The Plute-Jupe Power Tower
Power tower by Swedish architects Anders Berensson
If you are waiting for this tetchy energy to subside, we have a few more days to go yet. This ongoing power struggle between Captain Chaos himself (Pluto) and our cosmic enlarger (Jupiter) is peaking all this week, having first smashed into our lives last November.
It was at that time that our current struggle around personal sovereignty and authority may have first raised its roaring head. For many it was truly a vulgar display of power that alerted us in horribly life altering terms to where we had actually handed the keys to our kingdom over to someone (or something) else. Whether you thought they were safe in the pocket, heart or hands of another is one thing. Why that seemed like a sound plan is entirely another. Too trusting? Deeply deluded? Completely snowballed? Anywhere on this spectrum still finds you the one who gave it away.
And that's the really shitful part of this year long aspect (that and how long we're being given to get this one down). Power struggles originate within us - at precisely the place we feel our needs are not being met. From there we take steps to get them met by using a variety of control mechanisms in order to effect change. Seems simple enough - except that we cajole or coerce, bargain or interrogate, stamp our foot or run away. We comply or we rebel: the struggle continues or the bully wins.
There is another way; a new dynamic that requires introspection, balming our wounds first before inflicting any more. It also demands deep consideration of our personal power structure: how it was built and by whom (start with your parents), how strong or flimsy it now stands, how it responds to challenge or pressure or abuse. This is looking at the forces at play within rather than whatever is smashing against it - no matter how quickly our fingers start to waggle.
The awful bottom line: there is simply no point yelling from the top of the tower if you don't know what's downstairs. Use this shuddering week to watch and learn well. The alternative could bring the whole thing crashing down.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2017