Today is Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. The Moon continues is trek through Cancer all day. It is a comfortable placement for the Moon – its home sign – and on its way through, it makes a trine to Ceres in mid-Pisces. This angle is all about flow. And in this case, what’s flowing is our emotions about food: how we find comfort in food; food as a stand-in for home; creativity through cooking; sharing ourselves by sharing a meal in our home; how our relationships to food were shaped by our mothers.
This week, however, the Moon-Ceres relationship is a bit edgier than it generally is. That’s because Ceres is taking a square from the big conjunction in mid-Sagittarius: Mercury-Venus-Great Attractor-Pholus-Ixion. It’s an intense configuration carrying baggage, and the Moon is amplifying it into our emotional bodies.
The good thing about that is that the more aware we are of the material surfacing for us, the better we can deal with it. Consider yesterday’s suggestions for the week: move gently, making small moves with clarity. It’s the opposite of reacting, though not always as ‘natural’ a way of walking through the world for some of us. The Moon is emotional; Venus is emotional; Mercury is more associated with thoughts, but remember, ‘mercurial’ refers to a rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood. So we have emotional planets joining up with Ceres and Pholus: the reminder is to cultivate awareness around food this week.
The fact that the angle from Sagittarius to Pisces is a square (in this case, mutable sign to mutable sign) means the tension is internal, and that’s where we’ll work through it as we make decisions and small moves. The pressure may feel large, but it may not take dramatic steps to relieve it – just one that’s carefully considered. Changes in perspective count as making a move. How are you feeling about food these days? Is it a palliative or a creative act for you? Something to share or something to horde? Are you reveling in the last of your garden’s bounty, or beating yourself up for eating too much Halloween candy — and already anticipating how disappointed you’ll be in your food choices over the winter holidays?