Within the challenge of the Last Quarter, we reach a sextile between Sun and Moon. It arrives in about four hours, predawn EDT.
This lunar cycle offers amazing connections. Has more been going on all along that I’ve missed? No, I don’t think so. We’re seeing patterns now that are impossible to miss.
Jupiter stationed retrograde at 27 Capricorn, joining Pluto, Saturn, and Venus. We must slow down, pay attention, and reflect.
By definition, Sun and Moon are sextile. The Moon widely conjunct Neptune sextiles Jupiter and Pluto as the Sun also trines them. The Moon squares the Nodes and Venus.
The triangle formed by the Sun, Moon, and Pluto/ Jupiter is feminine and yin. Earthy Taurus and Capricorn watered by the Moon and Neptune in Pisces.
The Nodes and Venus bring in masculine, yang energy but it’s mutable. The female side of the polarity is strongest here.
The Sun is with Algol, the star considered most baleful, most harmful. So Algol too is part of the pattern, sextile Moon and Neptune, trine Jupiter and Pluto.
Algol is the center of Medusa’s forehead, her severed head held by Perseus. She is the monster whose hair of snakes turned men to stone. She began as a woman so beautiful Poseidon (yes, Neptune) raped her in Athena’s temple.
Guess who Athena blamed and cursed? Medusa. Yet in the end with Athena’s help, Medusa’s head became into an invincible shield.
All of these planets and points and star draw us into their communion. This is a shadowy place. There are monsters here. But who? The beautiful temptress who drives even gods mad? Or those who blamed her? Cursed her? Destroyed her.
We must enter the cave to find out. Enter and confront something terrible that might turn us to stone. This place of shadows offers unsettling insights. Searing wisdom.
What must we recognize within ourselves to understand the world? What must we see in the world to understand ourselves?
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