Well Saturn is in the very last minutes of Virgo and the Sun is at the end of Cancer and the Moon is in inward-looking Scorpio again today. Feels like a day pregnant with change. Although the actual breakthroughs may not come today (and then again they might), the Moon makes a host of useful aspects, suggesting we can at least tune in to the deeper meaning.
Tune in to the deeper meaning is what Scorpio always wants to do. The challenge with Scorpio Moon energy is to catch ourselves when we’re emotionally fixating on one single solution to the problem. I had a good example of this yesterday. My brother and his wife and child are in town visiting and I wanted to get the lawn cut before they arrived at the house. I was rushing around all out of my body
– funny I’ve been reading this copy of Shambhala Sun that had been smacked around pretty hard in my trunk for a few months while we were moving and the baby was getting born and all that, has some big old ugly stains on the cover and the pages are all wrinkled from who knows what kind of moisture and I hadn’t even noticed it in months until suddenly there it was two days ago staring up at me plaintively, saying in its calm monk voice, “Use me for bathroom reading”….of course the issue is devoted to Mindfulness –
and the last thing I was doing was being mindful and first I spilled a quarter cup of water on the keyboard of my old PC laptop which I’ve been emotionally hanging onto rather than switch over to my new Mac, only because there are files to be copied and new protocols to be learned and yes I already know the Mac is better, faster and makes me feel like a creative dynamo but what would you be if you didn’t resist change just because that’s what we’re programmed to do?
So at this point I’m really not mindful and I decide to go out and cut the grass. It’ll take my mind off the old laptop which still has a ton of valuable stuff on it and is now propped up against the fan in the basement, keyboard pointing towards floor. So I gas up the lawn mower and pull the cord and the damn thing won’t start. I prime it and it catches and then just as quickly dies. We repeat this scenario several times at which point Jenny (a Virgo who has not read the Thought of the Day about critical speech) comes to the door and tells me I should be doing something different because the way I’m trying to start the lawnmower obviously isn’t working.
I’ve read the Thought of the Day but I can’t stop myself from replying with critical speech and of course now I really want to get it started so I prime it a bunch more times with the same result. Then have long conversations inside and outside my head about how we just bought it, couldn’t have used it more than five times, blah blah blah.
I’m lying on the couch with the baby cause I don’t know what else to do — I’m not a mechanic — and I’m running over in my mind…and suddenly I DO remember the Thought of the Day. And I realize I’m obsessing over something I can’t control. Either it’s going to work because I flooded it or it just didn’t want to start for its own reasons or its not going to work. But either way it’s not going to start now so why don’t I let it go and focus on what’s happening now which is that the baby is (a) awake and (b) awake and not crying and (c) being super cute and snuggling with me and looking up at me with his beautiful clear eyes.
So I let the lawnmower and the computer go and I gave thanks that I have a new computer so this isn’t a horrible tragedy even in the worst case scenario and we do have another lawnmower at the old house forty-five minutes away if worse comes to worst.
So we all decided to take a nap. And the baby slept like an angel for thirty minutes in the crook of my arm and I drifted off for my own lovely twenty minutes.
When I woke up the lawnmower started right up. I’d flooded the engine, apparently. So I asked myself what emotion I was holding on to so that I’d already flooded two machines today. And as soon as I asked I knew the answer – I needed to release some old long-held fear and resentment I didn’t even know I was still holding on to from the long-ago days when my bro and I were both practicing addicts. And I did what I needed to do to let the old fear and resentments go…
There’s some Scorpio Moon for ya. It’s going to take you deep, probably deeper than you want to go. But if you can ride out the obsession, you’re most likely going to learn something very valuable about what’s going on inside.
Astrology Thought of the Day for Tuesday
Well Saturn is in the very last minutes of Virgo and the Sun is at the end of Cancer and the Moon is in inward-looking Scorpio again today. Feels like a day pregnant with change. Although the actual breakthroughs may not come today (and then again they might), the Moon makes a host of useful aspects, suggesting we can at least tune in to the deeper meaning.
Tune in to the deeper meaning is what Scorpio always wants to do. The challenge with Scorpio Moon energy is to catch ourselves when we’re emotionally fixating on one single solution to the problem. I had a good example of this yesterday. My brother and his wife and child are in town visiting and I wanted to get the lawn cut before they arrived at the house. I was rushing around all out of my body
– funny I’ve been reading this copy of Shambhala Sun that had been smacked around pretty hard in my trunk for a few months while we were moving and the baby was getting born and all that, has some big old ugly stains on the cover and the pages are all wrinkled from who knows what kind of moisture and I hadn’t even noticed it in months until suddenly there it was two days ago staring up at me plaintively, saying in its calm monk voice, “Use me for bathroom reading”….of course the issue is devoted to Mindfulness –
and the last thing I was doing was being mindful and first I spilled a quarter cup of water on the keyboard of my old PC laptop which I’ve been emotionally hanging onto rather than switch over to my new Mac, only because there are files to be copied and new protocols to be learned and yes I already know the Mac is better, faster and makes me feel like a creative dynamo but what would you be if you didn’t resist change just because that’s what we’re programmed to do?
So at this point I’m really not mindful and I decide to go out and cut the grass. It’ll take my mind off the old laptop which still has a ton of valuable stuff on it and is now propped up against the fan in the basement, keyboard pointing towards floor. So I gas up the lawn mower and pull the cord and the damn thing won’t start. I prime it and it catches and then just as quickly dies. We repeat this scenario several times at which point Jenny (a Virgo who has not read the Thought of the Day about critical speech) comes to the door and tells me I should be doing something different because the way I’m trying to start the lawnmower obviously isn’t working.
I’ve read the Thought of the Day but I can’t stop myself from replying with critical speech and of course now I really want to get it started so I prime it a bunch more times with the same result. Then have long conversations inside and outside my head about how we just bought it, couldn’t have used it more than five times, blah blah blah.
I’m lying on the couch with the baby cause I don’t know what else to do — I’m not a mechanic — and I’m running over in my mind…and suddenly I DO remember the Thought of the Day. And I realize I’m obsessing over something I can’t control. Either it’s going to work because I flooded it or it just didn’t want to start for its own reasons or its not going to work. But either way it’s not going to start now so why don’t I let it go and focus on what’s happening now which is that the baby is (a) awake and (b) awake and not crying and (c) being super cute and snuggling with me and looking up at me with his beautiful clear eyes.
So I let the lawnmower and the computer go and I gave thanks that I have a new computer so this isn’t a horrible tragedy even in the worst case scenario and we do have another lawnmower at the old house forty-five minutes away if worse comes to worst.
So we all decided to take a nap. And the baby slept like an angel for thirty minutes in the crook of my arm and I drifted off for my own lovely twenty minutes.
When I woke up the lawnmower started right up. I’d flooded the engine, apparently. So I asked myself what emotion I was holding on to so that I’d already flooded two machines today. And as soon as I asked I knew the answer – I needed to release some old long-held fear and resentment I didn’t even know I was still holding on to from the long-ago days when my bro and I were both practicing addicts. And I did what I needed to do to let the old fear and resentments go…
There’s some Scorpio Moon for ya. It’s going to take you deep, probably deeper than you want to go. But if you can ride out the obsession, you’re most likely going to learn something very valuable about what’s going on inside.