Homesick
To grasp the Solar’s sq. to Neptune (Dec. 18, 2024, 6:29 am PST), think about you’ve traveled removed from dwelling, to a spot the place you don’t communicate the language and also you’re undecided you’re dressed fairly proper, or that your pure character is suitable. Your common persona has turn out to be a bit melty; the sense of self shifts, and confidence is a bit low. It’s uncomfortable, being a stranger.
However whenever you don’t have your common bag of methods to fall again on, when the development of who and what you’re doesn’t match along with your environment, you will have the distinctive alternative to determine who you’re with out these constructions. Seems, who you actually are has little to do with these issues.
If you end up feeling a type of craving homesickness within the days surrounding this transit, think about that what you’re homesick for just isn’t essentially a special place or different folks. Perhaps what you’re homesick for is you.
Birds on a Fence
A couple of years in the past, I made a fast, one-day turnaround journey to Phoenix for a lecture. I received on the aircraft in San Diego, slipped into my seat, and greeted the younger man subsequent to me. We instantly started speaking and didn’t cease till we received to Phoenix a bit of over an hour later. He was a younger physician who’d simply left his job with a large HMO, and he informed me all about it. I’d simply had a cat drama that had derailed a mini lecturing tour of the southwest, and I spared him no particulars. As we disembarked, we mentioned a contented farewell, and our work collectively was concluded.
Venus and Jupiter meet in a trine side this week (Dec. 19, 2024, 6:11 pm PST, at 14º37’ Aquarius and Gemini), on the Sabian symbols 15 Aquarius, Two lovebirds sitting on a fence and 15 Gemini: Two Dutch youngsters speaking. The younger physician and I weren’t lovebirds, however we had been two completely happy little birds sitting facet by facet, talking one another’s language animatedly at 30,000 toes earlier than leaping off to completely different bushes. Years later, I keep in mind that enjoyable, straightforward, and interesting dialog fondly – although I’m certain if we met once more, I wouldn’t have the ability to choose this particular person out of a lineup.
Venus and Jupiter are the planets which can be thought to symbolize the most effective, most pleasing and affluent luck; and after they come collectively, particularly in a flowing, rewarding trine side, their greatest qualities are amplified. Simply combine a contented, breezy, pleasant Aquarian interplay with simply the precise degree of Gemini garrulousness, and also you’ve received your self a refreshing, Venus/Jupiter cocktail.
Nowhere to Go However Up
On the winter solstice right here within the Northern Hemisphere, the Solar enters Capricorn (Dec. 21, 2024, 1:20 am PST) and reaches its lowest level within the noon sky. Power and spirits will be low. We’re headed for the end line, and as we glance again over the calendar 12 months, we could also be tempted to chastise ourselves for what we haven’t completed.
On the Capricorn solstice, there’s no place to go however up. Over the approaching months, the Solar will start its gradual ascent, ultimately reaching its highest level on the summer season solstice.
Fittingly, we make resolutions at the moment of 12 months. To what heights may we climb within the 12 months forward? In the meantime, it’s darkish and chilly, and we gentle fires and candles and plug in glowing lights to remind us that it received’t be this darkish endlessly.
I feel many people are feeling the necessity for some gentle at this Solstice. On the darkest instances, it’s very nice to be reminded that the whole lot is a part of a cycle, and that the sunshine inevitably finds its means again.
Trusted Advisor
The Final Quarter Moon points a progress report on what we got down to accomplish on the New Moon. The Capricorn New Moon is a basic “New 12 months” New Moon: what will we need to accomplish within the new calendar 12 months? We’d think about New 12 months a synthetic assemble with no actual astrological resonance, but it surely has loads of real-world resonance, and Capricorn is nothing if not related with the true world of calendars and timelines.
Capricorn can be little bit of a lone wolf. Once we consider New 12 months’s resolutions, they typically take the type of what we wish and may do on our personal. However the Final Quarter Moon is a second to guage how effectively that method is working for us. This week’s Final Quarter Moon (Dec 22, 2024, 2:18 pm PST, 1º34’ Libra/Capricorn) falls in Libra, the signal of collaboration. The Solar in Capricorn is in a pointy opposition to Mars simply now, much more decided than common to do issues in its personal means. However even essentially the most highly effective Capricorn government can profit enormously from conferring with a trusted advisor, even when they don’t essentially benefit from the course of.
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