Astrology for Thursday, 21 November 2019:

Today the Moon in Virgo makes easeful aspects to some difficult planets and hard aspects to both benefic planets. Starting with trines to Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn, we can reflect on the systems and structures that actually support us in aligning with personal and collective well-being, and ask: how do we practice being in right-relationship to power? What are the organizations of power that move us toward liberation as we live through our day-to-day lives? How might we experiment with what Starhawk describes as “shared power” and adrienne maree brown emphasizes as “interdependence and decentralization” of authority in the small tasks and projects on which we work each day? The Moon then makes squares to Venus and Jupiter in Sagittarius, and we may feel challenged to love and connect in ways that move from abundance rather than scarcity, that center what is working well rather than obsessing over the details that don’t meet our expectations. So many of us have been conditioned to pursue what we think of as love from a place of scarcity—the deep belief that there’s not enough, I’m not enough, I don’t have enough, and maybe no one can ever give me enough of what I need. What if we began by practicing offering abundant love to ourselves and others, quieting our inner critics and instead focusing on those parts of ourselves and our loved ones that we want to celebrate and nurture? “What you pay attention to grows,” as brown teaches us; this is a principle of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism. Finally, the Moon in Virgo makes a sextile to the Sun in Scorpio before ingressing into Libra. What if you trusted your own feelings as indispensable guides in the way you move through whatever it is you’ve set out to accomplish?