A few years ago, I took an online astrology course from a teacher that I still highly respect. (Please don't tell me how astrology doesn't "mesh" with a Christian faith - I believe that the same Creator who made the Universe also created the planets and the road map to understanding their positions the moment that I was born.)
As we marched through our charts, and he focused on each one of us, he would invariably get to mine and the the word "paradox" would escape his lips. The various oppositions in my chart would describe that I like this and that, no or about it! I'm like this and I'm like that as well.
Moon in Cancer is an interesting part of my personality.
See, I had planned to continue my fluoride series today (or yesterday), but I'm feeling very much drained and burned out at the moment. At least on that subject. So, I must take a break. I promise to get back to it, but it's not happening for me right now. I will explain a little bit about why I've burned out, for the moment.
(Image from PXHere)
This image very well illustrates what it's like, being me.
I can build a very tall bonfire, but my bonfire must always be on the beach, for there, I can extinguish the flames if/when the fire gets out of hand. Because of its position, it always must eventually succumb to the encroaching tide of change - for change happens all the time with me, and often quite dramatically.
I will tell you a little about what my teacher taught about the Cancer Moon.
The sign of Cancer is represented by the crab. The crab is a lowly creature with a hard, brittle shell and a soft interior. It scuttles to and fro on the beach, hiding behind rocks, only coming out when it seems safe. It lives by the tide, taking both safety from the tide, but also refuge from the tide, as necessary.
The crab, when threatened, has a fierce pinch. But because it only can reach the ankles, it only nips, never does huge amounts of damage - yet it does enough to protect itself long enough to scuttle back under its rock again.
The ebb and flow of my life, my emotions and my energy is as natural to me as it is to the crab. It doesn't make it easy to live with though.
I often admire those who can choose one path (or niche, as it's called in the blogging world) and stick to it for years at a time. I cannot do that. I will go whole-heartedly with one path for days, weeks, even months. But eventually, I burn out as the tide comes in and changes my heart again.
This is why I have so many projects "on the go" - I do this, that and t'other and never seem to finish.
As I get older, I get better at finishing things, but that's as I learn to work with my ebbing and flowing rather than fighting it.
So, the first round of my "Steemit for Newbs" series only got halfway done. But then, the next month, I came back to it and finished it. I'm about halfway done with my Fluoride series right now, but I may have to flow away from it again in order to come back in a couple of day/weeks/months in order to finish it properly. At the moment, my focus is on my fiction series - hoping to get something polished (repolished in a couple of cases) enough to give it to you in one series rather than breaking in the middle - though one of my stories is actually designed to break into chunks - on purpose!)
Thanks for bearing with me as I ebb and flow through many topics and interests. Anything I leave behind for awhile will eventually come back - when I'm ready for it. All things, in their season.
Lori Aberle Hopkins – photographer at Viking Visual, author, student-of-the-world.
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