What is the gift that comes most naturally to you?
What is the gift that comes most naturally to you?
My Powers
I have the gift of clairsentience.
Since I was a child, I have been able to sense deeply the true feelings of people, places and animals, to the extent where I can almost taste the feeling because it permeates my entire being. I love unraveling these emotions, organizing and articulating them in a way others can find beneficial on the material plane.
I trust my inner feeling to show me the way.
I have always been told I have good “judgment” or good “instincts,” but for me, it is a deep inner knowing. I have intensely vivid dreams, often where I am swimming through a vast sky of emotions, channeling creatures or embodying other people, present and historical, lauded or vilified, entering their souls so intimately I awaken moved to tears.
These dreams become premonitions.
To me, this happens in a fairly logical way: if you can see someone’s true feelings, you can predict what they will do next.
When I relax into my sensitivity, I can feel the sequence of events.
Every truth that comes to me begins as a feeling. The feeling infuses my dreams and becomes a vision. The vision becomes a belief, which shapes the course of my life.
VESTA
Roman Mythology
Vesta (Hestia in Greek mythology) was the virgin goddess of the hearth, or sacred flame, during ancient Roman times. She was a daughter of Saturn (Kronos) and Opis (Rhea) and symbolized the vitality and protection of the home and city-state.
Vesta represents our inner flame, or life force.
Order of Vestal Virgins
This eternal flame was to be kept burning at all times in Vesta’s circular temple so that any citizen could come draw fire for her home when needed. The temple was run by the Vestal Virgins, a powerful and influential college of six priestesses and the only state-funded priesthood then in Rome.
The Vestal Virgins were educated, wealthy, independent and granted unusual rights for citizens of the time: they were freed from all legal ties, their blood could not be spilled and they were the only women emancipated from their fathers’ rule and able to own property in Ancient Rome, among other privileges.
This role came with distinct responsibilities, most notably, a thirty-year vow of chastity, after which Vestals were free to marry and have families, though few did. Those who broke the vow were sentenced to living burial (ancient times, after all) as it had to be bloodless and appear voluntary. Letting the sacred fire go out was seen as a portent of disaster for Rome and punishable by whipping. These were rare occurrences and most Vestals retired in their late thirties with generous pensions and revered status. Some preferred to renew their vows.
Vesta in Astrology
Vesta is the brightest of the four main asteroids and her astrological location can be used to contemplate our talents, abilities and where we are uniquely suited to focus our energies and provide service. Vesta signifies our commitment, dedication and singular devotion. She is characterized by a Virgo-Scorpio energy (a blend of purity and devotional sexuality) and is amplified in Virgo.
The astrological glyph of Vesta is that of a flame.
My Vestals
My Vesta is in Virgo in the twelfth house, conjunct my Mercury (Hermes, the winged messenger and god of communication), South Node (past life gifts) and Lilith (taboo nature to be brought into the light).
The twelfth house is the domain of “unseen realms” and considered the most psychic and mysterious area of the birth chart. It is the final house and rules instinct and intuition, dreams and the subconscious, mysticism and spirituality, imagination and artistry, sensitivity and unity, inner life and hidden desires, compassion and altruism, healing and restoration, meditation and prayer, solitude and self-undoing, and to a lesser-known extent — large animals and secret enemies!
The Vesta of this venture (I elected the chart, as one does) is in Gemini in the first house (house of self) and conjunct the Ascendant (rising sign, point of destiny).