Instead of Resolutions, Take an Oath

What is the reason you are climbing the mountain?

Instead of making resolutions, make a sacred vow or take an oath.

Ideally take it in the presence of a diety who can help you too.

Howdy, Kumquat—

There are a great many benefits to using astrology in my life. I’m talking about really USING it as a tool, not just thinking of it as a cute mental or emotional personality test. It’s not. It’s ancient and cosmic technology. It offers a glimpse of fate but does not predict outcomes. It predicts patterns of energy, based on the elements. Astrology empowers us to make wise choices with our free will.

Plenty of people avoid their fate. I believe our souls create our fate before we incarnate. Fate can just be mile markers or choice points in our life…or talents we are destined to have…or other souls we agreed to learn certain lessons with. Not all of which are pleasant. I think the souls who hurt us the most in this lifetime probably love us the deepest on a soul level. I think they agreed to take the karmic hit of serving us a really painful lesson. Life lessons that catalyze us to become stronger.

I think that’s more what love would look like in an eternal-soul kind of way.

The benefits of using astrology in my life are vast.

Astrology is responsible for:

• Pulling me out linear time.

• Pulling me out of linear thinking.

• Re-connected me to the sky (quite literally by making me look up).

• Turning my life into a treasure hunt.

• Re-connecting me to ancient stories and myths…stories which are a living breathing being unto themselves.

• Rewiring me to natural cycles of the seasons.

That last one alone means that I don’t get the SADs or seasonal depression anymore. I also don’t feel like December 31st is the end of anything but tax season. Either the Chinese New Year (based on a lunar calendar) or end of Pisces season / start of Aries season in March, feels like when the year actually ends and renews.

But we do live in this world. Despite being forced into these customs to some extent, I am a festive gal. I’ll observe lots of them, in my own way, and always while poking around at the deeper tradition that lies beneath. We got to keep some of it, of course— the wreaths, trees, wassail, mistletoe and candles. I do appreciate the tradition of self reflection and making New Years resolutions, but what this tradition is drawing on is way deeper.

December 31st is 12th Night, which was for all the usual drinking and singing, and had some fun customs where finding a bean and a pea in a cake would make the person into king and queen for a day.

But the main point of the 12th night was oath-making.

This is much different than setting personal goals. Really, who cares what your fitness goals are? Go do it. Want to make more money? Abstain from bad habits? Read more books? That’s all fine. Are you really going to stand up in front of a big roaring fire in a packed beer hall just to loudly declare that you’re going to lose 10 pounds this year? I imagine you would get a good laugh if you did.

I’m asking you, really…

What do you pledge your life to?
What god do you serve?
What is the deeper reason you do anything?

For what does your heart beat and your loins swell?

Many things have been stolen from us by the over culture and the controllers. Every culture has had their culture raped and pillaged, after all. Every culture. Even “white” European culture was once nature-worshipping, mother-and-father revering. We have all had to endure the destruction of our traditions and the mashing up of ancient traditions into secularized, neutered and scrambled scraps of past potent rituals.

Our holidays are quite splintered. Just twigs remaining of the former branches. While I do love celebrating holidays, I also try to poke around for the missing traditions too.

It is up to all of us to restore what is real and true in this lifetime. Return it for everyone and the land, whatever land we call home. We are each an ecosystem within an ecosystem within greater ecosystems. Kind of like the planets. Cohesive and whole, yet permeable to and upon everything else.

This is the Re-Enchantment part of the mission.

I bring all this up because tomorrow is the last new moon of 2024, in the sign of Capricorn. A black moon, in fact, because we had 2 new moons in one month. It’s a period that is already aligned to internal reflection and for reconnecting to our purpose (Capricorn).

Capricorn asks us— what are climbing this mountain FOR?

You best be honest with yourself too, or you won’t have the juice to get all the way to the top. Passion is the gas in the engine. Yes, it’s what plumps you up and puts the sparkle in your eyes that is the key to going the distance. It’s not about what you sacrifice, it’s about what you love.

Where is your passion these days? Still being siphoned off by dystopian doom stories? Or are you wrestling your mojo back from the edge of neglect?

The Moon was my gateway drug to astrology. I began my deeper journey as a serious student of the stars by wondering how the moon could NOT be effecting me if it changes the tides of the ocean and every body of water on the planet? If we are mostly made up of water, I wondered— what effect was the Moon having on me?

The moon trained me the most in the beginning, with it’s easy to SEE cycles, completely visible with the naked eye. The rhythm of the moon is an easy one to dance along with. The moon cycles are also perfect chunks of time to measure progress against.

Soon, I was planting my seeds in the dark new moon and birthing new things on the full moons. Having personal rituals with various altars, flowers, fragrances, candles, stones and foods. Soon, I was working with the energies around me, not forcing my will, agenda or timeline on the world as much. I grew more comfortable in the dark and quiet periods. I didn’t feel all the pressure to see results constantly or to work-work-work all the time. I saw how running around in those same old circles was wasted energy that went against the grain of nature.

I learned to have patience and wait. For every thing there is a season. The dark and quiet is where things grow. Why was I always rushing past that part? I learned to wait for better timing to take action, thus maximizing the energy.

Basically, I stopped believing I was in control of everything.

What a relief!

When you start using a tool like astrology, it re-constellates an entire universe of synchronicity and magic. You bushwack paths to your angels and ancestors again, giving them a way to reach you. You tell them that you’re listening. And you are changed by it along the way.

It’s a huge relief to feel part of something rather than feeling like a cork bobbing along in an ocean of indifference.

I get really irritated with muggles in my life who like to shit on astrology. As if astrology is a personality test or dumb old superstition.

Astrology is a tool. To sit and criticize a saw without actually ever USING IT disqualifies these opinions. How the hell can you tell someone saws are useless and fake if you never built anything with one? That kind of thinking means you don’t know your asstrology from a hole in the ground.

Using your mind only gets you so far. Embodiment is the bridge between the unseen and the seen. You bring it more into being by using it. And it’s a pretty great tool to have in your shed.

Too much of the world is arm-chair quarterbacking life.

Are you playing life like you mean it?

What would you take a public VOW for?

What OATH do you pledge?

I already know my answer. I took a sacred vow in 2018 and have to frequently renew my commitment to it. Because it’s hard. It’s really challenging to dedicate your life’s work to the enlightenment of all beings. I was not playing or dreaming small when I took on this mission.

I do try to check in with myself annually about it, though. I have to reconnect myself to the HOW. How do I choose to execute my mission? Especially when we can’t control others, we can only be the change ourselves. So, what is the truest-to-me way of BEING enlightenment?

Currently, I still choose to use my creativity through sexual expression and humor…which seems really easy on the one hand. But I can tell you, there is nothing easy about convincing people how important laughter and sex are in a dystopian world of separation. And while most of my burlesque fans like seeing my tits, they do not like hearing me talk about the spiritual work it takes to keep them from sagging.

But I’m sure you miss laughing and fucking often as much as I do. The damage of the wokesters was extensive. Woke logic really ruined sex and comedy for us for a while there, making everything about trauma—which men only ever inflicted, didn’t ever experienced— and power—which only men ever had, women never experienced.

That crap brought us back a lot of shame that we started to unravel. It made us too scared to even try anymore, really. The stakes got too high. You could have your head lopped off for even thinking the wrong thing. Laughing and fucking appear quite frivolous when we’re terrified to make a mistake and live in constant fear. And people do like to shoot the messenger.

Yet, I persist in my mission.

My dedication to this path requires me to name it and say it often. To pray about it. To get on my knees and beg for it with every fiber of my being. In order to bolster my own strength. To help me stay on the path. So that I don’t give up.

There’s no giving up.

With this aligned new moon tomorrow, I invite you to take a sacred vow or oath to something much, much bigger than you.

Include your ancestors— family and creative lineages included.

I invite you to put LOVE, LOVING and BEING LOVED at the center of your goals, dreams and world again.

To be love, be peace, be unity, be harmony, be beauty— not just in word, but in action.

Now is a great time to ask for what we really, really, REALLY want.

It’s easy to say stuff, hard to take aligned action. Which is a good reason to talk to your God/gods about how to do it. Get super clear on THE WHAT— write it down, say it out loud. Let the HOW be an unfolding process of following synchronicity and magic. Abandon the need to know everything. Plant the seeds and have faith they will grow.

Enjoy your time in the deep, dark sacred feminine mystery of this new moon.

Much love,

Trixie