Transformation Station
Early 9H Profection Musings + How to Check Your Own Chart
Blessed Monday!
Welcome back to the Chapel of Honey! We meet you as you are, where you are, no judgement. Today’s offering weaves travel, reflection, and astrology. Thank you for spending some of your day here at the Chapel!
I’m in my own Transformation Station and I’m exhilarated. I took a quick trip to Virginia and back, touched down in Charlotte on the way out and the way back in - have you ever had to run across CHT? A workout if I ever met one - and saw the Sun rise and set from the sky. I was reminded that I love to travel, not just the part about visiting somewhere new but the packing, planning, airport coffee at 5am, did I bring everything? of it all. I love saying hello to the captains and stewardesses, I love scrambling to grab my giant carryon from the overhead, and I especially love a lil’ travel conjure that gets me upgrades and rows alone. I loved the experience of rocketing through the sky in a plane so small I, at 5’2”, hit my head when standing. I loved writing devotional notes when I could see the Sun rise, then notice its glory all the better from another angle while everyone else had eyelashes resting on their cheeks in sleep. I loved watching the quarries and fields and state highways come into view and chatting with security at Newport News. What a brilliant way to start the year, to start a new month! Call it the 9H influence, but I started this personal year ready for change. Not any small changes either, no little moments of feeding the beast, but real change. The kind that takes me out of my comfort zone, away from home, and puts me so squarely in new spaces that I am forced to not only see but embody myself anew. You can’t grow in an old skin.
The only thing I might really be afraid of is life actually working out, and I’m ready to face that fear.
I’ve often surprised friends and family by saying I don’t have a travel bug, and for more years of my life than not it’s been true. I love to read about places and am happy to see them, but aside from a handful of locations I’ve never felt that itch to get away. But this year? Baby this year I want to GO. I want to be on a plane, a train, a boat, whatever you got. And while those few places still call my name I’d be happy to visit almost anywhere away from here. The feeling goes beyond that, it’s a readiness in my bone marrow to truly live and be in a new location. Not a new city, not the other half of the state, not even anywhere familiar. This feeling lands somewhere between excited interest to explore and necessary-to-breathe urgency, as if I won’t grow here any longer no matter how much sunlight I get or how many times I visit the River. If I’m being honest (and what else is writing for?) I’ve always been a little afraid of travel because I half expected everything to be gone when I got back. Too many moves, too many fears inside and out of myself, better to stay put. But you want to know something? I’ve seen some of the worst, and I’m still here. I’ve literally been to jail, started probation, experience(d) chronic illness, navigated sexual assault. I’ve moved by myself, I’ve come home to a space inhabitable because of mold and had to leave my belongings behind, I’ve lost years of my life to a repo’d storage unit. In some ways all of my worst fears have already happened, and while it’s not particularly funny it’s also hilarious in ways I can’t explain. What have I to fear? When I’ve danced on the falling sky and carved a ladder out from the pit with my bare hands? When I’ve sat at the edge of the cliff and given myself a fresh manicure, walked into work with a smile the next day, and got the bills paid? The only thing I might really be afraid of is life actually working out, and I’m ready to face that fear.
Reading Your Profection Year (Examples and Beginner Instructions)
If you look at the first month of your personal astrological year as a divination space (and I encourage you to do this), you’ll find key themes and experiences highlighted. My first month literally started on the day with sentencing and probation, followed by certification as a swim instructor at my new job and taking on my own classes, and wrapped with a quick - less than a full 48hrs - trip to VA and back to see my brother, who I really only see once a year or less these days. I read a lot, starting four books and finishing one. I wrote in my journal, my conjure book, my manuscript. I began playing word games and even working on the occasional sudoku puzzle almost daily. I got a small royalty payment from my first book. My best friend visited and I was able to cook a beautiful dinner to share. In short, my first month was busier than a normal personal quarter! So I anticipate this year will take me out of my comfort zone professionally, spiritually, financially and in the best ways. I believe I’ll be writing more and in new spaces, publishing, editing. I think I’ll be in new rooms with new faces.
There are a few key things to pay attention to when understanding the themes of a profection year, from the house itself to ruling sign and planet. For example I am in a 9H year which for me is Gemini, thus ruled by Mercury who is positioned in my Pisces 6H. I know immediately that ninth house themes like legal matters, higher learning, distant travel, and spirituality will all be brought to the forefront and primarily through the expression of the air sign Gemini, influenced by the waters of Pisces and my natal Scorpio Jupiter. There is an energy of bringing matters up from the depths and making them digestible, making what is often abstract understandable or at least more accessible.
