Today is Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. The Moon is in Scorpio all day today. It leaves for Sagittarius at 12:42 am EDT Saturday morning, where it will spend the weekend – perhaps finding god after its sexy Friday night?
That said, relationships continue to be the theme, with or without sex involved. We often try to find ourselves in our relationships, putting to them the questions of “who am I” and “what do I want?” and getting quite stuck – and building up toxic resentments – when we cannot find our answers there. In fact, Jan Seward addressed this very phenomenon in her column yesterday evening, noting that we often look for partners who embody the parts of ourselves we’ve repressed and cast off. Unfortunately, the longer we’re faced with this mirror of all we are not — but wish we were — the more likely we are to take out our pain on our partner.
Clearly relationships don’t have to be that way. The solution is to focus on self-awareness. The question many of us face is figuring out how to keep that focus and still stay in an intimate partnership, without one or the other taking over. How can we feel free enough to explore ourselves fully as part of a pair? How can we maintain a functional partnership if we need to be free?