Insights for Libra
September 22
Sun enters Libra: 09:03 PM EDT
Libra reminds us of the rules of engagement: How we write contracts, how we go to war: What is acceptable when you are trying to kill or steal. it's absolutely as ludicrous as it sounds. Yet Libra asks us to be civilized, to use our ability to reason, a faculty of air. Consider the oxymoron of the notion of a “Civil War”. And we are all too familiar with how love can turn to hate when there are disagreements over shared resources.
Libra is represented by the scales, a human-made object, unlike all the other signs of the zodiac. It will never give up this notion of civil society. What it needs to give up is the notion that it is reasonable to fight for peace as well as the cloak of passive aggression which it often dons to protect itself. As the world grapples with rather massive issues of inequity we are reminded at this Equinox (when day and night are perfectly balanced) that balance happens. It is possible. We might consider our own contributions and struggles regarding civil society. Libra loves harmony and has a strong affinity for the arts. If the struggles seem too enormous you might consult with the Great Artist; the creator of this place we live and consider for a moment how natural beauty inspires art, restoring balance to the soul and inspiring us to live together in more harmonious ways.
As the Sun journeys through Libra it will oppose Jupiter, trine Saturn and Mars, square Pluto as well as conjunct Venus. Today and tomorrow, it conjuncts Mercury at the midpoint of its retrograde journey. A good time to listen (for the still, small voice), if you have ears to hear.
September 23
Mercury retrograde, conjunct the Sun
If we navigate by the stars we understand that some days might be better for some things than others. Today we might listen for the heartbeat of the new season as we contemplate the harvest of the one that has ended. It's like finding that space between inhaling and exhaling; vast and spacious as eternity yet lasting only an instant, ever-present, fleeting, ephemeral, your whole life long.
September 24
Venus opposite Neptune
Maybe, instead of “dreaming big” as the cheerleaders of the day suggest, we should just dream and listen to the guidance they so generously provide.
September 25
New Moon: 02 degrees Libra: 01:55 PM EDT
This New Moon opposes Jupiter for a day or two suggesting a time to confront, challenge or perhaps collide with, all assumptions; yours as well as other folks. This may take a couple of days. Once you're done wrangling, make an intention to carry with you throughout the lunar month.
September 26
Venus trine Pluto, conjunct Mercury (still retrograde)
Sun opposite Jupiter
Everything you cannot control is not the enemy. It may require surrender which is often nothing more than accepting reality. This is not the same as capitulation. There is no white flag to wave at the moment. We have come far and away from nature which includes our own nature. Time for a reset which might take until October 6th. Then again it may take forever. Aligning ourselves with this notion empowers us. Resistance is futile and scary.
September 27
Mercury trine Pluto
There is a drum beat in the mind this week, a persistence of what some call “earworms”. It may be intermittent yet repetitive and unwelcome. Perhaps is a call to some kind of prayer or awareness. Maybe like a drum these persistent rhythms carry messages. Possibly they arise spontaneously from the dark matter of the body itself; that mysterious, vulnerable, soft animal that accompanies us everywhere and all the time and reminds us without ceasing that we are one and the same as nature. What we do to Nature, we do to ourselves. This seems to be Mercury's message as it stations direct during the next week. We can all benefit from paying it some mind.
September 28
Mars trine Saturn
Be resolute, not defensive or belligerent as you stand by your ideals. Respect is a powerful agent of change.
September 29
Venus enters Libra
Unlike the Sun in Libra, Venus is at home here. I like to think of what art and justice have in common when considering Venus in Libra. Maybe justice seems blind to us because it has come so far from the notion of beauty which of course is not good for the soul. To truly understand this we have two separate beauty from glamor. Deprived of beauty, we become criminals.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9498.Beauty
October 1
Venus opposite Jupiter
Co-operation, co-llaboration, co-mpetition, co-nsideration. It's all interactive. Nobody is here alone. Co-nnection requires negotiation.
October 2
Mercury stationery direct
The dragonfly with its gossamer wings alights on your book, on your thigh, only to take off once it has solved the riddle of what you are or are not. If you learned anything about the nature of embodied existence while Mercury was retrograde: How close, how vulnerable, how immanent, how utterly real it is, then you are ready to put it into practice. Walk the talk; even in this crazy mixed-up world. Especially since September 27th when Mercury trined Pluto and as it does again as it stations direct.
October 6
Mercury trine Pluto
This is the last trine for a while. You could say that this completes the lessons (for now) regarding the ever-present manifestation of the soul of Nature in everything, always. Class dismissed. Time to go out into the world with all you have learned. (If you're not sure what you learned while Mercury was retrograde, take stock of what hurt, what you had to clean, fix heal or organize. Nature manifests through every living thing, every lived experience and the most mundane events. If only we could understand this. Every living thing is a teacher, including you and me.)
October 7
Sun opposite Chiron
Where does your greatest wisdom come from? is it from the screaming screen, streaming information or might it be from the loves and losses of your lived experience?
October 8
Pluto stationery direct
There is a gathering of energies happening, a winding up for the pitch. Hopefully your aim is true. Hope is a tricky thing; most useful when we stand on the solid ground of what we might call reality. This IS actually, IT! For me I feel this most intensely when I accept the rabbit hole that I happen to be down at any given moment. What we think of as reality can change shape in an instant.
October 9
Full Moon: 16 degrees Aries: 04:56 PM EDT
These people with whom you are sharing your current space/time continuum are a perfect reflection of something you can't see about yourself except through the relationship with another. Maybe it's not even someone you know.
October 10
Venus opposite Chiron
Mercury enters Libra
What if all relationships are about love? Even the contentious ones: Even the ones we meet in court. What if before we signed on the dotted line love was the glue that would make it stick?
October 11
Sun trine Saturn
Step up to all agreements, with love, yes, but also with a sense of what is and is not possible. someone needs to be the grown up around here.
October 12
Mercury opposite Pluto
How's it going in the agreements/disagreements department? Now is not the time to be afraid of pointing out injustice or inequity.
October 14
Venus trine Saturn
When you love someone or something there is no question that your energy, time and money are worthwhile investments. Today is a good time to evaluate if your attachments deserve your love and possibly, just how much is enough?
October 18
Venus trine Mars
Which of your good ideas are socially cohesive? Who shares your perspective? We build our world through these connections.
October 19
Sun trine Pluto
Mercury opposite Chiron
If, like Groucho, you would not want to be a member of a club that would have you as a member it’s time to look around and notice if the people who share your ideas are actually people you like to associate with. If the two things don’t jive it might be time for a new perspective. Even if they do it seems a good time to let go of that which no longer serves your purpose.
October 20
Venus Square Pluto
Yesterday's themes persist: Time to let go or change some fundamental assumption.
October 22
if “hell is other people”https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2021/02/08/hell-is-other-people/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CHell%20is%20other%20people%E2%80%9D%20is,are%20essentially%20fraught%20with%20conflict.
then “what's a heaven for”?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43745/andrea-del-sarto
A day to consider how we might live together on this planet. Start with the ones closest at hand.