posted 8th October 2025
What Is Yin And Yang?
Todays world is predominantly Yang. The energy is quick and moving at a fast pace. Whether you need to get somewhere now, or try something new, up your game, expand your knowledge, get involved. Its all about taking action, doing, pushing and possibly forcing. It sits in the realms of fire and earth, whereby fire ignites and creates in one strike, and earth builds stepping stones of movement; bit by bit, but still like fire - focused on doing. There is a linearness to both of these elements and a masculinity in their quality.
Water and air on the other hand move more with acceptance, drifting and flowing through motions, finding their way as they go, allowing whats to come to be, and evolving at the next given moment rather than the one they placed before themselves. There is an indirectness and possibility to their motions. They will try this and that and keep with what sticks, and leave behind what cant be carried in its fluctuating currents. This is the way of Yin and the wisdom of the feminine.
Neither are right or wrong. Neither are worthy of more space than the other. They compliment each others duality, and yet most people feel they both cant share the same menu of life.
Understanding the beauty and power of each of these energies and learning to combine them, offers a harmony todays westernised society doesn't seem to want from us. But it is up to us to live our lives that brings consistent state of wellbeing inside and out, because why don't we want to feel harmony daily?
I believe this can only occur from balanced presence through awareness.
Middle Ground
If you have a lot of cardinal energy within your birth chart, this can me you believe in going after things.
If you have alot of fixed energy in your chart you are persistent in nature and don't like to give up easily.
If you have a lot of mutable energy in your chart you have a strong element of flexibility in your chart, which can mean you can be extremely indecisive.
These modalities will effect how you step out into the world and what you find challenging vs easy to manage.
It also offers a chance to see how you would handle the "middle ground" moments. As an example, this could be the waiting time between jobs, how easily you can relax and trust the flow, and most importantly how you are able to judge when to step forward or step back in a situation.
Those with dominant cardinal modalities may have a hard time not using a yang force to go get what they want, even when the light says red.
Those with predominantly fixed modalities may have a challenge with letting go, even when something else better has been handed to them.
And those with strong mutable energy may have a hard time focusing if they've only got one thing to do.
You'll be happy to know that most of us have all three modalities in our charts, but some weighing heavier on one side than the other.
If you want to know find out your modalities, head to the astrology section HERE
Our birth charts can help us see where we are lacking in modality, and that is our golden ticket as such, to help us align ourselves into a better sense of wellbeing and to find our middle ground.
All Or Nothing
We have been conditioned to believe that if we don't go out and get something, we cant reach it, and if we don't consistently keep to routine, we cant build momentum.
Is that really true?
The more I go through life the more I realise that maybe the education system in the UK was run by cardinal and fixed signs, and unfortunately their was no room or understanding of the wisdom that the mutable signs held. Hence only now schools are realising people learn differently.
But what about the people who run businesses that have never had an business training and are successful? What about the people you know who are the most disorganised people at home and yet can organise the greatest events?
Is life really so linear?
I see it as a place where the water moves through us day by day, in all directions. Its ups and downs represent how we both need each other to reveal ourselves, and the presence of the other gives u the chance to stand puppet between the two, utilising either or , as and when needed; pouring a bit of yang when the fire is down and barely present, the air is flat and smelly, the earth muddy and the water murky. Then adding a little yin when the fire is dangerously spreading, the air is spinning, the earth is dug up and scattered, and the water overly wild.
But of course its important to pour into either cup before one if overflowing. bringing awareness to the extremities (heavy yang) and the deficiencies (heavy yin).
What does yin and yang look like for you?
Can you spend the next week noticing it, and when it seems to far one way, can you pull it a little further the other way?
Time to find some balance.
