‘Two Ladies Testing the Waters’ Jacob Wagner 1891 {{PD}}

21 March what draws our attention may seem an unwise or impractical way to spend our time and energy, but it will really have the intelligence of our highest priorities and values behind it. Don’t fight what comes up—trust the wisdom of your Higher Self and the Universe—they’ve delivered exactly what you need to experience (Perfecting today: Sun contra-parallel Pallas, parallel Vesta)

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‘ Women Bathing’ Gauguin 1885 {{PD}}

19 March it’s like our own personal Kryptonite is floating around in the air, wiping us out, even when we try to follow the smart path, to stick to our strengths, to follow the rules, to avoid the wrath of authorities—and yet somehow we are letting our contrariness show around the edges, and others are responding as if we’re in full-out rebellion! The key to this is: quit trying to find a ‘safe’ avenue for power expression—there isn’t one, right now—every move looks like a threatening one to those who fear their power is built on bluster and the backs of others, rather than their own effort. Instead, abandon the material world, to whatever extent you are able, and enter either a spiritual one or one of fantasy and escape—in either case, you’ll find a climate more conducive to creative thinking and acceptance of individuality, and you can spend the time enriching your inner life, until the sh*t storm passes. (Perfecting today: Chiron contra-parallel Ceres, Sun contra-parallel Juno, Uranus sesquiquadrate Pallas, Sun quincunx and contra-parallel Vesta)

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17 March is an odd day where it feels like anything can happen. The contrast between those things we rely on as measures (our highest values, our level and extent of empowerment, our wisdom and experience, the clarity of the psychic ‘light’ in which we observe our surroundings) and the seeming lack of capacity we currently enjoy in which to exercise our prerogatives is sharp and glaring. It seems that to do what’s smart automatically creates pain, efforts to expand our world, to learn or teach, or to explore something new and exotic is unduly costly or interferes seriously with important relationships—and communication seems to have fallen into a fog from which it can’t get up! If we can drift and dream today, and really want to discover something, we can inspect our pain for the wisdom it holds; it’s the shadows that tells us where things stand today, not the sunlight. (Vesta contra-parallel Juno, Chiron parallel Pallas and the Sun quincunx Pallas, Venus quincunx Jupiter, Mercury enters Pisces)

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‘Between the Waves’ Aivazovsky 1898 {{PD}}

3 March skills may not get paid what they’re worth, and it’s like someone shines a huge spotlight on our identity and ego injuries. The good thing is, this can be a point of purging, a release from wounds that have tied up some part of our talents—these can now go free. We are tuned in to our ambitions and desires, and we are on point with our actions. It’s really the solid undercurrents that save the day, so don’t let the surface roughness take over; if you do you’ll miss a real opportunity to advance your own cause. (Mars parallel Pallas, Venus semi-square Chiron, Sun parallel Zeus, conjunct Chiron, sextile Pluto)

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‘Girl Chopping Onions’ Gerrit Dou 1646 {{PD}}

25 February rage comes from hurt, and transformation of what is comes from healing skills—a very straightforward recipe—but we’ll witness the clash of the individual against the social order, in many forms, and the thing we’ll need to know is that the individual, no matter what she says, will be feeling far from empowered. That can make for destructive and hurtful expressions that seem to come out of nowhere, but it can also foster the kind of permanent, healing change that brings the individual a sense of successful personal expansion of his world or of his reach. The only advice I can offer is to not accept your own internal sense of disempowerment, no matter how real it feels from the inside—it won’t be accurate, and may push you to do stupid things. (Pluto sextile Chiron, Jupiter square Uranus, Uranus contra-parallel Juno)

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Note the constellation globe in the lower right corner ‘The Great Vanity, Still-Life’ Sebastian Stoskopff 1641 {{PD-Art}}

24 February that crisis in highest values, what we’re dedicated to, and home and family moves into the global consciousness and helps dictate our life direction. Of course this influences everyone differently, but it’s likely to center in partnerships, relationships, and/ or in the matters of the House where the meeting takes place (at 29 Libra, Vesta conjunct NN) We may be in this crisis state because we want to cement financial and love relationships in stone—we may be afraid of losing them, or worse, being forgotten ourselves—and we are in need of a serious ‘security fix’. Don’t be hard on yourself over this—though we may be tempted to ‘stiff upper lip’ it, we’d do well to indulge our need and attend to security needs—not by pestering others for promises, but by taking initiative and being responsible for ourselves. (Perfecting today: Vesta conjunct the NN, Venus sextile Saturn, trine Sedna)

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