Libra/Aries Themes

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith came highly recommended from several trusted sources, so I requested it from the library. I read the first half in one sitting and finished it soon thereafter. This memoir is Libra/Aries-themed all the way! Maggie Smith writes with rawness and eloquence about her journey through divorce and the process of coming into her self.

“How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go.

Inside forty-something me is the woman I was in my thirties, the woman I was in my twenties, the teenager I was, the child I was.

Inside divorced me: married me, the me who loved my husband, the me who believed what we had was irrevocable and permanent, the me who believed in permanence.

I still carry these versions of myself. It's a kind of reincarnation without death: all these different lives we get to live in this one body, as ourselves.”

–Maggie Smith, from her book, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Please visit my previous post “Eclipse Season” for a deeper look at Libra/Aries themes along with Libran shadows.