Blood Letting: The Winter that Reveals the Spring, Stellium Scorpio T-Square Mars, Neptune-Chiron Conjunction

It is the time, traditionally of the blessing of the herds.  The sacrifice of the herds down to the breeding stock to make it threw the winter.  In old days, today would be the 3rd day of the traditional Lunar holiday of Samhain (pronounced /Sow-in/, /Sav-in/ or /Sa-Veen/, the day of the crossroads, the time of the ancestors.  This was the time in the old Celtic Lunar calendar held for intense difficult things.  This is the day that ultimate responsibility for what we love and what we choose is celebrated and held in our awareness.  This is an intense and powerful time of the year any year, and this year possibly more than ever.

In the winter resources would be more scarce, to insure the survival of the herds, and of therefore of the people, it was a time when sacrifice had to be made.  Not pretty.  Not easy.  Extremely intense.  but true.

Currently?

Moon coming conjunct into Stellium with Venus and Mercury in Scorpio.  Our sensitives and intuitions, our communication style and our senses of beauty desire and attractiveness.  In Scorpio it turns to a sense of power, responsibility, and claiming what is ours.  It makes us want to protect our sensitivities, but also makes intuition powerful.  There is something very personal very dire very... in keeping with the time of year only more so.

This stellium occupies the center of a T-Square Squared on either side by Mars in Leo, pushing motivating, yelling "this is what I as a living being is due!"  on the other side a conjunction of Neptune and Chiron on the Aquarius Pisces Cusp both in retrograde, which means turned inward, in an examination of their character.  

Chiron: is how we take the pain in our history and translate it into active vision for the world we are making.  Neptune is how we approach spirit, how we move beyond the physical, how we move beyond definition.

And on the cusp of Aquarius and Pisces its a spiritual sense of the creation of a gilded age, the idea of a sacred practical.  Turned in retrograde, its about discerning and re-evaluating our methods.

Of course in a T-square it means Chiron and Neptune are in opposition to Mars.  

The overall tendency here is an intense re-evaluation.  Its about claiming the responsibility, the hard realities, the dirty work of the equality, the hope we want.  Its about staring into the dark mirror, passing through the shadow and seizing the hopes for our children through the darkest moments.  Bravery is not fearlessness.  Lack of fear is lack of sense.  It is not a time when the sane, and those who care should be fearless.

But it is a time to do what must be done.

There will be a time for our children, and a better world.  And now, we set ourselves upon the winter that reveals the Spring.

Oh and PS: that Lunar Stellium, Also Trine to Uranus in Aries... that implies the roll forward of the future.  reform and revolution... then again what right now doesn't?

Extreme aspects currently in the sky also interact with our personal charts.  Make sure you are taking the space to breath and keep healthy physically emotionally and spiritually.  One way that can aid in this is treating yourself to a personal astrological consultation.

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