Today is Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. We’re a day away from the Full Moon. This one spans the bridge between Taurus, the sensual, earthy sign ruled by Venus (goddess of love), and Scorpio, the sign of deep, emotional, soul-level transformation, traditionally ruled by Mars (god of drive and desire). In short, a lunation involving the female and male archetypes like this is about sex. This one has some complexity to it, however: the Full Moon is square Nessus in Aquarius. Nessus has a theme of abuse; Aquarius relates to group dynamics. And guess what? We now have two big sex scandals dominating the news. Gee whiz.
One of these scandals has been growing for the last couple weeks: the revelations that former employees of presidential candidate Herman Cain had brought charges of sexual harassment against him in the past. Until yesterday, none of the accusers had spoken publicly, in part due to agreements they made when their cases were settled. Yesterday, however, the latest woman (the fourth) held a press conference to describe what had happened to her, stating in part,
I’m coming forward to give a face and a voice to those women who cannot, or for whatever reason do not wish to, come forward, and on behalf of all women who are sexually harassed in the workplace but do not come out of fear of retaliation or in public humiliation. I really didn’t want to be here today and wouldn’t have been here if it had not been for the three other women who have alleged sexual harassment against Mr. Cain.
The other sex scandal to break in the last few days surrounds Jerry Sandusky, 67 — a former assistant coach who worked with the Penn State college program for more than 30 years before he retired in 1999. Sandusky has been charged with multiple felonies in the alleged sexual abuse of eight boys during a 15-year period. These were boys he was mentoring through a non-profit community youth football program.