The importance of investing in your renewable resources
Can sustainability studies & the succedent house in astrology help us to feel more resourced in moments of scarcity?
There’s scarcity in the air.
In the midst of a crashing global economy, wars and genocides being waged worldwide, food and fuel shortages manufactured by the people lining their pockets with our fear, data, and desperation, it’s easy to feel separated from our supports, from what helps us to feel resourced and resourceful. When so much about the world feels unfair, exploitative, and unnecessarily challenging, it can feel natural, inevitable, and unavoidable that we get sucked into the abyss of that scarcity.
How could we be expected to appropriately resource ourselves in an era of exploitation?
But cultivating a balanced and sustainable relationship with your resources can be critical for meeting this moment. Resourced individuals can come together as resourced communities, and resourced communities fight back.
The succedent houses in our birth charts can show us how we resource the key pillars of our lives (ourselves, our roots, our relationships, and our external lives), but not all resources function the same way. One distinction that we can borrow from environmental and sustainability studies is the concept of renewable and non-renewable resources. Feeling resourced is a key to living well, and to feel resourced, we need to know how to use and replenish all of our varied resources, sustainably. While we’re already accustomed to thinking about the sustainability of our lifestyles outside of a strictly environmental lens—i.e., the sustainability of one’s workload, one’s sleep schedule, one’s budget—I think we can go broader with our application, because this moment requires that we use our energy wisely.