{"id":44869,"date":"2011-08-31T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=44869"},"modified":"2011-08-31T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T15:28:05","slug":"libra-moon-switching-channels-and-your-obsessive-love-thingie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/libra-moon-switching-channels-and-your-obsessive-love-thingie\/","title":{"rendered":"Libra Moon, switching channels, and your obsessive love thingie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No, you're not wearing beer goggles; it's just a distorted reflection in Lake Ossipee, NH at Dance New England\/Camp Robin Hood. But Venus square Pholus is asking you to check your perceptions in love carefully over the next couple days. Photo by Amanda Painter. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011<\/strong><\/a>. The Moon is in Libra all day, having just made a square to Pluto and an opposition to Uranus overnight. You may have felt that energy as some sort of challenge or surprise to your relationships or a surge in your sense of justice\/injustice, if you happened to be awake for it. Today the Moon makes a conjunction to Saturn at 2:43 pm EDT and then a square to Mars at about 8:28 pm EDT. <\/p>\n

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Given the Moon\u2019s tendency to act as a relay runner, passing the baton of energy from one planet to another, its aspects to Saturn and Mars bring an echo of the Mars-Saturn square of last week. For many of us that aspect was pretty painful and fraught with emotional landmines, and Mercury\u2019s retrograde status at that time did not help in untangling interpersonal conflict gracefully. Again today communication is the key to resolving difficulties, as the Moon makes a sextile to the now-direct Mercury just after its square to Mars. A sextile tends to be a supportive and flowing aspect, so keeping any mutual goals in mind as you work through tension in a relationship may help keep you oriented on where you actually want to be in a way that gets you there.<\/p>\n

Gary Caton recently explored another factor to keep in mind as you thread your way through interpersonal communication in these days: the relationship between Jungian communication \u201cfunctions\u201d or channels and the four elements of astrology. He writes: <\/p>\n

Have you noticed how some people are just harder for you to relate to or communicate with? Is there someone at work or a friend of a friend whom, no matter how hard you try, you just can\u2019t seem to reach? Have you ever replied with what seems like a perfectly reasonable and maybe even extremely thoughtful response to a question or idea for a project and you get no reaction? Sometimes this has nothing to do with the quality of your communication, but rather the \u2018channel\u2019 you are sending it on.<\/p>\n

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One of the first things I learned in my counseling internships was not to respond to feeling with cognition. If someone is telling me how they feel and I respond with conceptual information or practical advice, I may as well be telling them \u201cI don\u2019t care how you feel,\u201d because I have essentially switched channels on them. Even if I just say something formulaic like \u201cWow, that must be hard,\u201d at least I am acknowledging and validating their feelings.<\/p>\n

There are four basic channels that we communicate on. Carl Jung calls these \u201cfunctions\u201d and likens them to cardinal points of a compass. In Psychological Types he tells us the basic nature of these four psychological functions: \u201cSensation establishes what is actually present, thinking enables us to recognize its meaning, feeling tells us its value, and intuition points to possibilities as to whence it came and whither it is going in a given situation.\u201d These four operate in two dichotomous pairs whereby the functions of thinking versus feeling, and sensation versus intuition, form the core of the personality.<\/p>\n

Just like a counselor should not respond to feeling with thinking, it is hard to see what direction something is going (intuitive) when you are examining its chemical composition (sensing). For each of these pairs, most of us tend to choose one of these functions over the other as our default position. For instance in the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator, a person scores as either Sensate or Intuitive. So, most people have a personal preference for one way of processing over the other. The sensate person focuses on the details of what is there. The intuitive person focuses on movement. They are communicating on different channels, and so no matter how hard they try, if one of them does not switch channels they may not hear what the other person is saying. Some people call this talking \u2018at\u2019 someone.<\/p>\n

In astrology, it is common to correlate Jung\u2019s four functions with the four elements: Sensation = earth, Thinking = air, Feeling = water, and Intuition = fire. So, right now with Jupiter and Mercury both near stations (Jupiter is still in the midst of its station, through Sept. 1), we have a struggle between the sensation of what something is, or what it is made of (Jupiter in Taurus\/earth) and the intuition (Mercury in Leo\/fire) of where it is going. <\/p>\n

Depending on what your default position is, you may need to change your \u2018channel\u2019. The Sensate types could stand to lift their head up from their microscopes to get a sense of directionality; the Intuitive types could stand to focus a bit and understand more about the basic nature of what has caught their eye. Both functions or channels are currently heightened but which one you need to communicate on will depend on who you are talking to and which is your naturally dominant function. If things are frustrating, try changing channels and see if somebody\u2019s ears perk up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking of ears (and perhaps other body parts) perking up, Venus is coming up on a square to Pholus in a couple of days. Pholus has as a key phrase, \u201csmall cause, big effect,\u201d and of course Venus is all about amore. Translation: don\u2019t let your mind and emotions run away with you. Eric called it an \u201cobsessive love thingie\u201d last night. I thought it simply sounded like a fun band name, but he had a point worth tucking in your pocket in case you need a reminder as we head toward the weekend: \u201cExpress your love thingie in an understated way. You don’t need to rent the fire truck to present flowers on the third floor, just ring the buzzer.\u201d And when the object of your obsessive love thingie answers the door, keep your eyes and ears perked. You\u2019ll want to be sure you\u2019re on the same channel as you explain how you feel, and hear the reply.<\/p>\n

Amanda Painter<\/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 Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. The Moon is in Libra all day, having just made a square to Pluto and an opposition to Uranus overnight. You may have felt that energy as some sort of challenge or surprise to your relationships or a surge in your sense of justice\/injustice, if you happened to be … 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\/44869"}],"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=44869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}