Sagittarius
Here are some insights for the month, which could become contemplations: Each one fashioned using the astrological aspects of the moment. Astrology can be thought of as a kind of sky writing which invites the muse. No two perceptions are exactly the same but any of us can find insight through the images if we look. These are mine, happily offered for you to reshape and fashion into something of your own. Follow the links, where you find them for further musings on the subjects.
November 21
Sun enters Sagittarius: 09:33 PM EST
Sagittarius is the travelling sign. This year it arrives in conjunction with the south node. The past is calling to us in so many ways at this time. Tavel (a Sagittarian signature) has been curtailed over the last two years, more for some than others, but generally speaking. What did you do instead? As you look back over the last two years consider the issue of lies, more lies and misinformation: Silos of truth and the human inclination to believe what we choose. Who shares your beliefs? The issues of the pandemic have made some strange bedfellows. Soon the nodes will leave Gemini and Sagittarius and enter Taurus and Scorpio, signs of resource and scarcity. Time to be less theoretical and more substantial about how we actually live, on the ground, the Earth. If you’re convinced at this moment that you are ‘right’. That others are idiots consider this: Although the Sun rises and sets each and every day it is really the earth that is turning. It is the Earth which bows to the Sun but it looks as though the Sun encircles Earth. We are no longer privileged tourists, looking for experience. We have become pilgrims, like it or not. As we learn about things such as the Mother Trees, we may feel ourselves to be strangers in a very strange (possibly wonderful) land about which we know a lot less than we thought. It is as important to welcome the stranger as it is to be the stranger who is welcomed.
November 24
Mercury enters Sagittarius
Another visitor to the early degrees of Sagittarius which continues to focus our attention on outright misinformation, the bugaboo of the world for the last (at least) five years. There have always been snake oil sellers but the internet, our external brain/mind has made it much, much worse. Look back with as much honesty and as little self-judgment as you can muster and ask how the whirling, swirling winds of misinformation and outright lies has affected you. What is the difference between opinion and fact? Why is it suddenly so difficult to distinguish between them?
November 26
Saturn sextile Chiron
It’s not just a biblical truism to say that if we don’t care for the least of us we don’t really care at all. It’s common sense at this point. We, who consume the most have a mandate to make reparation to the least. Every degree of global warming displaces more than we can imagine. Somewhere in all this is an opportunity.
November 28
Mercury conjunct the Sun
In the deep heart of your own mind, in the silent stillness, what is it you call truth?
November 29
Mars trine Neptune
Mercury trine Chiron
We would be happy to see this astrological line up in a baby who was born on or near today. This child would be a wise soul who might know instinctively or have the good fortune to be taught that when we welcome all our feelings, even the ones we don’t like, amazing things happen. Which isn’t to say we should act them out, although we might turn them into songs and stories; sit with them and see what they want. This is where we find the roots of healing and true transformation. It’s a mystery. Perhaps it’s The Mystery.
November 30
Mercury sextile Saturn
Sun sextile Saturn
Today would be a good day to count our blessings, to appreciate the kindnesses and connections that enable our lives. If this inspires you to pay some forward, all the better! Windows of opportunity are everywhere.
December 1
Neptune stationery direct
When Neptune stations direct we are offered an image of a wave rolling onto shore and delivering treasure. On a good day. On a not-so-good day it might seem more like a tsunami about to engulf the world, your world at least. It’s not simply a trick of individual perspective. Neptune represents the collective dream we are having. It has been gathering energy for at least a few weeks and will release it for the new few months as it interacts with other planets as well as the Sun and Moon and eventually goes retrograde once more. Time to entertain the paradox of our longing for oneness and how overwhelming it all is.
December 4
New Moon: 12 degrees of Sagittarius: 02:43 AM EST
We are approaching the end and the beginning of a new year as well as an eclipse season attached to the north and south nodes in Gemini and Sagittarius. These are signs that ask us to consider truth and lies, communications of all sorts. Human being have been awash in the toxic soup of misinformation and polarizations, systemic bias and downright lies for some time, Maybe forever but this period, since the nodes entered these signs (May of 2020) brought us to awareness like never before. Apparently it’s not just some bad apples. Rather it’s a challenge for the whole human race to get our brain/mind working correctly. This might well be a prerequisite to entering the Age of Aquarius. Perhaps our intention for this New Moon should be ‘delusion prevention’: Less bias, more openness to the well-meaning exchange of ideas.
December 6
Mars sextiles Pluto
Truth to power. Wonderful words. An invitation to transformation. An opportunity to share the validity of your feelings in such a way that it can open doors rather than slam them shut with you on one side and someone you care about on the other.
December 7
Mercury square Neptune
Lies and more lies littering the airwaves, confusing us all, just when it felt like some honest progress was being made. Today does not erase what was learned or experienced yesterday. In fact, staying connected to our feelings allows us to find a storyline that orients and allows us to follow cultivate some kind of generosity. Something as basic as donating warm clothes to new comers in your land would be a start.
December 08
Mars square Jupiter
Planets at the late degrees of a sign remind us that we stand at choice points and we will soon need to go one way or another. Beware of over-enthusiasm – to be filled with too much God. When enthusiasm crosses the line to self-righteous, dogmatic fanaticism someone always gets hurt. Surely there is another way.
December 11
Venus conjunct Pluto
Mercury sextile Jupiter
Temper enthusiasm with awareness of consequence. Such is the way of things. Sooner or later reality corrects itself. As Venus conjuncts Pluto for the first time of three we might attend to the issue of how we will manage what matters as Venus journeys on her retrograde path (December 19th – January 29th). Time, energy, love and money are the most obvious resources we have. Reasonable enthusiasms are modestly rewarded which supports the good of all. As Mary Poppins reminded us, back in the day, ‘enough is as good as a feast’.
December 12
Sun square Neptune
You might say, ‘Madly off in all directions’. You might simply dive, head first, into a sea of confusion, a melee, a storm of chaotic circumstances. You might not. You might, like a sage of old, sense the threshold, the shift, the change. And simply wait till tomorrow, taking your place at the center of the whirling wheel. Shift happens.
December 13
Mars enters Sagittarius
Mercury enters Capricorn
Two planets in one day changing sign, promising changes in perspective. Moving into a time when actions speak louder than words. We do best when we put our money where our mouth is. To be avoided is the delusion that we can rise above nature. There is no planet “B”, no other world, even for the very wealthy.
December 18
Full Moon: 27 degrees Gemini 11:35 PM EST
Mercury square Chiron
Our obsession with information, with virtual reality must needs shift toward an obsession with the so-called ‘real’ world, the world in which we live, eat, build shelter and exist in embodied form. Full Moon’s shine the light on something we didn’t quite see before. This is an awesome one for a big idea, a lightbulb of understanding, especially if it includes the wellbeing of others.
Photo by Stephen Tafra on Unsplash
December 19
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Venus stationery retrograde in Capricorn
Chiron stationery direct
Sun sextile Jupiter
The insights we may have had at the Full Moon will be tested over the next 6 weeks by how practical they are. Capricorn is a sign of the tangible, as in real world. Venus, the most beautiful, the most treasured, prepares for descent. As she is pulled closer and closer to the Sun (watch it in the western sky over the next weeks) she will grow fainter and fainter until she disappears sometime around the first week of January. Ancient people saw this as a roadmap for the journey of loss, grief and return. She is called to the underworld to witness these things. And so are we. Here, in the last days of a frustrating year (following a chaotic one), is a good time to evaluate all we have experienced since January of 2020: How it has changed our minds, our circumstances: What we have learned and what we have lost. Those who cling to the notion that we can go back to the way it was are like Orpheus trying to bring Eurydice back to life. Doomed to lose even more. The indisputable truth of how things are is the best measure of how to go forward. Which isn’t the same as curling up in a ball and waiting for the end. Not at all. The process of descent and letting go is a necessary part of clearing the way before going forward. A perfect end-of-the-year reflection. Watch a few sunsets, pay attention to the natural world both near and far, the beauty as well as the damage. This allows us to soften the ‘us-and-them’ mentality of these times and to acknowledge the pandemic of misused resources.
Christmas derives from Solstice, the universal celebration of the return of the light. As we birth the baby we might call 2022 be assured that awareness lessens fear and eases change.
December 20
Mercury trine Uranus
There is no doubt we are living inside borders. Some of us are determined to break out, to break open, others are exploring a sense of new limits which make some kind of sense for a small planet. In the best way possible we can use the terrain of our local world be it desert or mountain, windswept shore or densely populated city. We can make what we have as livable as possible. Tomorrow the year is born again, fragile, like all newborns, like a candle flame that will grow strong and hot in the months to come.
