After yesterday’s Taurus Full Moon square Nessus (and Venus in the Uanus-Pluto square), what issues of a sexual nature have surfaced for you? We’re in the last few days of the Sun in Scorpio now. As we begin the week, Sunday’s Full Moon themes (including our true desire, and how we’ve reacted to or taken on others’ sexual wounds) are being developed by several planetary players.
First up is Mars (planet of desire and drive) in Virgo square minor planet Ixion and centaur planet Pholus in Sagittarius. A Virgo Mars has a tendency to get hung up on details or get obsessed with ‘getting it right’.
This will only get you so far in matters of sex, relationships and intimacy. Curiosity and honesty tend to be more productive guiding principles and goals in that department
When you obsess over ‘getting it right’, you take yourself out of the moment and out of your body, and sacrifice the fun of exploration and experimentation on the altar of perfectionism.
With the additions of Ixion and Pholus to the equation, the drive for integrity possessed by Mars in Virgo can come at the expense of whomever you’re trying to be intimate with — including yourself.
Healing journeys are messy. And while integrity is important, you don’t need to ‘crucify’ yourself on the baggage of your past failures. All that does is keep you stuck in something with a surface resemblance to integrity, but which is really just self-flagellation.
At the same time as Mars-Ixion-Pholus, Mars is also sextile retrograde Jupiter in Cancer. Jupiter in Cancer offers a way out of the tension being generated by the Mars square — look for the option that feels good. There’s a catch here, though: life is full of behavioral options and indulgences that feel good somehow in the moment, but which are not actually nourishing in the long run.