{"id":4963,"date":"2026-10-05T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrohaltia.com\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2026-10-05T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:31:10","slug":"who-is-holding-the-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrohaltia.com\/en\/2026\/10\/05\/who-is-holding-the-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO IS HOLDING THE PEN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"gap-748557855\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-748557855 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-4053362833\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We all have stories. Some are lighter than others. Some have happy endings, some do not. There are stories we tell ourselves about who we are, and stories we tell other people. There are stories other people tell about us, and stories we have inherited. There are stories created by something that happened to us. And then there are stories we keep repeating long after they have stopped being useful.<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-4053362833 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-856110606\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-571072217\" class=\"col medium-11 small-12 large-11\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-571608843\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-571608843 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-245160215\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>We tell stories. We hear them. But how often do we pause to think about who is holding the pen?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-245160215 {\n  font-size: 1.45rem;\n  line-height: 1.3;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div id=\"text-2710632447\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The asteroid 1454 Kalevala will conjunct Jupiter in Leo around 14th\u201316th October 2026. Together, they will sextile the Sun in Libra \u2013\u00a0while Pluto is stationing direct in Aquarius.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The asteroid version of Kalevala can be described as the narrative field in which experience becomes coherent, transmissible and inhabitable. In other words\u2026 it is the process where fragments of something become something that can be carried forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And with Jupiter conjunct Kalevala in Leo, there is a question we might want to ask ourselves:<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2710632447 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1365836909\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-718324661\" class=\"col medium-11 small-12 large-11\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-2998027950\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Which story are you giving the microphone to?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2998027950 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n  line-height: 1.3;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div id=\"text-2572401627\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do not mean that we should simply \u201cmanifest\u201d our lives. That idea is a bit exhausting. Life does not always work that way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I mean is as simple as this: <em>Perhaps we did not choose what happened. But we may have some say in what we make of what happened.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We don&#8217;t choose every event. We don&#8217;t choose what other people do. We don&#8217;t choose illness, loss, accidents, history, other people&#8217;s interpretations, or the circumstances into which we are born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But perhaps we have considerably more authorship over <em>what gets to become the story of our life<\/em> than we sometimes realise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are allowed to. We can. And I sure think we should become the author of the story of our life. How we tell that story\u2026 well, that is up to us.<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2572401627 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n  color: rgb(97, 111, 122);\n}\n#text-2572401627 > * {\n  color: rgb(97, 111, 122);\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-974181478\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-903419882\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1263031543\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/astrohaltia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ballerina-trust-aukeama-1066x800.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astrohaltia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ballerina-trust-aukeama-1066x800.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/astrohaltia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ballerina-trust-aukeama-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/astrohaltia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ballerina-trust-aukeama-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/astrohaltia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ballerina-trust-aukeama-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/astrohaltia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ballerina-trust-aukeama-2048x1537.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/astrohaltia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ballerina-trust-aukeama-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/astrohaltia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ballerina-trust-aukeama-510x383.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1263031543 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-671163078\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And with Kalevala conjunct Jupiter in Leo, there is another question worth asking:<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-671163078 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n  color: rgb(97, 111, 122);\n}\n#text-671163078 > * {\n  color: rgb(97, 111, 122);\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2401095003\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Which stories have I been giving too much space?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2401095003 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n  line-height: 1.3;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div id=\"text-2660218202\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amplification works both ways. Jupiter makes everything larger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can make the painful story enormous. We can make the shame or failure story the central plot of our life. We can make somebody else&#8217;s judgement into the central plot of our biography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we can also discover that something we have treated as a footnote deserves a chapter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A friendship. A piece of work we are proud of. Something we survived. Or a part of ourselves we abandoned because somebody once told us it wasn&#8217;t important.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are some questions we can ask ourselves:<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2660218202 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1071156175\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-2121144073\" class=\"col medium-1 small-12 large-1\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1573184154\" class=\"col medium-10 small-12 large-10\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-230442572\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>What gets stage time in my life?<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>What do I repeatedly put under the spotlight?<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>What gets the microphone?<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>What gets the opening paragraph?<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>What gets repeated until it becomes part of my identity?<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>Who wrote this sentence about me? Do I still agree with it?<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">And also\u2026<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>What have I pushed backstage?<\/em><\/h4>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-230442572 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-778140477\" class=\"col medium-1 small-12 large-1\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1546046115\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1913909258\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-92970962\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Authorship is both editing and writing.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-92970962 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n  line-height: 1.3;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div id=\"text-3983964647\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We edit our lives constantly by deciding what we remember, repeat, interpret, emphasise, or leave in the margins. What we forgive or refuse to excuse. What we allow to define us. What we decide is no longer the whole truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes editing could also mean saying\u2026 <em>Yes, that happened.<\/em> But it doesn&#8217;t always have to become, <em>Ergo, this is who I am.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We all carry within us stories we can let go of. And then there are stories that are there to stay, that do not need to or cannot be erased or denied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They simply don&#8217;t need to be the leading actor anymore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can let their role change, so that the painful chapter can remain true without being the title of the whole book.<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-3983964647 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-652029299\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1765292973\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-1975953773\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Jupiter makes another, perhaps uncomfortable, question unavoidable: What story are we enlarging?<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1975953773 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n  line-height: 1.3;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div id=\"text-3498273578\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are giving Jupiter some delicious material to work with if we keep saying things like\u2026 <em>\u201cI am always the one who\u2026\u201d, or \u201cI have never been able to\u2026\u201d, or \u00a0\u201cThis is just who I am\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So perhaps it is time to ask\u2026<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-3498273578 {\n  font-size: 1.6rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-13908439\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1780097799\" class=\"col medium-1 small-12 large-1\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1540502531\" class=\"col medium-10 small-12 large-10\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-3885050916\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>What story am I currently making larger than life?<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>Is that actually the story I want to give the stage to?<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>And does it deserve this much of the spotlight?<\/em><\/h4>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-3885050916 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1023804801\" class=\"col medium-1 small-12 large-1\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div id=\"text-2698397372\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, allow yourself room for the inevitable shadows we all have. We cannot simply throw them out of our book. Otherwise\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>We could never see the stars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2698397372 {\n  font-size: 1.5rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2460972039\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we can stop giving the shadows every speaking part in our story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask yourself:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>If I were allowed to choose which part of my life stood in the centre of the stage for a while, what would I put there?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because maybe we cannot decide everything that happens around us. 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