In the background of tomorrow’s Cancer Full Moon, another aspect is building that is adding yet another layer of tension or ‘color’ to any questions of relationship, sex or gender roles you have brewing. That would be a square between Venus, retrograde in Capricorn, and Mars in Libra (exact Jan. 16 at 12:13 pm EST).
We tend to think of squares as being simply about inner tension that we resolve through action — and that is one way to experience them. You can also think of a square as a process, first working one side of the square and then the other. Often when under the influence of a square we act as though only one side of it is present for a while, then become more aware of the other side and work that energy.
Eventually, with whatever action we take to resolve the square, we actually integrate the two sides of the aspect — resulting, according to Eric, in something with great integrity. He says, “The whole aspect can be experienced in context. So the square really says, ‘check out both sides of the story’.”
In the case of this Venus-Mars square, part of the context involves each sign being a little out of its element, yet in something very much like mutual reception. (It’s actually ‘mixed reception’, since although Venus rules Libra, Mars is exalted in Capricorn, not its ruler.)