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Water Water Everywhere

28 Friday Nov 2025

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Why aren’t we seeing more harmony, with this shifting but persisting Grand Water Trine that has been lingering and reforming for what seems like months? Currently it’s made up of Venus conjoined the Black Moon Lilith point in Scorpio, Saturn and anaretic degree Neptune in Pisces, and Jupiter in Cancer; in many ways, that could be a formula for Love applied to what is painful or buried, shaming or denied, healing it, releasing the pain, allowing dreams to become real-world solid and expanding what we care about. Certainly, the possibilities are there at a personal level. At least part of the issue might be that we start every thought with its darkest potentials, with fear, with trepidation at potential change or destruction, signified by the way Pluto is currently body of earliest degree. Casting such a grim shadow on our own thoughts, first thing as we look around, may prompt us to search for what’s wrong (and gods know, there’s plenty of that to be seen!) It doesn’t help that Taurean Uranus is also in an anaretic degree, opposing Venus and Black Moon Lilith, priming us to anticipate the nasty surprise, the shock, the unwelcome revolution, the riot, the group imposing its Will on our own. And the fact that the Trine itself is in Water (along with Merc still retro in liquidy Scorpio) encourages us to use emotion to feel our way forward–and an emotional lens is a notoriously distorting one–for every accurate intuition we perceive we also get a dozen feeling-interpretations that are doubtlessly, even if only moderately, skewed by our own prejudices. Awareness that this is our current perceptual state will go a long way toward calming those crashing inner waves. Today we joked about opening a store that would be filled with nothing but white boxes with something soft in them, no prices or writing on them, and the store would be called ‘Calm Down’. Had a good laugh, but right now I’m thinking a great many of us could use a little something soft–we might have to pull back from the world a little, and offer that relief to ourselves.

The Daily Brief: 3 September 2025 Our North Star

02 Tuesday Sep 2025

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‘Shepherd’s Star’ By Jules Breton 1887 {{PD}}

The energy is still found in a Finger of God with Mercury as apex to a Pluto-Neptune sextile, with Saturn at 29 tense degrees of Pisces and still conjoined Neptune; it’s a recipe that fairly shouts about how reality is a mess (deceptive, nebulous, unfathomable), and can only be sorted via a willingness to eliminate illusions and untruths once and for all–but how do we do that? The potential for shock and upheaval is still present (Merc square Uranus) but so is the ability to make hard choices and take significant action based on righteous motives and the facts as they apply to what we care about (Mars in Libra square Jupiter in Cancer). Current conditions say we find equilibrium, as well as gains that help align us with our ideal future, if we’re honest with ourselves, if we’re willing to acknowledge what we may have, to this point, ignored, denied, or buried (GT in Water with Jupiter, Black Moon Lilith, and the NN). It seems that sincere action, the kind that’s rooted in what we truly believe, is our north star right now. An eclipse is just days away, and promises to wipe the slate clean in some important areas/ ways; until then we need to address issues as if no change is coming, no rescue is on the horizon, simply because we don’t know whether our problems will be with us indefinitely, or if they’ll vanish in a moment.

The Daily Word image is a slip of paper on a restaurant table; it looks like it’s from a fortune cookie, so you think of it as bringing a message. You turn it over and it reads, “All Sales Are Final”. What is it that you looked to for reward or satisfaction, believing it was temporary, a step forward, or upward, along the way, only to find that circumstances have a resiliency and stickiness factor you never anticipated? Of course, nothing is truly forever, but it can feel like it when we’re long-term enmeshed with something that doesn’t feel like ‘us’, that we inspect and see as foreign, not representative of who we are or what we’re contributing. It might embarrass us, or make us irritable as we struggle to prove that isn’t a reflection of who we are–but we might do better to consider that it does reflect us, and our struggle is about acknowledging and accepting the parts of who we are that we don’t like–because if we don’t, we’ll find change impossible, and no space for a better something else.

The Daily Brief: 28 August 2025 Balancing Act

27 Wednesday Aug 2025

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‘Tightrope Walker’ By Paul Klee 1923 {{PD}} Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.jpg

A Water Grand Trine we first noted on the 23rd becomes prominent once again today. It’s a balancing act that reasserts itself, and with Moon in Scorpio moving toward one of the Trine components, the mood is one to dig up the emotions, to uncover the Truth, to get serious about change, to reform or resurrect something we care about. The Trine is made up of Jupiter in Cancer, the Black Moon Lilith point in Scorpio, and the North Node in Pisces; some argue that mathematically derived points and points designating extremes (such as the Nodes) don’t qualify for inclusion in configurations, but after years of observation, I’m convinced that points are as energized, alive, and responsive to contacts as any planet or light.

So, we feel (BIG feels, with Jupiter in Cancer), we want to get down to the nitty-gritty, and all in the name of finding equilibrium. Certainly, what we want is to feel that our choices and actions are effective in addressing what we’ve too long (or what’s been too easily) ignored or denied, and we hope that doing so leads to both new opportunities in areas we care about (Jupiter) and that shapes a future along the lines of our ideals and dreams (Pisces). Venus is still within opposition to Pluto, reinforcing the idea that excavating for the Truth or to create serious change (Pluto) will pay off (Venus). It’s a day to be brave, to tell oneself the Truth, to choose and act without resorting to extremes or destructive urges; indulging in change or collapse without good reason will only read as a power play, and waste the energy, leaving behind a big mess to deal with tomorrow.

The Daily Word Image is a committee of five vultures high in the trees, watching a pair of foxes and their three kits leave the den to hunt. Two things strike me about this image: one is that it’s five of each, five vs five; the other is that, though being watched by vultures suggests a kind of menace, vultures don’t hunt anything themselves, they only eat what’s already dead. We may right now feel like we’re being observed as we go about the everyday, and it’s imparting a sense of dread, but the reality is that, despite a sense of doom and gloom, we’re not really being threatened at all (at least, we’re not threatened by what’s obvious, what’s an observable presence in our lives).