Star Struck Style

For the past few weeks, I’ve been spending time procuring the continuous education credits I need to keep my fitness instructor certifications current. Because I’ve been certified since 1986, there isn’t really a lot for me to learn to improve my professional skills. For that reason, I typically enroll in rather sophisticated workshops that involve biomechanics. Lately, my interest in becoming a yoga instructor has steered me toward the subject of yoga anatomy.

That should be a good thing. However, I do have the tendency to start self-diagnosing every ache and pain in my own body when I participate in these workshops. Right now, I have a minor hip injury that was exacerbated by my former desk job. It’s getting better because I was able to go onto physiotherapy websites and figure out what I needed to do to rehabilitate myself.

I shouldn’t do that when I can just easily visit a professional who can help me. With Saturn and Neptune meeting up in my sixth house, I could be fooling myself by believing that I have successfully diagnosed my own injuries. I’m not a physiotherapist. I was reminded of that when I visited one last year and she quickly confirmed the source of my shoulder pain and let me know that it was actually an issue with my biceps tendon and not my deltoid or pectoral muscles. Now I’m healing because I was told what to do to stop reinjuring myself.

Over the next couple of days, the sun in Cancer will form a square with the current Saturn/Neptune conjunction in Aries. It might be a good idea to give some credence to the little voices inside of our heads that tell us that we could be wrong. I’m going to try to stop relating every physical condition I read about online to my own condition. Although I might have a decent understanding of what is going on in my body, this is no time to be a know-it-all.

Both Saturn and Neptune are about to go retrograde, so they will be travelling in tandem for a while. This is a terrific time to open our minds to possibilities that we have never considered. Yet when other planets are making hard aspects to this conjunction, we have to consider that we might be operating with a flawed set of facts. Confidence in our delusions is bound to backfire, especially between now and the time when these two planets return to a similar position next February.

So, avoid the tendency to be completely self-assured in your beliefs when you know that you are not an actual expert in everything. Seek out expertise for the next several months, and vet your sources so that you are not dealing with others who are confident in their delusions. With the dance between these two planets happening entirely within my sixth house, I can relate this phenomenon back to health and wellness. You might find it manifests itself quite differently in your own horoscope. Take the time to figure it out before you go off the rails. This should be a constructive period for most of us, even though it has the potential to become a train wreck in some charts.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to book an actual physiotherapy assessment for my hip injury before I hurt myself again . . .