Enhances
A pal goes by way of a painful divorce. “That’s it for me,” he proclaims. “No extra relationships!” Inside a 12 months, he’s remarried. “She’s nothing like my ex,” beams the excited bridegroom. But inside one other 12 months, they’ve break up, in circumstances that find yourself being fairly much like these of the primary marriage.
His associates specific their condolences, however alternate realizing glances amongst themselves. They see what he can’t: that his relationships fail not due to the ladies he marries, however as a result of he hasn’t modified.
We appeal to companions based mostly on who we’re. If we haven’t addressed our childhood traumas and expectations, we stay caught in a sample that draws companions with complementary traumas and expectations – typically with out being conscious of it within the least.
When Venus, the planet of relationship, opposes Mars, the planet of battle (Dec. 12, 2024, 2:46 am PST), there’s an opportunity to acknowledge these patterns, and to attempt to diffuse them in order that we appeal to the type of relationships that complement our happier inclinations.
Cupid and the Eggshell
Mercury sextiles Venus this week (Dec. 12, 2024, 11:45 pm PST) at 06º58′ Sagittarius and Aquarius. And though it’s a light-weight, fast-moving transit, that is an enormously artistic and playful mixture, pairing Mercury’s enjoyment of language with Venus in Aquarius’ love of doing issues otherwise.
Possibly you grew up like my siblings and I did, placing on little performs within the again yard, pretending to be rock stars, inventing sophisticated video games that came about on our bikes. There’s one thing satisfying, inspiring, and restorative about this type of artistic play. Take into account the Sabian image for Mercury, 7 Sagittarius, Cupid knocking on the door. Not simply creativity, however maybe romance could possibly be on supply. Venus, in the meantime, is on 7 Aquarius, A toddler born of an eggshell. There may be a couple of strategy to be “born,” or to be artistic, and belief Aquarius to provide you with one thing really uncommon!
This little transit, mild as gossamer, is a magic second for an excellent speak and a day of sunshine, unstructured enjoyable along with your associate; use it to open traces of communication that may assist as Venus opposes Mars on the identical day.
What’s Consuming You?
My husband likes to say that we don’t actually know what temper we’re in on a given day till we now have our first interplay with one other particular person. It’s true! I can have been up for a full hour, made my breakfast, listened to a podcast, and never concentrate on being in any explicit temper. Then he will get up and we begin chatting, and I discover myself commenting in probably the most heated means about some story one among us is recounting. Then I catch myself and surprise, “Geez, the place did that come from?”
Mars turning retrograde in Leo on. Dec. 6 has kindled its share of aggravations and scratchy impatience. There might have been greater than the standard variety of days once we get up “on the incorrect facet of the mattress,” because the outdated saying goes – grouchy, probably not realizing why.
The Gemini Full Moon (Dec. 15, 2024, 1:02 am PST) squares Neptune, absolutely illuminating no matter it’s that’s actually consuming us. Mars made the primary of three oppositions to highly effective Pluto on Nov. 3 (and is headed for the second on Jan. 2, 2025), and large, exhausting modifications and conflicts have come our means since then. When you’re not conscious of how a lot anger you’ve been carrying round, this Full Moon will open your eyes.
However what follows this revealing Full Moon, with the Solar and Moon sq. Neptune, is the potential for perception and therapeutic. Gaze up on the Full Moon and lose your self in its magnificence and magic; let it converse to you. Let it inform you what temper you’re in, and assist you determine why.
Unsticking Your self
You understand how it feels to face up after you’ve been sitting nonetheless at your desk for a few hours, or to awaken groggy from a protracted, deep nap, or to redirect your focus after being intensely consumed in a activity? That’s roughly the feeling of Mercury stationing direct (Dec. 15, 2024, 12:56 pm PST, 6º23’ Sagittarius) after a vexing three-week retrograde interval that started on Nov. 25. Finally, the sign mild turns inexperienced, and it’s time to shift gears and transfer ahead.
However it’s not as cut-and-dried as that. Even after Mercury offers the go-ahead for ahead movement, you’ll in all probability want a day or two to let your thoughts awaken, stretch, and focus, and to let issues which have been caught have an opportunity to unstick themselves.
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