Moon in Scorpio — Venus Square Saturn, a Hot Moody Mess

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Today we have the moon in its fall on the sign of Scorpio opposing a debilitated Mars, while at the same time Venus in Cancer is squaring Saturn in Aries. That's a lot. So we're going to talk about what you might notice today. If today is one of those stressful days, it helps to know why on an astrological level. It helps to have some insight and a reflective space, hopefully to help us process and move through this time more consciously. So that's our goal for today.

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We'll have the guys back out this summer again at some point. Anyway, here's the mess that we're dealing with today. Really, it is a lot. So what you can see here: we're on Thursday, May 28, and you can see Venus in Cancer moving into the square with Saturn in Aries. That's happening today at the same exact time that we have the moon in the sign of its fall, almost full. That's a very powerful waxing moon carrying a lot of momentum and force, and it is opposing Mars throughout the day. That's already happened at this time, the clock set at like two in the afternoon, but that's happening. So we have some really powerful aspect dynamics.

The moon in its fall in a Mars-ruled sign, opposite Mars, its host, as well as Venus in Cancer squared to Saturn, who is in its fall in Mars' sign, means that Mars has a lot of power in the sky today: the god of conflict, the god of action, the god of courage, the god of competition. So a confrontational force in the sky today. Venus and Saturn often brings harder, more polarized energies into love and relationship spaces. Venus in Cancer tends to be oriented toward things like home and family, so we get the potential for infighting and conflict and emotional drama, and a sense of deeper, heavier things that we're working out that are not without a fair amount of real tension.

So what I've got for us today, given these dynamics, is a list of five things to watch for. It's really basic, but I think the most basic things are usually the most helpful. So let's get into it. Number one on my list of things to watch for today are emotional standoffs. An emotional standoff to me would mean where there are different people or parties that have a serious amount of investment in a situation that's not just financial, not just mental or ideological, it's emotional. That could mean that it is also financial, it's also about an idea or a belief, but primarily when there's emotional weight, you feel it physically. It's the anger, it's the jealousy, it's the anxiety, it's the sadness, it's the grief or the rage.

When there's so much of it, and by so much of it I mean again, we have Saturn fallen in a Mars-ruled sign, moon in its fallen in a Mars-ruled sign opposing Mars, and then Venus also squaring that fallen Saturn, the feeling is that I can't afford to lose because I'm protecting something that I have serious emotional attachment to. So you have to be wrong, because if you are right, it will take something away from me that I have emotional investment or attachment to. Even if that's not true, that's how we might feel. So an emotional standoff, as I'm thinking of it in this scenario, has to do with an unwillingness to compromise, because the feeling is that this is too vulnerable. It's not safe for me to do so, or in order for you to be right, I have to lose something that will be really painful emotionally for me to lose.

Emotional standoffs can also be about a kind of emotional stubbornness. It's emotional, but it's irrational. Often, the things that we're attached to, the more intensely we get attached to them, the less rational we become. Kids are a great example of this. My daughter might be eating her ice cream, and she starts to say, "My stomach is hurting," and we say, "You need to stop eating your ice cream," but she's so attached to the ice cream and the sweet taste, and she refuses to see the rational connection between her stomach hurting and eating the ice cream. I'm making this example up, obviously. How do you get someone to move off from something that there's a lot of emotional investment in when they're not willing to listen to reason? This could be ourselves or other people we're dealing with. There's a stubbornness to Mars in Taurus, there's a resistance from Saturn in Aries: you can't make me do something that's not what I want.

That could have us really inflexible, and then it becomes about these standoffs boiling over into conflicts that probably don't need to happen on some level, because a little bit more rational or detached way of looking at things might help. It's not surprising to me that in all of these signs we have water, earth, and fire. Water and fire: a lot of passion, a lot of desire, a lot of attachment, a lot of emotion. And Mars debilitated in an earth sign can be very stubborn and rigid about the outcome that it wants, the tangible outcome that it desires. We do have three planets in Gemini right now: Uranus, Sun, and Mercury. One would hope that there might be a little flexibility available to us, but watch for this.

All right, number two on my list are conflicts with history. With Venus in Cancer and the Moon in Scorpio, water is the reservoir of memory, of ancestry. Water carries the collective impressions of experience and events. Water stores ancestral and historical memory. The moon, also the ruler of Cancer, is associated with memory. The moon in Scorpio is associated with the memory of loss, of conflict, of trauma, of suffering, of grief, of fear. Venus in Cancer running into Saturn in Aries can also be about conflicts that have a lot of history. Cancer is the sign of history and nostalgia, a sign connected to the past because of the rulership of the moon, a sign connected to our roots or the historical roots of something. That's why you think about where do I come from in my past: my family, my origins, my roots. But that can be cultural, historical, ancestral.

When that Venus in Cancer runs into Saturn in Aries, we're talking about the potential for stalemates and conflicts and polarizing encounters that are charged and that have history behind them, and that can generate the feeling that much more is at stake than actually is in the current moment. It's like one of those what are they called? Not a family feud. Yeah, I've used this example before with the Aries Cancer axis, but it's like that Hatfields and McCoys. They were families that went at each other or something. I don't even know that story. I've just heard about it. Or like Romeo and Juliet, the Capulets and the Montagues. There's this civil tension and strife that has history behind it, and their kids are walking into it. Romeo and Juliet don't necessarily have any attachment to that, but this other history exists.

Or it's like when you ever go to a sports stadium and you see people who've drunk too much, or they get drunk and their teams are different, and their teams have a long rivalry, so then they start hurting each other. They're participating in something that has nothing to do really with the two people. It has to do with the history of these teams that they're identified with. So conflicts can come up under the aspects in the sky today that are made bigger than they are because there's some history there. Whether or not that history is ours to carry or not, we have to look carefully.

Number three: family power dynamics. When the moon is in Scorpio in its fall opposite Mars, Venus is in the sign of family, Cancer, opposite or square to Saturn. We look at the structures of families, the power of families, the abuse within families, the patterns of corruption or suffering in families or groups or tight-knit emotional communities or villages or ecosystems that are bound together in life. What are the conflicts within them? What are the power struggles within them? What are the competitions and hierarchies, and how are they being examined or looked at under the microscope of a conflict that's arising right now? So watch for that intense level of looking carefully.

Here's an interesting thing that happened in my life with an aspect like this. We've had some aspects between Jupiter and Cancer in the past few years. A while back, Jupiter was in Aries, and there were some transits like this going on. I remember my daughter said, "You know, when people come over to the house, you sit at the head of the table. Why do you do that?" And I was like, "Yeah, why do I do that? I guess it's just what my dad did when I was a kid." I hadn't ever really thought about it; it was just unconscious on my part. And now we rotate who gets to sit at the head of the table when we have guests that are older in our house, like from Ashley's family side. It's still pretty traditional to have maybe one of the older, like grandma or someone, sit at the head of the table, but there's no strict observance.

Bringing that up for me was kind of like, from the perspective of my seven-year-old daughter, why do we do that? My point is that this is also a good transit to perhaps rearrange or reconfigure power dynamics so they're more equitable, or so that people get to take turns, or there's fluidity in power, responsibility, leadership within groups, within families, within places that share some kind of bond. Look carefully at how power is arranged and shared and distributed, or not. That could be something to watch for right now.

Number four would be emotional immaturity. Look, as much as I want to go to bat for Venus and the moon right now, both of these planets running into Saturn in Aries or Mars in Taurus could be running into a force that says stop being so needy, stop being so dramatic. Buck up, be a little bit more self-contained, self-sufficient. Using the language of attachment theory, those planets at their worst could be anxious attachment styles, and Mars and Saturn could be the lessons of being more independent, being more self-secure, having a healthy, secure attachment style. I'm just playing with that. Obviously, the opposite could be true as well. These planets could be about bonding, and Saturn in Aries could be avoidant or something. But I wouldn't be surprised if attachment styles in general came up, because either extreme can be immature. Avoidance can be immature; the emotionally anxious type can be immature.

What does it mean to have to hold the tension of being independent but bonded, dependent but capable of standing on our own at the same time? There's so much there. There's a lot of rhetoric in the new age world like you should be completely self-sufficient, and then you'll attract the right person into your life. That idea that balance is a static state. Balance is more like a flow state. Being in balance in ourselves is something that's like on a bike: you're constantly having to adjust to keep your center. Balance is something you're constantly negotiating and moving with. You can't find your sweet spot on the bike of relationships without a relationship; that's the bike. So what good is it if we're talking about being independent or one type of healthy way of relating if we don't have a relationship to learn through? There's no way, in other words, to learn healthy emotional relationship dynamics except for the trials and struggles we go through in relationships with each other. The question is not did you get it perfect; it's did you learn something? Did you learn how to be a better partner? Did you learn how to be a better friend? Did you learn how to be a more responsive, receptive lover? These are questions we could all ask ourselves right now.

Emotional immaturity can crop up that says my needs aren't being met, and it's all about me. We could feel quite sorry for ourselves and become really demanding. On the other hand, you don't want to be in relationships that aren't reciprocal, where there isn't a give and take. "Hey, look, I'm trying. Are you trying?" So the subject of emotional growth is, I think, right at the center of this.

All right, number five is protecting what's vulnerable. Venus in Cancer runs into Saturn in Aries, and you get a home alarm system. Venus in Cancer runs into Saturn in Aries, and you're a woman who learned self-defense. Moon in Scorpio opposes Mars in Taurus, and you get a dog to bark when someone comes to the door. These are all transits that can speak to protecting things that are innocent or vulnerable or sweet and need protecting. When a dog is being submissive, I go to pet Hilda; she rolls over onto her belly, shows me her belly. "I'll show you my vulnerable side because I trust you. I love you." In dogs, they show each other that submissiveness when they're playing. And then other times, if we're walking somewhere on a trail and there's another dog coming that is lunging and leaning in toward us, Hilda will become very protective. Her hair might stand up on end, and we're like, "It's okay, Hilda, it's just an insane black lab puppy. They're just such an energetic dog, and it makes you uncomfortable because she's a guardian style dog."

But the point is that we all have these responses, right, where we become protective, or we have to harden up a little bit, or we open our bellies to the world. The need to be both vulnerable but also well bounded and protected. The interaction between those two things right now could feel especially important to negotiate. How do we hold that tension? Or another question might be: how do we protect what's vulnerable without becoming cynical or untrusting, without shelling up and hiding ourselves? Protecting what's vulnerable can be about women, families, children. I would not be surprised in the news to see things cropping up around the topics of women, children, pregnancy, women's health, women's bodies. Also land, protecting land, protecting nature, protecting the yin. There's a protective energy you could read into this around defending or advocating or fighting for things that are very yin, very earthy and watery.

So that's it. That's my list for the day. It's spicy. I want to hear your stories. How are you doing with this? What have you experienced? This is an interesting one. I feel like I don't often talk about the moon on any given day, but I was like, ooh, look at this: a moon-Mars opposition at the same time that there's a Venus-Saturn square. That's the two major feminine planets in hard aspects with the malefics. Let's talk about that. But mostly what I really like after doing something like this is hearing the stories of what you experience, because there are so many expressions that I could never imagine that come up that are so interesting. So it really is fun to hear from you guys.

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