Today is Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. The Moon starts the day in Capricorn, transitioning to Aquarius just before dawn at 5:42 am EDT. This transition could feel like a weight has lifted or some restricted territory has been opened up, and you’ll probably start the day with more energy or a better outlook than the past couple days.
One primary factor that has been challenging energy and outlook for many of us has been the mutable-cross cluster of minor planets, the Great Attractor and the Sun. This space has been featuring this configuration this week, in particular the multi-point conjunction in mid-Sagittarius. That grouping includes awareness-raising Centaurs Pholus (‘small cause, big effect’; intoxicants; ancestral baggage) and Hylonome (individual and collective grief); asteroids Narcissus (toxic self-love) and Sphinx (sense of deep mystery); minor planet Ixion (‘anyone is capable of anything’; a type of amorality); and the Great Attractor, a thing of unknowable magnitude pulling all of us toward it with a sense of alienation.
Another challenging factor has been this week’s march toward the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 incident. There is a fine line between paying respect versus picking emotional scabs in order to make money, perpetuating collective fear and reinforcing a mythology that turns a population against itself. This edge to our underlying emotional landscape has been fraying our psyches. And that itself is a state of being that has been used to the advantage of many in power, and those who aspire to be. In our moment of history, that is done partly by taking advantage of a current human tendency to believe — or disbelieve — what we want, regardless of truth or understanding.