On Electional Astrology: The Launch of tatiannimarie.com!
This moment was chosen for me by the planets, and found by talented electional astrologer Drew Levanti. Electional astrology is a type of astrology focused on electing (choosing) meaningful moments to begin an endeavor or bring a creation into the world. Everything that has ever been brought into existence has a birth chart. Just as our charts symbolically describe our experience of being, the chart of an event, publication, foundation of a country or company, etc. can describe its energies, reception, and unfolding.
There of course are no perfect charts, just as there are no perfect people or lives without conflict, so when we elect a chart, we are looking to highlight the most opportunity oriented planets and minimize any challenging alignments. We look to the nature of what we are launching or beginning to decide which planets are going to be most relevant and then look to when those planets are in the most favorable conditions possible.
For a website, a type of publication and form of communication, we look to Mercury. We are in last days of Mercury in their home sign of Gemini, an incredibly effective placement, unobscured by Sol's bright rays and in supportive relationships with harmony-making Venus and enduring Saturn. We look to the Sun for visibility, here placed perfectly on the highest, most public point of the chart, the midheaven. We look to the moon, who incarnates, gives body, and manifests– crucial to any electional chart, for creation is not possible without Luna. In this moment Luna is between two flowing aspects with the benefics: opportunity-abundant Jupiter, placed prominently on the descendant, and charming Venus, placed in the 9th house of both publishing and astrology, and reigning over the entire chart through her rulership of the Libra ascendant.
Among my greatest struggles in life, is obsession with perfection, often an enemy of progress. It is aptly described by many placements in my birth chart, though perhaps most prominently in my Capricorn ascendant’s conjunction with idealistic Neptune and Uranus. Electional astrology may seem attractive for those seeking that 'perfect moment' or control over how things play out– you can see why a perfectionistic person such as myself would be drawn to it. Instead, working with elections has me confronting this part of myself and learning to let it go. Not only because will there always be something challenging in a chart– like prominent Mars warring with Pluto in this election– but because we miss the moment when we are caught up with being ready for it. Having ‘deadlines’ chosen for me by our planetary kin through electional astrology has taught me so much about letting go of perfection in order to meet the elected moment as I am.
In this instance, in order to begin and launch today in this auspicious moment, I had to accept that I do not yet have the resources to create the ideal website I've been envisioning, I had to work with what I had and make something whole, not something perfect. I sincerely accept, with so much love and grace, that this is simply a beginning, a beautifully elected beginning: just as the new moon is gaining light, so too will this window into my practice, the newly minted tatiannimarie.com!
