Are you feeling at all backed into a corner emotionally? You may not be. If you are, however, does it seem at all as though your abundant light might get hidden by a bushel if you turn to the right, but if you turn to the left, its shine might be all by itself? Welcome to the Cancer Sun in a cardinal T-square, exact over the weekend, with Saturn in Libra on one side and Eris on the other in Aries. The Sun is also conjunct the minor planet Varuna, which has been in a slow moving square to Eris for about four years.
The Cancer Sun is a more emotional Sun than many; the Moon, ruler of our moods and the tides of our collective oceans rules this sign. Cardinal signs need to be free to initiate (these signs begin seasons), and Cancer in particular needs to be free to initiate flow – and to feel. It does not like to feel backed into an emotional corner.
Saturn in Libra for the past couple-plus years has brought our relationship structures to the forefront of our consciousness. Are they working or not? Is a minor adjustment called for, or a full-scale re-conception or dismantling?
Saturn has made three relatively recent oppositions to Eris in Aries. Eris, the goddess of discord, representing alienation, identity fragmentation and identity reunification, has been asking a question with each of these oppositions: where do you actually fit into your relationships? Or rather, where do you locate your identity when you’re in a relationship? Most of us are still working on the answers to these questions, layer by layer, making adjustments as we go.
Now with the Cancer Sun squaring both Saturn and Eris, you may be feeling an imperative to take action. You may locate the impetus as ‘out there in this relationship’, but the tension is actually located within you. It could take a number of different shapes.
One could be the realization that you are, in fact, an independent being. With that might come a sense of, “This relationship as we’ve been living it really does not fit me. I need to risk alienation — real or perceived — in order to find a true, level relationship playing field.” Any realization that you are not quite where you belong will come with tension, but it’s a tension alleviated by identifying the feeling that you need movement, then making the decision to move, and then moving. And ‘moving’ could be as literal or as figurative as you need it to be: a psychological posture or sexual orientation; a new relationship agreement; a new partner(s); a new living situation.