On Sunday November 22 AEST the Sun shimmied its way into Sagittarius just as Venus slipped into the passionate, deep waters of Scorpio, orientating our thoughts towards impending celebratory social interactions with those to whom we feel most meaningfully connected.
Today, November 24 AEST, the astrology is mystical, emotional and potentially revelatory. It stars Neptune, the planet of visionary thinking, intuition, mystical experiences, music, imagination, forgiveness and compassion, but also of indecision, confusion, illusion, deception, delusion and intolerance. Thankfully, today’s potent Neptunian energy is influenced mostly by positive aspects. Our emotional responses, intuitive insights, creative inspirations and psychological urges towards understanding are being sensitized and magnetized as the Moon conjoins Neptune in Pisces, Mercury in Scorpio trines Neptune, and Saturn, Jupiter & Pluto sextile the Moon-Neptune conjunction.
At the same time, Neptune is squaring the Moon’s nodes. Although this square has been loose since September, it becomes more intense as we approach next week’s lunar eclipse in Gemini. The Moon’s nodes determine both the sign of eclipses and the lessons of our collective karma and social destiny and describe the steps we need to take in order to collectively evolve (north node) as well as the aspects of our collective karma that must be resolved in order for us to achieve that goal (south node). With the north node currently in Gemini, our evolutionary potential depends upon clear and unbiased perception and appraisal of facts and an ability to assess the information we’re receiving objectively in order to understand its significance within a bigger and more complex picture that we may be habitually inclined to perceive.
With Neptune squaring the nodes until March 2021, our ability to discern facts from fiction will continue to be tested, particularly as Neptune rules media. Consciously attuning to north node Gemini energy by approaching those whose ideas differ radically from our own with genuine curiosity and subjecting our own beliefs to rigorous scrutiny accelerates maximum growth. Judgements based on old, unconscious or inherited beliefs engage the shadow side of Sagittarius, and for as long as the nodes remain on the Gemini/Sagittarius axis (until Jan 2022) those we cling to dogmatically are guaranteed to be faulty. On the other hand, however, the Sagittarian south node thrives on spiritual practice, and this week’s Neptunian energy provides the perfect environment.
On Wednesday as the Moon meets Chiron the Healer in Aries & trines the Sun in Sagittarius, there’s a possibility for emotional healing in the context of our own self-limiting beliefs. We’re being primed to recognise the richness and viability of our most cherished aspirations this week and to understand that as we do the work that’s required of us to become whole as individuals and to realise those aspirations, we simultaneously progress the course of humanity.
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