A Religious Yard Sale
This week, the Solar in Capricorn squares the Moon’s nodes in Aries and Libra (Dec. 23, 2024, 2:40 am PST, 2º05’ Capricorn/Aries-Libra). A planet sq. the nodal axis is claimed to be “on the bendings,” making use of its focus towards both the North or South Node. The Solar is now on the South bending, that means it’s pointing towards the South Node in Libra and centered on releasing patterns of dependence and people-pleasing. We really feel the quiet, inward name to launch unhelpful feelings, even when it might really feel tough to make outward adjustments. The Solar is on the Sabian image 3 Capricorn: The human soul receptive to development and understanding; search for inside steerage about what form that development and understanding may take.
This facet marks the midpoint between two eclipse seasons. Eclipses are altering factors, web page turners within the narrative that shifts us from one finish of the nodal axis to the opposite. Now could be the time to let go of what you don’t want, perhaps even issues which are actively hurting you; it’s a religious yard sale that will help you resolve what was introduced up in final September and October’s eclipses, and put together you for the upcoming eclipses on March 14, 2025 (23º57’ Virgo) and March 29, 2025 (9º00′ Aries).
Respiratory
Principally, we don’t take into consideration respiratory in any respect, until we’re engaged in a really aware meditation apply, engaged in strenuous exercise, or having a respiratory emergency. But it surely’s the final word strategy of enlargement and contraction.
Once you breathe in, the diaphragm contracts and strikes downward, creating extra space within the chest cavity, inflicting air to hurry in to the lungs. After oxygen is absorbed into the bloodstream, the diaphragm relaxes and strikes upward, pushing air out of the lungs.
Ideally, it’s a simple, unconscious course of. However should you’re working an extended, strenuous race or having an bronchial asthma assault, your thoughts is perhaps centered each second on a course of you are taking with no consideration roughly 20-25k occasions per day.
This week brings the newest in a sequence of sq. points between Jupiter and Saturn (Dec. 24, 2024, 1:59 pm PST). Jupiter is like inhalation, creating area, letting air rush in. Saturn is like exhalation, pushing air out and expelling carbon dioxide. And a sq. facet means we’re having to work tougher than ordinary to control our respiratory.
All of the methods we’d wish to develop our lives however discover a sequence of constraints in our path – the economic system, our private earnings, worrying that we overspent on vacation presents, struggling to cram a great deal of vacation celebrations into already tight schedules – they’re all a mirrored image of Jupiter’s sq. to Saturn. The method of increasing and contracting will not be going easily, and we’re having to work laborious for each breath.
That is the second of three Jupiter/Saturn squares in a sequence that started on August 19, 2024. The final is on June 15, 2025 – and hopefully, that’s when our respiratory returns to regular.
Once you assume….
Mercury makes the final of three oppositions to Jupiter this week (Dec. 26, 2024, 2:48 pm PST, at 13º46′ Sagittarius and Gemini). As Mercury has made these three oppositions to Jupiter, it’s requested a sequence of questions on data. What will we “simply know” as a result of “everyone is aware of that,” vs. having actually studied one thing? Actually, it’s like folks whose faces contorts into a glance of disgust once you point out astrology – as a result of “everyone is aware of astrology is silly,” even when they couldn’t do one thing as title the twelve indicators of the zodiac so as.
Mercury’s Sabian image is 14 Sagittarius, The Pyramids and the Sphinx, symbolizes “previous” data, and respect for what’s timeworn and usually agreed upon. Jupiter’s Sabian image, 14 Gemini: A dialog by telepathy, is about distinctive connectedness and rapport. Now we have to be a little bit cautious that we don’t make assumptions primarily based on what is mostly accepted – what “everyone is aware of” – or on our closeness with somebody, which could lead us to consider we “simply know” what they’re pondering or how they may react to one thing.
Report card
When you’ve got necessary work to finish and also you’re in determined want of some focus and self-discipline, be pleased about Mercury’s sq. to Saturn (Dec. 26, 2024, 11:29 pm PST). Nothing will focus a scattered Mercury fairly like a tough facet to Saturn, the planet that retains us on job, with our eyes on our personal work.
That is the final in a sequence of three squares between Mercury and Saturn. The primary was on Nov. 12, and the opposite was on Dec. 6. I don’t know if it’s merely that as a author, I’ve a specific reference to Saturn and subsequently, these Saturn squares, however I’ve discovered the previous month difficult for getting my work performed. The concepts have simply not been flowing. I completed a webinar and three weeks’ price of podcasts for my upcoming year-end break solely by sheer grit and willpower. I really feel it’s all been with the blessing of Saturn, which makes a author get one thing down on paper whether or not or not it’s very impressed.
Mercury is the planet of notion, processing info, and sharing concepts. We’ve discovered one thing over the previous month and through Mercury’s retrograde interval, about how nicely we’re dealing with these features. And now, Saturn arms us our report card.
Fridges and Relationships
Venus squares Uranus this week (Dec. 27, 11:42 pm PST) at 23°43’ Aquarius and Taurus. Each the signal of Aquarius and the planet Uranus will be like attempting to carry on to a bucking bronco, so this is perhaps the equal of deciding you’re going to start out consuming more healthy after which, the very subsequent day, having a buddy present up at your door along with your very favourite dessert. Or committing to a strict price range on your family within the new 12 months, solely to have the fridge instantly break down.
Past diets and budgets, relationships are an necessary a part of Venus’s terrain. This week may deliver a brand new and stimulating enterprise or private connection – or shocking developments in current ones. When Venus and Uranus join by sq., rigidity arises across the acceptable steadiness between togetherness and independence, between affection and freedom. Discovering that steadiness is usually a tall order, particularly in relationships the place companions stay in the identical home collectively. However this facet also can wake us as much as wishes we didn’t notice we had, and to folks whom we’d have begun to miss.
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