Increasing Your Vistas
By the point I first flew in an airplane as a youngster, I’d taken innumerable highway journeys with my household and was used to that slower tempo of journey. Now, for the primary time, I coated territory in two hours that will as soon as have taken two days of driving.
Unquestionably, there’s one thing good a few highway journey. You acquire an intimacy with the terrain, which was fascinating within the Nineteen Sixties and 70s, earlier than each metropolis and city in America regarded largely the identical. You savored each inch of the journey. And I missed that by flying, however my vistas elevated dramatically.
Typically, making an even bigger life for ourselves requires that we let go of a number of the treasured minutia of every mile in order that we are able to cowl new floor, and extra of it. This First Quarter Moon (Sep. 10, 2024, 11:05 pm PDT) positions the Solar in down-to-earth, eye-on-details Virgo towards the Moon in Sagittarius and its wider lens. Taking a leap of religion will be scary. However when you’ve paid consideration to element and deliberate rigorously, now’s the time to belief that you simply’re prepared to leap in a aircraft and fly into your future.
Concord After the Wrestle
Mercury making a sextile facet to Mars (Sep. 11, 2024, 8:42 pm PDT) presents alternatives to place phrases and concepts into motion – alternatives arrange in two earlier sextiles on June 21 and Aug. 23. Mercury in Virgo, nevertheless, likes to do its analysis earlier than taking motion. That’s high quality, however this can be a fast facet, and we may miss some alternatives altogether if we deliberate for too lengthy. No less than, seize a few nascent potentialities and throw them into Mars in Most cancers’s oven till they’re absolutely baked.
Any mixture of Mercury and Mars can carry confrontation – however typically, confrontation is critical, and the sextile is a pleasant facet that often brings concord after the wrestle. So if it’s a must to clear the air, go forward. However keep in mind that Mars is in delicate Most cancers, and others may take offense the place none was meant. Happily, Mercury in Virgo tends to decide on its phrases with care.
Flappy vs Targeted
Hummingbirds are constructed for movement. Flight muscular tissues comprise 25-30% of their whole physique weight. They will hover in midair for over 90 minutes. One group of Ruby-throated hummingbirds launches from the Yucatan peninsula and flies 500 miles continuous throughout the Gulf of Mexico in a 22-hour nonstop flight, at 100 wing flaps per second.
As Jupiter travels by means of Gemini, we’re like hummingbirds furiously flapping our wings, drawn to lengthy journeys that expend nice power at an exhausting tempo, flapping whilst we hover over a bunch of flowers. This can be a Jupiter that’s not constructed to pause and focus, however to continually discover new potentialities.
However, the Solar in Virgo devotes whole consideration to the duty at hand. It’s the programmer who keep up all evening lengthy, looking for the glitch in a chunk of software program; the author, in search of the proper phrase with which to complete an essay. The Solar in Virgo seeks perfection, and doesn’t at all times know when to stop looking – even for an excellent evening’s sleep.
The Solar in Virgo squares Jupiter in Gemini this week (Sep. 12, 2024, 3:53 am PDT), which suggests the flappy and centered sides of our nature are in battle. Neither desires to provide an inch. However we want them each, they usually want one another – to coordinate restlessness with focus, and obsessive consideration with motion and selection.
Do What You Love
There’s an oft-repeated adage that when you do what you’re keen on, the cash will comply with. As somebody who’s spent half my life doing what I really like with out having grown wealthy, I often roll my eyes at such platitudes.
However substitute the phrase “cash” with one thing like “satisfaction,” “compelling curiosity,” or just “pleasure” – properly, then I feel you’re on to one thing.
Venus is the planet that explicitly factors to the “love” a part of that equation. And because it joins in a contented trine to affluent, curious Jupiter in Gemini this week (Sep. 14, 2024, 10:34 pm PDT), love may certainly result in monetary acquire, or it may not. However it would virtually actually result in new pursuits, broader horizons, and hearty laughs with good pals. And that is all marvelous stuff, even when it does nothing to reinforce your financial institution stability.
Mama Bear
Mars squares the Lunar Nodes this week (Sep. 15, 2024, 7:25 pm PDT), and right here’s somewhat story as an example the facet.
Let’s say a younger lady has spent years in a wedding to an abusive associate. With young children and no supply of private earnings, she’s caught, paralyzed by worry.
However at some point, in a match of rage, her associate strikes their youngest baby. And in a single second, she is uncaught. Whereas her associate is at work, she packs a few luggage and straps her kids into the automobile, and leaves. She could have nowhere to go and $6 in her pocket, however the path forward is the one with not less than a risk of a wholesome, hopeful final result.
Sadly, this isn’t an uncommon story. And it completely illustrates the shadow facet of the South Node in Libra – co-dependence, being caught in a poisonous relationship, when it meets the Aries North Node, the scary, unknown path with the potential for self-sufficiency, and Mars in Most cancers, the roaring, mama bear intuition that breaks the deadlock.
You might be, hopefully, not in something like so perilous a place. However it’s possible you’ll be caught, someplace in your life, afraid to vary, and conditioned to pacify others on the expense of your personal greatest curiosity. This week, Mars in Most cancers will discover a approach to provoke the mama bear in you, by awakening protecting instincts towards your loved ones, your property, your security, and your sources of meals and earnings. Transfer towards the true path, nevertheless scary it may appear.
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