Today is Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Feeling at all tossed about, squeezed or pulled right now? We’re being prompted to clear away our psychic debris by the Sun and the Great Attractor in Sagittarius; Mercury is tunneling deep into our spiritual awareness; and we’re nearing the end of this particular eclipse wormhole. Yet amidst all the astrological imperatives to get our soul-act together and work our depths, some of us are working the more practical side of Mars in Virgo these days.
The spiritual stuff is important, but if you’re out of food stamps, out of gas or out of patience, basic survival is driving you hard right now. Just getting through the day may be a real struggle, and Mars in Virgo can have a sense of violence – though it may be all self-directed and more mental than physical. Not that that’s better. It just puts more factors under your own control. Today, one new aspect in the eclipse matrix is Mars opposite the minor planet Borasisi in Pisces.
Borasisi is a Kuiper Belt object — one of those minor planets out by Pluto orbiting our Sun. It was discovered in 1997 and has an orbit lasting 292.6 years, along with its binary companion, Pabu (the two orbit a point between them, and as a pair, travel around the Sun). Borasisi also happens to be a rare example of a planet named after a creator god in a work of modern fiction, rather than ancient myth, as detailed in the subscriber issue With Love From Borasisi from March of this year.
Borasisi comes with the sense of “If I believe it, it must be true” or “If I don’t believe it, it must not be true.” We see this dynamic running amok in politics and popular opinion all the time. The state of being uncertain, the idea of real mystery, tends to make people nervous. So we rush in and fill the void with belief out of fear, instead of trying on the flow of experience.