This is ours
The piece below came out of journaling the other day around some difficult ‘family stuff’! And for those of you who have read my latest email newsletter, this fits perfectly with my Venus return coinciding with a transiting yod between Pluto, Neptune and Venus! Perhaps this next Venusian year will help me to let go of old ways of dealing with these issues (I do feel a shift as the transiting yod to natal Venus has been about for a while) – a kind of reboot, if you like. A yod-like reboot, no doubt, with several unexpected updates and restarts along the way!
I’ve also been revisiting ideas around ho’oponopono. It’s a mantra I practise every day, but I needed to find some words around it as I’ll be sharing the practice with others later this month. The idea of the mantra is to accept responsibility for and clear our own issues around our relationships with others. We’re not separate from the ‘difficult family stuff’, etc. – it’s ours!
After writing about the situation in my journal, I wrote the words of the mantra.
I love you
I thank you
Please forgive me
I’m sorry
And then these words came to me:
This is ours and we live it
Blindly at times
Stumbling into each other’s sore spots
And holding to our righteousness
As a shield against vulnerability and connection
This is ours – and we could own it
Recognise our part in it
Take more care around each other’s sore spots
And hold less tightly to our need to be right
Moving towards vulnerability and connection
We can hope…
I finished writing at 11:48am – 1st October 2025 – it’s an interesting chart with transiting Pluto and Neptune still making a yod with my natal Venus, and a Grand Cross between Mercury/Chiron and moon/Jupiter which picks up the degree of my natal sun.
