Astrology for Friday, 31 July 2020:

Today the Moon ingresses into Capricorn, the sign of its antithesis or detriment. Capricorn is the sign furthest from the Moon’s own domicile of Cancer, in opposition to it across the zodiac. Here the Moon is far removed from its preferred resources and context, a place of displacement and dispossession. Something fundamental about embodied life is revealed in the Moon’s detriment—the Moon as a general significator for the body, in this state of dispossession. Judith Butler writes in Dispossession: The Performative in the Political, “… dispossession can be a term that marks the limits of self-sufficiency and that establishes us as relational and interdependent beings … we are already outside of ourselves before any possibility of being dispossessed of our rights, land, and modes of belonging. In other words, we are interdependent beings whose pleasure and suffering depend from the start on a sustained social world, a sustaining environment … We can only be dispossessed because we are already dispossessed. Our interdependency establishes our vulnerability to social forms of deprivation.” To be well in this life requires the support of a sustained social context, a world of others who can and do provide for the fundamental needs of embodied life. As the Moon moves into Capricorn, consider: whose bodies and lives are not supported by our current world? Whose needs are ignored or rejected? How might we insist on recognizing the ways in which lives are dispossessed or deprived of what they need in order to survive—because of race, gender, ability, age, class, and so on? What is it we are continuing to refuse to see?