Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Moon Square Saturn All Day

The Cancer Moon squares Saturn in Libra today (exact at 3:58 p.m. CST), making for a bit of a dreary feel to the day. We're wiggling our way through a number of emotional challenges that can make us feel confined or trapped in emotional states or physical circumstances. Pathos, self-pity, and gritted-teeth frustration could be on tap with this aspect colouring our whole day.

Add to this the fact that Pluto is currently stationing in Capricorn square Uranus-Pallas Athene in Aries, and we're under some pretty major pressure, both macro and micro.

Mercury is just pulling out of its exterior (direct) conjunction to the Sun in Virgo, and this adds to the possibility of little irritations stirring much bigger reactions than they warrant. Take breaks from the hypercritical intensity in order to ward off ugly interactions.

The Moon's square to Saturn is the last aspect it makes before going void-of-course late this afternoon, and we're kept under the Saturnine thumb, in a sombre mood and sometimes struggling for self-control, until 9:00 p.m. tonight when the Moon enters Leo.

Easing this load is the fact that the Moon is functional and at home in Cancer, and Saturn is very strong in the last degrees of Libra. The emotional challenges we move through today have an air of finality about them.

8 comments:

Deb said...

Absolutely felt this upon waking up this morning... in spite of the perfect weather. I've elected to steer clear of any upsetting images, visuals, etc. of the tragedy that occurred right across the river eleven years ago...

It's days like today that should remind us over here that there is so much violence all over the world that needs to stop. Because it hurts. The effects ripple... Doesn't matter how secure or far away we are from (perceived) disaster zones.

Here's to doing something to genuinely make our or others' hearts happy or peaceful today...

-- Deb

Willow said...

I don't know. With Pluto stationing square Pallas Athene, I think there needs to be a lot more digging on this issue within the mainstream public, and today is the big, critical mass day to do it.

For me, the only way to get to emotional peace is to actually expose and make the root truth known. (Not popular with Cancer Moon, especially square Saturn in Libra.) The general public being in a state of complete mindfuck over what really happened isn't going to provide comfort. I think we have to go to some very uncomfortable emotional territory on this planet...and fast.

Remember Building 7.

Lea said...

This must have been affecting me yesterday (I often notice that I am affected clearly before the sspect is "perfect".) My Scorpio son, who has been very edgy since I separated from his father, and who has become hostile at times since his teen years to me (he is now 36) just found a way to completely block the transfer of property to me, and a good bit of my father's belongings which are part of my inheritance from reaching me--yesterday. This interaction had begun on the 23rd of August. I thought I had danced through it, but, he found a kink in my beautiful Libra-Moon perfection, and now, boxed in is an understatement. Letting it all go is the only option for me. All. Go.

Lea said...

I just read your comment about "rooting out"-- and was reminded of my dream remembered when I awakened today--( i thought it was referencing yesterday's personal interaction meltdown) but now I also realize it is also today's 911 energy in the air--
my dream record is--"container gardening in basement of large house with above ground and underground gardens--
all the roots of the plants in the containers were exposed--they need soil--good soil."

Deb said...

I'm with you on the truth aspect of it. I do feel the tragedy (literally feel it-- it softens about everybody around here even if just for a day), and I'm aware that there's healing that hasn't happened yet... We're still hanging on, I mean it happened just across the river and residents here, many of whom worked in the city, some even worked in the towers, watched or felt those the towers fall.

To be fair, all details considered, I'm not sure we'll ever 'let go' completely because of the suffering involved, because of 'the how'. Here's hoping some healing comes along with all the absolutely necessary Scorpio energy on the way, because Scorpio gets to and exposes those roots.

What I'm not 'with' is the drilling-fear-into-people's-heads part plus the capitalism/opportunist part (and some other parts), and that stuff that needs to stop. I remember seeing the same hit over and over and over again on TV, in the papers, in magazines... Now, it's all over social media. There are documentaries on the tube, but not so much the truth-telling ones as the ones that freak people out or make us feel guilty/overwhelmed, that make you feel like you were there... as if many of us don't know what tragedy and trauma and pain and loss is.

And then there's infomercials (don't get me started) that sell us commemorative coins... So we'll 'never forget'.

The mind can be a delicate thing. And, sadly, there is almost no escaping whatever the media chooses to feed the masses... We don't get the truth or something remotely close to objectivity and fairness-- we get to have our emotional and mental states toyed with most of the time.

Today, politicians were kept out of the memorial service at Ground Zero. This is the first year that's happened...

Steve Tickolo said...

I became your fan.

Edi said...

A little late on this one, but I wanted to offer my two cents as an Australian...without direct links to anyone who suffered on that day. I'm going to be deadly honest, and say that I'm personally tired of the depth of emotionality, fear of repeat, air of hopelessness, anger and turmoil that this day brings to me. We seek to soothe and remedy all pain with answers to the elusive question 'why?', sometimes failing to see it's this question itself that generates and keeps the pain alive. There is always higher justice, reason and beauty -- and yes, if those around me were affected, there's no way I could remain so philosophically nonchalant. Perhaps acceptance for what it was, and let it go, slowly and painfully... That's where the work is, for me anyway. Everyone on the planet was assaulted that day, our sense of trust violated. Ultimately how we deal with that shows us a lot about ourselves... And there is nothing right or wrong about that.

Edi said...

Yep, I just 9th-house-Libran'ed my way thru that one... I'm just noticing how interesting it is there's no "right" or "wrong" in any perspective really, how tolerance for another could have been the saving grace on that day.