything” in your life since 2008? If the past decade and a half required “intense transformation and growth”? Yup, blame the karmic cycle. Luckily, Freeman said that the cycle’s end will close out “a likely very painful chapter” for Cancers, Libras, Capricorns, and Arieses."
"And we will also have a full moon in Aries in October, which will add to the intensity and power of this final ending in our lives, since full moons are all about letting go,” Demure said. “These signs will also have a life-defining new beginning in October, which will set off a one-year-long transformation and introduce a new life era, because they are highly affected by the solar eclipse in Libra.”
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And, Phew! Apparently, it started in 2008. I've been getting everything, I mean everything out of the mud for a while and long long time. My saying had been, "all my life I had to fight". That shit is exhausting, mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Simple things seemed like an obstacle course.
16 years...
Dealing with liars, cheaters, thieves, manipulators, saboteurs, jealous people, and all types of haters on multiple levels. I had ideas stolen, work stolen, someone even stole my My Little Pony, it was pink and green could never find it again. Who steals a My Little Pony? Even recently, I've had family members be absolute jerks towards me, folks I don't even speak to you and have not contributed to my life at all. I can't even tell you why because I don't know. At this point, when I see how people behave/move, I simply decide if I want to be around it or not. I don't try to analyze the behaviors of others, that is their problem not mine.
The shit would just pile on and on. And I resigned myself to staying in my lane and the shit still didn't stop.
There was not an aspect of my reality that was unaffected. There were no hiding spaces and no safe places or people.
That dumb meme that talks about hyper-independence being a trauma response triggers me every time because NO ONE talks about what people have have to navigate and the conditions that created it. Moreover, people seem not to understand that being independent is a better choice that being around or expecting support from people who intentionally want to see someone suffer/fail.
Folks have to understand that when people are around people who are good people it helps put the armor down, but when you're in harmful environments, you have to keep the armor on. If people want to see people do better, they should then be the better person for that person and show up otherwise, they're just part of the problem (but many people seem to miss this last part).
What these past 16 years did was create someone who was ready for war. I went from being blindsided by people to being ready and anticipating people and their BS.
And I did that, for a while. And for a while I needed to do that, until I didn't need it anymore.
I realized that I didn't want to fight anymore, I didn't want my nervous system and psyche always ready for war. I didn't want to live that inside my body anymore.
I had to take that warrior spirit and use it in a different way. I had to be willing to walk the journey, alone no matter how far, not knowing what was to come if it meant saving myself from being in harmful places. I knew that if the world could bring me all the BS it did, it could also bring me the most beautiful things, affirming souls and places that held me in all the places I needed to be held.
The shift started for me about 9 years ago in 2015, about 9 years into this karmic cycle. Here I am in 2024...9 years later, completing an ending, starting a new beginning. 9 is a number of completion.
2008-beginning of karmic cycle
2015-a shift began
2024-completion of 9 year shift
2024-completion of karmic cycle
So, us Cardinal signs are getting our spark back!!! Which is interesting, because one of the songs that go hard for me is Lauryn Hills' verse in the song Nobody with Naz.
Especially the part where she says (bolded the parts where I go extra hard! lol)
All my time has been focused on my freedom now
Why would I join 'em when I know that I can beat 'em now?
They put their words on me, and they can eat 'em now
That's probably why they keep on tellin' me I'm needed now
They tried to box me out while takin' what they want from me
I spent too many years living too uncomfortably
Making room for people who didn't like the labor
Or wanted the spoils, greedy, selfish behavior...
See me in my freedom taking all my land back
They sent a lot against me thinking I'd just stand back
I got my legs beneath me, I got my hands back
A lot of people sabotaged, they couldn't stand that
I turned the other cheek, I took blow after blow
There's so much crisis in the world 'cause you reap what you sow
When you keep what you know is meant for someone else
The ditch you dig for them, you might just end up in yourself
I'm in the secret place, I keep a sacred space
They keep showin' their hands, but keep hidin' their face
If I'm a messenger, you block me then you block the message
So aggressive, the world you made is what you're left with
Pride and ego over love and truth is fucking reckless
Y'all n--- got a death wish, the stupid leaves me breathless
Sources:
Daily Dot (a written summary of a Tik Tok by Laura Freeman):
https://www.dailydot.com/news/pluto-ends-16-year-karmic-cycle-for-aries-capricorn-libra-cancer/
Up next: Part 2: Master Alchemist and Ultimate Escape Artist