Your Parent's Favourite Astrologically Elected Occult Ritual

My grandmother's 100th Birthday, and a creepy peeping Luca in the back.

 

   Just about everyone in the world practices astrologically elected rituals.   You think I'm being facetious?  Well how do explain celebrating birthdays then?

   In actual fact, the birthday is a powerful astrological transit.  Every year the Sun comes back to its home place within your chart.  In western society, and many cultures around the world, we celebrate this occurrence with a special ceremony honouring the unique individuals we love so much.  This is astrologically suited because the Sun in our natal charts represents our creative and uniquely independent soul, our heart.  We even practice a numerologically significant fire ceremony, ("how many candles this year?"), adorning a cake with good, positive messages ritually eaten as a sacrament. Your parents were occult as fuck!

   Everyone wants to congregate around the birthday boy or girl, because that solar energy is powerful and palpably felt by anyone in the vicinity.  Everyone wants a hit of that solar power.   In matter of fact, the solar conjunction is a peak of creative force for everyone every year, sadly often squandered on partying.  This moment also becomes the seed moment for the next revolution, called a solar return chart, which is a powerful predictive tool for the coming year.
   As one's wishes and dreams fail to manifest in life as they grow older, birthdays can grow more and more miserable, and become dreaded moments we are forced to spend with others celebrating us, when we would prefer to not be noticed for the failures we hold so deep in our hearts, and tragically begin to manifest as core aspects of our identity. What is there to celebrate?

   A better use of the Solar conjunction is to spend it in pursuit of your own passions. The Solar return can then be reclaimed by you as a moment of profoundly satisfying energy placed at the core of what you want to achieve in the world.  Given that the solar return can take place a day before, or after your actual birth-date as that extra quarter turn of the Earth leapfrogs around every four years, I personally think the best ones are the years where you get your solar return a day early, and can expend that brilliant, bright energy however you wish, and then let the scraps fall on those who want to take you out to dinner and embarrass you with a steadily increasing fire hazard every year! 

You are unique and deserve to be celebrated. Do it your own way!  Treat your Solar return as a ritual of rebirth and renewal.  Try to time a creative project around the hours where the exact conjunction takes place.   Feel the full power of the beaming mid-day mid-summer Sun bearing down upon the Earth.  Direct it to that which you most want to accomplish.  Burn up all your wishes until they are accomplished and the need is in ashes on the ground.  You earned it!

Sun in Gemini in the Tenth House.
Painted during my Solar return in 2021