This week I’ve been making leporellos for a collab with my friend @remichell0 & I got carried away with my own mythical emotional landscapes in this first work in progress, which is like a call for protection zones for the flawed & fragile, strange but beautiful fauna of our own imaginal psychic terrain against attacks, primarily from inner assassins! This week’s astrology actually speaks to the potential for some healing around this topic, I think & also to opportunities for slowing down & enjoying the sweet & simple pleasures of life & establishing sustainable supports for the fragile shoots emerging in times of uncertainty.
This week’s Libra Full Moon (Thurs 6 April @ 2:34pm AEDT) follows the Sun’s conjunction with Chiron (@8:25am) the wounded healer & teacher of heroes in the sign of the Sun’s exaltation in Aries. Chiron’s empowered place at the heart of the Sun could illuminate wounds of identity that interfere with our ability to shine in the world as we are whilst simultaneously highlighting the wisdom we’ve gleaned in the process, which has fuelled a mastery of the passions we now use to bolster others. With the god of war, Mars in the emotional Moon palace of Cancer & the Moon in the sign of relationship interactions, we might be more conscious of frictions that aggravate old wounds around emotional safety & tendencies toward passive aggression. We might ask ourselves in such moments what’s actually worth fighting for & which parts of a newly emerging sense of self is needing protection or courageous assertion in order to thrive?
Venus, the planet associated with processes of harmonising & creatively synthesizing differences, attracting what we value to ourselves & experiences of pleasure, peace, beauty & self-worth, rules this Moon from her Taurean temple of the senses, which facilitates delightful conversations, delicious meals & repose but also emphasises the importance of self-care. Feelings that trigger our defensive circuitry in relationship dynamics could also yield insights that deepen connections if we can tend to ourselves, taking time out even momentarily to tune into the flow of the natural world in triggery scenarios & to recommit to the heroic defense of our inner children against threats from psychological snipers. Mercury in Taurus slows down our thought processes, lending greater consideration to words & communications & as it enters its retrograde shadow on Friday, glitches in the realms of business, comms & technology are worth paying attention to. Mercury make a sweet sextile to Mars until May facilitating this more considered approach & as Venus sextiles Neptune this week, we’re better able to respond in emotional states with calm words of compassion or acts of creative imagination.
Those nascent possibilities initiated in the dark of the Aries New Moon on March 22 reach an initial point of reflective culmination on this Full Moon, which in turn highlight the next necessary steps. Venus in the bounds of Saturn in late Taurus & Saturn in the exaltation of Venus in Pisces & the exaltation ruler of the Full Moon in Libra bodes well for creative problem-solving & productive constraints that could help us to identify what’s worth saying no to to minimise overload, overwhelm & burnout. In the lead up to the Sun-Jupiter conjunction on April 12, the first Solar Eclipse of the season on April 20 & Mercury’s retrograde in Taurus on April 21 (to May 15), it seems like interesting astrology for consolidating plans for sustainable, creative outcomes, crystallizing ideas & tending to debilitating doubts that have been getting in our way.
There’s always more going on but I hope this little taste of archetypal cosmic indicators is helpful preparation for the festival of mythical & miraculous rebirth & family dynamics this week lovelies. Enjoy the Venusian pleasures & take care of your sweet selves 💗🌞🌕🐣🐰
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