{"id":60647,"date":"2012-08-21T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=60647"},"modified":"2012-08-21T00:39:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T04:39:10","slug":"daily-astro-tues-aug-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/daily-astro-tues-aug-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Face to Face: Balancing Psyche in Libra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Eric proclaimed this week\u2019s astrology (which includes Mercury exiting shadow phase and the Sun ingressing Virgo, both tomorrow) to be officially \u201cboring.\u201d I didn\u2019t want to rock the boat, so I thought I\u2019d see what message I might get for Planet Waves\u2019 readers if I pulled a card from the Sustain Yourself deck of oracle cards by James Wanless. <\/p>\n

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The ‘Face to Face’ or ‘Love’ card from the Sustain Yourself oracle deck by James Wanless.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The card that came up was \u201cFace to Face,\u201d which comes with the subtitle \u201cLove.\u201d It\u2019s a pretty foundational concept — that we need to give and receive love to live sustainably — yet it seemed a bit generic initially. The astrology suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n

First, consider that the asteroid Psyche ingresses Libra today. Libra was home to last week\u2019s Mars-Saturn conjunction, an event that had many people pushing or stretching their own boundaries and those of their relationships in an effort seek balance. If that process was rocky, you may still be feeling unsure of the balance that was struck. <\/p>\n

Now along comes Psyche into the sign of relationships; Psyche represents the sense of a deep, soul-level wound we carry that may seem like it cannot be healed.<\/p>\n

These tend to be the very things we least want to reveal to our relationship partners, whether romantic or platonic. We get ashamed very easily of the parts of our selves and our psyches that we think are \u2018broken\u2019. Now consider the Face to Face card. Its collage is made up of three sets of couples\u2019 faces close together and\/or looking at each other, plus two individual songbirds in mid-warble. In its keywords, Wanless emphasizes that \u201cLife is relationship\u201d — we need to relate, engage and empathize, eye to eye and heart to heart, communicating to communicate. <\/p>\n

What psychic wounds do you have that relate specifically to who you are in relationships? Do you feel as though your relationships are always doomed because of this thing about yourself you fear cannot be \u2018fixed\u2019? Or did all of last week\u2019s stretching and balancing leave you with a larger, stronger sense of relationship space in which you might explore what you have not yet dared to explore with a healing goal? If so, you have a sense of what to do next, and that diving in, face to face and heart to heart, comes next.<\/p>\n

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This does not run counter to Eric\u2019s advice from yesterday<\/a>, which was to focus on finishing a specific project and to focus on discovering a specific thing about yourself as a way to feel good about yourself. Rather, the Face to Face card is a reminder that your focus on finishing and discovery need not be done in isolation. In fact, if your focus on self-discovery takes you anywhere near places within yourself that you fear cannot be healed, the opposite is crucial.<\/p>\n

Try speaking these discoveries out loud, to a partner, friend or select community. Ask one or more of these people to assist you as you finish your project, and offer the same to them. Life coach Barbara Sher is fond of saying, \u201cIsolation is the dream killer.\u201d If you dream of finishing the project, or understanding yourself, or putting a psychic wound of some sort into perspective so you can work on it, don\u2019t think you have to sequester yourself. Focus is not the same as isolation.<\/p>\n

Remember, the Sun is making its ingress to Virgo Wednesday, and before it does so, it is conjunct the hypothetical point Transpluto in late Leo (this is where Eric got the \u2018focus\u2019 theme). Both Transpluto and Virgo can come with a tendency toward self-criticism. Self-criticism is its worst when we allow ourselves to be isolated in our thoughts. Usually when we express self-critical thoughts to another, we give the other person a chance to help us see another perspective, to question our beliefs about ourselves. Any monsters of self-doubt lurking under the bed get shrunk down to dust-bunny size.<\/p>\n

Mercury, in leaving its last shadow phase after its last retrograde for almost three months, is giving the Sun the \u2018all clear\u2019 to enter Virgo, which Mercury rules. Among Virgo\u2019s more positive qualities is a true calling to and love of service. As you finish your project and focus on that nugget of self-discovery, leaving you feeling better about yourself, remember to extend the feeling, face to face, with another. A little self-love goes a long way when you share it with a friend, intimate partner or community. In return, you may put whatever the asteroid Psyche represents into better balance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Eric proclaimed this week\u2019s astrology (which includes Mercury exiting shadow phase and the Sun ingressing Virgo, both tomorrow) to be officially \u201cboring.\u201d I didn\u2019t want to rock the boat, so I thought I\u2019d see what message I might get for Planet Waves\u2019 readers if I pulled a card from the Sustain Yourself deck of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/60647"}],"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=60647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}