I’ve been studying Astrology for around a year now… and I’m a reluctant study at the best of times as I don’t like to sit down and keep still and keep to routines and timetables… so, it has amused me greatly that during the course, my lessons have landed in my inbox… yet the answers arrive via my environment…
My latest assignment was to look at the aspects of my nodes… I have North Node in Aries and South Node in Libra… and they are unaspected.. they are free range and roaming at large… I’m not going to bore you with lengthy ramblings about my life lessons and past life issues and excessive naval gazing, but I will relate one small thought… that I need to toss out the Libran weighing up and tap in more to the Arian impulsiveness…
So… when I found myself sat in a room with a guitarist and the word noodling came up… then my little Astro heart filled with glee as a-ha… this is a perfect route to off road my studies…
And out came the ink…
I’m not going to lay down my astro findings per se…
I will share a little of how to noodle…
Noodling is focused randomness…
To explore through seemingly random notes (or pen strokes)…
To allow trial and error and intuition to roll out, rather than relying on the rigidity of rules and systems…
To wonder rather than needing to know…
To let your hand play unbound…
To explore…
To feel a pattern emerge…
To notice the cycles, repeats and patterns that occur naturally and to expand them…
To let your thoughts spark!
To support new ideas with things you already know…
To build up your muscle memory to make your mind quicker…
The funny thing is… I do this all the time… It is my natural impulse to explore the word in this way… I have done it since before I was even knee high to a grasshopper… though I tend to call it scribbling… or sometimes doodling… I’d placed little value on it…
Yet suddenly… calling it Noodling… allowed me to see it with new eyes…
It’s funny what a change of name can do…
😉
The pure and blessed way 
I love this, Karen – I don’t do enough noodling these days, but your noodles have inspired me. And to think I used to consider noodles something to eat! (I have the opposite nodal pattern to you but I feel I spend too much time weighing things up and not being impulsive enough – have never understood my nodes!). Thanks for this.
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Thanks Alison! Ah… you have the same Nodes as Crowley… (I’m not an expert… that just happened to be the example given in the lesson 😉 ) I’m learning using Lyn Birkbeck’s Clavis system, which is designed to use keywords to make sentences that open up in organic ways…
You should definitely get noodling… I’d love to see what you come up with 🙂
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