Yesterday Eric proclaimed this week’s astrology (which includes Mercury exiting shadow phase and the Sun ingressing Virgo, both tomorrow) to be officially “boring.” I didn’t want to rock the boat, so I thought I’d see what message I might get for Planet Waves’ readers if I pulled a card from the Sustain Yourself deck of oracle cards by James Wanless.
The card that came up was “Face to Face,” which comes with the subtitle “Love.” It’s a pretty foundational concept — that we need to give and receive love to live sustainably — yet it seemed a bit generic initially. The astrology suggests otherwise.
First, consider that the asteroid Psyche ingresses Libra today. Libra was home to last week’s Mars-Saturn conjunction, an event that had many people pushing or stretching their own boundaries and those of their relationships in an effort seek balance. If that process was rocky, you may still be feeling unsure of the balance that was struck.
Now along comes Psyche into the sign of relationships; Psyche represents the sense of a deep, soul-level wound we carry that may seem like it cannot be healed.
These tend to be the very things we least want to reveal to our relationship partners, whether romantic or platonic. We get ashamed very easily of the parts of our selves and our psyches that we think are ‘broken’. Now consider the Face to Face card. Its collage is made up of three sets of couples’ faces close together and/or looking at each other, plus two individual songbirds in mid-warble. In its keywords, Wanless emphasizes that “Life is relationship” — we need to relate, engage and empathize, eye to eye and heart to heart, communicating to communicate.
What psychic wounds do you have that relate specifically to who you are in relationships? Do you feel as though your relationships are always doomed because of this thing about yourself you fear cannot be ‘fixed’? Or did all of last week’s stretching and balancing leave you with a larger, stronger sense of relationship space in which you might explore what you have not yet dared to explore with a healing goal? If so, you have a sense of what to do next, and that diving in, face to face and heart to heart, comes next.