Liminal Space: Embracing The Unknown

Entering New Versions of You and Your Life

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Do you feel like you’re entering a whole new book in your life, a whole new period where things feel really different? Do you feel like you’re in liminal space? With all of the new planetary changes this year, you might start to feel that way if you don’t already.

Liminal space is when you're in the in-between, when you're in between spaces. When you're in between periods of your life. When you're ending one period and beginning a new one. When you're in suspension. When you’re in a transitional period. When you don't feel settled anywhere and you're in the unknown.

Being in the unknown is hard, and it can be exciting because you're at the beginning of something totally new. But, you might feel lost and confused, and like you're wandering around in the dark. There are different planetary transits and cycles going on, astrologically, that indicate periods of liminal space. Some examples include eclipse season, Mercury and Mars retrograde, Saturn returns, entering a new progressed moon phase, or entering a new zodiacal releasing period (an ancient astrology technique best discussed with a Hellenistic professional astrologer like myself 😉).

Eclipses are shadow periods when fate swoops in to put us on the next course. Eclipses are about significant endings and beginnings. When one thing ends, another begins, but we are in liminal space. Not completely in the next space yet, but feeling the stirs of something new. Mercury and Mars retrogrades are other examples of liminal space, shorter ones. It's a time when time itself is suspending. This is why retrogrades are favorable for going back and reflecting on the past.

This is also what happens when you enter a whole new period in your life, you do a lot of reflecting on the past. You're reflecting a lot on the cycle and chapter or book that you just completed. You’re reflecting on the period that you just came out of, but you might also be reflecting on all the periods that have led up to the one you're in now. Liminal spaces are meant for doing major reflection as you transition into the next period of your life.

The new life you’re moving into might feel very different from the one you’ve come from, and that's a big reason why you're heavily reflecting on your life. You might feel like you’re an almost a completely different person now, or like you're entering a new version of yourself. You might feel like you're coming home to yourself. You might have a completely different focus, priorities, interests, and relationships.

We're not meant to go, go, go all the time, and we're not meant to shine all the time. We're not meant to always be moving forward, we're not meant to always bloom, and liminal spaces remind us of that.

Liminal space is a time of patience, of not knowing all the things. It's the time to surrender, get curious, and go with the flow. The best thing to do is to align with liminal energy and embrace the unknown, to follow what you're drawn to, but not to put pressure on yourself to have anything figured out. This is often not a time of great clarity, of knowing exactly where you're headed or what you're going to do. It’s a time of newness and exploration.

It's okay to be in the space of unknown and to not have clarity. We don't need to have clarity all the time. That isn't what every period in our life is for. Instead, be open and curious about what your soul is drawn to and flow with that. See where it takes you. It's like you're in a big forest and there isn't a clear path, or maybe there are too many paths and you don't know which one to take, in which case, you can choose one and see where it leads you. You can always change course.

If there doesn't appear to be any path, then you might need to carve your own. Start your own path and head towards something you feel drawn to. Head down a direction that you feel drawn to. There will be dead ends, there will be obstacles, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you're in the wrong area. It's just that you might have to go through a little obstacle course or maze in order to find your next path.

But, the more you rush it, the less clear your next path will be and the less joy you will experience. There can be a lot of fun in the unknown. There can be joy in the exploration period trying different things seeing where they take you, and not putting pressure on yourself to have everything figured out, but letting the clarity unfold over time. Letting the process unfold on its own time.

Liminal space is a time to listen to your body and your intuition, which might take some time to develop. It's a time to learn to get quiet in order to listen to your intuition. It's a time to learn to trust your body. You might be healing from trauma that made it hard for you to trust your body and yourself. It might be hard for you to trust anything, and that can be part of the confusion as well.

Liminal spaces are times where immense healing can take place. Whenever we enter a whole new cycle or a whole new book in our life, we're healing from the old one. Whether it's healing from grief, trauma, or both. Or, the end of something we were passionate about that no longer sparks our interest. Because you’re reflecting on the older periods of your life, grief can float to the surface. You could be grieving the losses that you had along the way, grieving the dreams you had, the potential that you thought you had that never came to fruition.

You’re grieving all the various changes, even if you're happy with the changes, even if you are really looking forward to this new period and cycle of your life. You can still feel sadness and grief for the old one, for all the changes that you've been going through. Let yourself feel and be with where you’re at.

Liminal spaces can be some of the most important and enriching times of our life if we embrace it.

Astrologically, there are a variety of techniques and cycles in your birth chart that can indicate whether you’re in a longer period of liminal space. If you feel like you're in a liminal space, and you have been for the last several years, or you're in one now, then it can be really helpful to talk about that in an astrology reading, and to talk about what the focus of your life is on now based on what’s going on in your personal birth chart. You can book an astrology reading with me HERE and I would love to go over that with you.

Moon Shine by Airen Astrology is an astrology publication based in Hellenistic astrology to help old souls deepen their relationship with the cosmos so they can shine! If you find this post useful and learn something from it, please show your support by liking and/or sharing it. You can also show your support by becoming a subscriber or Buying Me A Coffee. I appreciate it, and I appreciate you reading.