A Rare Astrological Window:
Eris Conjunct the New Moon
She is already here
Discordia. Goddess of discord. The one who was excluded from the table, and responded not with a plea, but with a golden apple thrown into the center of everything.
They called her a troublemaker. They still do. They call the disruption dangerous, the discord destabilizing, the women who refuse to be managed difficult, unhinged, too much.
But look at what was already there before she arrived. Look at what required her disruption to become visible. Look at what the feast was built on, and who was never invited to eat.
Discordia didn't create the chaos. She named what was already true. She is not a force to be feared. She is a force to be in relationship with.
The world is in discord.
The systems are in discord.
And something in you, something old, something that knows,
is in discord too.
Not because you are broken.
Because you are awake.
Discordia is your guide through the necessary unraveling.
She knows how to move through chaos
because
she has never pretended it wasn't there.
She is the part of you that also always knew,
and was taught,
very early,
to stop saying so.
Her house shows you the domain where your voice, your body, your sovereignty was asked to stand down. Her aspects to your personal planets show you how it shaped itself into your nervous system.
Her transits show you every season the buried goddess tried to erupt,
and every moment of discord that was actually an initiation
in disguise.
This is not a reading about managing your disruption.
It is about remembering that the disruption was always yours,
that it was intelligence, not pathology.
That whatever went underground in you
gets to erupt
into visibility here.
What the collective brainwashing installed
We learned this so young.
We learned it so well
we forgot it was learned.
And then we called our compliance grace,
our numbness peace,
our self-erasure maturity.
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Sherene Vismaya
Sherene Vismaya, M.A. is a Jungian astrologer and psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC and San Francisco for the past eighteen years consulting, writing and teaching. Her own Priestess Path started around age five bellydancing on the road with her mother which brought her into contact with the powers of ritual and an embodied relationship to the Goddess. She specializes in depression, shadow work, anxiety, creative blocks, eating disorders, and relationships. Sherene has pioneered her own unique approach to Jungian and somatic healing modalities combined with her background in metaphysics inspired by her yearly pilgrimages to India.
She is the author of several books including collaborations on: Speculation Now; Transpersonal Astrology: Explorations at the Frontier, & Surviving Saturn's Return (McGrawHill), Dog Stars, and Fate of your Date.
She holds a Master's Degree from New York University in Clinical Psychology, a Masters in Developmental Psychology from Pace University and post-graduate work in psychoanalytic studies from The New School and ISAP, Zurich. She has been the resident astrologer for Elle Magazine for the past decade. Sherene teaches classes and workshops internationally.
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