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We now have six planets (and points) in Gemini including the Sun, which is presenting the feeling of many options, points of view or activity. The last of the eclipses has passed for now, and the sensation of pressure leaning on certain situations in your life may have dropped off. Gemini can be a beautifully social time. It’s sometimes described as being so in a surface way, though that’s not actually true. What it describes is a dialog or relationship that might be ‘everyday’ and can also be profound.
At the moment there’s also one last holdout in late Taurus: Mars. Today Mars squares (90-degree aspect) the centaur planet Nessus in Aquarius at 1:49 pm EDT. Square aspects often manifest as internal tension that we resolve by taking action.
Nessus, a longterm visitor in Aquarius, has been manifesting mainly as forms of peer pressure or social conditioning. There’s a lot of unfriendly conditioning going around — from politics, from advertising, from a climate of fear, as frustration. There are social movements that are trying to get off the ground; they are frequently drowned out by static.
Whether collectively or in personal relationships, Nessus can bring out shadow material — mostly forms of fear that have been abandoned in the psyche. Mars square Nessus may be provoking some deep subject matter. If you’re experiencing anything like that, go below the surface and look for what is underneath the apparent situation.
Try not to be fooled by appearances, that is, by what you’re seeing or feeling on the surface. The potential for healing is deeper in, and it’s accessible. To get there, it’s necessary to give a voice to what is really at issue, what’s been forsaken or neglected.
A series of planets are about to trine Nessus, offering an opening to do just that. It may be challenging to go from how you’re feeling now to a space where you can communicate about it, and that communication may not be clear at first. As you speak, write, and most significantly, listen to or read what you’re saying, you can get clues about what you’re really feeling and what you actually need.
Mars in Taurus is offering some persistence, though I suggest taking it gently. This is not the kind of thing to dig at; it’s the kind of thing to approach gently, even in a circumspect way. Consider a diversity of viewpoints as you do. Listen to yourself. Listen to what others are saying to you and consider what it means to you.
The thing about dealing with old shadow material is that we’re not exactly taught in school how to work with it. It may be that for you, simply talking with a trusted friend will let you find your own way to the core issue. But don’t be afraid to ask for skilled help from a counselor, mentor or or energetic healer, or to use dialoging ‘exercises’ beyond plain conversation.
I suggest you worry less about what something means, and pay attention to what you notice. Give your observations time to percolate through and to gradually make sense. In time, they will.
— additional writing: Amanda Painter
Thank you dear!
I’m so sorry Paola! But you sound so strong and positive, and thst you are in the thick of this intense process of change that’s happening now . from my experience these last months, it’s a scary but amazing time. Un grande abbraccio e in bocca al lupo!
The last days have been a roller-coaster: new exciting discoveries, newfound love and acceptance towards self, sudden loss of job!, money panic, relief with art, and today a person I really appreciated passed away. As I was reading about her, I got an email communicating that a loved healer-channeler-person full of grace I dearly loved passed away too. I cried.
Love and life to all.
Natal Nessus in late Gemini, trine Ascendant, really close to south node: trying to stop the bucks, but when the bucks are in control deeper human values are often eclipsed by the pieces in the money game. The culture seems geared heavily to keeping the buck going and going. America LOOOOOVES Hercules.
I just want to say thank you for the way you write. Just a few words linked together in a certain way ,such as : “fears abandoned in the psyche” and the advice: “this is not the kind of thing to dig at”. Helpful beyond all measure. I’ve been feeling it and you have the lovely gift of naming it. I am one of those “Buck stops here” karmic navigators for a whole lot of familial shadow material. It gets tough sometimes….You help me out just by offering a few well-placed words, a photograph, a message from a tree( courtesy of Elisa)…your blog is an eloquent travel-guide for the road less traveled.
Eric (and Amanda): Thank you for keeping Nessus in the foreground – the path less taken – on the eve of its retrograde station in the sign of (as you put it) “some of us here.” Some of us here are karmically duty-bound to resolve the thorny issues of Nessus in this lifetime and make sure that (as Melanie Reinhart put it) the buck stops here. Your writings on the subject of that particular centaur object have been vital to the task. There are not enough ways to thank you for the aid you have given to the odyssey.
Thank you so very much for this! Had been feeling more serene at last, only to find myself going more wobbly again. Bless you for these tools to work with,