To personally engage in the fluid and participatory nature of Story, involves tending an inner witnessing, a tolerance for uncertainty and availability to being moved. When we let go, listen, feel, shape-shift and play, new doors can be opened, bridges can be built, possibilities seen, paths forged, new worlds created …

However, what’s paradoxical or most tricky, is that —

The moments where we need play the most, are the moments play seems utterly foolish, naive or sacrilegious.

When we need imagination the most, is when we tend to shut it down in the name of urgency or gravity of a situation.

And what ends up happening is that the habitat of Neptune — of imagination, deep instinct, wild and sacred Dreamtime — shrinks inside of us, strengthening the conditions of consciousness that gave rise to the structure that we’re trying to dismantle. 

So, rather than taking a narrowed focus of trying to figure out which story we’re in and how to re-work it towards some perceived benefit …

And rather than trying to put our finger on, imposing structure upon or drying out what’s actually the wild, fluid and metamorphic juice of a story by extricating it from the bodies and the moments from which they were originally told ….

We can soften our gaze and warm up our dream-bodies to entering the living field of astrology. We can engage in contemplative, playful and creative explorations. We can make art, move and dance and thereby attend to an innately reciprocal conversation between Earth & Sky, where the creatures and places of myth begin to speak for themselves.

What new understandings, of ourselves and of our world, may be revealed to us then?

When we walk with respect and regard for the intelligence of stories held in the Night Sky of our birth, we can meet the weave (the characters, storylines, landscapes, tensions and attractor patterns) that we come into this lifetime with. And, in this meeting, we find opportunities to weave in more imagination, empathy and love, from our place as the Storyteller.