it’s tuesday, august 13, & moon is in scorpio, in the starspace called anuradha. scorpio is the sign of moon’s debilitation, which means it’s where we are most emotionally vulnerable, where our emotions toss us about like the raucous waves of a stormy sea. of course, the sea is within us, the waters those of our fears & paranoias, our worst imaginings, which are churned up by our relationships, by the (usually!) fake stories we tell ourselves about them & about ourselves as a result. we can get soooooo subjective under the sway of scorpio that we lose all sense of reality. we can get soooo attached to our suffering that we think that’s who we are. we all experience pain, but it doesn’t have to define us, limit us. in fact, it expands our capacity to feel, in general. the deeper we dive, the higher we can fly, glide, soar!
“we cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”—alan watts
anuradha is ruled by mitra, the divine friend, & reminds us of the dynamic between radha & krishna, who were married to other people but were great good friends. radha was utterly devoted to krishna (to god!). anuradha invites us to ask the question, “what would radha do?” to ask ourselves what we are devoted to & how we are showing that devotion. it invites us to ask whether we are treating our people like manifestations of god, of the divine, or not.
it’s the ninth lunar day (tithi), the ninth phase of the waxing moon, which, like scorpio is watery. the combo of all this water can make us double-down on our inner turmoil, make us less sociable. not a problem if we use that solitudinous energy to overcome the obstacles we are facing, which we know by now are self-generated, right?
tuesday is ruled by courageous, action-taking mars, who also rules scorpio, where he gives us emotional & spiritual courage, the latter supporting the former, giving us the ability to be with our emotional grunge without getting taken out by it, & thus do the inner transformational work that mars is here to help us do. & if you are getting hotted up by mars, do burn that energy up through physical activity—go for a run or hike, clean out the basement, weed the garden.
& that’s your daily bliss! which is a sort of lunar weather report. may it allow you to align with the day’s cosmic energy so you can find & create a little more bliss.
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