Today’s last quarter Moon is accompanied by an aspect that’s all about nourishment and filling the well (or perhaps accessing a well that’s already full): Jupiter conjunct Ceres in Gemini.
It’s a good thing, since this week there are aspects urging us to take action; to begin wrapping up projects; and a configuration bringing a certain tension to our awareness regarding ego identity, relationships and aspects of ourselves that we’ve cast aside. That’s kind of a lot there on the immediate horizon. If your experience yesterday was a little prickly, you may need a moment to regroup before the momentum picks up at the end of this week.
Ceres is the goddess of the harvest, and in astrology often is prominent with issues regarding food or nourishment. Jupiter is an expansive principle, albeit one that can seem to over-promise if we’re not willing to put a little effort into realizing what it offers. Gemini, for its part, brings in the principle of duality – light and dark, inner and outer, male and female, etc.
This conjunction says it’s a good time to be sure you are feeding both your halves, however you may conceive of those. Or, since Jupiter in Gemini is about multiplicity, you can think of nourishing all your ‘halves’. Why limit yourself to just two? After all, the Cancer Sun is working toward a square with Eris in Aries (we’ll have more on that configuration, which also includes Saturn and the asteroid Varuna, later this week). Eris, named after the goddess of discord, often represents a fragmentation of identity or the parts of ourselves we’ve cast off. By all means, use this time now for a little loving kindness – both towards the parts of yourself you know deserve it, and those parts you may think do not.