Today is Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The newly waning Moon begins the day still in Taurus, moving into airy Gemini at 3:10 pm EDT. Personally, I experienced yesterday’s Full Moon as one of the mellowest and most grounded ever. How about you? Or did your experience have more in common with some of the craziness in the news? Either way, you’ll want to pay attention when the Moon makes its move today and sets off some fireworks. At that point, it squares Mars in Virgo and Chiron in Pisces, forming a mutable T-square with high mental energy.
Also, today in the U.S. it’s Veteran’s Day, the national holiday when we honor the living soldiers who have served our country. Falling as it does on a Friday – when many are thinking about weekend romance — it’s strangely fitting, then, that a multi-point configuration brewing over the weekend and into the middle of next week seems to be asking, ‘Is all fair in love and war’? That very question indicates a breach in integrity. Mull that over this weekend, and we’ll revisit that configuration next week. For now, note that how you feel, what you’re thinking, and how you’re being urged to act today may be at odds.
More to the point, you may need to slow your mental patterns down enough to recognize when any pain you feel has you on the verge of acting or speaking impulsively from that place of hurting – and perhaps against your best interests. It’s amazing how easily we can cut ourselves off from simple healing acts when we react quickly to the automatic thoughts kicked up by the triggering of old, unprocessed wounds. And it can happen before we even realize what’s going on in us.
This is the province of the centaur planets, and we’re right in the middle of Centaur Town right now, working the edge. The Sun is still square Nessus this weekend, urging us to wake up to what’s going on with us. Mercury and Venus are still working the circuit as a couple through Sagittarius, and square Borasisi this weekend ask, ‘What about faith’?