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)
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