{"id":44247,"date":"2011-08-18T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=44247"},"modified":"2011-08-17T23:38:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T03:38:02","slug":"moon-eris-square-mercury-and-jupiters-boost-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/moon-eris-square-mercury-and-jupiters-boost-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon-Eris square Mercury and Jupiter’s boost to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011.<\/strong><\/a> The Moon is in Aries all day. While there, it makes a conjunction to Eris, and the two of them trine retrograde Mercury. That\u2019s a bit of a mouthful, emotionally speaking, but it is navigable. It can feel like alienation and fragmentation, given the placement in Aries. Applied to the Moon, it becomes \u2018the postmodern mother\u2019 \u2013 a bit deconstructed.<\/p>\n

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Does this describe at all your relationship to your own mother? Or how you see her in that role? You may be prompted to consider these questions further by another small, influential player in that mix. Nessus is in Aquarius, opposite Mercury and sextile the Moon-Eris conjunction. Mercury (which represents children) is picking up some dark energy, and beaming it out from Leo, which also represents children. You may encounter a playback of childhood trauma with this aspect. <\/p>\n

The tricky thing is, you might not recognize it as such. Some of the buttons getting pushed in these days were set so long ago, and by those whom we so trusted as infallible, that we can\u2019t see how old they are. The lover, the friend, the boss, the coworker may get upset or call us out, but in our reaction to that, how much emotion and self-judgment actually belongs to that encounter? <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re feeling unworthy, like you\u2019ve failed, or defensive to the point of being unable to empathize, see how far you can get if you stop to parse that out. You may need help with that \u2013 the ear of a therapist or a particularly insightful and incisive friend, for instance. And you may not find the root at all this time. But if your attention has been called in that direction, you can still get as close as you can, from where you are. That is all any of us can do. So be gentle with yourself, recognize the tools you currently have and those you still need to search out in order to move forward. Mercury retrograde in Leo is all about this self-inquiry.<\/p>\n

Today brings a bright boost of assistance, too. Mars in Cancer is sextile Jupiter in Taurus. This is a constructive relationship between earth and water. Emotional drive meets practicality. It\u2019s a great day to get things done. With regard to anything you\u2019re building or value \u2013 whether something tangible or the self-inquiry just mentioned — move toward the future one step at a time. As the saying goes, a journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step. Just say yes to something. Do<\/em> something. <\/p>\n

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The emotional nature has been stirred up and activated by Mars\u2019 interactions with Uranus-Pluto last week and his recent transition point with the Sun (moving from \u2018new\u2019 to \u2018crescent\u2019 phase). This emotional energy needs a container. Water has no shape of its own but takes on that of its surroundings. Jupiter in Taurus is here to restore forward-looking optimism and keep you from dwelling on the past. Yes, you need to investigate the past and reconcile with it, but growing means taking what you\u2019ve learned and moving forward. So take a step in that direction. Anything that is optimistic, open ended and seeks more out of life will be supported today.<\/p>\n

After you have taken this step, ask others to meet you there — or at least halfway. Be determined not to get pulled back into negativity and the past. If confronted by such from others, you can set a good example simply by telling people you are doing the next right thing for yourself. <\/p>\n

This will serve you well as Mars is moving into a square with Saturn over the next week. When drive and desire meet the cosmic container, the tension could be maddening or it could be very productive. It\u2019s a perfect example of an opportunity to use the square aspect as a fulcrum. Mars provides the drive to move the lever of your life. If you can use it to catapult yourself from one structural conception of your life to a new one, you may find the process exhilarating. Yes, this takes some embracing of a sense of risk \u2013 rather like taking a big leap off a rope swing into a river. You use the central point of the rope\u2019s attachment to swing from the branch in the air (Saturn in Libra) out to moving water (Mars in Cancer). It may feel scary, but remember the danger is in forgetting to let go into the flow: hanging onto the rope may swing you into the shore or the tree trunk. Better to use the energy to land someplace new and welcoming of your becoming.<\/p>\n

By Gary Caton and Amanda Painter, with Eric Francis<\/em><\/p>\n

Notice and choose: in fresh horoscopes weekly and twice monthly, the current sky speaks through your Sun and rising signs. Eric unfolds the themes in Planet Waves subscriber edition<\/strong><\/a> and Planet Waves Light<\/strong><\/a> so you can notice your patterns and choose consciously.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. The Moon is in Aries all day. While there, it makes a conjunction to Eris, and the two of them trine retrograde Mercury. That\u2019s a bit of a mouthful, emotionally speaking, but it is navigable. It can feel like alienation and fragmentation, given the placement in Aries. Applied to … 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\/44247"}],"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=44247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}