Just before 4 PM Pacific the Moon sextiles Chiron; the sense is of almost an insistence on seeing hurt via our relationships to others through material things. We need to realize that our perspective on this issue is not an objective one, but one that has invested objects or assets with an exaggerated meaning; we seem to see the objects as making a statement about how much we are loved (or how much more someone else is loved than we!) A conscious decision to utilize our most unique skills at this point will keep us out of the prickly quagmire, and perhaps even heal an emotional wound that’s been hanging open for some time (and this was probably something we were not too aware of until the Moon came along and brushed up against it, causing the sting!)

The Taurus Moon trines Pluto, 7:30-ish PM PDT, and we have either transformed the emotional outlook or we are picking away furiously at that wound. Ow! Here’s your therapy: Stop it! I joke; if it were that easy we’d all refrain, wouldn’t we? At least don’t dig down to the bone–it’s pointless, and only leaves you exhausted. Instead embrace the Plutonian energy contacted as the energy that will clean out the dross, change things, set you free–and embrace it without fear of oblivion; that’s the only way to access the regenerative qualities of the phoenix.