Dear Friend and Reader:
Its been awhile since I’ve used that beginning in my articles. Recently though, in a conversation with Eric about writing, we came to the agreement that a good blog is really a letter from the heart, which often begins with “Dear.” I liken this one today as a letter to home.
When you look at the planetary snapshot of present time — Jupiter and Saturn in opposition, Uranus and Pluto leaning into their historic 90-degree meeting — what do we see? To me, this looks like the balance between exuberance in the new and unexpected and the limitation and constraints of our reaction — or relationship to that new experience. The Aquarius Moon, as Len points out, reminds us that right now these feelings of duality are shared on a community scale.
Maybe right now you are feeling a little lost at the moment, like a taxi you’ve been riding has left you at the curb of an unknown neighborhood — maybe the landmarks are different, the people have changed. The lack of familiarity — the exit from routine — leaves us at a loss as to who and where we are. Add to that a vague sense of threat from something unknown but powerful and one cannot help but feel helpless, far from home. But what is home? Who is there?
The current nature of the times we live in is that change is coming in waves in our personal and global experience. Sometimes days like these can scare me shitless too, because I don’t know how to react. There is no gauge from previous historical reference to begin naming the new experience. If you have no words to describe how you feel at the moment because the situation and the feelings and reactions it invokes are unfamiliar, how could you verbalize or share what you’re experiencing with others? How can you get some comfort that you are not alone?