What Are Your Triggers Trying to Show You? | Grand Air Trine + Venus Square Pluto

What happens when something in a relationship activates you—and your mind immediately starts trying to figure out what happened, who was right, and what it all means? Our relationships can bring us face-to-face with parts of ourselves we might not otherwise see.

Welcome to shadow work. :)

This week on Our Waking Dream, spiritual strategist and leadership mentor Coco Swanson explores a different way of meeting what gets activated in us: through sound.

Not singing. Not performing. Not trying to sound pretty. Hum. Sigh. Tone. Growl. Make a weird noise. Notice what happens. Sound creates vibration, giving us a way to shift what’s happening inside our bodies without always having to think our way through it.

We have some strong astrological aspects behind this exploration. Mercury in Libra moves through a Grand Air Trine with Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius, while Venus in Scorpio approaches her first of three squares to Pluto—a deeper cycle around relationships, intimacy, desire, power, projection and transformation.

Not everything that activates us is ours. Sometimes we need a boundary. Sometimes something genuinely isn’t okay. But sometimes another person touches something old—a wound, fear, family pattern, belief, or part of ourselves we haven’t completely met yet.

Journal inquiries:

• What am I really activated by right now?

• What about it feels most enraging, annoying, frustrating or sad?

• What might this be showing me? Where do I feel it in my body?

• What do I need—space, support, safety, a boundary?

• What could help me move this energy rather than immediately think my way through it?

Our relationships can be some of our greatest teachers. So can our bodies. So can the parts of ourselves we’d rather not look at.

And sometimes the way in is making a strange noise in your kitchen. :)

Want somewhere to practice this work? Join Coco inside Leadership Studio, an ongoing space for practicing the capacities we use to live, relate, create and lead.

Want to try the work first? Bring what you’re navigating to Solutions Lab, Coco’s free live gathering every other Sunday.

Want to go deeper? Book a private Clarity Session, explore longer-term mentorship, or bring Coco into your team or organization.

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