Astrology for Thursday, 27 February 2020:

Recovering from the superior square from Mars yesterday, today the Moon in Aries moves through a square from Jupiter in Capricorn, a conjunction with Venus in Aries, then squares from Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn. In Aries, we may be moving through waves of rage and the drive to channel our rage into action. The superior square from Jupiter, a condition of bonification, encourages us to consider how the frustration or anger we are experiencing now is perhaps part of a larger and longer process, covering over both what has come before as well as possibilities yet to come. As the Moon conjoins Venus, we may reconnect to our desires and the erotic as a source of power. Venus is in antithesis or detriment in Aries, so we may be more aware of the dissonance between our longings for both connection and independence. The squares from Pluto and Saturn bring me back to the ways in which rage emerges from loss and grief. Judith Butler writes, “Speaking from rage does not always let us see how rage carries sorrow and covers it over … How often is sorrow effectively shouted down by rage? How does it happen that sorrow can bring about the collapse of rage? Is there something to be learn about the sources of nonviolence from this particular power of grief to deflate rage of its destructiveness?” As you encounter your own rage, get curious about how this rage covers over and obscures grief and sorrow. What is this grief so unbearable that it becomes transformed into rage, and how might connecting and even resurrecting that grief, allowing yourself to feel what may seem unbearable, be a process of transforming destructive impulse into nonviolence?