A branch fell off the top of a large maple tree in our backyard a few days ago, narrowly missing the power line and family members in the yard at the time. The day was sunny with no wind.
It was yet another jolt from Mars-Uranus in Taurus.
There were many other such zaps in the air last week, especially the aptly named CrowdStrike, which is the largest IT outage in history.
To top off the fun, we get some Full Moon energy this weekend!
It’s the second Full Moon in Capricorn in a row. The Sun was just barely into Cancer during the first Full Moon – now it is at the tail end of Cancer.
Cancer and Capricorn are opposite each other on the zodiac. It’s a polarity of the archetypes of The Great Mother and Wise Old Man (Senex).
I have been contemplating the below quote during Cancer season, and it seems fitting to share it now under this Full Moon:
Rather than disengaging from the mother, we are seeking a wild and wise mother. We are not, cannot be, separate from her. Our relationship to this soulful mother is meant to turn and turn, and to change and change, and it is a paradox. This mother is a school we are born into, a school we are students in, a school we are teachers at, all at the same time, and for the rest of our lives. Whether we have children or not, whether we nourish the garden, the sciences, or the thunderworld of poetics, we always brush against the wild mother on our way to anywhere else. And this is as it should be.
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Capricorn would have us disengage from the mother.
Such disengagement is necessary when it focuses on withdrawing projections from the personal mother, or an idealized image of mothering, and developing one’s own inner mother.
With the Sun entering Leo the day after the full Moon, the focus shifts to the father archetype, as Leo is the home sign of the Sun. It provides an opportunity to reflect more on becoming father to your own life:
One becomes a father to one’s own life by becoming intimately acquainted with it and by daring to traverse its waters. I’m talking here about a deep father figure that settles into the soul to provide a sense of authority, the feeling that you are the author of your own life, that you are the head of the household in your own affairs.
Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
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