Today is Friday, December 16, 2011. If you feel yourself alternating between conflicting urges as you head into the weekend, you are in tune with the sky, as the luminaries and two personal planets are making strong aspects. The big event on the horizon is the Sun, nearing its conjunction with the Galactic Center in late Sagittarius on Monday.
The Sun’s alignment with the Galactic Center (the core of our galaxy and our spiritual homing signal) offers a sense of contact with something we long for — if we’re open to feeling it. With the Sun making a sextile to Saturn in Libra at the same time, see if you can let this sense of contact and spiritual clarity or spaciousness infuse your relationships.
This could happen in how you perceive these relationships emotionally, or in how you actually structure them. With a sextile, you can work the flow of energy from either side of that equation to inform and evolve the other. Either way, the idea is to allow contact and a feeling of surrender to genuine loving-kindness. Then by Wednesday, since the solstice can arrive with a sense of release from our feeling of time compression, you may feel like a destination has been reached.
The Moon is a little easier for most of us to feel and conceptualize than the GC. It entered Virgo last night, and tomorrow it squares the Sun. This is the last quarter (waning) Moon, and it generally feels like an urge to finish up whatever projects you have been working on for the last three weeks, rather than starting new ones. This year we have a New Moon on Christmas Eve. If you celebrate that holiday you may feel an extra sense of pressure to finalize gift-buying and other preparations, with a natural sense of completion when done. Since tomorrow’s quarter Moon is in Virgo, don’t be surprised if you find yourself a bit more particular than usual about how your holiday preparations and projects get done. Try to take ‘imperfections’ in stride and go with the flow. When the Moon enters Libra on Sunday at 3:06 am EST, you’ll be better able to see the beauty in it all anyway.