Today is Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. The Moon will continue through Taurus today, then ingresses Gemini at 10:15 am EDT on Saturday, having added its glow to the Venus-Jupiter opposition yesterday. That aspect is exact today at 7:53 pm EDT, but most of us have been feeling it build all week – like a second Full Moon, pushing and pulling us between extremes of values. The week’s primary theme has been oppositions, and they aren’t over yet. In fact the astrology is very much a developing story, and it promises to be interesting.
So far we’ve encountered questions about our tendency to look for ourselves in relationships (and how little that works these days) with the Aries Full Moon; we may have come to some revelations as a result. Venus-Jupiter has us vacillating between attraction and expansion, and begs a careful eye toward overdoing either. There is sexual and emotional tension in the air, which can be exciting. Tomorrow is another one sure to get us reflecting deeply: the Sun in Libra opposite Eris in Aries. While it’s exact Saturday, it’s something we can feel now.
The Sun is strong in Aries – the fiery luminary representing Self in the fire sign of Self. But right now the Sun is in Libra looking back, and it sees Eris: the minor planet of discord, identity chaos, and what feels like fractured psyche. Eris represents the feeling of being alienated, and what we might do to remedy that. We could say Sun-Eris is a bit like looking in a funhouse mirror, but it might not feel very fun. It can be painful to look in the a mirror (real or metaphorical) and not recognize what you see. Such an experience may be disorienting, overwhelming or dissociative – and that’s how many people feel when they look at the world these days.
Many are questioning where we belong, feeling confused, and wondering why it all seems so complicated. On some level, a lot of people understand this confusion and struggle has to do with self-image. So where do you look for your reflection? Where can you get a clear sense of who you are, where you stand, what you’re worth? So many voices are saying ‘look within’, but if your perception of yourself is distorted, then what?
There are other possibilities for Sun-Eris contacts, one of which is experiencing the power of resolving that fragmentation that Eris can represent. We covered this in the edition Calling Home the Castaway Woman.