Consent
There are lots of the explanation why we’d change into embroiled in battle. It could possibly be that we would like one thing that another person needs, and solely one in all us can have it. We’d really feel that somebody means to hurt us and ours. Or, our ego could also be injured.
Every so often, we have now event to really feel disrespected, not very good, and common lesser than another person. This sort of factor doesn’t occur to me a lot at this stage of life, however when it does, it stings as a lot as ever, regardless of my advancing age and cheap stage of confidence. Does it make me need to retaliate? I imply, it form of does, if I’m trustworthy.
The Solar symbolizes ego and the sense of sacred selfhood. When it engages in a sq. facet to contentious Mars (Oct. 14, 2024, 1:15 am PDT), don’t be stunned to seek out your self fuming at some slight, perceived or imagined. Open warfare is one technique to reply. However a cannier response could be to deal with your personal insecurity. As Eleanor Roosevelt as soon as stated, “Nobody can really feel you’re feeling inferior with out your consent.”
Dream Home
I’ve met my dream home. It’s a tiny, dowdy seashore home on a fascinating stretch of seashore in a small, reasonably distant village on California’s central coast. Let’s say the gods sometime noticed match to grant my want to dwell on this home. However then, one wintry, rain-soaked morning, a big mudslide closes down the primary freeway by means of city, primarily trapping me within the scenario I’d wished for.
Even when we reach summoning our needs, they are often sophisticated by sudden realities that we didn’t see coming.
This, in a nutshell, is Venus in magical Scorpio opposed Uranus (the sudden) in down-to-earth Taurus (Oct. 14, 2024, 3:22 pm PDT). The needs we’re intent on manifesting, if realized, may take us in sudden and maybe undesirable instructions. We could want for a change in our present circumstances which, when it occurs, opens a genie’s bottle of drama.
The final word goal of this opposition is one thing in-between – a dream that satisfies our needs whereas conserving us from changing into too complacent. As Venus in Scorpio opposes Uranus this week, it’s going to discover a technique to reveal that even magic has its limitations, and is topic to the seen world’s unexpected interventions.
The Method of the King
I used to be born with Venus trine Neptune, and earlier than my life as an astrologer I used to be a singer and musician. Once I stood onstage to sing, I felt a loving alternate of vitality between me and the viewers. If it was an particularly weak and emotional music, I may really feel a form of magical, nearly therapeutic interchange.
All artwork has the potential to raise us, heal us, and bond us extra carefully with others. As Venus trines Neptune (Oct. 15, 2024, 5:49 pm PDT) this week, it’s on the Sabian image 28 Scorpio: The king of the fairies approaching his area. And Neptune is on 28 Pisces: A fertile backyard beneath the total moon.
It is a therapeutic facet on magical symbols. We return to our place of biggest consolation, a fertile backyard beneath a full moon. When Venus trines Neptune, it’s simpler than ordinary to summon our abilities and our loving hearts to create a stupendous, uplifting, and therapeutic bridge between ourselves and others – or possibly one particular different.
A Moonlit Battlefield
Every Full Moon shines its gentle on issues we haven’t been capable of see earlier than, and significantly on the internal, lunar panorama. Throughout every Solar in Libra season, an Aries Full Moon highlights the methods during which we’ve been prioritizing ourselves, whether or not roughly than is wholesome for {our relationships} with others. And this explicit Aries Full Moon (Oct. 17, 2024, 4:26 am PDT), with the Solar, Moon, and Mars all tangled in a livid cardinal cross with Pluto, is like being shoved out onto a moonlit battlefield with rockets bursting throughout you.
This Aries Full Moon is a part of a lunar part household cycle that started with the dramatic Photo voltaic Eclipse of April 19, 2023, at 29º50′ Aries. It was the primary Aries Photo voltaic Eclipse since 2015, with all of the depth of a Solar and Moon on the final diploma of an indication. The Aries place in our beginning charts was woke up by that eclipse, and ever since, we might have been struggling to determine what to do with the areas that opened up there.
This Full Moon reveals some solutions. Each necessary relationship is examined – with household, along with your companion, along with your boss, and most significantly, with your self.
Apple Pie
One autumn weekend a number of years in the past, I took a drive and ended up within the mountain city of Julian, the place the bushes had been altering coloration and the autumn apple season was underway.
I parked myself on the window desk in a diner on the middle of city and ate my breakfast with a view of the autumn leaves and bustling vacationers. Each one in all them appeared decided to put on their autumn sweaters though the temperature was edging into the mid-70’s, decided to purchase contemporary apple pies to take house though nobody is consuming gluten. Briefly, decided to have the very best rattling autumn Saturday potential within the mountains of San Diego.
And I observed one thing else: In all places I seemed, there have been pregnant ladies. Even my waitress was pregnant!
Venus, the goddess of attraction, walked amongst us glowing and fecund, radiating new life within the season of endings. Venus and Pluto in facet, as on this week’s sextile (Oct. 17, 2024, 5:30 am PDT), include the contrasting knowledge of life and dying, brightness and darkish; and sometimes, if we sit quietly on the window, we are able to glimpse them holding arms and carrying an apple pie.
An Thrilling Stranger
You possibly can love somebody for a really very long time, actually assume you realize every part there’s to learn about them… after which someday, they shock you. They use a phrase you’ve by no means heard them use, or share an anecdote you’ve by no means heard. And identical to that, it’s like being in love with a wholly totally different individual.
When Venus is in Sagittarius (Oct. 17, 2024, 12:28 pm PDT, by means of Nov. 11), something novel, totally different, or overseas is very enchanting. Sagittarius is a vagabond signal, and Venus on this signal likes to journey. Whereas Venus is in Sagittarius, we achieve enjoyment from the unfamiliar, even when we don’t enterprise removed from house. Attempt cooking a brand new dish from an unfamiliar delicacies. Obtain an app that may allow you to be taught a number of phrases in a overseas language. Pore over maps and plan future adventures. And maintain your eyes and ears open for these comfortable little moments when a liked one in all a few years abruptly turns into an thrilling stranger.
Writing and pictures © 2017-24 by April Elliott Kent
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