Warning: the following Daily Astrology post is unabashedly U.S.-centric. And a little snarky. Today is Thanksgiving Day: perhaps this country’s largest non-religious holiday. It celebrates a legendary shared bountiful harvest between Pilgrim settlers in the New World and native peoples as winter approached. We all know how that went. And as if in honor of the centuries of conflict, baggage and gluttony that has ensued in this country since, the sky is serving up some Thanksgiving astrology, ‘family reunion-style’, courtesy of the Moon.
The Moon is currently in mid-Pisces: that dreamy, foggy, creative, sexy sign whose modern ruler is Neptune, planet of drugs and denial (and whose traditional ruler is brash, expansive Jupiter). The Moon gets the day started with a slew of squares to the centaur planets clustered in late Sagittarius. These are the critters known for raising all kinds of shadowy baggage material, often the familial/ancestral stuff, for the purposes of healing it.
Sound a little… prickly? Kind of like a big Thanksgiving dinner with family from all over the socio-political and spiritually (un)aware spectrums crowding around a big table and shouting? Your suitcase may be packed light for the physical trip to Grandmother’s house, but the emotional trip can be another story once buttons start getting pushed. And the emotional Moon in an emotional sign squaring a bunch of half-animal centaurs (not to mention making other aspects as well) could feel a little wild.
Luckily, the Moon has already passed by its square to Pholus — though it’s still wise to take it easy on the wine today. If you traveled yesterday, did small emotional triggers spiral out of control into big, holiday-special effects? Just keep thinking ‘pie’ this morning to avoid rehashing whatever may have happened. Soon enough, you’ll be able to escape into a state of unconscious, post-turkey bliss or a football game if trying to work out your shadow material with a mouthful of mashed potatoes and an earful of your (insert least favorite relative here) is more than you can chew on.