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MONDAY -- Day of the Moon -- Waning Moon in Virgo

 12/7/2020

Happy Monday, day of the Moon.  The Moon is in the waning quarter, one week from Full and one week from New. The moon is in Virgo, and during its brief stay will be squaring the sun and Mercury in Sagittarius, opposing Neptune in Pisces, and squaring the North Node in Gemini.

The moon is in good aspect with Uranus and with the big three in Capricorn, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto. All of these are in earth signs.

In your chart, the moon does not bring its own story, but highlights what it finds there and synthesizes the aspects it makes with transiting planets, beaming this energy through the door of that house in which you find it in your natal chart.  Look for Virgo in your chart.

To be your own best astrologer, take notes on events and moods that are of influence to you right now. Take note of what you take note of. Where does your interest lie?

I wrote yesterday about Mercury opposition to Neptune -- are you dreaming strange dreams?  Sometimes dreams are a way to defragment and clear debris.  Sometimes, they help you work out the past and sometimes they show you the future (albeit through a lense of todays understanding).

We think we are in one place in time and we are not. We know so much more than what we think we know. This is how divination works.  When you sit down with a reader, the reader and you tune in to that place where both know -- where the big picture resides. Then, through a series of "random" symbols, that place is "read".

If you get quiet enough, you don't need the reader or the cards.  It's like that knowing you get just before you get the letter that gives you the news.  Cards, runes, shells, the clouds, and how the smoke rises are nothing but the letter that you read what you already know.

Astrology is the big brother of tarot. In Astrology, it is still partially up to the reader's skill in reading the symbols and in the combined effort of tuning in to that space where both parties know (which is why live readings -- including by Zoom -- are so much better than canned).

Astrology is more about paying attention to what is.  It also teaches us to accept what is and take steps to change what we do not like. The bones are there, the scaffolding, the outline, but it is, to a major degree, how you write the story, fill in the outline, flesh out those bones that count the most toward where it goes from here.

There are things you can not change. There are so many more that you can.  It's said you can't change the flow of the river. But if you remove one stone from the path of the stream, you have made a change that will influence all downstream.

Does it help to know "it is written".  In the stars and planets that imprinted your first breath and your destiny, many experiences you would not have chosen are set for you.  It is not a blind man's choice to be blind. It is not a child's choice to be born to a family who do not see and acknowledge the wonder that he is. It is not a person's choice to be born into poverty or in a time of trouble.  These things are written.

Yet within a lifetime, each individual gets to choose small stones they can remove from that stream. One such small stone is to find joy. If you tell yourself often that you are sad, how will you pull yourself out. If you tell yourself that you are poor. If you tell yourself that it is wrong that you were born in interesting times -- it is a mistake -- that you were meant for greater things, you will find it hard to come away from the sadness and feeling of victimhood.

To a great extent, joy is a choice. Find something that enlivens you. And realize that if you are here right now, you belong here right now. This is the time you were born for. This is your story.

"Keep pure your highest ideal, strive ever toward it, let naught stop you nor turn you aside."  (Charge of the Goddess.... Doreen Valiente)