{"id":62416,"date":"2012-11-22T00:57:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62416"},"modified":"2012-11-22T01:04:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T06:04:49","slug":"dont-let-the-centaurs-bring-the-wine-thanksgiving-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/dont-let-the-centaurs-bring-the-wine-thanksgiving-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t let the centaurs bring the wine: Thanksgiving astrology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning: the following Daily Astrology post is unabashedly U.S.-centric. And a little snarky. Today is Thanksgiving Day: perhaps this country\u2019s largest non-religious holiday. It celebrates a legendary shared bountiful harvest between Pilgrim settlers in the New World and native peoples as winter approached. We all know how that went. And as if in honor of the centuries of conflict, baggage and gluttony that has ensued in this country since, the sky is serving up some Thanksgiving astrology, \u2018family reunion-style\u2019, courtesy of the Moon.<\/p>\n

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Thanksgiving by the (Neptune-influenced?) Norman Rockwell: not a Native American, centaur or hint of family baggage in sight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Moon is currently in mid-Pisces: that dreamy, foggy, creative, sexy sign whose modern ruler is Neptune, planet of drugs and denial (and whose traditional ruler is brash, expansive Jupiter). The Moon gets the day started with a slew of squares to the centaur planets clustered in late Sagittarius. These are the critters known for raising all kinds of shadowy baggage material, often the familial\/ancestral stuff, for the purposes of healing it. <\/p>\n

Sound a little\u2026 prickly? Kind of like a big Thanksgiving dinner with family from all over the socio-political and spiritually (un)aware spectrums crowding around a big table and shouting? Your suitcase may be packed light for the physical trip to Grandmother\u2019s house, but the emotional trip can be another story once buttons start getting pushed. And the emotional Moon in an emotional sign squaring a bunch of half-animal centaurs (not to mention making other aspects as well) could feel a little wild.<\/p>\n

Luckily, the Moon has already passed by its square to Pholus — though it\u2019s still wise to take it easy on the wine today. If you traveled yesterday, did small emotional triggers spiral out of control into big, holiday-special effects? Just keep thinking \u2018pie\u2019 this morning to avoid rehashing whatever may have happened. Soon enough, you\u2019ll be able to escape into a state of unconscious, post-turkey bliss or a football game if trying to work out your shadow material with a mouthful of mashed potatoes and an earful of your (insert least favorite relative here) is more than you can chew on. <\/p>\n

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Just after 8:30 pm EST, the Moon leaves its tryptophan-induced, full-belly nap and enters Aries — just in time for leftovers\u2026 or a trip to stand in line at the mall for the insanely early Black Friday sales (and Walmart protests). <\/p>\n

You know that Mars-Pluto conjunction heating up in Capricorn? The Moon will square it just after conjoining Uranus in Aries. This could be, um, volatile. Are you sure you\u2019re willing to risk black-Friday brawls over the last Super-Barbie-X-Men-G.I. Joe-Wii-500-inch color TV-iPhone10? <\/p>\n

Besides, yet again tomorrow the Moon makes aspects to a host of interesting minor characters including an aboriginal god of the dreamtime (hint: stick with a second tryptophan nap after your leftovers!), another centaur, a ferocious sea monster and a battle hero killed by a centaur. Think about it.<\/p>\n

The Pisces Moon even makes tense squares to Vesta (goddess of the hearth) in Gemini on Thanksgiving. And then the Aries Moon squares Ceres (goddess of the harvest) in Cancer on Black Friday. <\/p>\n

Feeling frustrated because you thought you\u2019d finally have some help this year tending the hearth (oven)? Try shifting your perspective: you are lucky to have a hearth to tend, and family to be frustrated with. Annoyed that three people failed to communicate during this Mercury retrograde and each brought enough candied yams for the Trojan army — which you\u2019re now stuck eating for the next week? Consider that you are blessed with plenty, and people in your life willing to share what they have. <\/p>\n

Be grateful. Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warning: the following Daily Astrology post is unabashedly U.S.-centric. And a little snarky. Today is Thanksgiving Day: perhaps this country\u2019s largest non-religious holiday. It celebrates a legendary shared bountiful harvest between Pilgrim settlers in the New World and native peoples as winter approached. We all know how that went. And as if in honor 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\/62416"}],"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=62416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}