Each thread found within the birth chart - from our personality to our communication style and beyond - points to the embedded patterns of our life. Free will flavors the recipe but the ingredients are laid out on the counter already.
What happens to some of us, happens to all of us and we are all feeling both the collective unfolding as well as the individual ways transits present themselves in our own lives.
When I was eight or so I told people my name was Sarah. Disgusted with being made fun of and called “butter” and “margarine,” the butter runner-up, I chose to rebrand myself.
Pema Chodron reminds us that our crazy and awesome are all mixed into the same bowl. Remove what you think does not belong and there goes the richness and uniqueness, the youness that could not be replicated.