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When we repress fear, we also repress success . . .
Abraham Maslow said that self-actualization was “the full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, potentialities. ” (Motivation and Personality, p. 150). He didn’t see it as a static state but as an ongoing process in which one’s capacities are fully, creatively, and joyfully utilized.
I think of the self-actualizing individual not as an ordinary person with something added, but rather as the ordinary person with nothing taken away. The average person is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capacities. -Maslow
In astrology we assign Jupiter as the planet of expansion, the urge to be ‘more than’ we already are. As for the ‘dampening and inhibiting factors’, there we find Saturn. Keep in mind where these two planets are in your natal chart as I go through some ideas about self-actualization, and the resistance to it.
Resisting our greatest potential can be caused by Deliberate creator denial, the repression of unconscious fears. There’s a live call on this topic with me and Jeannette Maw over at Good Vibe University on June 13th. See times and dates for your location. It’s a free call where, all welcome!
As deliberate creators, we know vibration is everything. We get what we vibrate. Because we know this, we tend jump back from feelings of sadness, disappointment, anger, resentment. We want to pivot away from them and find a better feeling place. But . . .
What we resist, persists.
If we repress fear (Saturn) the unwanted vibe doesn’t go away. It waits deep in the unconscious, poised to rise again at the next opportunity (when we relax the vigil, take a holiday, or become exhausted or overworked.)
Important: Jung said that every aspect of the unconscious is seeking manifestation. You can also say thatevery planet in the chart is seeking outer manifestation.Every part of us wants to express, to live out.
Note: Saturn, among other things, represents the part of us that feels flawed, damaged, repulsive. It is our ‘shadow’ and we don’t want others to see it. WE don’t want to see it! To allow our Saturn the light of day, we usually have to ‘work very hard’ to become the best we can be in the area of life (house) we find Saturn because until our inner task master gives us the okay, we don’t feel worthy there. Hence, Saturn can equal fear and denial, but when we release the judgments we have on ourselves in this area of life, then Saturn is conscious and we become more of who we are. This is what the alchemists were on about, turning lead (Saturn) into gold (consciousness).
How do we do this?
Step one is gaining insight to any limiting beliefs/fears by putting awareness on what we resist. (I know this sounds antithetic to LOA practices, but stay with me)
The idea is to expand (Jupiter) our awareness of thoughts and beliefs (Gemini). Here we go!
1) Set an intention to spot the repressed feelings
2) Make a list of your top goals
3) State them aloud.
4) Repeat this to see if any resistance arises.
5) Note what opposing thoughts or beliefs come up. You can also study where natal Saturn is in your chart and explore the meaning by sign and house to get an idea of what you keep buried, dampening your true potential.
6) You might come up with statements such as “I am afraid to fail”, “I can’t do it”,”I’m not good enough” or “It’s impossible”.
7) Work with these thoughts (resources below) until they lose their charge.This will involve feeling the fear without judgment before reaching for the better feeling thought.
Feeling ‘negative’ thoughts is what most LOA savvy people want to resist because we’re taught to ‘find a better vibration’ FAST! But, just because a fearful thought is denied doesn’t mean it’s not effecting our vibration. Denial isn’t a fast track to self-actualization by any means so put some awareness on what you resist so you can set it free!
Tips for releasing unwanted thoughts
EFT
Byron Katie’s The Work
Tapas Fleming TAT
Kim’s tips for intentions:
1) Start your day with appreciation
2) Set intentions to experience life and yourself without judgments
3) Use positive self-talk when starting something new
4) Focus on what’s going right
5) Remember you have instant access to infinite possibilities
Join in on this call or stream live online. It’s free and your input is most welcome. If you have a favourite way of releasing repressed material and limiting beliefs, I’d love to hear it!
YAY!!
Thanks, Annette!
Great post! I agree – my deliberate creation practice goes much better when I’m willing to honour my authentic feelings BEFORE seeking relief.
Sometimes that’s easy – taking myself off to a safe space and throwing the required hissy fit, or surrendering to the wave of grief in the moment. Intense, yes, but the feelings can flow through rapidly, and be released with a kind of freedom which brings a deep sigh of relief in its wake.
Then I can seek out the underpinning thought and begin getting cozy with a better-feeling one.
But sometimes the underpinning thought is difficult to own, because it comes attached to big judgement. A thought such as “maybe I’m the only human who can’t make LOA work”. Or “what if I never lose this weight?”. Or “what if God doesn’t want me to be rich?”
Some of these thoughts can fill us with shame, especially if we make them mean we’re a failure as a deliberate creator. And research shows that sometimes, shame bypasses the neocortex and triggers the same fight or flight response we’d experience confronting a lion on the savannah. In other words, it can shut us down before we even get the chance to own or recognize the thought or release the emotion. Not surprising some topics can trigger denial
I think this work requires radical gentleness and patience. And complete willingness to let go of judgement. Willingness to admit to ourselves a thought we don’t want to own.
That’s why I’m so glad you and Jeannette are doing that call!! Awesome!
Oh … and when it comes to releasing emotion techniques, I like Tom Stone’s work on feeling fully.
Great insights, Janette. Thank you. And yes to Tom Stone. Do we have a link to his work? (He’s the ‘go to the white hot centre of the feeling’ guy, yes?) I’ll have a look.
Love this post, thank you Kim!
It’s wonderful to have an expression of LOA which honours and acknowledges the darker stuff that we humans grapple with and put in an astro context.
Despite the initial discomfort with unpleasant or negative emotions – becoming more aware, exploring and bringing them to light is much more helpful than just trying to put a positive spin on it or deny and repress them.
My favourite way, which I’ve used for just over a year now (and very similar to your steps) is writing my Morning Pages – a la ‘The Artist’s Way’ – it’s been amazingly helpful! Am practically a Julia Cameron missionary I’m such a believer!
Often in the pages I explore any gnarly issues or look for what’s holding me back, once I identify what it is and name it, resolving it is easy. At the end of my pages I always follow with the positive/creative affirmations I’m working with at the moment.
It’s a bit like exercise – not always easy facing up to the pages but always feel better for doing it!
Your tips have given me fresh inspiration – have been finding it harder in my practice lately! Saturn in the first house (second planet after Chiron!)- it seems like I never get a break, always something to work on there!
Fiona, thank you. Great inspiration with the morning pages! I hadn’t thought of that but it’s a fabulous tool for self exploraiton.
Saturn in the first does ask a lot of use but damn, it gives a lot of gold too! So strong. So capable! Is that all happening in PIsces? Very artistic!
Do love the arts, I’m pisces rising and my Saturn is just out of Pisces at 5º Aries ! Actually I only learn this last week after chasing up my birth time from hospital records – to find out I was born an hour earlier than previously thought. Such a revelation – suddenly my astro makes much more sense – previously thought I was Taurus/Aries rising but that hour difference makes me an Aries/Pisces rising!!
Solid, excellent, thorough….(are you sure you aren’t also a psychologist on the side, Kim?)
I do find your way of tackling LOA things more – well – real and sensible than some.
As for those planets – synchronicity or what? Jupiter is in my 9th house on my natal chart, and Saturn in my 7th house. Nuff zed!
Glad you like, Dragonwyst! Jupiter at home in the 9th and Saturn exalted in the 7th. If they’re sextile (60 degrees apart +-) at least they’re talking to each other!
Thanks for dropping by!
Nup. Jupiter is at 29 degrees 59 Minutes of Taurus and Saturn at 13 degr, 48 of Gemini. Not talking to each other.
However, I was about to look at my draconic chart when I realised something I didn’t think of before when I glibly cut out the circle showing the signs and moved it round. The way these charts are shown on astro.com the planets are drawn on the circle showing the houses, thus the chart I’ve stitched together for draconic now has th planets in the wrong places. I’m going to ahve to work a bit harder now, to cross reference which houses those two affect draconically!
This is a good point to bring up, thank you! Because the draconic chart is a different zodiac system, like sidereal or tropical or draconic, the relationship between the planets, (all the aspects) and the house positions remain the same. What moves is the zodiac. So 0 Aries moves off the vernal equinox as the outer wheel of the zodiac turns until you come to the North Lunar Node. That becomes 0 Aries and all the signs of the zodiac follow suit. Unless you were born with the North Node at 0 Aries (once every 19 years) you have planets in different signs of the zodiac but they stay put, in the same houses and the same aspects between each other.
What you can find that brings in new aspects is the Draconic Saturn may be in the same degree as your tropical (usual) Jupiter, or they may form new aspects between Draconic and Tropical ( say you have Draconic planets at 29 Taurus, or 13 Gemini, they will be conjunct your Jupiter and Saturn). So new relationships are discovered that we wouldn’t have normally seen.
I’m not sure that was even a confusion for you actually, so sorry if I’ve gone on about the obvious. It’s such at great map of self-discovery though and I love talking about it!
ah – I’m glad I raised that indeed! I thought the planets would move with the zodiac, not stay in their places in the same houses! New thing learnt!
Trust me – nothing is particularly glaringly obvious to me where astrology is concerned. I’m an absolute infant in what I know.
Thank you so much Kim, this is brilliant. As I was reading I thought “I’m going to post and recommend Byron Katie” – then I scrolled down to find you have! I’m actually going to see her in London on the 16th.It’s quite amazing to read what you’ve written here – well, no, it’s synastry I think – but I’ve been doing loads of work on this recently, and the message is coming at me everywhere I look – “acknowledge and allow what is inside to be, bring the light of consciousness to it without trying to make it change.” As I have a natal Saturn-Chiron conjunction in my Pisces 11th house (born 1966), and as Saturn is currently sqaring my natal Cancer sun in my 3rd house, this may come as no surprise! I would like to also recommend the meditation double cd by Kim Eng (Eckhart Tolle’s partner) called “Resist Nothing – Guided Meditations to Heal the Pain-Body” which I’ve found superb. As you might gather from the title it’s ALL about allowing whatever arises internally to arise, putting your attention on it without THINKING about it. She has a beautiful, calmimg voice and I’ve found the meditations plant seeds which stay with me over subsequent days.
I’m going to also check out the other people mentioned in your’s and other people’s posts above and will definitely check out the Good Vibe University gig. Thanks again! xx
Great synchronicity, Moira! How amazing to see Byron Katie live!
And thanks for the Kim Eng meditation CD suggestion. I like the title, ‘resist nothing’. Great you dropped in!
I concur, great post. FEELS like a much more practical way to approach reflexivity.
I have Saturn in the 12th/Cancer, conj Asc/Mars and in aspect to my Sun, and thus the whole ‘just believe’ thing doesn’t really resonate with me. Or more to the point, I have Moon/Jupiter/Neptune aspect thing going on that desperately wants to just believe, and Saturn there in the shadows with his arms crossed and a scowl. Putting him to work makes more sense.
What also makes more sense to me now is using the concept of being reflexive, which is a cognitive process, but also linked to the product imagination (we use our imagination to we ourselves as another would, and thus reflect on our behaviours etc). Which is work, not just faith. So I guess Saturn in the 12th, reflexivity is me.
‘use our imagination to SEE ourselves … ‘
Wow, that’s a really great way to describe it. Thanks for that. Perfect image of Saturn with his arms crossed and scowling at the Mo/Ju/Ne!
Hmm…. This is the third time I have come across something like this, in as many weeks, maybe there is something I should be doing LOL
Synchronicity speaks for itself. Go with what you feel most drawn to?
It does and I am
Hi kim its stacy @isf_ky im hoping this is the live stream
Stacy! I got this late but it was wonderful to have you one the call! Thank you for joining in and contributing!!!
Loved this article… thanks Kim! I have Jupiter and Saturn conjunct at 8 degrees Libra in the 5th house. What do I make of this in regards to what you’ve written here?
I’m going to do a whole post on Jupiter Saturn aspects soon!!!
Yay!
Thank you Kim, this is so right on, right now, for me. Just days ago I self sabotaged because I got fatigued and the gremlins came out to mess things up, I’m reeling, and it’s because of exactly this. I am scheduled to see a friend who is a proficient at “the work” tomorrow.. getting on it! Thank you again, seriously.
Eric, my pleasure. Perfect timing with your friend and The Work! Let us know how you go!
Kim, I had that same tiger as my FB profile pic for a long time… love it.
As for deliberate creator denial…IME, I’ve found that working whole-heartedly to find those constraints against creative freedom to self-actualize paradoxically also reveals the limits built into our life by the very path we have chosen — the rhythms & timings revealed in our charts, the constraints in our own astrological “personas”.
It’s like the video games my kids play — they choose a game, choose an avatar, choose the skills & tools & “powers” those avatars will be able to use in the game. But the avatars are also limited by how those capabilities have been “coded” in each game; the game has limits built into it, until the game is upgraded with different capacities.
Helps to know/remember that analogy so as not to bang one’s head against the wall in trying to manifest what is “outside the code” of one’s chosen path. That can get tough, sometimes, when we adhere rigorously to an LOA approach. IME.
Samina, great example. The cool thing about it is that it provides some distances. We can detach a bit from identifying with ego and connect with our more universal Self. This is a game. It’s got it’s codes and tricks and switches. Let’s loosen our grip a bit on the whole thing, take a step back and get this bigger picture.
Thank you!
“This is a game. It’s got it’s codes and tricks and switches. ”
Exactly! I’ve found so frequently that the codes have their own mechanics — once I activate something, set it in motion, I need to just step back and watch it/let it do its thing. Again like when my kids do their gaming, they hit a point in the game and watch it play out a bit. It was their job to make choices & activate certain things strategically. Then things move their avatar further through the game accordingly.
So much is truly beyond our conscious control…
my saturn and jupiter are like kim fisher’s! so close they’re practically doing the wild thing in the 5th house (saturn 23, 58; jupiter 28,15)….only in capricorn…so not so wild.
Kim, in relation to:
3) Use positive self-talk when starting something new
4) Focus on what’s going right
I have discovered Thankful Journaling about YOURSELF. I’ve modified mine to be the things I said or did during the day that are in alignment with my Values and Inner Being. It could be something as simple as smiling at someone.
It’s not always easy – in fact, some days it’s hard! But as I continue to do it, I am seeing where I am going/doing/ being right. It’s also training me to veer from the negative self-talk to this new search.
I am activating something new and I like it! I’m becoming more self-accepting, and i think that’s because not only am I showing myself I AM good enough, but it also gives me a direction throughout the day,
Annette! I hadn’t heard about ‘Thankful Journaling’. What a great idea. I can see those old engrams and habit patterns melting away as new positive and creative thoughts replace them. Brilliant!
Thank you!!!
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