Tuesday Trining: Eclipses, Dreams, and Sunlight

Shawn T. Meade II
Aug 22, 2017 · 5 min read
Solar Eclipse crescents through the trees. Some creepy alien stuff if you ask me!

Congratulate me! I just had the most productive Monday I’ve had in a long while. Blame it on the fact that I’m between work and I was able to structure my entire day myself. Or maybe because I had a meeting at 9:30 am with a company that offered me a job that I turned down in April. Or perhaps because I got up early and wrote about what was on my mind… Either way, I kicked the crap out of my unending honey-do list, restocked our house full of healthy food (death to cheese!!), cleaned up all remnants of our weekend trip to New Jersey, and got a job. All in 24 hours.

Yesterday’s total solar eclipse from an astronomer’s perspective meant that a giant flying rock passed in front of an even more giant flying ball of gas. (His exact words actually). Two celestial bodies arcing and orbiting in front of one another, science. To an astrologer, this total solar eclipse in Leo meant that for many of us, Leos especially, opportunity abounds! We lions are ruled by the Sun and when interesting things happen to it, we tend to benefit the most. I read my monthly horoscope at Susan Miller’s Astrology Zone. While lately she’s been putting in plugs for her new web show, app, and other services, her detailed examinations of each month are always goosebumps-inducing and tend to be spot on. Like most horoscopes, you should reread them at the end, or even during, the month so that you can refresh your perspective. What you thought meant “enormous opportunity” on August 1, won’t be the same on August 22. Susan told me that this solar eclipse was special, not because it came anywhere near where I physically was, but because of when it was hitting. It came after a full moon lunar eclipse in the beginning of the month which typically brings closure. So, something was going to come to an end and then something even more exciting would start to show itself, not to be resolved until mid-September (damn you Mercury retrograde!).

What things were I to expect? Ask me that first week of August, I couldn’t tell you what they would be. However, I’d like to think now with the wisdom of three weeks’ experience that the lunar eclipse brought to light, and ended, issues in the job I had until August 15. I do remember feeling like I was wasting my time doing something that I had no interest in. Money was decent, insurance was good enough, out of work at 4:00, and a boss who stayed out of my way. Waking up, though, became an insurmountable struggle and my twenty-five minute drive turned into a Shakespearean tragedy with me imagining myself turning around for home and fighting with myself more and more as I drew closer to the office. When this all came to an end, it sucked at first, but now with how everything ended up (literally within a week!) I’m so relieved.

As I mentioned, I got a job yesterday with a company that’s way more my speed and offers an environment that’s far more conducive to what my long term goals are. Was the solar eclipse highlighting this job? Right now I don’t think that this was the opportunity it was teasing me with. I’m leaving myself open to seeing what else the universe has in store for me, but I think this new job is going to be a small part of the bigger picture that will be the life-changing opportunity my Leo solar eclipse and Susan Miller promised. Just by getting up with intention every day and writing my thoughts down like so many lightning strikes, I can’t but feel charged! Was it that simple? Did the ennui I felt on most days, or the greater listlessness I always swayed with each morning really just need to be swept away by consistently feeding my creative engine?? Right now that’s how it feels. Without trying to sound like a hipster millennial, I think this is what “finding your bliss” is kinda sorta like…

I’d like to think that most people have something; a talent, an interest, a curiosity, a dream, that they aren’t feeding because society says, “Get a job, pay taxes, buy a house, pay taxes, have kids, get a small tax break, MORE TAXES!!!”. They’re/we’re all caught between the challenges of just living in 2017 and just wanting to live for ourselves. Who wants to be mindless drones? (“Up, work, home, TV, bed,” which is from a short on Rocco’s Modern Life where two fleas whine about their boring lives and is too real right now). Doesn’t finding “your bliss”, or just even satisfying pastimes, mean listening to your heart of hearts and not taking at face value the bland slop the world serves up as life? I’m starting to accept that that is the case. Girl, I know I need money, so I’m not going to stay at home until the end of time not earning any, but maybe I can get greater fulfillment out of life just by feeding my something. And who knows, there could be more somethings I have.

From Rocco’s Modern Life on 90s Nickelodeon. (Not a show I’d let my kids watch today…)

So call to action right? (I’m a thought leader, guys, listen to me!). But seriously, examine your life. Talk to yourself about how you’re feeling, you can’t lie to you, and it’s free. If you’re happy about how things are, cheers! Keep living on and ignore what I’m about to say. However, if you wake up feeling like the morning light is less bright because you have to go to work; or if you dread the commute into work because you know at the end is “work”, stop. Just take a second and triage that situation. Who knows, you may just be lazy (I forever thought I was!), but you may also be just so misaligned that your chakras, your chi, your third eye, or soul is/are so closed up, out of balance, or darkened that you need a little TLC from you. You may not know what the TLC is, but you sure as shit need to find out, otherwise, you’ll end up like I always feared I would: forty, unfulfilled, kicking myself for missing “my chance”. Don’t miss your chance, we really only have one.

Give me a clap is this spoke to you at all. To find out what the stars have in store for you, go to www.astrologyzone.com and read all of Susan Miller’s insights.

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