Just before 1 PM PDT the Cancer Moon opposes Pluto, bringing us face-to-face with the Underworld. Consider what we see ‘out there’ is telling us what may come forth from ‘in here,’ and need to be dealt with; as long as we deny our darkness, we …
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The Essence for 23 August 2011: Allow the Emotions to Overwhelm
Just before 9 AM PDT the Moon conjuncts the South Node in Gemini. This can bring a flood of memories, each of which triggers an emotional response; or, we may find ourselves emotionally entangled in something that steps directly from the past into the …
The Essence for 22 August 2011: A Powerful Fist
A Fist of God is formed with Mars square Saturn/ h.Zeus with apex Neptune/ Earth. Zow. I mean, just what do we get out of this? With a base that says, Work on those ambitions and desires, or else! we may be hard pressed to be up and running in the ‘r…
The Essence for the Weekend 19-21 August 2011: Be the Rock
The 19th 11:30 PM PDT the Taurus Moon squares Vesta, requiring we measure our feelings against those things we hold sacred; if we’re not respecting what’s most important to us, we’ll be made aware of it now. The 20th 10 PM PDT the Moon quincunxes…
The Essence for 18-19 August 2011: The Uses of Hurt
The 18th Just after 7 PM PDT the Moon trines the Sun–delicious! It’s like finally being able to see–enjoy it, it won’t last The 19th 11:30 AM PDT the Moon sextiles Chiron and places Uranus at the midpoint. Two basic responses are likely: one, w…
The Essence for 17-18 August 2011: We Can’t Do It All At Once!
The 17th 7 PM PDT the Moon opposes Saturn and h.Zeus; Now it all becomes about reality-based progress, and how well our ambitions and desires are materializing–and of course that doesn’t sit well with the emotional state, which wants to feel we’r…
The Essence for 16-17 August 2011: Being True to Our Own Nature, Being True to Mars
Moon conjuncts Ceres, 3 PM Pacific, and the two meet in a crisis degree (29). We may have very strong feelings at this point about whose province is whose, about our relationship to Mother Nature and to all Her components that correspond to things with…
The Essence for 15-16 August 2011: A Test of the Capacity To Love And Be Loved
The 15th Just before 11 PM Pacific the Pisces Moon forms a T-square with the Nodal axis, forcing an emotional reckoning, and putting us once again in a state that asks us to measure our progress, and this time, also our direction in life. This once mor…
It’s A Full Moon Weekend! Here’s the Essence for 13-15 August 2011
What happens over the next three days (12th-15th or so, with perfection of the Sun/ Venus conjunction on the 16th), apart from (or perhaps as a significant aspect of) the Full Moon is a Fist of God with base of Uranus square Pluto and apex of the Sun/ …
The Essence for 12 August 2011: The Amplifier
Here’s an interesting config: Mars semi-square Sun, which is sesquiquadrate Pluto, which is semi-square Earth, which sesquiquadrates Mars. This suggests an enormous amount of tension, anger, even rage, connected with life direction and material circu…