Although I’m not yet quite recovered/rehabilitated/regrouped enough to begin to share the big “what happened” that took me out of commission last September, I’m getting there.  Every day I write about it a little, just for myself, as much as I can tolerate without falling back into any of the traumas.  It’s a slippery ledge, but I’m gaining traction.  I’ve been helped in that by the river of cosmic forces at play with us throughout our trio of eclipses this month.  Pretty rough play it’s been sometimes, too.  I’ve learned quite a lot about white-water rafting, for example.  I’ve learned some other pretty valuable things to know about, too– so valuable that I’m even compelled to pop out of my cocoon for just long enough to offer something about them for your consideration, as well–

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In the midst of all the white-water rafting we’ve been doing, you may have noticed that a lot of flotsam was stirred up. (In case you don’t know, flotsam is debris that was not deliberately thrown in the water, but resulted from a prior shipwreck or accident– something traumatic from the past, in other words.) 

If all this haphazard old debris that’s been flying around in you and/or around you (probably both) has been making you feel a little crazy, it might help to know this— since a whole lot of planets have also been retrograde, it actually makes perfect sense that flotsam from old traumas have been churned up! 

Not only that, but there’s a GOOD part— with TWO good parts:

1.) Flotsam, being left-over debris, brings up the old energy pattern of a really big trauma, but in a watered-down version so that you can release the big one without having to go through it all over again. 
(Just FYI– these watered-down versions are the ones that FEEL earth-shattering even though you know they aren’t.  Or they don’t HAVE to be, anyway!) 

2.) The most empowering part about this recent batch of flotsam is that you (we) can actually see OUR part in setting up our run-ins with it.  And oh yes, is that important, oh yes, is that a gift! 
Why?  Because it frees us from feeling VICTIMIZED.

And freedom from the bondage of victimhood IS freedom.