{"id":73853,"date":"2016-01-22T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moonkissd.com\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2016-01-23T02:42:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T02:42:50","slug":"the-mechanics-of-trauma-healing-through-uranus-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=73853","title":{"rendered":"The Mechanics of Trauma & Healing Through Uranus-Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you ever experienced trauma? If you’ve ever felt:\u00a01) powerless, 2) alone\u00a03) threatened\u00a0and 4) surprised by the\u00a0unexpected,\u00a0you\u00a0have.\u00a0Physiologically, when trauma occurs, our body\u00a0goes into a state of emergency and the “freeze response”\u00a0gets activated (if we can fight or flight, generally we have a sense of power). \u00a0This freeze response must then be either discharged or repressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Animals “shake off” their traumas. Maybe you’ve seen geese get in a territorial\u00a0fight over their mate, then flap their wings and swim off as if nothing happened. Or perhaps you’ve seen the video<\/a> of the polar bear shaking off the trauma of being stunned and captured (to read more about this, Peter Levine wrote a book called Taming the Tiger, exploring\u00a0the question “why do humans have stress related illness while animals do\u00a0not?”). While animals utilise this shaking mechanism to discharge trauma, humans don’t.\u00a0We need to\u00a0find ways of moving\/processing the energy out.<\/p>\n

The Trauma Capsule<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It’s not\u00a0surprising that many of our traumas get repressed; we dissociate from\"\"\u00a0them because they’re too painful. Trauma expert\u00a0Dr. Richard Scaer (yes, that’s\u00a0his real name) says all the events surrounding a\u00a0memory of\u00a0trauma are\u00a0stored as an energy capsule in\u00a0our energy body. If the traumatic event was a car accident, we\u00a0might\u00a0store external details like the weather, the sound of the sirens, the color of the car next to us, the song playing on the radio, the smell of leaking gasoline etc. We will also\u00a0store\u00a0internal details, like how we felt, and the belief about life and our self that we formed\u00a0as a result of this experience.<\/p>\n

\"\"As we age, our trauma capsules\u00a0start to leak and\u00a0become\u00a0re-activated by everyday interactions and\u00a0events (it takes energy to store trauma, and we have less energy as we age). In the\u00a0traumatic\u00a0car accident example,\u00a0one day twenty-years later we may become\u00a0overwhelmed with anxiety and fear while pumping gas on a rainy day (the smell of the gas and the weather being\u00a0triggers for the accident).\u00a0As another example,\u00a0 let’s say\u00a0we\u00a0grew up in a household of “yellers” and\u00a0every time\u00a0we fight\u00a0with our partner\u00a0we become extremely\u00a0agitated,\u00a0afraid, insecure\u00a0and\u00a0unable to think clearly.\u00a0Even though we don’t consciously remember it, all the times our parent yelled\u00a0is\u00a0being triggered.\u00a0We’re being held captive by an earlier, younger self.<\/p>\n

Here’s another analogy. \u00a0Your\u00a0computer runs\u00a0“programs” in the background all the time.\u00a0If you’re running big or multiple programs, it’s an energetic drag on the entire system; your computer works\u00a0exceptionally slow, and sometimes your entire system crashes. The same happens for us. Most of us\u00a0have\u00a0negative core belief programs installed on our hard drive. \u00a0Our\u00a0negative core beliefs\u00a0are programs that\u00a0take energy to manage\u00a0and so\u00a0compromise\u00a0the rest of our life energy. As we age, just like an old computer, we become less effective at dealing with energy-consuming programs. When this happens, things that used to be okay, that we could once overlook,\u00a0start to really stress us out. We experience mental or physical health issues, or have a hard time\u00a0bouncing back from life- stressors that other people seem to be able to take in stride.\u00a0Our systems are\u00a0compromised.<\/p>\n

When I’m caught in a “complex” of trauma feelings, I feel as if I’m being taken over, or possessed, by an over-emotional swampy entity whose feelings are totally disproportionate to the reality of the situation. And I am!\u00a0I am being taken over by a former self, and all of her experiences and beliefs.\u00a0The good news is: None of us\u00a0have to keep re-enacting and re-playing old traumas.\u00a0Emotional Freedom Technique and Matrix Reimprinting\u00a0offer extremely gentle ways of uncovering and discharging the energy holding them in place (read more about EFT\/Matrix\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Finding Freedom: My Personal Story<\/h3>\n

Although this is essentially a wellness post, I want to write a little about my experience from an\u00a0astrological point of view.\u00a0When I found myself having\u00a0my second\u00a0EFT session (my first was\u00a07 years before), transiting Uranus in Aries was attempting to hit\u00a0the\u00a0emotional\u00a0reset button\u00a0by conjoining my\u00a0Aries Moon,\u00a0located on my\u00a0seventh house cusp, ruling my tenth house.\u00a0T. Jupiter in Leo also was making\u00a0a trine. I was tired of the same old crippling public speaking phobia; I wanted freedom (says Jupiter and Uranus!). And\u00a0I\u00a0had become so hyper-vigilant\u00a0to anything stressful, I\u00a0was overworking my adrenals, the glands that pump out adrenaline (Aries= adrenals).<\/p>\n

I experienced freedom using\u00a0EFT\/Matrix Reimprinting for\u00a0public speaking fears. But\u00a0the story had only\u00a0begun. Pluto in Capricorn had begun\u00a0squaring my Moon\u00a0and trauma capsules started exploding\u00a0all over the place, in seemingly normal, everyday interactions. Receiving unkind\u00a0emails\u00a0or\u00a0mild criticism,\u00a0for instance, wrecked my entire day. \u00a0My emotional life became so incredibly demanding and intense that I could barely make it till lunchtime\u00a0without being triggered. With\u00a0MR especially,\u00a0I was able to “go back in time” and see that the true origins\u00a0of my emotional responses were rooted in unhealed baggage and negative beliefs I’d been carrying around.<\/p>\n

It was a bumpy, up and down,\u00a0process. My impatient\u00a0Aries Moon didn’t want to “waste time” tapping\u00a0(too busy, too much to do, it won’t work! she’d say).\u00a0She\u00a0was\u00a0angry, annoyed\u00a0and resistant to it all, which aggravated my fibromyalgia pain. But I truly had no choice, my strong emotions were disabling me from doing anything else, and\u00a0by\u00a0directly facing\u00a0the anger and impatience around my bodily needs and emotions, I was able to make a link between fibromyalgia pain to the anger and resistance itself. In my\u00a0Matrix journeying\u00a0sessions I kept running into the\u00a0core belief:\u00a0“no one cares what I want or feel” and likewise, anger. \u00a0I had spent a lifetime unconsciously\u00a0assuming my\u00a0wants, needs and emotions wouldn’t be honored\u00a0and now\u00a0I was repeating this pattern within myself, by getting aggravated by and\u00a0pushing away my\u00a0emotional and physical needs. Can you imagine all the ways I kept reinforcing my own misery, and invisibility, by running this belief? Ugh.<\/p>\n

Pluto transits bring us to our knees and force us to deal with what we most resist facing. I joke that EFT\/MR opened Pandora’s box for me, though in reality it was truly Pluto’s doing, and\u00a0EFT\/MR gave me the tools to process what was happening. With MR, I journeyed back in time and visited places in my history where my younger self was suffering\u00a0and gave her new beliefs and resources. By persistently working on myself, I eventually\u00a0stopped being triggered 24\/7, and\u00a0when I was,\u00a0I recognized the issue more quickly\u00a0(oh, this is related to a core issue for me!). Then, I’d go back into the Matrix and identify the situation where I was still in hurt and misunderstanding.<\/p>\n

\"Jessica<\/p>\n

My niece, Ella Rae, and I at\u00a0a museum visit, Jan 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

At this point I want to say something about\u00a0the\u00a0mind-body connection. I do not chalk up\u00a0my fibromyalgia syndrome\u00a0to “stuffed anger”\u00a0any more than I do to\u00a0living on a toxic planet. I think it’s dangerously\u00a0disempowering to play blame the victim\u00a0by\u00a0suggesting\u00a0illness is self-created. Would you open up your Louise Hay book and\u00a0tell someone who has a broken leg that\u00a0they must have issues with moving forward in life? Just no. That\u00a0would be unkind.\u00a0However, we all have a personal responsibility i.e., an invitation “to respond to the best of our ability” to our life problems, and due to the time I’ve invested in EFT\/MR,\u00a0I’ve\u00a0learned\u00a0to manage pain… and\u00a0that feels borderline miraculous. Previously,\u00a0when I experienced a fibro flare-up,\u00a0I’d spiral into a dark place, feeling unable to\u00a0influence my pain levels. Now, I tap.\u00a0My sense of power and control over my pain levels and well-being has radically changed.<\/p>\n

When Uranus-Pluto started transiting my Moon, an\u00a0astute astrologer friend asked me a\u00a0great “intentional transits” question: “What’s\u00a0the best possible outcome you could hope for from\u00a0this transit?” I answered something along the lines of feeling empowered and “take on the world” confident (I imagined my self in full warrior gear, feeling victorious\u00a0— Moon in Aries!)\u00a0In very concrete\u00a0ways, transiting Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn have been pressuring\u00a0all of us\u00a0to heal and\u00a0evolve.\u00a0For me, as\u00a0Pluto continues its transit, I’ll undoubtedly\u00a0discover more work to be done. But now I have the tools. And that makes all the difference.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever experienced trauma? If you’ve ever felt: 1) powerless, 2) alone 3) threatened and 4) surprised by the unexpected, you have. Physiologically, when trauma occurs, our body goes into a state of emergency and the “freeze response” gets activated (if we can fight or flight, generally we have a sense of power).  This freeze response must then be either discharged or repressed. […]<\/p>\n

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