The transiting Moon in Libra is 11 minutes from my Sun as I write this, which may explain why, though I fully intended to go to bed, I decided to inspect the prevailing energies first. There was an urgency to it, propelled by a revelation of sorts: that the Virgo New Moon flooded the air with a focus on goals (‘the harvest’), details, and obligations, and with not much else spicing things up (the exception being Venus, see ECLIPSE), it’s had an odd effect: we’re either retreating into a groggy sort of stasis or pulling out all the passive-aggressive guns in our arsenal and blasting away (firing, of course, from the safety of structures, organizations, or social media that puts up an enormous firewall between aggressor and target).

Do you feel it? And which side have you fallen on? Don’t make the mistake of thinking you’re the exception, some exotic third kind of reactor, because hard as I try I can only find one or the other. Just as possible is that we may tell ourselves we’re one, when we’re really the other–and it all seems to be in reaction to two things, that New Moon energy which launched a very thin-feeling atmosphere, not at all like a usual New Moon–and this didn’t offer the renewal that we naturally expect at this point in the cycle–and we find Jupiter and Uranus back in Pisces, both at 29 degrees, refreshing all the insecurities and social drains we thought we’d washed away for good already. The individual struggles to feel their contribution is important, the social scene presents the individual with detailed expectations and requirements that seem to offer only a sense of burden, so that the reasonable among us retreat into a form of hibernation (no matter what they’re occupying their time with) while the susceptible (read also, ‘the unconscious’) focus all their might on a Machiavellian lashing-out that serves to pull the harmless into harm’s way. The aggressor dresses it up as offering friendship, feeling victimized and seeking redress, or ‘helping,’ but it’s clear that they are acting out their anger–and it’s likely anger that should be going somewhere else, but it has found a convenient innocent and a pliable system to and through which to channel it, and that immaturity that became prominent with the New Moon comes out in full force. Sometimes, the anger is going in the right direction, theoretically, but the reaction is unjustified; if someone sees the truth in you, and calls it out, who are you to be angry that they see clearly?  Mars in Libra is just within quincunx to Uranus and soon will make the same aspect to Jupiter–so we’ve got miles of anger to go before the disturbed will let us sleep.

If you find yourself on that groggy, retreating side (and so most likely a target, though it’s possible you’re showing anger-by-withdrawal, dragging feet to spoil things for everyone else) wait to reply or react until after Merc’s direction; a great many scales will find their balance at this point. And if you find yourself with a big ol’ knot of anger in your gut, anger that you may not have even known was there until you thought about it, anger that you covered with a thick blanket of ‘everything’s fine,’ then you have two duties here: find the true reason for your anger, and spend the time before Merc’s direction figuring out how you should react, and perhaps atoning for how you already did.

For details on the upcoming retro of Venus, the Cardinal Point Full Moon, and so much more, buy the Summer issue of ECLIPSE, which includes access to the Private Page here at the blog http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/