“This is the day I give birth to my liberation.”
– Helen Edwards: Nothing Sexier than Freedom
I feel these words deeply, and the concept of ‘giving birth to’ our liberation. The feminine birthing itself into the world.
Liberation being an inside job.
Because no one takes our power from us. We give it away, often without even realising we’re doing it.
We are conditioned from a young age to believe that ‘others’ know better.
Teachers know better.
Doctors know better.
Experts know better.
This results in us not trusting ourselves.
We learn to look outside ourselves for the answers. We learn what we’re supposed to be, how we’re supposed to behave, what is acceptable and what isn’t… often within systems that were never designed to make us feel fully free or empowered.
So when we conform, which we all do at times, I don’t think that’s weakness or a moral failing.
We’ve been conditioned that way.
Psychologists and social theorists have long written about this – the way external systems become internal ones. The oppressor we internalise. The rules we enforce on ourselves long after anyone is watching.
So perhaps liberation isn’t about fighting the whole world. I’ve seen many activists burn out over the years.
Perhaps it’s about dissolving the system inside yourself.
The beliefs.
The expectations.
The voices that aren’t actually yours.
And asking:
Do I really believe this? Or did I learn to believe it?
This is the intention behind everything I share through Temple Divine.
Astrology. Psychology. Tarot. Meditation. Energy work. Hypnotherapy.
Different tools, but ultimately the same invitation:
Come back to yourself.
Maybe we all need to remember who we are underneath everything we’ve been taught to be.
This painting by Eugène Delacroix from 1830 expresses some of this energy.
It was painted after the July Revolution in France.
Liberty leading people into uprising against a king who no longer represented them. People rising together against oppression. Collective liberation.
She is bare-breasted. Exposed. Unashamed. Leading from the heart.
She moves first. And because she moves, others find the courage to move too.
Maybe that’s how inner liberation works too…
Not because someone frees us.
But because the rebel within us has had enough of living in a way that doesn’t serve us, and then…
The revolution starts within.
We confront the piece of the oppressor who lives inside of us.
The question isn’t “Who is going to give me my freedom?”
It’s “What do I need to dissolve inside myself so I can finally be free?”
And for the astrologers…. the planets echo this energy too…
A T-square with Moon, Uranus and the Sun at the tension point.
Moon: “I need to feel safe right now. I don’t want things to change”
Sun: “But I need to become myself. I’m now questioning who I am”
Uranus: “You can’t stay here just because it’s familiar. What if you’re not who you think you are! You need freedom. To become liberated”
The Moon is opposing Uranus – the feminine space of safety looking straight into the force that wants to shake everything up. The Moon wants comfort and the familiar. Uranus doesn’t care about that. Uranus wants to feel free. And it takes courage for the Moon to listen.
The Sun is squaring Uranus… that restless urge to break free, question who we are and stop conforming to what we’ve been told we should be. Unleashing our real personalities. And yes that’s both disruptive, and uncomfortable.
The Sun and Moon are squaring, creating tension between what feels safe and familiar and the need to become more fully ourselves. Fighting for different things. The conscious and the unconscious, both being shaken awake by Uranus.
And Lilith is closely trine the Sun, bringing something powerful around the unapologetic feminine, reclaiming the parts of ourselves we may have been taught to suppress and feel shame about, and bringing them into the light.
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Image: Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830), Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Clare Bennett is a Psychological Astrologer and founder of Temple Divine, Glasgow – a place where psychology meets soul. She offers astrology consultations, group training and events. If any of this resonated, you can work with her or find out more at www.clarebennett.scot
