sun in virgo, moon in cancer
The Sun continues on in Virgo, the Moon is in Cancer. It’s fitting that the Moon should transit its home sign of Cancer, allowing us to retreat and reflect on our inner emotions, and to honor them. The Virgo Sun helps us to keep fulfilling our duties, to be logical and correct…to fix problems as they appear.
The burial of a world figure, Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022), provided an opportunity for many to reflect on impermanence & the transience of our mortal state. Regardless of your views on monarchy, here was a person who acted and interacted on the world stage before most of us were born..who shook hands with both Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, and Donald Trump. A link in our time to world history. She was “there”, and in some senses, that connection with the past bound us all together.
Queen Elizabeth II was a stoic Taurus sun, Capricorn rising, with Leo Moon. Her chart was well-suited to staunch determination and presence required of a public figure. She fulfilled her duties until almost her last breath, never flinching…just as she promised at age 21 (I shudder to think what nonsense I was doing at age 21!).
I couldn’t help thinking that so many of the tears shed were also for the closer loved ones we have known & lost…the lives that have touched ours.
However sad it may be to say good-bye, we can take refuge in the words of the 14th Dalai Lama (himself born under the sign of Cancer, where the Moon resides today).
Tomorrow at 12.44am ET, we’ll receive a Venus-Uranus trine, suggesting some pleasant change & surprises in love, relationships, and all that we value. Venus and Uranus are both in Earth signs, calling our attention to tangible actions and demonstration of our devotion.
In the Northern Hemisphere, one summer is ending, as the cooler temperatures bring fall and winter. The Autumnal Equinox approaches and the days get shorter and shorter, reminding us of the passage of time. We can take refuge in the knowledge that we are here in this moment, and that we are one with each other, that all separation is an illusion. Nature teaches us to have faith in this concept: something essential exists in us that is inextinguishable, it carries on in some way…and never dies.
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