Are You On A Path That Stunts Your Growth?

October 23rd, 2011 @ 8:06 am by Elsa

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My husband and I were talking about how dynamic life is as we move forward through this tumultuous time. He pointed out that we (me, him, my son and his son) are all on a path of growth, even if it’s difficult and this is undeniable.

My husband is in college in a truck, while simultaneously working on other projects that are important to us. I am maintaining my blog and my consulting business, as well as the Astro Dispatch, while I prepare to take over as President of my woman’s club. I’ve taken my book off ice, and learned to garden and can food, just in these last months. Both our sons are expanding and advancing in the ways that interest them. All of us are under pressure but you can see what he is saying here. We’re all on a path of growth.

To contrast this he mentioned someone else we know, pointing out that she is on a path that absolutely stunts her growth. Everyone knows someone like this or you may be someone like this which is my next question.

Are you on a path of growth or a path that stunts your growth? Where is Jupiter in your chart?


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30 Responses to “Are You On A Path That Stunts Your Growth?”

1.
Omie
Omie

I’m growing like a weed!

 
2.
Caroline
Caroline

Hell yeah, I am under pressure too but growing like crazy! I have Jupiter in the 5th…

 
3.
jenfullmoon
jenfullmoon

I have no idea any more. I think I’ve been on the stunted path for so long that it’s hard to get off.

Actually not stunted so much as “frozen in time” really.

 
4.
siddiyas
siddiyas

Jupiter in my 11th house and lately everything has been about meeting up in groups or group meetings. I want to attend hot yogi, belly dancing, stepping/line dancing, acting and swimming classes. I’m on a path of growth; however, gotta be careful of stunting my growth on an intimate level.

 
5.
catydid
catydid

I have always been very aware that I am the one, no one else, who is responsible for when I my foot on my own accelerator and when I don’t…

I’m curious about what “in college in a truck” means?!

 
6.
Salali
Salali

At the moment, yes. I don’t get very far with anything, and I’m extremely depressed. I barely got out of bed for a couple of days, and didn’t shower or drink anything much for the same two days. Meanwhile, the Taurus, who earlier this year, was demanding to know where I was when he needed me, is in a relationship, and doing goodness knows what else. In feb, he was claiming to not want a relationship with anyone (nothing was going to happen between us in that way, but I’ve spiralled – when he spiralled, i was the one who was there for him).

Almost every time I’ve tried to make changes, I get more obstacles thrown at me. I’m literally like a bug in a jar, most days – stuck – and am about to escape for a while, despite my having had no sleep, because I’ll be stuck here the rest of the week.

 
7.
Salali
Salali

Placidus: Jupiter in the 5th. Koch and Equal: jupiter in the 6th. trine Neptune & MC, square Saturn, opposed Pluto, sextile Venus.

 
8.
Elsa
Elsa

catydid – my husband is a (very over-educated) truck driver. http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/11th-year-of-college

 
9.
Isernia
Isernia

I feel like I’m not only at a standstill, but going backwards. Jupiter is retro in my 3rd now. I don’t feel like I can communicate with anyone.

This New Moon 3 deg Scorpio on the 26th falls in my 9th with Mercury and Venus. It has a 29 deg ASC. I should be going to school, or traveling or something – but I’m just more into reading spiritual books and meditating ALONE.

Retro Uranus is right on my 2nd House Sun – I just don’t have the spiritual or monetary resources to boldly go anywhere right now.

I forced myself to take that part-time job just to get myself out of the house, and then I quit (not like me). Now I’m so freaked out I’m more of a hermit than ever.

Retro Neptune trans my 1st – I honestly don’t know what to do right now, so I just pray for guidance. I feel like I’m never going to move forward, so I’m trying to do the “be thankful” route and read Joyce Meyer!

 
10.
Mokihana
Mokihana

Jupiter is in my 11H with Venus. My path is deep and slow growing. The progress is pressured. I begin a new brain retraining healing program that has helped many with the chronic illness I lived with starting the New Moon in Scorpio. I’m well on my way to my North Node in Taurus, growing a tap root that matters to me and my destiny. Slowly my husband and I build places of safety and comfort. The Crab Man finds his way as well, with work and community that feed him in good ways.

 
11.
CP Griffin
CP Griffin

“Good Timber”
by Douglas Malloch

The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.

The man who never had to toil
To gain and farm his patch of soil,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began.

Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
The further sky, the greater length;
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and men good timbers grow.

Where thickest lies the forest growth,
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold counsel with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life.

 
12.
firewaterearth
firewaterearth

I am always growing, but lately I feel as though this growth has catapulted me into a higher stratosphere. Thus making it even harder for me to find someone to date. I am open to a relationship, but I have pretty much resigned myself to eventually raising a child on my own.

 
13.
Michele
Michele

Huge growth. HUGE. No clue where it will all lead. But it’s going somewhere. Which is fabulously better than nowhere. (Which is also a matter of perspective – I’ve been learning.)

 
14.
sunlover117
sunlover117

A lot of growth here, and the more I grow, the more I see how many more great directions to go.

 
15.
sunlover117
sunlover117

Oh yea, Jupiter in the 12th in cancer

 
16.
egiyablu
egiyablu

Jupiter is the point of 2 of my yods. Conjunct my Venus, opp. Moon, Qx Neptune, Saturn, Pluto.

I think I’m moving for growth, it just takes me many times to really get the lessons.

 
17.
Midara
Midara

I don’t knooooooooow. *whine* Jupiter in the 12th. :P

 
18.
Empress_Scorps
Empress_Scorps

Jupiter is natally in my 6th. Square Saturn in Sadge in my 3rd. With Jupiter trining Pluto in Scorpio in my 2nd. I’m growing but I don’t know how. I mean looking back I can see how much I wanted to break out of old limitations in terms of money, health and getting serious about my direction in life. I mean I’m doing a degree at the moment in Criminology with Psychosocial Studies and I’m in my 2nd year and I don’t even know what I wish to do with it when I’m finished but I suppose its all about the discipline and learning something new moreover for me.

I’ve been to the dentist more times in the last 3 months than I have in years as well as the doctors. So I’m taking care of myself even better. As well as breaking toxic patterns and relationships. I’m a quiet Scorpio and whenever I speak I just don’t seem to realise how much wisdom I have until I actually give a piece of my mind in a positive sense. I’m not trying to sound big headed but sometimes I don’t believe what I actually say actually has some truth to the world.

I’m even learning how to drive which is considered late in the UK, almost 25 in less than 3 weeks and I could have done that at 17. But if my grandmother can learn and pass at 65 after my granddad died and left her a car and drove for nearly all his life so can I. *A warm fuzzy feeling comes over me*

I’m growing spiritually and mentally and when Saturn hits next year I think I’ll be even more ready for it. I’ve dumped all the past hurts, pains and digs at my character all no thanks to Saturn in my Asc at the moment. But the structures I’ll be building shall be even better than the foundations that are under construction.

The only place where I’m not growing is the job I’m doing. But its only a means to an end to get me through uni, pay the bills and have that little bit extra money.

I’m proud to grow even though I don’t quite get how.

 
19.
SaDiablo
SaDiablo

Right now I am super-stunted. I may even have regressed.
This is absolutely killing me! I have these plans and goals that I want to work toward and I feel like I’m being dragged backwards. Like catydid, I realize that this is at least 90% and more likely 98% my fault, though. Dammit.

I want to grow!!!

 
20.
eris
eris

but i’m starting to feel like i’m cracking from the pace of it.

 
21.
catydid
catydid

Elsa, Oh, I see. Thanks for ‘splaining.

 
22.
denise
denise

@Mokihana, I really hope it works out for you. Sending Scorp vibes. Places of safety and comfort are very important to good health.
@CP…Thanks so much for the poem.
I think I’m finally “getting” my path. As I approach my 57th bday I understand that all the many roads and paths I’ve taken were meant to lead me here. I am exactly where I am supposed to be.
This year has been amazing.

 
23.
Kashmiri
Kashmiri

Growing. Jupiter is my chart ruler and it is in my 5th, aspecting a bunch of stuff. It is far from easy but I have enough Saturn I am well used to not so easy.

 
24.
Elsa
Elsa

Someone pointed out to me that when you take a path (or stay on a path) that stunts your growth, you only hurt yourself.

 
25.
Salali
Salali

Now, see: I wasn’t used to easy, either, but now? I’ve tried three times to spend $25, and because my parents were there, I either ended up not getting to use it, or having it given back to me. I gave it to my dad, to pay for something yesterday, and just found it back in my bag.

My mother has called herself an enabler, blaming herself for not being more pushy with me when I was agoraphobic, about seeing someone – yet they both do this. they tell me to just accept it, but I’m 36, and don’t see anyone doing that for them, or anyone else. I was saving my money and buying my own stuff, at the age of eleven. I needed to, and I happily did so.

 
26.
Salali
Salali

I kept trying to get off the path, and it wasn’t working. It’s like I’m supposed to be stuck here, although I don’t know why. I could even see why the agoraphobia had been good for me, to a point, but this is like a bad joke- and I’m afraid I’ll wake up in ten or twenty years, wishing i could have just enjoyed it. I’ve felt broken, though- something i would never have admitted to in the past.

 
27.
Isernia
Isernia

Salali – I Hear ya. I’m 48 and don’t even have my retirement any more. All gone. I was working at 16 to buy my own shampoo.

I know that quiet times are necessary when you are in transition. Time seems to drag for us, but in Spirit, it’s nothing.

The only way I can deal with it right now is to read positive books (I’m really trying to stay away from TV now – too negative), meditate when I can, and just be thankful for what I have. It’s important to keep flowing any positive energy you can.

I keep my Faith, and when an opportunity comes along, I’ll try again!

 
28.
Jilly
Jilly

I can’t decide haha.

 
29.
Luna
Luna

@CP Yes, thanx for the poem.

 
30.
bella_luna
bella_luna

I know from firsthand experience that Elsa’s comment “that when you take a path (or stay on a path) that stunts your growth, you only hurt yourself” is 100% true. Sometime after my Saturn return I chose what seemed to me at the time to be security over growth. Now I’m about to be kicked off that path forever. It’s adapt or die time. And, while it’s exhilarating, it’s scary. The stakes seem so high. 1st H Jupiter in Gemini.

 


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