Astrology for Saturday, 18 July 2020:

Today the Moon moves from Gemini into Cancer, the sign of its domicile, but makes no degree-based aspects into after midnight tonight. In its domicile, the Moon has access to the resources it needs to cultivate safety and security, nourishment and care. However, the cardinal axes are currently challenging by whole-sign—with Mars recently ingressed into Aries and Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn. The Moon has its dignity, but under these conditions, safety and care may require fierce confrontation of those forces that would compromise the capacities for life and livability. In thinking about how to provide care under these conditions, I return to Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ reflections on queer mothering in Revolutionary Mothering. She writes, “We are looking at mothering as an investment in the future that requires a person to change the status quo of their own lives, of their community and of the society as a whole again and again in the practice of affirming growing, unpredictable people who deserve a world that is better than what we can imagine.” She writes of “intergenerational care work of making a hostile world an affirming space for another person who is growing mentally, spiritually, physically, and emotionally … Mothering is a queer practice of transforming the world through our desire for each other and another way to be.” In these perilous times, what if we each took seriously the work mothering—the work to create affirming spaces for others who are growing, for other ways of being, for caring for one another with such ferocity that we bring a better world into being?