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Points of Reference

solar return humblings; reflective clarity amidst crumbling.

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Lucia Hawkins
Jul 09, 2026
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The Path was chosen long ago, and mid life demands to know: are we continuing in this direction?

It is 48 hours until I reckon with one of my own most significant points of reference : the night I was born, dead, and 4 decades plus 3 more spins on this glorious fertile planet, gifted by the Gods with a propensity for a scope of vision I know was earned over more than the many lives within this lifetime I have survived, endured, transcended.

My Returns are met with once-in-a-lifetime Oppositions: Solar and Venus Returns, as Uranus grinds over Chiron while beaming their electric earthquake to my Moon and Jupiter; and that is only this summer. Uranus in Gemini will conjunct 3 more Planets and oppose 4 more. The Stelliums of Gemini and Sagittarius assure direct channels into the Student - Teacher - Meaning Maker spectrum make for quite a clear path. With the midlife Uranus opposition upheave to clarify time present and ongoing for 7 years, I almost thought I knew what it would look like.

Surrender to the upheaval, I say / whimper / howl.

I am midwifing my midlife, and per usual at these mile markers of celebration, ceremony, uncertainty, anchors;

am intimately reacquainted with death, unbecoming, dissolution;

the always present flux and fermentation that is definitive of life emerging, from the decay necessary for fuel, space, and liberation.

The potent beauty of Land Centering is the reparative reorientation to True Nature.

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