Today is Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. The Moon is in Cancer all day, working its way through the early and middle part of that sign. As Eric and Gary have mentioned in this space the past two days, the approaching equinox — which entails the Sun changing signs to Libra — means there is a lot of tension in the air. Also in the background is a Sun-Neptune aspect that is playing with our perceptions and communication in a way that has been called “slippery.” So there’s a lot of potential for frustration and misunderstanding. With the Moon moving through emotional Cancer and squaring first Venus and then Saturn, this is likely to trigger reactions based in parent-child dramas.
As the Moon moves trough Cancer, it activates a number of planets, mostly those in cardinal signs — though by virtue of the water element, it also energized Chiron in Pisces last night and will do the same for Ceres late in that same sign. One of the most striking contact points the Moon makes is a square to Venus in early Libra at about 5:38 am EDT. This combined with the rest of the sky is basically a study in emotional nourishment and emotional needs — including not getting these things met.
Moon in Cancer square Venus in Libra is saying something about looking for love: how we look for it, why we do it, what happens when we do it. And if you happen to find yourself defaulting to a parental model, it can say something about how we often tend to mess it up. How do we get to the adult-adult level of relating in our intimate partnerships? I’m still not sure, myself. It seems this Moon is going to be playing the child as it applies to a trine with Ceres in Pisces on Thursday — a Ceres that is retrograde, no less. So in that corner we may at least have something resolving in some way, something opening up. Ceres retrograde in Pisces has been about withholding emotional nourishment. Have you noticed that anywhere in your life? It may feel more palpable in the next day or so.