Today is Wednesday, July 13, 2011. The Moon enters Capricorn at 10:14 am EDT, where it will be full overnight Thursday to Friday. A set of minor planets will square that Full Moon to the degree. And at the heart of that set of aspects is a slow-moving, long-standing square between Varuna and Eris. Planet Waves covered this square back in April when the quarter Moon brought it to light.
Now the Full Moon is shining an even stronger spotlight on this arrangement, which has been working the whole time in the background. One way to figure out what the Varuna-Eris square means is to look around to see what in our world, and our lives, has increased in luminosity — whether you choose to define that as glare or glow.
In one realm, the US debt ceiling issue and the unfolding Murdoch/NoTW scandal are clearly the things blasting into focus right now; only you can say for sure what is being brought to light in your personal life. But we can all be sure of one thing: it’s getting our attention for a reason. Chances are both realms, looked at from the right perspective, have something to do with a fracturing and wholeness; with presenting a unified face; or to borrow from yesterday’s post at Len’s suggestion: casting off layers for some skinny-dipping by the soul/self.
In the meantime, as we feel our way into this unfolding landscape, the Moon in Capricorn is far from her home sign of Cancer. In Capricorn, she is in the sign of the beginning of winter, a time when traditionally you have to be careful to structure and ration your food supply in order to make it to spring. So the Moon in Capricorn can make us feel a little fussy or even somewhat neurotic around issues of safety and nurturing and perhaps trigger themes related to your past, your heritage, your habit patterns, and your comfort zones. Conversely, if these are not a problem for you now, this Capricorn Moon could lend some serious, stable and self-starting energy to kick off a long-term project or the next phase of one. Either way, this will involve some choices.