Sagittarius Season: Find Power in Releasing Control

How much of your time and energy do you spend each day in rumination or resistance to the situations, events, or people you can’t control?

For most of us, I think, the honest answer is “a lot.” Perhaps more than you might realize.

For example:

• You obsess over the weather, wondering what to wear.
• You research data and plan talking points to try to get others to see things from your perspective.
• You mentally rehearse upcoming conversations, trying to script how you’ll respond to statements that the other person hasn’t yet made.
• You adjust your behavior or manner of speaking in the hope it will influence others.
• You ruminate on the ways you wish your kids, clients, or colleagues would be different from how they are.
• You try to control the processes to reach your goals.
• You relentlessly check or refresh your inbox, social feeds, and text messages as if that will generate the reply you’ve been waiting for.

Control Diminishes Your Power

As you might already realize from any of the places where you cling on or try to control things, those attempts to hold onto what is for force things to be a certain way consume a lot of time, energy, and emotional bandwidth.

What you try to control ends up controlling you.

It diminishes your power.

Change Forces a Release of Control

The Sun’s annual transit from Scorpio into Sagittarius invites us to consider what’s possible when we release control.

Scorpio is the fixed sign of autumn, associated with control, obsession, and intensity. It carries the heaviness of water. Sagittarius brings the heat of fire: an impulse to act, explore, and wander. This is a place where we release control to embrace trust and adventure.

On it’s way out of Scorpio, the Sun makes aspects with other planets that emphasize this exact transition. An opposition with Uranus (November 21, 7:25 AM ET 29º26’) portends disruptive change, while a trine with Neptune (November 21, 8:05 AM ET 29º28’) loosens ego identification and signifies grand visions.

After these final aspects from Scorpio, the Sun enters Sagittarius (November 21, 8:35 PM ET), marking the start of “Sagittarius season” (through December 21).

The Archer’s Arrow

Sagittarius is a mutable sign ruled by Jupiter, the planet of expansion and buoyancy. As a mutable sign, it is a season of change. We are entering the late autumn in the Northern hemisphere; a time when the weather can feel like autumn one day and winter the next.

This sign is symbolized by the archer’s arrow. The best the archer can do is aim her arrow. The moment she lets it fly out of her bow, she has given up control over where it lands.

Sagittarius finds its optimism and buoyancy precisely because it’s willing to leap without guarantees. Its optimism comes from trust, not from control.

The Invitation of Sagittarius Season

As we feel the chill of the oncoming winter, the temptation is to plan better and be more strategic. But that just creates conditions where we try to cling tighter to our plan and actions.

The invitation of Sagittarius season is to aim with intention, release with intention, and let the arrow fly — even when we can’t see exactly where it will land.