Today is Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. The Moon is in Scorpio until Saturday evening EDT, when it goes into Sagittarius. At the moment (Friday morning) it’s making an exact opposition to Jupiter in Taurus. And the Virgo Sun is trine Jupiter, which has just stationed retrograde. So that puts Jupiter into the spotlight, which in Taurus describes getting real about what’s important to you. The trine from the Sun is an aspect that features prominently in this week’s Planet Waves horoscope.
However, I think the distinctive aspects of the weekend both involve Eris. This is a relatively new planet, and one of the more significant of the many discoveries in recent years because it is the most distant one known to be orbiting our Sun, and it prompted the reorganization of our ideas of what a planet is. Eris is the one that got Pluto ‘demoted’ back in 2006. Remember that? One of the theories I’ve been developing about Eris involves how this planet represents the castaway woman. This can be about specific people — in particular, excluded people (often women, but there are plenty of excluded men) — or the aspect of our psyche that feels excluded from the world around us.
Being cast away, or feeling excluded, can have many strange expressions, one of which may be humanity’s dependable propensity to go along with the next war, no matter who the enemy might be. That’s because with Eris, the enemy is perceived within. When that happens unconsciously, we either project it outward as conflict, or take it on as a feeling of deep alienation.