Today is Monday, November 28, 2011. The Moon is in Capricorn, which, incidentally, is the sign of one of the featured aspects this week. Venus has recently entered Capricorn; it is square Uranus and making a beeline for a conjunction with Pluto. Translation: This is Venus joining the revolution. It’s a sexual revolution, and it’s about the overthrowing of guilt.
We keep making these comparisons between the current nascent protest movement in Western culture and the 1960s. One involved an explosion of creative culture and an anti-war movement complete with draft-dodging, fueled by psychedelic drugs; the other features an economic protest finally making the connection between corporate crime and our endless, unjust wars, fueled by psychedelic social media. The 1960s saw ‘free love’ and ‘women’s lib’, but how far did those externally focused movements really get us? And where is the sexual revolution in the Occupy movement? Unconfirmed allegations by FOX News of fornication in tents don’t quite count. Despite the incredibly creative signs held aloft by Occupiers, excellent spelling ability doesn’t quite tap into our original creative drive enough to count either.
What we have here this week is something more internally located. It’s not about women climbing the corporate ladder or men and women sleeping around in communes. It’s about claiming our sexual space where it really counts the most: inside our own minds.
Although, come to think of it, the astrology does seem to be telling us, “GET LAID!” So — what’s stopping you? Actual lack of opportunity or some inner voice? When you’re in the middle of a hot, primal fantasy about you and someone you barely know, have you ever found your fantasy-self suddenly thinking, “Oh god — what kind of person must he think I am, doing this on our first date and grunting like a pig in heat?” And then you had to remind yourself that there is no judgment in fantasy — you can be whoever you need to be in that moment, with no requirement to supply criticism?