Astrology for Wednesday, 17 June 2020:

Today the Moon in Taurus makes sextiles to Mercury in Cancer then Neptune in Pisces. We may find ourselves moving between knowledge and understanding, our capacities to describe and articulate as well as our capacities to feel. In an interview in Sister Outsider between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich, Rich describes her desire for Lorde to provide more clear articulations of her intuitions. Rich: “I was trying to say to you, don’t let’s let this evolve into ‘You don’t understand me’ or ‘I can’t understand you’ or ‘Yes, of course we understand each other because we love each other.’ That’s bullshit. So if I ask for documentation, it’s because I take seriously the space between us that difference has created, that racism has created …” Lorde: “But I’m used to associating a request for documentation as a questioning of my perceptions, an attempt to devalue what I’m in the process of discovering … documentation does not help one perceive. At best it only analyzes the perception. At worst, it provides a screen by which to avoid concentrating on the core revelation, following it down to how it feels.” Today we may feel inclined toward a desire to know, to clarify, to analyze, to understand. But are we prepared to accept and trust our unfolding perceptions and the depths of feeling within our own bodies as well as others’ as valid and valuable sources of understanding? It may be that our distrust of feelings or our dissatisfactions with what cannot be easily articulated are symptoms of systems that we are actively working to abolish.