Crystal Aura Gaze

Twenty-eight has been a great year! At the start of this age, the CDC announced that the pandemic was officially over. After two-ish years of quarantine and lockdown, everything was finally opened back up again — no masks needed! This automatically made it a better year than the prior.

I made a point to get myself back out there as much as possible and take advantage of the world opening up again. It started off with a lot of solo adventures: learning how to bake more, taking myself on nature walks at least once a week, and exploring new places (like cool bookstores) on my own. I also attended a few concerts: Ed Sheeran, Gryffin, Melanie Martinez, and The Flaming Lips.

Kevin and I had a really fun trip in the Adirondacks. We also did the “FRIENDS Experience,” some cave exploring, and the Renaissance Faire. I visited college friends a few times and had a couple sleepovers at my cousin Priscilla’s house. We did a family trip in Montauk as well as the annual Ocean Grove summer vacation.

I earned my certificate for the Introductory Herbal Course at Herbal Academy. I also wrote another novel — my third novel: Devotion to Jupiter. This was my first story that had, as requested by many, some “adult scenes.”

I had vast success on Medium, which I joined exactly one year ago. My greatest success was in January when I earned over $500 in one month! My earnings dropped in the following months, but I’m planning on putting more focus into Medium this coming year so that I can reach that milestone again.

I had a huge leap in my career. Two months before turning twenty-eight, I had switched to another job, in which really leveled up my career. I made so many friends from this new job, and we all went out for dinner together a handful of times, which was so fun!

Since I had so many new things to learn at my new job, I really had to put a lot of focus and attention on it. This really took away my time from spending on Medium and blogging. Now that I’ve learned so much, I’m at a far more stable point in my job. I believe that moving forward, I’ll be able to spend much more energy on blogging, and get my Medium earnings back up.

There was a lot of trauma release at the start of twenty-eight. I was actually quite sad on my twenty-eighth birthday, because I was holding onto a lot of pent up emotions. I used Medium to write a lot of confessional stories which served as a great release for me. Through this process, I was able to let go of a lot of suppressed feelings from my early twenties. You truly can’t move forward until you’ve faced your past with open eyes.

I’ve worked through a lot of mental health issues at this point. You can go back and see old blog posts from when I was in my early/mid-twenties, and find so much depression and anxiety prevalent. I really hit rock bottom when I turned twenty-seven and I can honestly say that I did not see any light at the end of the tunnel at that time. Two years later, I can firmly say that I am nowhere near that dark place I was once in.

I’ve learned how to surrender control to the universe. I’ve learned that the more you resist, the more it hurts. I’ve learned that it’s unsafe to isolate myself, to keep secrets, to feel like I can’t be honest with the world. And I don’t deserve the burden of carrying the weight of other people’s secrets, either.

Another highlight of twenty-eight was getting my nose pierced. That was a really thrilling experience. I went alone which made me nervous but it was totally worth it!

Lastly, twenty-eight truly ended with a bang, when I broke my foot (AKA, fractured my fifth metatarsal.) I wore a walking boot for six weeks, and although I am back to sneakers, I’m still walking with a slight limp and some pain in my foot. And for those first couple weeks, I was struggling to walk at all. I moved as slow as a snail and everyone was always staring at me because my boot was so loud.

Just this month, I moved into a new home. With my foot healing, and a gym at my apartment complex, I’ve started going to the gym almost every day. It’s been amazing therapy and I hope to keep up with it. It absolutely helps me on a mental level. And now I am absolutely not taking my mobile abilities for granted!

An astrological perspective

Of course, as an astrologer, I have to look back from an astrological perspective. Each age comes with a “profection” in astrology. This was the age of my fifth house, which is basically a very fun and creative year that comes with a lot of changes. I went through massive change this year and surely had a lot of fun at the same time!

A year before that, twenty-seven, was my fourth house year. That year typically comes with a lot of heaviness, and it surely did. As mentioned before, I hit rock bottom right around my twenty-seventh birthday. But thank God, twenty-eight was uphill from there.

Now, twenty-nine will be my sixth house year. This is a more serious year that revolves around health and self-care. I hope I can use this year to improve my health and prioritize wellness.

I’m also going through my Saturn return which began last year. Saturn rules the bones, which is funny how I broke a bone this year. It also rules teeth, and I got caught up at the dentist after not having gone for a couple of years. I’m only a third way through my Saturn return, so let’s hope the rest of the journey is smooth sailing!