Go Gently
Like a variety of compulsively pushed sorts, I transfer a bit roughly by way of the world. Whether or not it’s alongside my profession path or on a visit to the grocery store, I deal with the vacation spot and pay scant consideration to the journey itself. All the way down to the smallest gestures, my method is instinctively direct and graceless. I’m laborious on the bodily world, breaking, tearing, staining, or chipping almost the whole lot I contact.
However I’ve a pet indulgence: spending hours shopping by way of design Instagram feeds. I get pleasure from this glimpse into clear, spare, trendy areas and colourful, artfully cluttered bohemian dwellings alike. I savor the small, elegant touches that seem in surprising locations, the gestures of somebody who’s attentive to every tiny nook and responds to it creatively. There’s one thing swish about these particulars, the proof of somebody being attentive to every second as a substitute of speeding to the end line.
At this week’s Libra Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse (March 25, 2024, 12 midnight PDT), I’m searching for a sublime oasis in a world that seems like a fairly tough place. In case you’re the sort of one that pushes your self laborious, counting on the off-gassing of harsh self-talk to propel you, it’s particularly troublesome to stay in a world that mirrors this pitiless inside panorama. It’s a really human intuition to fulfill brutality with larger power, exponentially, till earlier than you understand it presidential candidates are all however coming to bodily blows on a debate stage.
This morning, although, as I ready to swing my legs over the facet of the mattress and throw myself into the day, I used to be stopped by a tiny whisper that I can solely assume was the dawning affect of the upcoming Libra lunar eclipse: “Go gently.” As an alternative of leaping to my ft and cursing my painful morning again, what if I stood slowly and gave just a little stretch? I attempted it. Great things.
What else may occur immediately if I have been to go gently? What if I dressed with extra pleasure, selected a pleasant shirt and a pair of socks with out holes in them? What if I took my time making breakfast as a substitute of speeding round as if I’m competing in an episode of Iron Chef? Set the glass down fastidiously as a substitute of smacking it in opposition to the espresso desk? Took the time to coax the cat from beneath the chair as a substitute of shedding endurance and grabbing her?
“Going gently” sums up Libra’s method to the world. It seems as elegant touches in surprising locations, transferring with grace, selecting the good shirt, setting issues down fastidiously, coaxing the cat. It’s within the little methods of approaching life with a spirit of magnificence and beauty, smoothness and quiet.
Libra is the signal of relating, and heaven is aware of the world may use extra of Libra’s ability on this space, as a result of as a species we’ve been treating one another fairly roughly for some time now. It appears some days as if we’re engaged in an ongoing contest to see who will be essentially the most callous and impolite, as if mistreating others have been a badge of honor.
It’s fairly clear that issues have gotten out of steadiness. Everybody appears offended on a regular basis, and there’s a way that we’re preventing for fundamental survival. We’re in critical want of Libra’s steadiness and beauty, and this eclipse will present that want by way of relationship upsets and imbalances.
Residing gently isn’t the identical as rolling over, although. The Moon’s North Node, the trail of progress, is transferring by way of Aries, highlighting the significance of assertiveness and standing one’s floor. However the Libra eclipse is a reminder that you would be able to be assertive with out being aggressive, and get up for your self with out grinding others down.
Tin Can
Within the wake of the Libra Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse, you may really feel like a tin can that’s been tied to the bumper of a automotive and dragged alongside for just a few miles. what you want? You want just a little Venus. And on March 28, she arrives to make a sextile side to Uranus (6:58 am PDT).
Sextiles present up as invites, conferences, correspondence, guests – they usually all supply alternatives. And when it’s enchanting Venus who’s issuing the invites, they’re all however inconceivable to refuse.
Venus in Pisces woos with enthralling music, flickering candles gliding in a bowl of recent water, a cool glass of wine, and sweet-smelling incense. Simply what a dented tin can of an individual may want simply now.
The primary of two eclipses (the opposite is on April 8) has given us a very good shake and proven us the trail ahead. Venus’ sextile to Uranus fortifies us for the journey with love and a thoughtfully chosen combine tape, sending us off on a street journey with a nostalgic, imaginative care package deal.
Writing and pictures © 2017-24 by April Elliott Kent
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