In Through an Out Door

I’m life coach and poet Peter Winslow. While at a party recently I engaged a very astute friend in conversation about the origins of the zodiac. For centuries before the advent of astronomy, the art of astrology was considered by men of letters (and the kings who endowed them) to be a very precise science. In modern times many surprisingly serious and sober thinkers continue to use it as a source of amusement and mystical guidance.
Those with birthdays this time of year are born under Cancer the crab, considered to have a personality possessed of a formidable outer shell which protects a soft and vulnerable inner sanctum. As my cohort and I parsed the particulars, it became quite clear that this classic metaphor applies to many of us no matter the time and place of our birth.
People have become quite adept at building fortresses around their fragile inner worlds. Serving as a means of protection, our emotional bars and barriers also occlude full expression of the authentic self, suggesting a double-edged Sword of Damocles to imprison one in an increasingly limited existence.
Rare is the individual who has loved and lost and not built a stony wall ‘round wounded heart, of private thoughts and feelings that inform an unfortunate fallacy about who one really is or longs to be.
Your mission is to attune your beliefs and cognitions and bring them to light in a safe and supportive harbor. Ever endeavor to blossom beyond the baggage and bondage of your esoteric emotional adversaries, and find a way to waylay what blocks the door to your inner purpose.
What is your inner purpose? To align your every thought, word and action with your deepest desire. The quality of your life depends upon it, and there is scarcely a moment to lose.
–Peter Winslow
