{"id":45772,"date":"2011-09-21T00:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T04:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=45772"},"modified":"2011-09-21T02:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T06:54:30","slug":"approaching-equinox-emotional-equilibrium-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/approaching-equinox-emotional-equilibrium-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaching equinox: emotional equilibrium or bust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011<\/strong><\/a>. The Moon is in Cancer all day, working its way through the early and middle part of that sign. As Eric and Gary have mentioned in this space the past two days, the approaching equinox — which entails the Sun changing signs to Libra — means there is a lot of tension in the air. Also in the background is a Sun-Neptune aspect that is playing with our perceptions and communication in a way that has been called \u201cslippery.\u201d So there\u2019s a lot of potential for frustration and misunderstanding. With the Moon moving through emotional Cancer and squaring first Venus and then Saturn, this is likely to trigger reactions based in parent-child dramas.<\/p>\n

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As the Moon moves trough Cancer, it activates a number of planets, mostly those in cardinal signs — though by virtue of the water element, it also energized Chiron in Pisces last night and will do the same for Ceres late in that same sign. One of the most striking contact points the Moon makes is a square to Venus in early Libra at about 5:38 am EDT. This combined with the rest of the sky is basically a study in emotional nourishment and emotional needs — including not getting these things met.<\/p>\n

Moon in Cancer square Venus in Libra is saying something about looking for love: how we look for it, why we do it, what happens when we do it. And if you happen to find yourself defaulting to a parental model, it can say something about how we often tend to mess it up. How do we get to the adult-adult level of relating in our intimate partnerships? I\u2019m still not sure, myself. It seems this Moon is going to be playing the child as it applies to a trine with Ceres in Pisces on Thursday — a Ceres that is retrograde, no less. So in that corner we may at least have something resolving in some way, something opening up. Ceres retrograde in Pisces has been about withholding emotional nourishment. Have you noticed that anywhere in your life? It may feel more palpable in the next day or so.<\/p>\n

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Now with the Moon moving on to square Venus, the same story is starting to repeat itself. How do you negotiate availability and getting needs met with a lover versus with your mother? And then, as the Moon moves through Cancer today to square Saturn at about 11:37 pm EDT, the Moon becomes Mother to Saturn\u2019s Father. The archetypes are opposites, but they\u2019re thrown into a square aspect. So this tension has a feeling of immediacy, a sense of needing to make a choice. But about what? Can you get past whatever emotional knee-jerk reactions you may be having to see what your choices are? Juno nearby in Libra, pulling away from its conjunction with Saturn, is keeping the tally of hurt feelings close to the surface. And as the Libra equinox nears, we edge closer to a tipping point. Something has to give in order to find some balance.<\/p>\n

Whatever it is, see if you can detach just enough from whatever current of emotions you may be caught up in so that you can sort out where any feelings of hurt, neglect or powerlessness are coming from. If your reactions to a partner currently look a lot like your reaction to your mother or father — or if they mirror your parents\u2019 dysfunction — try to work out that level first. Yes, the equinox will bring a transition; but you deserve to make sure any changes you make are made from a place of clarity and maturity. The urge to run away from emotional stress and join the circus may be compelling right now; validating your dreams and goals for yourself — rather than railing against someone else\u2019s perceived agenda for you — may be crucial to finding your balance with minimal trauma or drama.<\/p>\n

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

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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. The Moon is in Cancer all day, working its way through the early and middle part of that sign. As Eric and Gary have mentioned in this space the past two days, the approaching equinox — which entails the Sun changing signs to Libra — means there is a … 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\/45772"}],"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=45772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}