SURVIVING TO THRIVING
- How Astrology Helped Me Navigate Through Trauma By Rozanne Kay
Have you ever paused to contemplate the brilliance of yourself as an individual? Or pondered the complexity of humanity and the multifaceted interactions between us? Have you ever stopped to congratulate yourself on your resilience? Trauma can make us resentful and defensive. Alternatively, we can choose to work with our pain to open our hearts to greater love, joy, and wisdom.
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s an Evolutionary Astrologer I include past lives - contemplating past life stories is helpful in healing; it connects us with the more mythic part of our psyche. Multiple varieties of struggle, trauma, chaos, pain, and loss as well as untold amounts of joy, knowledge and love - the resilience of the soul is immeasurable; with all this experience it’s clear that the soul has wisdom beyond intellect.
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I have suffered more trauma in recent years than I thought possible to survive. I didn’t realize it at the time, but my soul had prepared me for it. Primarily, a few years before the waves of chaos descended, life introduced me to an Astrologer. Life put me in touch with healers; life encouraged me to be a seeker of spirituality, faith, and philosophy. Life taught me the beautiful - sometimes merry, sometimes sombre – dance between fate and free will. Dr Glenn Doyle, psychologist, recently tweeted “The best minds in mental health aren’t the docs. They’re the trauma survivors who’ve had to figure out how to stay alive with virtually no help. Wanna learn how to survive under unfathomable stress? Talk to abuse survivors.” One evening after I couldn’t take the stress of abuse any longer, I went to A&E; the reality-bending gaslighting I had suffered had broken my mind, and I thought I’d gone crazy. I spoke with an amazing nurse; she listened to me, she asked me about my situation, my lifestyle, and how I managed stress; she asked me about my beliefs, thoughts and feelings and she responded with, “you know how to heal, I don’t think you need hospitalizing, you need faith in yourself.”
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