Today is Wednesday July 27, 2011. The Moon is still in late Gemini, and leaves for Cancer at about 9:11 pm EDT. In the course of the day it conjuncts the South Node, and a bit later, Mars at about 12:55 pm EDT.
Yesterday Eric mentioned that Mars in late Gemini, opposite the Galactic Core, can relate to an “argumentative mentality” and “an ‘unspiritual’ feeling that wants for balance and a sense of ethics.” If that is sounding painfully familiar to you, take heart: you’re not alone. For some, this conflict is manifesting as entirely personal. But for you it may be that the insanity the U.S. government is engaging in with the country’s debt has you in a state of gut-wrenching shock. It would seem a large faction of our so-called leaders are pushing for actual default, for a complete market crash — and they no longer seem to care who knows that is their aim. It may be a bit like watching someone driving their car off a cliff, with the sickening feeling of being too far away to do anything.
In any case, I have a feeling I may not be the only person around who spent far too much time yesterday twisted up in some kind of mental/emotional knot, desperately looking for a loose end to pull — or at least a way to rationalize skipping out on work to exorcise demons with some physical exertion. In fact, that knot is making writing anything remotely ‘helpful’ or ‘balanced’ in this space very challenging at this moment that I’m writing.
But perhaps persevering in writing is a way through for all of us — whether you’re writing to your congressperson, your friends, a publication or simply in your journal. Mercury is in the last degree of Leo, getting ever-tighter in its opposition to the Chiron-Neptune conjunction in Pisces. Oppositions are polarizing, and Len often offers the advice to work one side, and the the other side of such an aspect.
Here, we have on one side a pull between an urge to simply put ourselves out there full-blast to the whole world with whatever we have to say about ourselves; and on the other, an undercurrent of old pain seeking creative expression. That pain may come from someplace foggy and inscrutable, but Chiron is pulling it into focus so that we might address it productively. Again, I’m going to emphasize the pull between creative expression versus simply proclaiming to the world in your brashest lion’s roar, by quoting some advice my friend Matthew shared on Facebook just before I started writing. He wrote: “Important things I have learned #123: Process process process all you like… Just don’t hit ‘send’.”