Today is Thursday, December 8, 2011. What is that thing within you that keeps blindly pushing for expression? Have you put your finger on it yet? It’s okay if you’re not sure – don’t put unnecessary pressure on yourself – but be aware the next couple days may see it pushing for your attention a little harder. Tomorrow, just over 24 hours before Saturday’s total lunar eclipse, the Sun will form a conjunction with Pholus one degree from where it will oppose the Moon.
Pholus is one of the centaur planets, a class of objects that often bring to the surface old wounds, familial issues and cycles that need our attention and healing. Chiron is the best known of these bodies. Pholus, for its part, often has to do with alcohol, small causes setting far-reaching effects in motion, and the releasing of ancestral processes. Planet Waves has explored these themes in recent installments (here is one from Nov. 14) as various points have aspected Pholus.
This week, our attention turned toward the idea of clearing away space as the Sun conjoined the Great Attractor on its way to Saturday’s eclipse, in order to make space for any transformations we need to initiate. Eclipses present us with a shift in continuity that can give us the extra boost we need for a growth spurt; yesterday Mars made an opposition that offered some leverage between our beliefs and actions to continue the process. Now, on the cusp of the Gemini Full Moon eclipse, there’s an opportunity to access the more useful facets of what Pholus brings to the table – as well as to acknowledge any shadow material that may sabotage us if we don’t work with it consciously. For that is another of Pholus’ (indeed, all of the centaurs’) hallmarks: whatever we ignore can become very destructive, as Juan Revilla has noted.