Astrology, Motivation, and What Drives YOU.

Are you internally or externally motivated?  Do you feel like things happen to you or that you make things happen for yourself?  How do you deal with obstacles: do you push harder to navigate around them towards your goal or do you step back and hope things work out somehow?

Step back and assess your life.  Think back five years ago.  Do you have the things you dreamed and wanted five years ago?  If not, why?  Was it for a lack of clearly determined goals?  If you did set goals, did you achieve them?  If you set a goal, and did not achieve it, why?  Can you take responsibility for being lackadaisical while navigating those obstacles that inevitably pop up?

I’ve been having a tough week navigating setbacks and obstacles.  I know that it is a part of life and there is no straight clear-cut path towards my lofty goal.  Five years ago I did not have the self-direction to take responsibility to navigate my obstacles.  I relied on the “well if it’s meant to be….it will all eventually work out” philosophy.  Today I work twice as hard to make the things I want to happen.

So, if you are externally motivated, and hoping for some sign from above that it’s time for a change, it’s Pluto Retrograde time:

Pluto, the planet of transformation, takes a whopping 248 years to complete a single cycle of rotation around the Sun. On average, it spends 21 years in each sign and 5 months of each year in retrograde.

Pluto turns retrograde in Capricorn on April 4, signaling in a time of destruction and rebuilding, rejuvenation and regeneration. It is a time for fresh starts and dead ends. The things that we hang onto the tightest can suddenly be taken away. We may be forced to reevaluate the things we cherish most.

During a Pluto retrograde period, we will feel pressured to eliminate and release the old, outworn, outdated and obsolete in our lives. We will be urged to let go of attitudes, thinking or communication patterns, security drives, and rigid emotions that no longer serve us. This is an excellent time to undergo an internal form of house cleaning, and look into ourselves to determine exactly what we do and do not need.

Pluto retrograde imparts an intense power for investigation, so we should use this time to assess what reoccurring patterns in our lives make us feel out of control, where and why do we continually give our power away, and under what circumstances do we react so defensively that we elicit attacks from others. Pluto retrograde marks a time wherein we should seek to gain greater control over our lives.