Today’s Mars–Uranus opposition isthe last step in the dance between Mars and Mercury in Scorpio, Saturn in Aquarius, and Uranus in Taurus.
It’s not the end of the Saturn–Uranus square, just this round with Mercury and Mars.
So where are we? With the Moon at 7 Taurus, we’re right in the middle.
The Saturn–Uranus square is global, playing out within nations, between nations. And the political is personal. We are involved, affected, changed.
The Moon conjuncts Uranus and squares Saturn. We feel the risks to our personal comfort. Our sense of safety is disrupted. What can we count on? We don’t even know any more.
Mercury and Neptune move into a trine. This is a flowing aspect, yet creates fog and confusion. Important changes stir in the depths (including our psyches) but we can’t see clearly.
How do we cope?
Venus, very out of bounds in Capricorn, trines the Moon and Uranus, sextiles Mars. Chiron squares Venus. We need radical solutions. Radical grounding.
Venus will spend months in Capricorn, entering her retrograde phase with a conjunction to Pluto. We’re invited into a reexamination of Capricorn.
Capricorn in an Earth sign and classically feminine. If that feels like a stretch, it’s time to get more inclusive in our approach to the sign of the sea goat.
I’m thinking of the cailleach, the hag of winter, the powerful old woman. There are cairns and caves and stones honoring her all over Ireland. She is old, but vibrant, strong, and essential.
She is linked to the loathly lady, the sovereignty goddess who appears in Arthurian legend. She know the vitally of human communities is linked to our connection to the land. If the land is not healthy, our communities cannot be either.
The cailleach tends to rock and stone, mountain and chasm.The bones of the earth. Our bones.
Connect into your feet. Feel how your feet, legs, spine, skeleton are rooted in the stones beneath us. This is how we move through the chaotic time of eclipses.
Image adapted from Jonas Tebbe
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