Electing as a Divergent Deadline

I love electional astrology, the art of looking for auspicious and advantage sky weather with spectacular planetary configurations for specific uses.

I don’t always love trying to scramble to hit the elections that I choose because, let’s face it: I’m a neurodivergent creative who doesn’t thrive while working at a linear pace.

However, I must sort of love it considering I keep getting everything prepared in the final stretch of the eleventh hour. Why?

My neurodivergent brain loves utilizing elections as deadlines.

Astrology is meant to help us human better — at least at the core of my practice.

If I know that my ideas are wiggly and my train of thought gets easily derailed, then I need some type of structure in place to give me enough guidance on what has to be done by when while maintaining room to wiggle.

I elect deadlines because I love planning, even when the planning process can become complex. Choosing an election eases the complexity.

Normal calendar holidays don’t really get me going. They can be extremely sentimental, full of both happiness and grief. If I can choose my own holiday through an elected celebration or event, then I have more autonomy over my life.

And autonomy is key when the brain has a tendency to spiral and take over. It’s very common to feel like an outsider inside of my own head.

Versions of my own thoughts racing each other.

Spirits of loved ones dropping by to leave love.

Gods knocking on my altars and desiring an audience.

If I can elect a time and day and place for all of the noise in my head to be quiet as I dedicate myself to this one single task, then I have more power than I ever believed possible.

Electing as a deadline provides a deeper layer of grounding into time than my mind usually maintains. It’s more than just launching a project at a good time.

It’s defining time for yourself and entering an intentional relationship with time outside of a linear perspective.

It’s seeing the overlapping and interweaving cycles of planets as beginnings and endings melt into each other.

It’s witnessing growth bloom with each passage of time.

Through all of my brain noodling, the centering power of electional astrology has helped keep me aligned and more healthily accept that my timeline doesn’t have to [and probably shouldn’t] be the same as everyone else’s.