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10 January 2011: Arian Challenges

10 Monday Jan 2011

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Penthesilea as One of the Nine Worthies France c.1460

By 11:30 AM the Moon sextiles Ceres and squares the Nodal axis, bringing us our first Arian challenge: will we do what comes naturally (which is likely what authorities are telling us to do) or will we buck like an unbroke horse with a load of Self-Will cinched on our backs? One choice makes things go really smoothly–you guess which one!

The 2 PM hour PST sees the Moon trine Venus in Fire–yeow! This just feels like the attitude will be on fire! If you don’t have a lot of drive, spirit, and energy at this point, then something is seriously wrong, and it’s almost certainly found in the place t Saturn is suppressing in your chart right now. This suggests a strong need to express that you are holding back on–in essence, it’s a denial of something you truly should bring out and deal with, but your own internal mechanism (likely an ego one, not wanting to rock its secure boat) is in play and working to preserve its place in things. For a few, the suppression will genuinely come from the external–and remedies will be clear.

15 December 2010: Pointing Toward Action

15 Wednesday Dec 2010

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Hubert 'The Fire of Rome 18 July 64 AD' {{PD-Art}}

9 PM PST the 15th the Aries Moon trines the Sun in Fire, and we get all fired up–for West Coasters, may represent one of those inconvenient times when we should be winding down but end up revving up! By 11 PM Pacific the Moon is within quincunx of Juno and creates a Finger of God with her sextile to Neptune/ Chiron. Pointing the way to empowerment is a formula that says, use emo perceptions and intuition in concert with creative energy and unique skills–sounds easy, but pinpointing the arenas is the challenge. The House that holds transiting Juno (25 Virgo 46) tells us where in this moment our empowerment options lie; move on this as it may facillitate many other developments and certainly will help us know where our strengths are contained. With Uranus/ Jupiter at the midpoint of the Finger’s base, we can hook into a stream of social energy that helps our empowerment goals–be open to mass urges, occasions, and beliefs you can use for your own ends.

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Added: The naming of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook mogul, as TIME’s Person of the Year came as a surprise to quite a few; naming him so during a Merc retro period suggests they (the TIME staff responsible) may regret their choice (embarrassed, perhaps?) once the tiny messenger planet goes Direct.

14 December 2010: Modest Goals

14 Tuesday Dec 2010

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The 14th sees the Sun within square of Jupiter. Oh those goals and desires feel so close, surely they’re within reach–but remember as you’re flexing your fingers in the desired direction that social conditiions, and perhaps a tendency to overreach, may defeat us, at least in the moment. Modest goals at present are not only much more achievable, they’re more desirable, as the tendency now is to look to the horizon rather than attend to what’s more immediately needed and is sometimes a necessary step in the progression toward the ends we have in our sights.

What we see 4 PM Pacific through the evening hours and beyond is a somewhat unsatisfying tendency to feel at loose ends; the Aries Moon will prompt us to act and to want, but so many other cautionary influences are in play that we’ll do best to, once again, keep our goals modest. We may end up angry and ready to pick a fight if we don’t channel the impulses successfully–a project or effort we can control is the most effective choice.

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17 November 2010: Venus Speaks

17 Wednesday Nov 2010

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While we’re waiting around for those all-powerful Directions of Venus and Jupiter, let’s take a look at what lovely Venus is trying to tell us. She acts right now as the apex of a Finger of God, with base of Uranus sextile Earth (and, by the 6 PM PST hour of the 18th, a stationary Venus receives the opposing light of the Aries Moon, adding emotional revelation and resistance to the picture). The config suggests that, no matter what preceded it, the end of the Venus retro brings shocking, surprising, or just plain unusual material/ physical results. This outcome may be centered in the matters Venus has resurrected from 8 years ago, or may combine the matters of the Houses where Earth and Uranus are situated currently in the natal chart–in any case, the typical channeling of the sextile out through the apex occurs, but is then reversed with Venus’ station–and we can expect that the biggest jolt, shock, or moment of understanding is presented in terms of our values, relationships, or earning capacity/ assets and the way these alter the material reality, physical circumstances, and/ or have an intellectual or group-focused impact. We likely get our first taste of the true meaning of this with the Moon’s opposition to Venus, which introduces us to the way we feel about what’s going on, offers intuitive understanding of developments, and may bring temper or Willfulness to the fore (Aries). The brief Void that follows opposition unleashes a bit of chaos, which is fully implemented with Venus’ Direct motion. Of course, all this may be internal (or, if the 12th is involved, or either apex or all or part of the sextile sits below the horizon for you), some or all of the effect may be unconscious, and so perhaps not recognized as the change or conclusion that it is until well after the fact.

22 October 2010: Full Moon, ‘The Precipice’

21 Thursday Oct 2010

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There is a factor of revelation to this Full Moon, the kind that tells us, ‘You’d better choose, you need to realize it can’t go on as it has, you’d better sh*t or get off the pot’ It won’t be that crude, but it will be that direct; we will see something (likely hooked to the matters of the axis of the natal House where this occurs) that must be dealt with, decided, that must reach a conclusion of some sort. Since it occurs in Libra, in the anaretic 29th degree, the tension of conclusion/ culmination that is a natural part of a Full Moon doubles; add to this that there is likely to be involvement with one’s relationship(s) and/ or with one’s aesthetic output, and/ or with expression of Will and want, and we have a prescription for situations that could blow-up–though even in distress, these circumstances could retain the politesse and civilized veneer of Libra–no shouting, certainly no shoving, though watch out for the passive-aggressive mental (Air sign and Fire sign, both Cardinals) sucker-punch that will leave you reeling; while the opposing forces may do just that, force an already stressed issue (Aries). We may divide up into aggressors and victims (energy across the Aries/ Libra axis–and there are some of each on both sides) though the truth is it’s a co-operative dance, with no truly guilty parties and no true innocents, either; that’s something to keep in mind during the go ’round.

The point in time of the Full Moon is potentially a precipice–an abrupt edge, passing over which we experience radical change–but no one can say with any certainty whether this will be perceived as positive or negative. The Sabian for the Aries Full Moon is ‘A Duck Pond and its Brood’  This suggests to me that changes occurring now are aimed (guided perhaps by the Soul, by the Higher Self, by God, by the Universe) at putting one into one’s ‘right environment,’ to finding the tribe to which one belongs and to creative expression in its broadest sense. This points the way toward best use of the Full Moon tension, in resolution through co-operating with the ‘right’ others. The trick is in finding, recognizing, and accepting that one has found them, that one belongs to this particular group, and that through this function one may see things about oneself that the ego doesn’t find flattering. To this I say, if you haven’t already, it’s time to assign the ego a back seat–(relatively) easily done with the Full Moon culmination in that last degree of Aries.

Imagine coming upon this pond, knowing you will find your tribe here JFAuburtin {{PD-Art}}

Okay, so I’ve loosened up a bit with the strict orb thing–I’ll go 2.5 if it gives us clarity. What we have, then, is a single contact, a generous quincunx of the Sun to Uranus in Pisces. In this instance it’s an oblique path the Moon energy takes to meet up with the Rebellious One, but there it is: the choice may be either a break-out moment for the ego (that could alienate one from the group and leave previous ties suddenly severed, or at least in little relationship tatters), or it could be the impetus for the Aries Moon to work out its differences (the quincunx) and serve via energy and attention (the connection through the Sun) the group (Uranian) interests–subsuming the ego in order to engage in the ultimate form of co-operation.

ECLIPSE Readers: the ‘Cup’ is present for this Full Moon–with what will you fill it?

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20 October 2010: This ‘n That

20 Wednesday Oct 2010

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I’m finishing up one of the articles for the next issue of ECLIPSE and I have a question for all of you: Who would you say is the most likeable public figure you can name? I have some ideas, one in particular, and for months now I’ve been informally surveying everyone I know–so I have a perfect example, I’m just wondering if I’m missing someone. I’m trying to think of individuals who draw little or no negative reaction from others. Please put your nominees in the comments section–I’d love to hear what your ideas of likable encompass, and who embodies them!

There’s a new post at ‘Been There, Done That’ http://askjulie.wordpress.com –just a few musings on Self-defeating outlooks.

Starting November 1st, all forecast material other than brief New and Full Moon assessments and some commentary on transit and aspect configurations will appear on private pages accessible to ECLIPSE readers only. For those who are disappointed that the majority of material here will no longer be free, my apologies–I have several reasons for wanting to structure things this way–and my feeling is that if you are truly interested in my outlook, you’ll invest 5 bucks in ECLIPSE and get the password–and if you’re only an occasional visitor, you’ll still find assorted short articles and some current sky commentary, but can travel on to more favored blogs/ astrologers for your daily information. This way we all benefit, as I can provide an even more detailed, and real-time updated, outlook for readers (that’s been a frustration for me, having the different forecast bits separated; with them all in one place, and being able to go in day or night and add to them, it will concentrate both the information and my energy in one place.)

By 3 AM PDT of the 21st the fresh Aries Moon will quincunx Venus and oppose , Saturn, perhaps bringing forward some challenges involving relationships, values, and/ or finances, and the adjustments needed to conform to the demands of reality. We’ll have the emotional energy to tackle this, but may balk at what’s really needed, preferring to do things our own way (Aries). In the end, we need to see it as an opportunity to deal with some important issues and make them better. Notice that Ceres and Pluto have been together for a day or two now (ECLIPSE readers already have material on this)–this pairing is a power ultimate, and joined by the Aries Moon, the atmosphere may be ripe for ultimatums–avoid this if possible, as others are just as focused on having their own power needs fulfilled, and will likely butt heads (how Arian!) even when their ‘druthers in less assertive times might be to give you what you want.

And whatever you do, have a great day!

Next up, the Full Moon~

24 September 2010: Initiation

24 Friday Sep 2010

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Everything changed; did you feel it? I think for many this was subtle but discernible, if only through the intuition; for some, the world appears exactly the same, but something tells us it has slipped slightly, like we’ve skewed to the very next dimension, thin as paper, right next to the dimension we were accustomed to, and we know it’s different, we just haven’t seen those differences yet. It’s almost a matter of faith. For myself, I know change has occurred, I can feel the shift all around me, but I can’t yet point to the results–all we can be sure of now is that the changes will show in different modes of action (Cardinal energies of Full Moon).

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The Moon continues through Aries like Red Riding Hood through the woods, alone and strangely unguarded; though the Aries energy is usually pugnacious, today the feeling is much more lunar, more receptive. It’s as if this Moon handed over the action urge when it contacted the Sun and Earth along the Aries Point axis, perhaps funneling all the energies into the T-arm formed by Pluto. It’s not hard to imagine the density of the tiny demoted body pulling the juice from every other contact into its dark maw, making changes to reality (in Saturn-ruled Capricorn) that are so extensive and quiet we’ve yet to truly see or grasp the result.

But back to our concern of the day, Little Red Luna, as she skips along and makes no aspect until much later. Alone and unafraid, she moves through what seems to be familiar territory, and it is–except it usually doesn’t hide a wolf. The emotions will be very Self-focused today, in a way that’s more like contemplation, like reflecting on the Self and one’s role, than it is anything else–so what a shock when one finally notices the wolf! Before that, though, Red is stalked, and remains unaware of the onlooker. This is very much like the Moon’s next contact, an 11:30 PM-ish PDT opposition to Vesta; what matters, the sacred, the home, the intimate contacts, are all suddenly making demands on the Self–the emotional energy can’t be kept all to oneself, and this makes it obvious.

A quincunx to Pallas about 4 AM of the 25th says we will need to adjust the emotional perceptions to accomodate what’s wise–it’s a brief schooling in which emotional perspectives may simply be foolish and indulgent, and which may need to embrace a smarter course.

It’s at the 5 AM hour PDT that Red finally gets rolling, forming a Grand Trine in Fire with Juno and Ceres, and a sextile to Chiron/ Neptune. Here’s Red’s initiation into the ‘real’ world, into the layers a reality can hold, into the what the Full Moon energy has subtly re-aligned; the emotional Self meets the possibility of creating a power outlet that is much more than the sum of its parts. The GT says the emotional Self holds the key to both expression of the individual’s innate power and authority, and the relationship to Mother Nature–and with this latter, the ability to manipulate, handle, direct, or otherwise use natural forces is all ours. Chiron/ Neptune adds one’s most unique skills and the ideals and creative capacity to the mix, making for a tremendously powerful period when the individual becomes an energy alchemist, transforming the unique relationship to skill and power into actions taken, initiating oneself into the ‘new’ relationship with the ‘changed’ Universal flow of the Full Moon. You can blow the doors off it, at this point; aim the energy and the intentions very very carefully.

Void begins at 7:12 AM PDT on the 25th; Moon enters Taurus 1:16 PM PDT. ‘Til then, have a great one!

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23 September 2010 Full Moon: Glimpsing Intentions of the Soul

22 Wednesday Sep 2010

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The women were like beings made of moon milk, and their skin shimmered with little silver dots like those of the salmon in springtime, and the women’s feet and hands were long and graceful.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes Phd,  WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES

The Full Moon for September occurs at 2:17 AM PDT on the 23rd at 00 Aries 15–the Aries Point! In the most straightforward terms, the Aries Point is the slice of space/ time where spirit enters matter, the collision point of  all that is real and unseen with discernible material form. So, a big deal, as for the individual, this point in the flat chart of the natal horoscope designates the point at which the individual meshed the spirit and the physical as we know it; it’s the place where the Soul entered active engagement with the present lifetime. What does this mean for us when the transiting Full Moon coincides with what we might see as a doorway between spirit and material?

The occurrence of the Full Moon at the Aries Point may open a doorway to our origins, to the most fundamental expression of who we are, at that moment when we both took material form (birth) and still retained full consciousness of the Soul essence. The Sabian symbol for 0-1 Aries is: ‘A Woman Just Risen From the Sea; a Seal is Embracing Her’ This image brings to mind the Archetypal story of the Seal Woman who mates with a human male, has a child, and slowly loses her health–all because as she celebrated herself, a hunter saw, and took the sealskin she wore as her ‘true’ identity. The story is given form in ‘Sealskin, Soulskin,’ in Estes’ marvelous ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves.’ She divides the story (which is told in many cultures in many forms) into parts that I know  I can’t improve on, so we’ll look at each part and how it might relate to the Full Moon experience.

Since this is a Full Moon, we know we’re speaking of culmination, the rounding out of some part of our own story. First, there is a kind of initiation that comes through a loss, in one form or another, of the Soul. I think this can be equated to birth, represented by the Aries Point as the doorway; we can’t help but become disoriented, losing a bit of ourselves in the process. Then one ‘loses one’s pelt’ in earnest–we are trying to enjoy our new human form, but in celebrating this we set aside the Soul connectors we still retain, in order to fit in to the earthly realm. We substitute the values of the culture and our tribe, and though these are not completely alien, they do represent the values of consensus, and that means we lose our awareness of those things that make us unique; this loss is represented by ‘poor’ choice (and by that I mean the kind of choices we inevitably make in an attempt to regain that part of ourselves we sense we’ve forgotten) and the way we are lured by the things we think will provide our lack. So we are, like the Seal Woman, left naked and shivering as we search for our eternal Beingness.

Next there is communion with the hunter, the individual who has ‘taken’ our skin–of course, we don’t know that we are facing the thief. This is represented by any animus oriented energy to which we succumb: our own interior animus, our ego, or an external animus: a man, ambition, society’s definition of ‘making it.’ Note that though this story is told as a woman’s loss, this tragedy happens to men, as well; they lose their unique ‘Soul skin’ in an attempt to be the kind of man society (and perhaps the partner) demands, rather than the kind of man they are naturally. The ego and its particular form of vanity promises to fulfill us, to return to us that missing Soul piece, if we will only do its bidding–but this is just not true–it cannot return what it does not possess.

The woman, the entire time she has spent on dry land, has been hearing the call of the sea (her true environment) and has been conscious of her vibrational connection with her child, her spiritual ‘home,’ in a sense. This spirit child in the story is the child of the Seal Woman and the hunter who captured her by stealing her skin. This is representative of the pure, inner connection we retain to the Soul (it can be ‘the inner child,’ though I think it’s something much purer, the experience of the Soul rather than just the seed-manifestation of it), and it’s this element in the story that, agitated by its mother’s distress, stumbles out into the night and trips on the mother’s wrapped up Seal skin, finding and delivering back to the woman her true identity.

So, in all this we are seeing an Archetypal journey in miniature; the Full Moon presents us with the ability to re-acquaint ourselves with that moment when as Soul we slipped into flesh–and this is a vital point, as it is the one time in the incarnation experience (other than the moment of death) in which we can be fully aware of the enormity of who we are, and can re-connect so directly with it.

Using our strict orb, we see that the Sun/ Moon/ Earth makes only one aspect, a T-square with Pluto in Capricorn. Ah ha! Besides being able to glimpse in its purest form the Soul and its intentions on incarnating (in the Sabian, this is the seal embracing the woman, a return to the natural sensibilities), this Full Moon also offers the power (Pluto) to transform (Pluto) our own manifestation in the material (Capricorn). Since the inner is the outer, and the outer the inner, this means we can change anything on any level, with corresponding changes visible (or felt or realized) in the opposite venue.

In ECLIPSE I called this Full Moon “the true birth point of fated Cardinal action,” and outline the other influences in effect at the moment of Full Moon fulfillment that will act on our transformational choices. If you’re planning on getting this issue and you just haven’t yet, now’s the time http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/  The life long journey to empowerment is closely related to  the mini-empowerment we will be instituting with this Full Moon; see more on that here http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com  in my new book on Juno. Thank you!

And have a wonderful Full Moon transformational experience!

27-29 August 2010: Taming the Aggressive, Enjoying the Material

27 Friday Aug 2010

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What we face while we still have an Aries Moon is a series of, well, face-offs, as if the emotional state is repeatedly challenged to prove itself. This may be because an Aries Moon urges us to assert our emotions as if they’re fact–and of course, this may not sit well with others!  There’s always that tendency of the Ram to push, prod, and force the Will on others; we really can’t blame others or ourselves for being so assertive under this influence, as everything seems so urgent–but we do need to be aware of the way this influence can creep into everything.

Noonish PDT today, the 27th, the feisty Aries Moon opposes Vesta, and something in our emotional landscape is directly contradictory to our most sacred values, and/ or the home situation or the sex life. Uh-oh. This is the kind of conflict that can upset us severely and leave a seriously bad taste in our emotional mouths (please don’t ask me to locate those on a diagram!) The results of this may linger for quite a while and may even alter our perspective for good. By 4:30 PM PDT the Moon forms a T-square with the Nodal axis, creating (or perhaps solidifying) a need to sort out the attitude and the way it may affect the life direction.

8:30 PM or so PDT the Moon opposes Zeus and trines Juno, drawing us into the possibility of a very interesting power struggle: we are confronted by naked ambition or desires, and we access our core goddess empowerment (or we access power via status or our partnerships) and use that, rather than our puny egos or emotions, to answer this challenge.

By 4:30 AM PDT on Saturday the 28th the Moon quincunxes retrograde Mercury, and we may be wondering why we (or another) had to open that (emotional!) mouth and let it all out. Just a reminder, don’t confuse the subjective and the objective by obscuring fact with emotion.

8 AM PDT and the Moon opposes Mars–is there a way to avoid discord with others today? I don’t know, but what is sure is that relationships will undergo a trial where egos, Wills, and emotions are under scrutiny (even attack) and on edge. We think we’re asserting our rights and we’re really trampling on others; we think we’re assisting and we’re really crushing; we think the other guy is punching us, and it’s just our own aggression bounced back at us. Just take care to be scrupulously honest in assessing your own Aries expressions.

The period to watch occurs a few hours either side of 2 PM Pacific, when the Aries Moon trines Ceres and opposes Venus. Here we find our ‘power footing’ even as we find our values and relationships under stress. Mother Nature, instincts, and knowing our power territories (and what areas are not in our province) all help us see and assess the standards we will meet at this time. This is one of those times when we create a mini-clean slate based on recent revelations and experiences.

We finish off the Aries Moon in the wee hours of Sunday, Pacific time, on the 29th. The Moon sextiles Neptune (confusion, both of emotions and of where aggression is actually coming from), and then sextiles Chiron (3 AM-ish); our reaction to this latter aspect shows quite clearly how we are truly reacting to recent events (rather than simply supporting what we tell ourselves is our reaction). We either cast ourselves as victims or empowered (though injured, and therefore empathetic) agents of healing–it’s that straightforward.

Void begins at 3:53 AM PDT and ends with the Moon’s entry into Taurus at 7:35 AM PDT on the 29th. Oooh Taurus! When the Moon is here the emotional and intuitive outlooks key to the sensual, and material, the appetites and sensations involved with those purely earthly experiences of occupying a human body. This is the time for a micro-vacation, a session of physical pampering, savoring an excellent meal, drinking in the beauty of the world around us. Focus in particular on enjoyment of the end of summer (or the end of winter) and what the very early beginnings of the seasonal change offers (see more about this weekend in the Summer issue of ECLIPSE, and the extra material about this weekend on the readers-only page here at the site.  Password required and found at the end of the first article in ECLIPSE), plus learn about the important influences surrounding early September, forecasts for September and October (and post-cast for August!) and articles on the 6th House, the creative complex, Pluto, and much more! GET IT ALL HERE  http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/) and get access to the FULL picture, for only $4.95!

The main Lunar influences for the 29th are a trine to Pluto around 11 AM PDT (a chance to purge the emotional state–a housecleaning that will feel uncommonly good), and a 7:30 PM-ish trine to the Sun that simultaneously brings the weekend to a close and starts the week, refreshed and renewed by our attention to the material pleasures involved with being a spiritual Being having a human experience.

26 August 2010: Gliding on a Pisces Moon

25 Wednesday Aug 2010

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It may be a day for dreaming, creative work, and a loose schedule that allows for detours into fantasy, making Art, and imagining ‘what ifs.’ This will be the general atmosphere for a Pisces Moon that glides along without contact, but that also means that for those whose natal charts are not affected, it could be a day whiled away or lost to a big Collective experience–so keeping plans flexible is important for making the most of the energies. For those whose natal placements are contacted, the Pisces Moon could bring creative and intuitive possibilities to the natal energy–and these are likely to feel a little pressured, as if something creative must be done now! Try to see that this is simply an opportunity for heightened imaginative capabilities, rather than a mandate to birth something stunningly creative at the drop of a hat.

It takes all day for the Moon to move on to its final contact in Pisces, a conjunction to Uranus at 29 degrees, forming in the 5 PM hour PDT. Shocks and abrupt revelations/ surprises, possibly supplied by the Collective or our own active imaginations, will surface. Void begins at 7 PM sharp, and ends with the Moon’s entry into Aries at 7:49 PM PDT–if you want to roll the dice on any venture, this is the 49 minute period that promises only that the results won’t be what you expect.

The Aries Moon comes crashing into Jupiter (figuratively, of course), making the Will and the need to assert BIG; the energy may look for an outlet on the social scene, but with everyone under this influence it may be like a lot of hams vieing for stage time in the high school play–all those monologues drown one another out. Just after midnight PDT the Moon squares Pluto, bringing forward very real and very serious dissonance, and a little bit of destruction or danger–obviously, you’ll want to avoid this 🙂

By 2 AM PDT on the 27th the Moon quincunxes the Sun, giving us a window wherein we can rein in the emotions and attend to the details–it’s a point when we can, as they say in the military, square everything away–and that will allow us to use the Aries Moon to best advantage for the rest of the transit.

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