Moon in Sagittarius today (August 16th): emotional buoyancy! But can you feel the foreshadowing as it moves toward conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn tomorrow? The sense of something dark up ahead? There are some rough seas coming up, and tomorrow we get a feel for what’s involved for us as the moon hits Pluto and activates the cardinal t-square between Pluto, Uranus and Jupiter. The second half of August is intense!
What themes opened up for you at the Leo new moon two weeks ago? What traps did you recognise you needed to be free of? Where did you decide to direct your creative energies?
Now we see a culmination: what was only felt and known internally then is all out in the open now. Full moon in Aquarius on the 20th. Moon conjunct Neptune in Pisces, opposite the Sun and Mercury in late Leo. This looks like some emotional drama to me. Great, MORE emotional drama! As if this summer hasn’t been emotionally dramatic enough already. Sigh.
Now we see a culmination: what was only felt and known internally then is all out in the open now. Full moon in Aquarius on the 20th. Moon conjunct Neptune in Pisces, opposite the Sun and Mercury in late Leo. This looks like some emotional drama to me. Great, MORE emotional drama! As if this summer hasn’t been emotionally dramatic enough already. Sigh.
Big egos and over-the-top pronouncements courtesy of the Leo
stuff, emotional withdrawal and befuddlement courtesy of the moon-Neptune
Aquarius/Pisces stuff. Let’s see how it pans out. It could also be wonderful and
magical: great for creativity and artistic work in particular.
Pretty, right? But jellies STING! See, even as we're getting all this dreamy luminescent creative stuff, Venus is moving into a world of hurt in Libra.
Pretty, right? But jellies STING! See, even as we're getting all this dreamy luminescent creative stuff, Venus is moving into a world of hurt in Libra.
Venus in Libra—finally a bit of air! All this water &
fire feels like being a firefly in the rain. And Venus is happy in Libra--it's her own domain.
But Venus
in Libra is not easy this time around—nothing in Libra or the other cardinal
signs will be easy or harmonious for the next few years. It all gets hit by the
stressful, transformative Uranus-Pluto square, forcing adjustment, purgation,
action.
This time around we have Jupiter in Cancer in the mix, so
it’s a cardinal grand cross: Jupiter opposite Pluto squaring Uranus opposite
Venus, active August 23 to 27th. The moon in Aries gets involved on the 23rd,
setting the tone for the proceedings: emotional freedom and authenticity, at
any cost. LIBERATION.
But it’s painful. Do you think it hurts a butterfly to force
its way out of its chrysalis; do you remember whether it hurt to be born? I
guess it did; I guess it was terrifying. You know the one about having to break
a few eggs to make an omlette? Every birth involves a death: there is no going
back to the way things were.
Anyway, this cardinal cross is ugly… but I think it could be
worse. The two benefics (Jupiter and Venus) are involved, and Uranus-Pluto
gives the potential for sudden lightning change, deep transformation. Also
relational ruptures that need to happen. Jupiter is happy and exalted in
Cancer, and Venus is in her own sign of Libra. So the things that need to be
changed, can be. And there is emotional healing and backup provided courtesy of
the still-active grand water trine.
But no question, it’s tense. Poor Venus in Libra. She just wants
everything to be lovely and for everybody to get along. Everybody can’t get
along, though.
Venus opposite Uranus (and the moon) in Aries: enough of
covert or not-so covert manipulation and control, people aren’t going to be
having it.
Jupiter opposite Pluto: power struggles, yeah.
Ugh, it looks like the ‘Get-Along’ shirt.
Ha! Venus in Libra at her most insane, squaring Jupiter in Cancer (family fun). And Venus squaring Pluto: controlling love. And an opposition to Uranus--what a shockingly brilliant idea this 'get along' shirt thing is! I wish I had one to put my ENTIRE FAMILY in!
Aaargh.
On a personal or familial level, this stuff can (hopefully) be funny. But you take these energies and apply them to a collective and you are looking at explosive tension (Uranus-Pluto). Over economic issues (Venus), justice (Libra) and notions of 'home' & 'country' (Jupiter in Cancer). The current crisis in Egypt illustrates these themes pretty well. It will be interesting to see what happens there in the weeks ahead as the cardinal cross comes into full force.
Aaargh.
On a personal or familial level, this stuff can (hopefully) be funny. But you take these energies and apply them to a collective and you are looking at explosive tension (Uranus-Pluto). Over economic issues (Venus), justice (Libra) and notions of 'home' & 'country' (Jupiter in Cancer). The current crisis in Egypt illustrates these themes pretty well. It will be interesting to see what happens there in the weeks ahead as the cardinal cross comes into full force.
Tense as it is, three days into the cardinal cross we get a little dose of magic. From the evening of the 25th August to the morning of the 26th we have, holy crap, another grand sextile. Brought to you by the moon in Taurus and the sun and Mercury in early Virgo. And this is a beautiful, very welcome thing: it grounds the dissonant, difficult energies of the cardinal grand cross. It's like, in the midst of all the conflict, there is this magical calm; this great potential space to breathe in; to process the changes or to lick our wounds in.
So, maybe we’re not out of the woods yet; maybe there
is no ‘out of the woods’, ever. But there are great gifts mixed in with the
difficulties, always. As with the last grand sextile, the message here seems to
me to be about engagement. The sun and Mercury will be in Virgo: self-improvement,
a focus on the little details of earthly existence. There is no getting out of the necessity of working
with the difficulties as they present themselves. Assimilating the lessons, figuring out how to
use them.
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