Scorpio Gibbous Moon
—June 20

Back into the depths of our own personal darkness we go, both collectively and individually… the only way around it is through.

Working on a relationship and learning more deeply about compromise could have been a recent theme, and today these reverberations sink more thoroughly into the tug of slippery quicksands… it’s best to smooth over edges and apologies earlier in the day, unless you’re truly prepared and capable of delving into the deepest of intimacies and vulnerabilities.

Today’s lunarly associated degrees involve emotional motivations toward “confronting other people’s underlying motives; unmasking deceit and half-truths; circling in on a hunch; identifying a key piece of the puzzle; getting the full scoop versus acting too quickly and making a mess of things; critically examining one’s own desires; dodging other people’s agendas and protecting one’s own interests; and learning who one’s real friends are…”

None of which are recommended for the faint of heart.

Somewhat unrelatedly but not, Jupiter is more or less stalled in its station at 2°11′ Pisces, a degree which inspires “sober reflections on the deeper meanings of life and death…” and will begin moving backward toward Aquarius, to ultimately return to the rules and regulations of what an organized ideal requires… absolute boundarilessness is not yet available after all.

And finally, the sun enters Cancer later tonight* and this would represent, despite Mars moving in Leo, a more cautious examination upon the inner workings of all things.

Again… none of today’s energies are recommended for the egoic reactionary, but the open-hearted are advised to remain open to receive.

❝I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.❞
——Virginia Woolf


Goldsmith, M. “The Zodiac by Degrees.” Weiser Books; ©2004.
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