Tonight the Aquarius Moon is conjunct Juno, an infamous asteroid associated by some with jealousy and relationships. You may remember many discussions about Juno from back when the world was supposed to end, on 12/21/12. In case you’re curious, I’ll share a link from the member archives, called Mayans, Juno and the Abyss.
On that supposedly fateful day when so much was supposed to happen, the most prominent planet in the sky was an asteroid that to other astrologers speaks of themes involving marriage and social justice (an odd combination, but that’s what she’s got). The jealousy theme sometimes holds — though if so, there’s a lot behind that idea.
I did some research into Juno for the occasion and figured out that this planet is about learning to express one’s needs in relationship situations. In particular, the chart for its discovery describes the struggle of doing so. I thought that was a sage ending to the previous 5,125-year Mayan cycle, and a clue what we might want to take with us as an idea to live by.
To do that, it’s necessary to get past various shades of resentment and jealousy, expectations and what your mother told you you were supposed to feel or do in a relationship. With the Moon conjunct Juno and Mars still square Nessus (see yesterday’s post), that could be stirring up relationship needs that are rooted on a deeper level of injury or loss.
The astrology is arranged layers at the moment: what seems to be the issue; what is the deeper underlying material, probably from the distant past; and how you feel about it. If you remember this, it might be easier to navigate whatever in the ‘real world’ is manifesting in parallel to this astrology.
I suggest you not pry underneath the surface or look for the cause as if it were a specific thing, but rather take a circumspect approach, approaching from the edge. Rather than seeking the bottom line, notice what you notice. When you speak, listen to what you say.
As this process begins to involve others, I suggest you do what’s usually pretty difficult for Juno, which is to state your perceived needs and expectations clearly. I don’t mean forcefully — I mean clearly. That would be based on knowing what you expect and need — consciously. To do that, you’ll have to consider that whole realm of yourself carefully. And to do that successfully, it’s necessary to get past the intellectual level.
Stating what you need amounts to dealing with what people say and do in response to your request. That can take some courage, because you put the ball in the other person’s court. Yet really, you’re still in control because you get to decide what to do in response.
This week we begin a series of planetary sign changes that I’ll cover in more detail in the member edition. Here is the executive summary: Mercury goes into Cancer, which will immerse the mind in a world of feelings; and Mars goes into Gemini, which could be contentious. To sum this up in a phrase, feel before you speak.
Thanks Eric, I am exactly in this energy to think before you speak. It is true that Juno to a defect in relation to the jealousy that one as not enough relief for cause that Jupiter has had a lot of mistress. Today is the time of reconciliation with the Trine of Juno and Jupiter, a time to love…
Thank you, Eric just got to reading this. Yesterday was feeling very thankful. Friends offered me much support this week.
How is security felt through just knowing i have enough food in the kitchen to care for and feed my son? The comfort of a roof over our head, provided for. Or, the pointing of an arrow offers direction, sends encouragement our way? These are loving comforts and reassurance, yet only on the outer level, needs fulfilled.
I am reminded here and in your oracle of yesterday, these feelings “…are worth nothing if we did not find this safe and caring place already in our heart “. Surrender is the well received.
Just thankful today for recognizing the true meaning of ‘security’.
Seriously right on. Amazing and extremely impressive – deep bow <3
Thank YOU Chief! At the moment, I credit the trine between trans. Saturn in Scorpio to Neptune in Pisces. One to weed through all the Gemini jibber-jabber and find the clearest points, the other to find the way to connect between them. Like locating the right frequency on the radio, or just pure dumb luck, timing is everything. 🙂
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be- I want to acknowledge you for your ability to bring together and cross-correlate astrological happens of past, present and future and tie them into one big package. How you track the ever-entwining cycles of time are a gift and a mystery. Thank you!
Thank you, Eric, for a sophisticated approach to illuminate a significant and complex asteroid – by the waning light of the silvery Moon.
I enjoyed reading this Eric and the fact that you have devoted all your space for the feminine influences going on now. I was caught up in the Moon’s T-square with her nodes last night, thinking (Aquarian Moon!) about how our emotions can unconsciously bind time, past to present to future, and we hardly, if at all, notice it. I bet the Mayans were motivated by their emotions (feelings), at least in part, to have mapped out so much time. It kept them connected and continuous. I wonder if maybe sometimes certain things are meant to stay unconscious, and by that I mean seemingly irrational.
Yesterday the Sun was at 8+ Gemini and he consciously recalled the 12/21/12 chart’s Jupiter at 8+ Gemini, and now here you are recalling that moment for us in your introduction. In a curious coincidence, the upcoming summer solstice (6/21/13), the opposition point of the 12/21/12 Sun, also has a prominent (Aquarian) Juno midway between the nodes, and the most prominent aspect she will make (besides the T-square to the nodes) is a trine to Mars in Gemini.
In an effort to read (comprehend) the future solstice, do you suppose this aspect you note, Moon-conjunct-Juno, is the start of a brief cycle that might have otherwise remained unconscious but could prove beneficial in 3 weeks or so? It is because the Moon in the summer solstice will be in Scorpio and quincunx Jupiter in Gemini (whose brilliance will be consumed by the Sun, only 2 degrees away from him) that I ask. If Jupiter is temporarily subdued in brilliance by the Sun just as his partner in myth Juno is at a critical juncture (between the past [south node] and the future [north node]), it seems plausible that an opportunity to balance the scales could be achieved in that moment of time; in these wild and crazy times.
I tell you, with so much Gemini in the air (heh heh) it is really tough (for me) to focus, but if I really try I can see a pattern that, thanks to you, connects time, past-present-future, in these two solstice charts. Remembering that in December’s chart, Jupiter was the point planet for the yod he shared with Saturn and Pluto; an adjustment was being called for. In addition, December’s solstice had Vesta (dedicated) at 14+ Gemini (details) strategically located opposite Mercury (communicate) in Sagittarius (big picture) and sextile Moon (needs) in Cancer (family, ancestry, nurturing) who herself was in trine to Mercury. Is that not an attempt to discuss needs and find a balance? That was then.
Now comes the June solstice and Mars will occupy 14+ Gemini reviving Vesta’s December position. He will be conjunct Pallas-Athene and square Chiron in Pisces.
And Juno will form a trine to Mars as hubby Jupiter is temporarily out of sight (consciousness). More adjustment called for as Moon (who 3 weeks before, meaning Today, was conjunct Juno) quincunxes Jupiter (and Sun). So then, today’s conjunction between Juno and Moon could be connecting the past (December) to the future (June) and if we can stay focused on this one comparatively small cog in the workings of the big-ass Pluto square Uranus machine, it could benefit us. It’s personal and political and most likely it’s pretty unconscious. I guess we’ll know something when Moon next conjuncts Juno on June 26, when she (Juno) will be retrograde and heading back to T-square the nodes. Maybe, maybe not.
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You are a born healer, Eric, and when you write, those words can be put to practical use.
‘feel before you speak’. Lovely!