Prolifically Raw: Rage Countdown

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Rage Countdown

If you think life is a little strange right now, if you are having a hard time keeping it together or if circumstances are off, odd and over all, annoying as hell�you might recall that I warned you! Venus Retrograde baby! It�s Venus Retrograde. I�m not going to try to explain what�s going on with Venus, I�m not an astrologer. I will say my understanding of the astrological situation doesn�t make me immune to its effects.

From my perspective, this is a time that feels something like a soul spring cleaning�and it lasts from the hottest part of the summer and into the thick of the Indian summer. Whatever isn�t working in your life, has to change. What is working, is refined. No exceptions (except for those of us who love living in denial and avoid change�these lucky souls just seem to be battered around with out a clue and are a bit more flatulent than usual).

One delightful (to me) side effect of the Venus Retrograde is how a great time to work. I adore work and have written a fourth memoir. I will be done with this draft in two more weeks. 600 pages of intensity have whipped off these fingers, making them so sore I carry around ice packs. I�ve also hammered out a 100 page proposal for a book on writing memoir. Did I mention how happy this makes me?

What is coming, in the final stages of this retrograde is something called a Rage Retreat with Ruth King , author of Healing Rage. Healing Rage was initially self-published but picked up by Penguin and released this summer. Her work is the most stunning, direct and helpful application for channeling anger that I have found to-date. I want to learn more about rage from Ruth, I want to understand how to use it to help myself and others, verses destroy with it via denial and avoidance. Ruth has a formula. I can�t wait.