The Aries half moon January 17 2023 found us accelerating into a steep turn. As writ in the lyrics of the great Min Yoongi, 부딪힐 것 같으면 더 세게 밟아 임마: “If you think you’re gonna crash, accelerate even harder…”.
Pluto braces with a refusal to capsize, a refusal to drown.
There are spiders in the corners. Fears of being afraid. We’ve been wandering between the real bad things and our catastrophizing. Catastrophe comes from the Greek, meaning a sudden turn or falling off. A capsize. An overturning.
In Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, there is an image of a boy on the back of a sentient mount, traveling through space-time. In Sagittarius now, Venus is that mount. We cling to her while being grabbed at by density, by faceless tugging hands in the in between space. The image from A Wrinkle in Time is almost comfortable. It doesn’t ask us to believe in the humanity of the hands and who they belong to. We assume their reaching is a threat to pull us under.
A refusal to fall can be inspiring. But Pluto goads us to push away from threat with a disproportionate reflex. Your terror of what’s beneath you can break the edges of safety for those around you. Talk about it. Jupiter is working on the ways. There’s been process. Now come commitments. From 2008 to now, we’ve been altered here. Which compulsions are shifting?
The Half Moon does have us pushing hard enough to hurt. When you find your defenses, ask them: who do they serve?
Venus and Jupiter tend to us and to each other, offering up a wide swath of helpful relationship stabilizers. They hold their places and add ease to the places we’re challenged now.
The first week of every lunar cycle is full of striving. But this one is extra, an unveiling of the structural work we’ll commit to.
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