Through to 10:30 PM PDT there’s a configuration, a Grand Square, with the transiting Taurus Moon, the Sun/ Earth axis, and Pallas, and it’s really what’s grabbing the attention today for me. It’s a grab box, if you will, the energies of which make a vessel for all the other energies at play right now. I’m thinking that, just for today, these are the four corners that will contain our experience–or at least, those experiences that are new to the scene.

We start with the Sun in Leo, suggesting that the ego, our figurative ‘heart,’ and the need to ‘shine’ are prominent–so it’s an active, outgoing energy that we’re dealing with. This is square Pallas in Scorpio, making us smart but sharp, inclined to dig (possibly where we shouldn’t) and to wound (possibly when we shouldn’t). It bolsters the ego and makes everything, especially things associated with commerce, practical skills, and, lest we forget, aggressive action (warfare) not just do-able but a wise course–hmm, not so fast. We could be using our perceptive intelligence to dig up what we need, or we could be using it in vengeful ways that serve the ego–we need to be very sure of the distinction first (not that it will change what we do, but rather that it’s important to know how we feel and why we’re doing it).

This is, naturally, square the Earth in Aquarius; we may be prone to justify intellectually anything we take up today. The material at this point seems like something we can handle just with our minds–always a mistake. This also suggests that surprises, ‘rebellion’ in some form of the materials with which we work, or anarchy/ chaos is a possibility–so thinking all we have to do is think about it (or think it, and it’s so, ‘magical thinking’–this is most possible if you’re having a significant transit of or to Neptune) is the trap too easily fallen into here.

This is square the transiting Moon for quite a space of time (most of typical awake time for many West Coasters). The Moon in Taurus tells us a few things: that the emotions and intuitions are grounded right now in the senses, in what’s familiar–it’s the point at which in the Moon cycle we’re most connected to the physical world–and for those who live primarily in their heads this can be anywhere from uncomfortable to disorienting, as the body and the material make their demands, and they’re so lush, so real, that we can really know that phrase, “beside ourselves” with the whole experience.

What else is going on? See the longer-term, and other day-by-day forecasts, here http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/  Thank you!

Today’s Link: astrology applies to everything, doesn’t it? http://wewhoareabouttodie.com/2010/07/31/the-astrology-of-rejection-letters-virgo/