{"id":42218,"date":"2011-07-27T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=42218"},"modified":"2011-07-27T13:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T17:43:13","slug":"process-process-process-moon-mars-in-gemini-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/process-process-process-moon-mars-in-gemini-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Process process process… Moon-Mars in Gemini, and friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Wednesday July 27, 2011.<\/strong><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday Eric mentioned that Mars in late Gemini, opposite the Galactic Core, can relate to an \u201cargumentative mentality\u201d and \u201can \u2018unspiritual\u2019 feeling that wants for balance and a sense of ethics.\u201d If that is sounding painfully familiar to you, take heart: you\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n

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 \u2018helpful\u2019 or \u2018balanced\u2019 in this space very challenging at this moment that I\u2019m writing. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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\u2019m going to emphasize the pull between creative expression versus simply proclaiming to the world in your brashest lion\u2019s roar, by quoting some advice my friend Matthew shared on Facebook just before I started writing. He wrote: \u201cImportant things I have learned #123: Process process process all you like… Just don\u2019t hit \u2018send\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ah — right; a little discernment and restraint can go a long way in any mentally fraught and emotionally loaded state. But with Mercury now less than a week from stationing retrograde, Matthew\u2019s advice might be worth printing out and taping to your computer monitor. In big red letters. With flashing marquee lights. In fact, I might create an email alert for myself, set to remind me with chimes and a pop-up window every 20 minutes until Mercury clears out of the echo zone on the other side. Then again, given the standard Mercury retrograde tendencies, the analog version might be best after all.<\/p>\n

Sticking with the theme of warnings just a bit longer, the Moon and Mars are in a mutable square to Juno, which is hanging out in the last degree of Virgo. With Virgo ruled by Mercury, the planet of the mind, this could serve to amplify any jealous or score-keeping thoughts that come up for you. Watch that you don\u2019t let them become obsessive loops. Those can start to create their own versions of \u2018reality\u2019 which, of course, are not the full story. But the square to the Moon may have you feeling the tension of that \u2018reality\u2019 quite palpably, and thinking those feelings are all that matter. <\/p>\n

If this comes up for you, see if you can use the square\u2019s angle like a fulcrum, letting Mars push you forward and out of the mental-emotional loop. This is about taking action, but again, discernment is in order. Make sure your action is of the creative or physical variety, not the reactive variety. Choose any collaborators\/recipients carefully, i.e., someone who is not the object (genuine or projected) of your conflict. When you\u2019re done — and you can clearly feel that you\u2019re someplace new and a bit more balanced — then you can take another look at that \u2018processing\u2019 email. It may very well be one best left in your journal or your next therapy session. In fact, you may find it incredibly useful in directing your next dive into the deep waters that Chiron and Neptune are calling you to explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}