March 28, 2010: Reversing the Day

The Moon's strength in this chart is undeniable, scattering its rays from Virgo to the other side of the chart.

The Moon moved across the middle degrees of Virgo today, potentially indicating a sense of social withdrawal in the air. We are trying to get our own edges right, and emotions were, perhaps, exhausted from their journey through Gemini, Cancer, and Leo last week. Nothing to indicate intensity today, but the shards of that intensity still linger under the surface. Moon in Virgo works with it without judgment or drama or warmth, until something shifts into better place.

I notice a sort of broken rectangle there, which would seem to indicate that the day's withdrawal might have been a) to help refocus our energy to Get Things Done (with Mars at one blue peak) and b) to evaluate our course - figure out where we're going with our lives (with the Node at another blue peak). These are the retreating places - where we are withdrawing to. But what are we withdrawing from?

The Moon-Jupiter opposition indicates a sense that the world is too big for us to exist as bounded human beings. We could be swallowed up if we didn't retreat, but at the same time, the endlessness calls to us. Ocean and void and coral reef and Spirit's oneness and the bottom of a whiskey bottle all existed there at the periphery. This is why we were trying to get our edges right. Awareness of this dynamic only grew stronger all day.

The other opposition we retreated from was from Saturn, opposing the Sun and Uranus. The Saturn-Uranus opposition is the major influence of the era, dealing with bare survival and lofty ideals and how do we balance or integrate both? More to come on that later, but today, the refocus of Making Shit Happen provided a way to mitigate those difficulties.

How can we remain aware of ourselves in this back-and-forth red-blue triangle world? Today would have been a nice day to bake cookies, with the sweet Venus-Neptune sextile up at the top of the chart. Today would have been a nice day to curl up on pillows and make art in our retreat. If that's not possible, then at the very least we could bring a little creative gentleness to wherever we find ourselves. We could try something we'd never tried before, break up the monotony a little with Uranus in aspect to both, and by doing so, we could see and process the difficult disjuncts in our lives a little better, instead of just retreating from them. Ease and enjoyment on a day like this, especially if it involves creation, daydreaming, or gentle socializing with people who don't stress us out, could be very fruitful and could move the world forward.

ps. My hour's almost up, but there's a square there, between the Sun and Pluto, which could have given some people a bit of a harder edge to their day. However, it wasn't quite as noticeable as the rest of the chart for me, so I didn't mention it...