{"id":61086,"date":"2012-09-06T06:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=61086"},"modified":"2012-09-06T07:11:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:11:03","slug":"news-from-taurusscorpio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/news-from-taurusscorpio\/","title":{"rendered":"News from Taurus\/Scorpio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Thursday morning to you. The Moon is now in Taurus, close to its own South Node. The nodes of the Moon have recently arrived on the Taurus-Scorpio axis (that happened last week), a story I’ve yet to tell properly. The North and South nodes travel together, activating an axis of the zodiac, and functioning as a kind of reference point. The nodes travel retrograde, so they’re the only points that enter a sign at the end of the sign and leave early in the sign.<\/p>\n

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Chart for Thursday, Sept. 6 at 10:07 pm EDT — the Moon crossing its own South Node, conjunct the Black Moon Lilith and square Transpluto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking in abbreviated notation, the evolutionary theme of the nodes in Taurus-Scorpio is about attachment, and its various shades of possessiveness, jealousy and compersion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Compersion is what you get, or perhaps where you can go, when you’ve begun to address attachment honestly; it’s the feeling of love that comes through when much darker, toxic emotions are recognized for what they are.<\/p>\n

In true cosmic harmony, an asteroid called Juno (jealousy, marriage and marriage partners, inclination to social justice) is in late Scorpio, close to the North Node. So there’s a clear signal coming through about bonding, and going deep into the emotional\/sexual dimension of relating to others.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the Moon is about to sweep past its own South Node, diving into south declination — that is to say, below the celestial equator. This is presenting a truly interesting and complex psychological situation, which you may see a match for in your life or in the world over the next 24 hours or so. While there is this pull to go deep into bonding with others, there’s something at the same time about addressing the shadow side of that, which is jealousy and attachment.<\/p>\n

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People are remarkably casual about jealousy, as if nobody could possibly help having the urge to kill or throw up when they witness love somewhere outside of themselves. Jealousy is the eruption of attachment; the attachment is often present in latent or slightly subtler form. Yet we all know that jealous episodes are truly tales from the dark side. Not long ago this was considered so ‘normal’ and in a sense acceptable that it was considered a valid defense to murder, known as the “crime of passion<\/a>” defense (sometimes called “temporary insanity”).<\/p>\n

Jealousy is inherently related to murder. Ask anyone who counsels people in abusive relationships. The Moon crossing its own South Node and an odd point called the Black Moon Lilith might represent an outburst of loss or jealousy (connected to a past situation) or it can describe releasing these feelings, in the interest of having something resembling an actual experience of relating. There are many who believe that if someone isn’t jealous, they don’t really love you. It’s time to challenge this. How about: if someone cannot set you free, they don’t love you.<\/p>\n

This whole setup begs for clarification of the difference between love and attachment. Yet there’s something else going on — something about self-esteem. I’m picking this up from an odd bit called Transpluto in the last degree of Leo, where it’s been hanging out for a while (it moves very slowly). Beneath all of this attachment drama is something deeper, which is a self-esteem crisis. When you don’t have yourself to lean on, that makes other people seem essential to feeling good about yourself. That works — to a point, before failing utterly. One person cannot build their own identity on that of another person.<\/p>\n

Underneath the self-esteem crisis there’s yet another layer — what we haven’t said about ourselves. As in, what we’re feeling, who we really want, what we want and all that goes with it — which is supremely threatening to relationships that are built on the flammable house of cards known as attachment.<\/p>\n

Cousins, there is another way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the same time, the Moon is about to sweep past its own South Node, diving into south declination — that is to say, below the celestial equator. This is presenting a truly interesting and complex psychological situation, which you may see a match for in your life or in the world over the next 24 hours or so. While there is this pull to go deep into bonding with others, there’s something at the same time about addressing the shadow side of that, which is jealousy and attachment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/61086"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}