Today is Tuesday, June 28, 2011. The Moon enters Gemini at 3:55 am EDT. Gemini is an air sign, friendly yet somewhat detached, like the wind constantly moving above the Earth. If you notice your mind engaging more fully with the world today, that is the Moon in Mercury-ruled Gemini talking; if you take that further into observing objectively, then you are listening.
Tuning in to your powers of observation comes in handy with today’s other main aspect, the Sun in Cancer opposite retrograde Pluto in Capricorn. A retrograde outer planet signifies the energy being driven inward and experienced in a very personal, subjective fashion. Pluto’s domain is the underworld, a metaphor for our deep unconscious and instinctual natures – something well worth observing objectively.
With the Sun in the active water sign Cancer, and moving toward an eclipse, the thing to watch is our feelings. Pluto signifies that which is buried and often these are forgotten, repressed or oppressed parts of our selves. The Capricorn influence means rules or people who have blindly or unfairly enforced them may have something to do with anything painful coming to the surface today, like a splinter that has been festering under your skin. All organisms have an organic healing response, bringing anything buried back to the surface and light of the Sun for healing.
Luckily one of the gifts of Pluto is catharsis, which means cleansing or purging. If you do find yourself face to face with shadow material coming to light, releasing pent up emotions through a good cry or good laugh, shouting into your pillow or any intense emotional experience can be very liberating. Think of it as clearing your mind, like the sky after a storm has passed.
You may not have the option available to dive into your strong emotions the moment you notice them. But pay attention to where in your life that might be helpful, necessary or even unavoidable. Once you are in a safe place for you, you can reconnect with those emotions through poetry, a movie or some music. Or seek out a healthy form of any kind of intense experience, such as sex or dancing, which allows your animal instincts to be expressed freely and spontaneously. Reclaiming, restoring and revitalizing your connection to your instinctual animal self is the opposite of running wild; it is a way to find true balance, and it is possible to do so without fear.
Gary Caton with Amanda Painter
Ah, beautiful words, beautiful Burning River. It *is* all love.
How brave and bold you are.
From my heart to yours.
Thank you my sisters–my talented, hard-working, deep and poetic, big-hearted and loving, funny, brilliant and full of life sisters for your comments to me today. I drink them into my soul.
No matter the appearance, i have to beleive it is all Love. In fact, I know that–I can feel your hands stretched to mine as we circle this sublime Lake and feel deep gratitide as well as sacredness to be alive around this lake today with you.
Soon, Freya’s Day–yes. And we dance.
Jeez, Burning and Mystes, I’m *so*with you both on the tortured winding down of the legalities of the marital union and the endless hassles of sorting out of the parenting issues. Big ick. I’ve been physically out my marriage for over a year but the @&*% paperwork still looms before me. My ex has ADD, which is a *nightmare* to deal with (and to recover from living 24/7 with) so I parked the sorting out until circumstances had shifted to a more favourable scenario. One where I felt sane enough and believed that I could actually cope with it all.
Thankfully I know now that the time is ripe and I’m so ready to move over these last major hurdles, once and for all. I’ve set myself two months from now as my goal to have the divorce finalized so I can move on with the next phase of my life proper.
and I’m all for Friday’s new moon giving us a Freya’s day, M. I like that notion very much!
Indranibe::
“Puto” in Capricorn?
(chortle!)
Well, that ‘splains the rambunctious menfolk. They in Bidness!
(puto = male prostitute, Espagnol)
That is one heck of a picture, Amanda. Breathtaking. After drinking in the various shades of light and dark and blue in the sky, my eyes lit upon the floating dock, which perhaps is centred right on top the orgone that you speak of – thanks for introducing me to that concept of William Reich!
But first I’m going to lay me down and listen to Kate Bush and her song Cloudbusting where, according to wikipedia, she “describes William Reich’s arrest and incarceration through the eyes of his son, Peter.” I had no clue that was the story behind the lyrics of the song, so now I’m hearing it in a whole new light. — plus I think your photo is the better backdrop gaze at, as opposed to the video in this link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJECg2IqUFo
Now watch out, you bleeping moose, shebear’s priming herself to take a dip! 😉
Oufff, Burning River ~ the momentum of a marriage coming to rest… It does feel like letting moondark take the last eddy is a good move.
Perhaps Friday’s New Moon really will give us a Freya’s Day.
Thank you, madame, for the kind thoughts. I accept and stand with you at this obsidian edge.
Hi Burning,
you seem v. sad today, wanted to piggyback my heart and prayers, create maybe an overlay of yours, maybe we can create a tower of Love if we stack them like when people stand in a circle and someone holds their hand out, which is covered by another hand, and then another hand, and then another, so you have this great stack of hands together…like that.
Light and blessings to all who are in transition, in flux, in Change.
today I am grateful, and I dance with that Intention.
peace.
Wow, mystes–I hear you. it seems amazing that we have to and can walk through these deep waters with grace. My heart and best wishes and a prayer if you want it are with you.
For me, the papers are almost filed to end my 44 year marriage. I told the attorney to wait until next week. My one day at a time strategy has each day filled with its own grief up until then
And then comes the dawn, and we walk free and dance. Perhaps slowly, but we dance. And eventually our childen will join us.
Thank all! i really appreciate the feedback. these posts really are a team effort, with chelsea adding her touch to the process.
the photo was taken in the rangely lakes area late last summer while visiting a dear friend named jefferson with a cottage there. this is the area where wilhelm reich settled (in case we really needed one more tie-in to this post on any level). 😉 the wilhelm reich museum is in rangely, but i have not visited yet.
according to jefferson, there is a spot in the middle of either mooselookmeguntic or the adjoining lake cupsuptic (i *think* the former, but not sure) that reich declared an especially concentrated place of orgone.
whether it is or isn’t, it’s a pretty special place.
and len — while i do not actually speak the native language of the lake’s name, i’m pretty sure it loosely translates to “holy shit — another f*ckin’ moose!”
Amanda & Gary,
Very good interpretation of today’s aspects. Esp. that little morsel about Pluto Rx… I had forgotten about it. To some extent I am living through the inversion of your description: watching as my X twists and mangles –with perfect nonchalance– the agreement we set forth for co-parenting our son. We’re all in therapy today, so perhaps Pluto will help clarify the long-term effects of those violations.
(I believe that may fall into the ‘wish in one hand…[~~~] in the other’ category.]
Oh well, down to it…
M
Hey Amanda and Gary – that is the best analysis of Puto in Capricorn (including retro) that I have read so far of all the hundreds of explanations of the phenomenon I have read so far. So succint – you cut through all the bullshit and got right to the point – useful information that we can work with. Thanks! And keep up the great work! 🙂
Amanda,
The photograph deserves special and separate mention. Also the lake’s name. Thank you.
Gary and Amanda,
Thank you for the wise and constructive advice. After Sol’s Monday water trine with Chiron, an opposition to Pluto the following day is really loading up on the power of our hour under a southbound Sun, setting late. You so eloquently illustrate a practical protocol “to find true balance..without fear.”. May you be blessed as you have blessed us.
Awesome picture! Deep. And very helpful article–for me that Pluto retrograde stuff needs and will get a walk along that lake, real tears, and then a dance Native American grandmother style on the shore. Thanks, Gary and Amanda!