\Cultivating Poise/
Moon in Taurus
Full Moon of Scorpio-Taurus occurs at 5:36a PT | 8:36a ET | 1:36p UT
/moon goes void-of-course at 7:49a PT | 10:49a ET | 3:49p UT
(moon enters Gemini after midnight; time given tomorrow)
"A soldier derelict in duty" is what we all may feel like during any Mercury Retrograde period (this one is from October 31 through November 19). We deviate from our ordinary schedules, as much as we can get away with, it seems! Haven't you noticed your sleep, eating, meal-time, work-time schedules changing from day to day over the past two weeks? We have an urge to do something other than our "official duties" and so, like the derelict soldier, are chastised by the "commanding officer" who is ourselves. And yet, as Dr. Jones says in elucidating the symbol, we may be faithful to "the inner stirrings of self" and this is a sort of courage, for we are "willing to face the consequence of true self-assertion."
We will see others also doing this sort of thing, and we might not be as charitable toward them as to ourselves! The conventional symbol of Justice, holding a pair of scales in one hand and sword in the other, could be ourselves feeling or acting too severely to someone who has seemed to be utterly wrong about something. (Or we may feel that someone has done that to us.)
(The application of this to politics is all too evident. Democrats will see the "derelict" one as Trump; Republicans will see him as one of the many members of the Trump administration who seem to be turning against their commanding officer without sufficient reason. And so it goes.)
At a different level we may be studious, wanting to expand our consciousness along with the fulsome moon. Mercury going backward, our manner of doing this is unpredictable and chaotic, "a quantity of books and papers in disorder." The way our intellect functions may be unpopular and yet have its distinctive genius. It may even break out into lyricism, "A Spaniard serenading his Senorita." Poetry and music manifest the soul's constancy no matter what Mercury is doing. (For the past week I have found myself listening to old music, even classics, rather than new things.)
We are still feeling, at some deep level, that we want to be "a flag-bearer," whether the flag we care about is a national one, that of a political party or sect or religion or secular cause such as climate-change correction. It takes nobility to actually act on one's touted principles. The Mars-in-Libra symbol "An eagle and a large white dove turning one into the other" makes clear that we have to face the dualities in whatever we achieve, veering neither too far up nor down, right nor left. Adeptness is a matter of doing this poisefully and successfully.
{Tuesday} /Cultivating Poise\
Cosmic Piper
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