Jupiter at 20 Cancer

A conjunction of Jupiter and Moon as photographed on December 31, 2008

(photo credit: Radoslaw Ziomber, Dec 2008)

Twenty Cancer is a defensive degree. It tends to go to any sort of length to defend one’s “home ground” literal, physical, spiritual, metaphysical or conceptual.

To make it all more trying…there isn’t even any really good explanation to go along with why such defensiveness is needed.

Well, give or take the Scorpio solar eclipse. Right now we’re all dealing with all those things which we don’t want to deal with. We’re going around defending our lifestyles, defending our right to be ignorant or to deny something is when it isn’t…and all that time, the real issue is about the need to face our Self.

That Self has something it needs us to understand. And that understanding has to do with What Is and what will be and become of our lives and in our life because What Is defines truth.

We don’t define truth. Truth is given to us and our truth is what we need to deal with.

Some of us will defend that truth. Some of us will try to defend some other truth we wish was our truth or which we wish we knew how to make into our truth, but the truth is something entirely different.

So I repeat: we will all feel defensive about something. And it will all come down to who we really are. You know…in truth, who we truly are.

(If you’ve followed this theorem, you’re going to love my epic fantasy. It’s pretty much four books worth of story guaranteed to turn your concept of what being means inside out.)

(I’ll let you know when it releases.)

The Sabian Symbol (speaking of artistic endeavors) for 20 Cancer is as follows: A FAMOUS SINGER IS PROVING HER VIRTUOSITY DURING AN OPERATIC PERFORMANCE. The keyword here is ‘The emotional reward accompanying cultural excellence’ which… considering all things is very much part of this defensiveness…and the fact that MakeMake has just moved into Libra and that Saturn is moving up to trine Jupiter's position just when it leaves 20 Cancer…it all would seem to feed into astrologer Dane Rudhyar’s opinion that 20 Cancer refers to THE PRICE OF SUCCESS.

Yes, there is a price to be paid for success. We tend to think it’s in the present, but it’s really the accumulation of things we have taken on and ‘paid’ with along the way.

Considering we’re heading into the Scorpio solar eclipse, especially with Mercury going into retrograde tomorrow (October 21st) …IN Scorpio…considering that Scorpio is among other things the sign of karma and the sign of debts (karmic…emotional…monetary) we all know…

…we all sense….

…that our debts – financial, physical and spiritual and the karma of our debts…is now coming due.

I’m not going to belabor this point. I am merely going to bring up what the facts are here and then tell you that as of the date when this post goes live, Jupiter will have moved into 20 Cancer in preparation for its station-retrograde moment on November 7th.

For some of us, we will experience a turning of the tide. For others, we will take a turn and deal with the tidal flux surging up from within. Saturn's influence as a growing essence as these days roll forward tells us that the reality of our existence cannot be subjugated to some reality you want to make into your Existence.

No, not by a long shot, though some of us will try. Escape from that which already exists is a famous human trick. It's just it never works.

Karma, karma, karma. The piper comes for the payment.

Jupiter going retrograde in but a few days gives us the opportunity…and let us note that this opportunity extends through the onset of Mercury retrograde and then through the moment of the Scorpio solar eclipse to where we will establish whether we are willing to grapple with what we are defensive of or about…or not.

This does not mean you are expected to ‘fix’ everything. What you are meant to do here is to deal with your denials…and the existence of ramifications or promises as yet un-kept or the karmic debts which you own in this life…or to another life, or at least on another plain of Existence.

You know, those ‘truths.’ What you learn now could save you – at least much trouble, and maybe something far beyond that.

But you do have to get past your own defensiveness. We all do, and it’s scary. Some of us deal with it reasonably, some of us freak out when we have to deal with it…yet ultimately we all want to know the same thing. We want to know there’s a safe path forward.

And yet ‘safe’ is a relative thing. We’re safer when we deal with the truth than when we deny it as that is our act of owning the energy and not being owned by it. Even the most terrible and terrifying of negatives can be utilized for a positive purpose – that is the universe’s promise.

But first we have to face that truth – whatever it is – which causes us to be so incredibly defensive.
Jupiter will go retrograde at 20 Cancer on the 7th of November. After that, it will remain in 20 Cancer from now (October 20th) through November 24th.

It is this astrologer’s suggestion that we all deal with those things we are dearly defensive about…and that we learn to bless that which leads us to where we can see our shadows, our fears, our darkest realities, for only through understanding our fears can we work with them…and ultimately come to serve our greater purpose, whatever that may be.

With familiarity,
Inlakech.
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Mercury Station-Retrograde at 18 Scorpio

This statue (a Roman 2nd century copy of an earlier Greek bronze) of Mercury

pausing to tie his winged sandals just proves we all (even Greek gods)

have to learn to tie our shoes.

(photo credit: Wolfgang Sauber, July 2008)

Mercury entered Scorpio back on September 29th. And barely had it done that when yours truly (aka the astrologer on duty) started getting phone calls and emails and texts about people feeling sick to their stomach and down and out with headaches…oooh, it was awful. Personally, I had the second worst headache of my life (give or take when I cracked my skull in a couple of places, but that simply put me into a coma, so I’m not sure I was into the pain of it all).

I didn’t really connect the zodiacal dots until (duh) my headache went away, but once that happened I realized that Mercury rules two signs: Gemini and Virgo. And Gemini is (to put it generally) “mentality” where Virgo is famously diet and tummy-oriented.

Hence, as Mercury hit Scorpio, that ‘brought out’ all of what might be wrong with our stomachs and our heads. Or, to get a bit more metaphysical about it, our ability to absorb what was going on or think through whatever was in front of us.

The reasons would be many. And to those who ask why this doesn’t happen every time Mercury enters Scorpio, I would say it probably happens to some degree, but that this year’s Scorpio solar eclipse certainly raises the bar. After all, the two months leading into a solar eclipse are all about ‘breaking down’ our walls and resistance. It’s about bringing whatever is keeping us from being who we really are underneath our floorboards of denial or compromise.

Back in the early 80’s I was out there fighting the production wars as a location accountant. And while on a particularly feisty film (“Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2,” if you’re curious) there were some…well, let’s say less harmonious members of my crew who were south-of-Purgatorially bent on giving me an exceedingly hard time.

I did my job anyway. As a matter of fact, for reasons best not known to my sanity at the time, I went about doing my job as production accountant in the sweltering Texas heat wearing (mostly) crisp white dresses and white high heels.

(Don’t ask. I still have no idea why I did that.)

Anyway…the film ends and we start to wrap things up. And on the very day when the bulk of the crew heads to the airport, I get sick. The strain has gotten to me and I come down with a giant fever and the whole nine yards.

Off to the doctor I go. They take films, they do the vampire blood draw thing, I get to say ‘aaaahhh’ a lot and the diagnosis is pneumonia.

So back to my hotel room I go. And I’ve barely slogged my feverish body into the air conditioning and traded my pristine whites for something less formal and more beddy-bye when in storms the Associate Producer (and writer’s) Significant Other, a woman never short on opinions and always willing to explain why she’s never short on opinions.

She slams down a jug of cold grapefruit juice on my bedstand, pours me a glass and glares at me while I use that to take a couple of aspirin. (Why I remember it was grapefruit juice is just one of those quirks.)

“WE DON’T HAVE TIME FOR YOU TO BE SICK!!” Her announcement was part protest, part threat and part motivational order of the type generally issued by military commanders.

Then she put a little booklet into my hand. The booklet was called “Heal Your Body” and was written by one Louise L Hay. Opened to a chart of ailments, causal mentalities and affirmations, she pointed to the one for pneumonia. “Read this – and continue reading it until I get back!”

With that, she left – and I was just obedient enough and sick enough to still be mumbling the affirmation when she got back some hour and a half (or some such) later.

“That’s enough – now sleep.” Taking the booklet from my paws she put it on the side table, turned off the light and with a genteel stomping of mighty high top tennis shoes, she vanished out the door.

Result: the next day I was fine. I was so fine that I was taken back to the doctor who did more films and more inspecting and in a baffled tone pronounced me completely cured.

The sixteen hour pneumonia trick, that was. And the process of making me better sold me on the fact that we really do only have one brain: in one direction it leads to our physicality, in another it leads to our personality, and it’s all interconnected. I also realized how despite her annoyance, having someone care about me enough to find a way to help me triggered my willingness to be helped.

For a lot of us, placation doesn't help. Telling me - or anyone with a Scorpio anything in their chart how 'there, there, it's going to be all right' feels dismissive. Scorpio desires real interaction...meaningful, intimate, connective interaction - not platitudes, excuses, coverups and sweetly worded avoidance. I have one friend (one of the many fellow Scorpio Moon people in my life) who so wants to protect his Moon that he has this terrible habit of provoking mine. One of these days he's going to figure out that his habit of hiding under his Moon (which is a difficult position to envision, but he manages it) not only leaves a wide open playing field for anyone else to take advantage of (he wonders why he has such difficulties with people and gets taken advantage of? It's so not a mystery!) but seen in 'like attracts like' form is him abandoning the interaction which automatically causes him to be abandoned by others.

As a rather caustic (but lovable) Taurus in my life puts it: ...and good luck with that!

Scorpio requires interaction in order for success to be achieved. Inscribe that in your mentality, please, and don't neglect it just because Mercury is retrograde. This would be one of the all time fabulous periods to sit down especially with people you're having problems with to talk things through. And don't neglect those little things...the cup of coffee, the hug, the taking of their hand when they get all choked up...a little thank you note...sharing a cookie...it all really, really, REALLY matters now.

And the harder things are, the more it matters. In other words, if you really want your life's bumps to even out, don't look to where things are okkle-dokkle, look to where they're difficult. Or ruptured. Or painful. Scorpio is the sign of surgery, warfare and psychology - none of which are painless.

Headaches, by the by, are defined by Miss Hay as being about ‘invalidation of the self.’ They’re about fear and being frightened that we’re not good enough. Stomachs are more about our ability to absorb or ‘digest’ what’s going on. So for anyone who started into the not-so-wonderful world of not feeling so hot once Mercury hit Scorpio, those connections are to think about.

Just be nice to yourself while you do it.

More broadly, when Mercury – the generator of those waves which seem so important to the stirrings of our mentality, raises the thought level or the problem level in our thoughts…or issues with body processes like eating (Virgo rules the stomach and Mercury rules Virgo), breathing (that’s a Gemini thing), walking (limbs are also Gemini) or the very processes of mentality… when Mercury hits a sign which is famous for its intensity, its association both with toxicity and detoxification and all things which have to do with breaking down and building back up, and when that sign – Scorpio – is itself being energized by muchos months of Saturn occupation and a recent stirring up by Venus and now Mercury bringing things home…is it any wonder that there have been many problems a-foot?

And a-head?

And a-tummy?

And elsewhere?

The problems can be physical, certainly. But they can also be situational, particularly where communications are involved. Mercury in Scorpio is famous for its assertiveness and equally famous for its defensiveness… not to mention that most irritating (and often painful) act of all: the silent treatment.

Silence sometimes communicates more than we can say, yes.

From mentality to transportation and transit, to road rage and arguments, from anger repressed to tears bursting forth to attempts at manipulation to stonewalling any sort of effort to get anything done…it’s ALL so very Mercury in Scorpio, and considering this one has been happening under the initial shake-out period preceding the Scorpio solar eclipse, it’s not surprising that problems which we might have slid by or gotten away with ignoring under some other set of circumstances have risen up to bite us.

But that’s the point of a solar eclipse. Solar eclipses raise issues, and once Mercury hit Scorpio, we all started thinking and talking and (yes) doing something for, against or about those issues.

Or not. Once again, a refusal to do is not non-participation: it’s a choice to not do and therefore create whatever results no doing will create.

And now all that comes to a screeching…well, not screeching, but…a turbulent twist of affairs as Mercury goes retrograde on October 21st at 10:30 in the morning UT/+0 time.

More specifically, that’s when the station is. But since we give all planetary stations a two-day before, two-day after “station allowance,” that means that Mercury’s full station period starts on the 19th and ends on the 23rd.

Anything of note which happens during this time is worth noting. And if you’re looking for a time to do something and (as they say) “make it count” this might just be the moment to do it, PROVIDING you don’t have to rush and providing you are willing to understand that Scorpio is the sign of karma.

Libra is cause-effect: you put the lob over the net in a tennis game and 99 times out of 100, the next ball is going to come from that direction. But karma? Karma is something altogether different. Karma says you can do a good deed at the office or by helping someone out in some way and suddenly get good news in the mail.

Karma is not direct, cause-effect is direct. Cause-effect has a decent element of predictability, karma doesn’t. Karma will sneak up and reward you…or bite you…when you least expect it.

So I repeat: Scorpio is the sign of karma.

Scorpio is also the sign of negotiation, which may be a quality called for now considering 18 Scorpio’s strong-minded reputation which may wax jealous or even violent. There’s a tendency to not trust which goes along with this degree which considering the eclipse may pop up now…or may have already been an issue in your world, in which case this may just be the moment to contain the intensity of feelings which may be prone to being more or less accusatory in favor of an inquiry into where someone else is coming from. Or why someone did something as they did – or didn’t choose the avenue you would have chosen or (let’s face it…!) preferred.

Mercury in Scorpio is very good at penetrating the veil of others, and tends to want to hold its own card close. But is that fair…? If your answer is anything close to ‘I don’t care whether it’s fair, I just want what I want’ then you’re likely to incur a rejection of at least your attitude, if not your approach, idea and desire.

The clue about where to go with matters of the moment (or which are bugging the tar out of you) may in fact well come from the Sabian Symbol for 18 Scorpio, a symbol which goes like this: A PARROT REPEATS THE CONVERSATION HE HAS OVERHEARD….with the keynote being ‘The capacity to transmit transcendental knowledge’…which astrologer Dane Rudhyar refers to as “CHANNEL-SHIP” as the ability to receive information or intuit that which isn’t directly or intellectually known, learned or sourced.

A Hyacinth Macaw at Australia's Melbourne Zoo pauses to give the photographer a piece of their parroting mind

(photo credit: Snowmanradio, August 2008)

Certainly this sort of ‘feeling behind what is said’ may be part and parcel of not just issues of the moment, but situations which you carry into and through this October 21st through November 10th Mercury retrograde. Listening not just with our ears but with our soul and spirit is an art – one which seems underrated and yet is the secret to a lot of very canny achievements in this world.

And beyond this, considering we are talking about Mercury going retrograde in Scorpio, there are going to be matters which are not resolved prior to Mercury’s station and which remain to be mulled through. By channeling our recollections through our own interior mind we may well be able to feel and pick up on clues we missed the first time around and come to understand how we can better connect with others or solve whatever problems are dogging our days.

We may also do well to remember that the great stream of time, existence and consciousness is channeling us…through our lives and to many others. Because this is a Scorpio degree we are speaking of, the metaphysical quality of being ‘two-way’ is particularly apt. So yes, this station and the retrograde which will follow is a passage – a ‘channel’ to something else which is yet to be revealed and unfold. That aspect of the idea seems particularly apt when we talk about Mercury retrograde as all Mercury retrogrades tend to describe periods where were will on one hand regroup and catch up with ourselves…and which on the other had outline periods when we don’t really know “the answer” or how something is going to actually turn out.

And this part of the concept seems enormously important considering that the Scorpio solar eclipse will happen at just over half way through the whole of this Mercury retrograde – on November 3rd, to be exact.

Considering that solar eclipses which strike our chart with any acuity denote a much larger and longer process which is a total of 3 years in length, that suggests that the whole of this Mercury retrograde is – or can be seen to be – bound up in the solar eclipse process: the ‘eclipsing’ of something about life…or in our life in particular.

Whether this is a specific or a general is – as always – read by whether the eclipse aspects a planet, dwarf planet, node or cusp in our chart. A “direct hit” (or aspect within orb to one of those factors) is specific. Yet those of us whose charts aren’t being hit directly will still find that issues having to do the area of our charts colored by early-to-mid Scorpio are in flux.

And let’s remember…Scorpio can be many things as this is the sign which is not just ‘emotional’ but about anything which promotes or provokes our emotions or emotionality. The obvious issues are things like war, sex, finances, relationships, debt, obligations, intimacy, the emotional side of any partnership. But since Scorpio is also the sign of the Moon in Fall and the Moon is an integral part of an eclipse structure (as are the nodes, which brings in relationships and as is the Sun, which brings in consciousness and things like career), nutrition, sleep, memories and the body’s general ability to absorb and process anything – be it an idea or your breakfast – is in question.

Hence, since Mercury is going retrograde in this sign, such things are worth paying attention to. There’s a lot of squirrely behavior under Mercury retrograde due to the odd mixture of frustrations and retreats which manifest under this influence. Then we add in Scorpio..and then we add in the solar eclipse…and it is not to be surprised at if either the truly unexpected…or that ‘thing’ you have been trying to push out of your thoughts (but maybe shouldn’t have) emerge as being true.

Sometimes we ‘parrot’ the strangest things, which brings up a whole other way to see the Sabian Symbol for this degree: the being ‘a parrot’ of something which you don’t understand the full meaning or power of. Or maybe the qualities of – pro or con. To have Mercury turning at this degree and finding out that something you have thought was just fine isn’t fine would be not unheard of. Considering the interplay of the Sabian and the more standard ‘lore’ for this degree, the motivations for why someone takes some position may also be enlightening… even if perhaps unpleasantly so, in the case of someone who is pressing some case or some ‘do this’ or ‘don’t do that’ based on their own desires for control (read: manipulative impulses).

And of course, we all have to watch our own tendency to do likewise. Even the best intended among us isn't immune to such psychological temptation...er, habits.

For anyone with a planet, dwarf planet, node or axis point between 13 Scorpio and 23 Scorpio, being willing to reflect on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it is central. Those you are dealing with are certainly having their own issues, and making new commitments or ‘spending emotional capital’ at this time should be done cautiously. If you must invest yourself, try to do it on a trial basis. Ask a lot of questions, and listen to answers not just in the textual sense, but the emotional and auric sense.

For anyone with a planet, dwarf planet, node or axis point between 13 Taurus and 23 Taurus, matters which confront you should be thoroughly explored, and as you do that, your own reactions and responses to those matters need to be taken into account. Don’t just ‘accept’ how you feel, ask yourself why you feel as you do…and think that through from there.

For anyone with a planet, dwarf planet, node or axis point between either 13 Aquarius and 23 Aquarius and/or 13 Leo and 23 Leo you can expect some new information and possibly some challenges from left (or right) field. These issues need to be taken into account, whether or not they become part of your basic support structure moving forward.

In all of the above, those who are in the 13-to-16 range should be aware that these degrees are also being directly affected by the eclipse. That suggests that matters of the moment may need solving in the moment, yes. (Or dealing with now and solving for the moment when/after Mercury goes direct on November 10th.) But there WILL BE a further ‘playing out’ of this dynamic, this issue, the ramifications of what happens now…all that…both in the next months to come AND in about two and a half years from now as this solar eclipse begins to “mature”…or ‘ripen’ as they say at fruit stands.

Also, if you happen to be in interaction with someone (or plural people or parties) whose charts you happen to be able to lay your hands on and THEY are being eclipsed? Or being dealt a moment of ‘turnaround’ with this Mercury station?

At that point, separating the ‘your stuff’ from ‘their stuff’ is vitally important, lest you take their stuff on…or force them to absorb yours. (That would be peeing in a karma pool which is going to be only yours to swim in, if you take my meaning.) 

Mercury retrograde is by any account a time which asks us to think things through and deal with our thoughts, and all things mental – mental health, mental abilities, decisions, priorities, choices…all that. Add in Scorpio and this becomes how we treat each other and why we treat each other that way (what predisposes us to one set of behaviors and not another) plus our physical functionality…AND the difference between the dream or ideal and the reality of life – not so much in the sense of what is ‘expected’ of us, but with an eye to what we need to do in order to be or become effective.

Our wishes are real.

But realities are realer.

My bottom line suggestion here: tread lightly, listen with your spirit as well as your ears and be willing to wait for your own answers. That’s hard, yes. But everything we go through inside while waiting is also important to our experience of personal evolution.
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MakeMake in Libra

Ancestor Figure (moai kavakava) from Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

(On exhibition at LACMA - the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Just in case you haven’t figured out how it works yet, I’ll let you in on the skinny as to the why and why not of astrological chit-chatter about various points. It pretty much goes like this: the things we have a lot of research and data on, we talk about. The rest of the stuff…not so much.

Discovered on March 31, 2005 by the Palomar team of Craig Trujillo, David Rabinowitz and Michael Brown (of Caltech fame), MakeMake is a dwarf planet, which should put it on an astrological par with Pluto. And that it’s not is in part because there’s only so many astrologers doing collecting data…and let’s face it, there hasn’t been much time to collect that data in since 2005.

Personally, I also think that MakeMake is its own kind of TNO (Trans Neptunian Object) is part of the reason too. After all, it’s not a Plutino…which is to say, MakeMake’s orbit isn’t in any ‘mag res’ (magnetic resonance) relationship with Neptune. Objects like Pluto are...which explains to us why the association we have with dreams, illusions, fantasies, ideals and entertainment which so Neptunian evidently benefit from that association in that big blue Neptune passes its qualities along.

And if we can see how Neptune vibrations - the stuff which blurs the line between real and unreal - gives the Plutinos governed by Neptune all that great-or-terrifying Neptunian PR, then its easier to understand why MakeMake - a dwarf planet which doesn't have that Neptune attachment also lacks the Neptunian allure.

I tend to think of MakeMake as the startup of dwarf planets. I have faith it’s going to make a hit with us yet…but it hasn’t happened yet.

So far all we know is that MakeMake is named for a god who was part of the Easter Island culture. This god was the god of creating (as opposed to  Creation) and thus seems associated with an almost Venus-like ‘bringing things to be’ quality – except that it’s a TNO.

Venus is a personal planet. It is thus our personal attribute and part of our daily life. MakeMake? Not so much. MakeMake is a ‘way out there’ sort of object. 

Everything beyond Neptune (in a realm technically known as the Kuiper Belt which at some unknown reach becomes the Oort Belt) is not only subject to strange spelling, but being strange to us. It simply is. The ability to surprise us (for good or bad) is a quality we associate with all TNO objects - from the Eris, Sedna and Pluto end of things to the Deucalion, Makemake and Huya class of things. Beyond what we (Neptune) can know lies the realm of that we cannot predict with any clarity.

And that just drives people crazy. So though there's a mysteriously intriguing quality to Plutino types like Ixion and Pluto, there are also a whole slew of hot diggity objects out there which don't seem to fascinate us, but which represent the timing mechanisms by which we will learn lessons nonetheless.

That's the list which includes MakeMake.

So! To use the Sherlock Holmes deduction method as applied to astrology, if MakeMake is about creating or the thing which has been created, and MakeMake also resides in the Realm of the TNO, then MakeMake is about creating something unexpected or which affects us in some unanticipated manner, or having to deal with something which come to be which we don't have experience with, and therefore probably don't know how to deal with.

To say nothing of all that water. Easter Island is a dot of land way out in the middle of an ocean. With water being the medium of emotionality, that may mean that MakeMake moments leave us feeling isolated or 'stranded' in an ocean of emotions. Or maybe we're just 'awash' with feelings we've never felt before.

Then again, maybe MakeMake something has to get made which we have no idea what it would be like or how it would function.

Currently on its way back towards us from the zone where Sedna comes closest and Eris and comet Swiff-Tuttle (which brings us the Persied meteor shower) are at their greatest distance from the Sun, MakeMake is also another of the objects with an inclination of orbit (orbital tilt) which is decidedly “off the level” – at least of our world and the inner and ‘orderly’ section of our solar system is. (Not that things are so orderly here on Earth obviously…) That’s another indicator that like Pluto, MakeMake represents things which happen in a sort of ‘off the beaten track’ sort of way…which in ‘regular’ terms would suggest it pertains to things which are out of our norm…

…AND which are unexpected (that being the TNO part of the whole affair).

So what has that got to do with your personal pile of peanut brittle? Just this: as of this Sunday, October 20th, MakeMake is moving into Libra. Considering it has an orbital length of over 300 years, that’s means we’re both in for a lot of MakeMake in Libra…and that we’re now leaving a bunch of years of MakeMake being in Virgo.

Just talking through my (imaginary) astrolabe here, but this sort of bodes all sorts of things for relationships and how we relate…and new kinds of relationships, plus bringing things into being (or revealing them) within relationships.

That this is happening just as the Orionid Meteor Shower (which started on the 16th while I was busy lunar eclipsing) is reaching its peak AND Mercury goes on station seems auspicious.

Many new ideas...many sparks of thought...many realizations coming to light - an some of those have their seeds, their origination in acts and moments dated long, long ago.

We tend to think of Libra as the person we relate to. But it’s more about the functionality of relating and relationships. Libra is as much about the relationship as the person we relate to and with MakeMake moving into Libra a new relationship may present itself…or you may bring a new phase of relationship into being.

If so, if that happens now, it will present you with something new and totally unexpected – which should get you thinking a bit before doing whatever you do with regards to relationships, as they’re likely to come with a few truly shocking surprises.

Could this be good? Or is it necessarily or bad? 

That depends on where MakeMake falls in your chart natally…and where 0 Libra falls in your chart along with which cusp wears the Libra emblem (or whether it’s intercepted).

Detail of Ancestor Figure (moai kavakava) from Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

(On exhibition at LACMA - the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

The challenge here is to remember that whatever happens in relationships and the process of relating now is about something new…your ability to deal with the new, create the new, tolerate the unfamiliar, step outside prescribed ‘boxes’…all that stuff. Through that, you will come to know more about your Self.

Or at least you should. Going forward, because Venus is about to enter Capricorn – the sign it will go retrograde in come December – because Venus rules Venus we are all of us on a path towards building in a worldly sense, but growing in an otherworldly sense.

Since ‘tis the season…(Halloween, I mean)…I’ll go ahead and ask whether any of this scares you.

If it does, deal with it and take it on anyway. Apparently you need to, she said, picking up a haunch of raw meat so as to go out and feed the griffins…and remember – the worst spell to be caught in is the one you didn’t mean to bring into being. But once they're there, you have to deal with them - and all which they mean to your ability to relate to life and how you go about relating to that which you have either directly created, or which your being-ness has caused to come into existence because after all...it's meant to be part of your life.

Can you relate?

Do you relate?

Will you relate?

If you can't now...you will soon.
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