It is International Astrology Day and it is also the start of the vernal equinox (springtime) in the northern hemisphere.
Many astrologers across the globe have celebrated this event by writing articles about the alignment known as the cardinal grand cross that will be dominating the celestial outlook for the remainder of this year.
We are entering a period of great challenge that can transform our lives - authenticity, personal success and transformation from long held difficult situations will be open to us - and, as with anything really worth having, will come with struggle. This poem entitled 'Invictus' by William Ernest Henley is a lovely one of triumph from adversity:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Picture copyright Adem Kader
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