Morning Star: Daily Astrology for July 24 2014

Intuition/emotion and the higher mind. Our root emotions and our shadow. All of these things meet today via square.

Cancer Moon by Josephine Wall

This morning we wake up to a happy Cancer Moon. Venus is trining Neptune Rx (7:10 AM EDT). The Sun is making its way toward a conjunction with Jupiter in Leo 4:44 PM. Many probably feel really good. There is not an overly ambitious air to the day. But, people will have some confidence restored.

Big heads are so hard to work into something fashionable

Just don't go overboard with it toward egotism or try to be an overbearing lion. The aim here is to allow Jupiter to expand the positive qualities of Leo. Generosity. Warmth. Child-like wonderment. Creativity.

The flip side of that coin is an arrogant drunk (Sun/Jupiter and Venus/Neptune). An arrogant drunk early in the day is going to meet the consequences of his actions before he passes out for the night.

Someone who acts with generosity and kindness instead of an overblown ego and reaches out to others in an effort to nurture and care is going to meet with their consequences before bedtime too.

See how that works? We always have a choice.

Mercury meets Uranus by square today at 8:08 PM. Prior to that the Moon will trine Neptune and conjunct Venus (trine at 1:04 conjunct at 1:44 PM).

Shortly after his square to Uranus, Mercury meets Saturn via trine at 10:11 PM. At about the same time, Moon in Cancer opposes Pluto (10:24 PM).

So, this morning we have a bunch of pleasant and easy Moon/Venus/Neptune aspects and our confidence is growing. This is like floating on the water. Peaceful and easy. What a great morning!

The whole time we are floating around, though, our minds are churning, churning, churning. Ideas fly. You should really write some of this down. Mercury/Uranus insight can leave as quickly as it comes.

Intuition is kicking today and our higher minds are in gear too. However, know that if you receive intuitive information at this time...it is for YOU. This is something that many people struggle with especially if they are unfamiliar with getting nods or heads up from the Universe. Intuitive messages come to us so that we can prepare. They do not come to us so we can start seeking people out and warning them in effort to save the world. That's how people get locked up for being nuts.

Thing is, with Uranus in play, reacting impulsively on insight is exactly what we want to do. Even if the message is 100% crystal clear to you, when you do that (blurt out your inclinations), it scares people or shocks them. Your message is lost. Useless. Disregarded. Even if you tell them and it comes through as true later in a way that is undeniable to them (your audience), guess what? They are STILL going to think you are nuts. It is ineffective and what good is a message if it is ineffective? Why would the Universe do that to you?

 

Here's a clue. The Universe doesn't do it to you. You do it to yourself.

Sun to Jupiter can give you the where-with-all to be so pumped up ego wise that when intuition or something brilliant seeps in, you feel sure enough of yourself to just lay it all out there because YOU KNOW you are right.

I do have several supehero capes though..

But, Sun to Jupiter's aim (the highest expression) is wisdom. And, it isn't wise to act impulsively upon insight. So, whatever information you get, know it was given to you for a reason. It is for you to use to prepare yourself NOT save the world. Let's steer ourselves away from Messiah complexes, k? Messiah's aren't usually received well. Personally, I've no desire to hang from a cross today.

At the end of the day, whatever happens with the pop-off mouth and overactive brain workings, is going to be reconciled by Saturn. I just said in a reading the other day, the Universe doesn't give a crap what you choose. Saturn sits back and doles out consequences in an unbiased manner. He sits there lumping stuff on saying “I don't know why you are surprised. You chose these consequences as you chose your actions. I'm just doing my job.”

With Moon opposite Pluto, we have a real opportunity to assess our own shadow and honestly determine how it affects us in our waking walking life. But, there is going to be a tendency to project that shadow too as this aspect falls in opposition. If you find yourself ranting about what a monster someone is...check yourself. Is that person wearing YOUR monster on their face?

 

 

All that being said, if you are the type that works with the woo (esoterica, Astrology, Tarot, etc), a well grounded approach today can bring you some brilliant insight. This tension between intuition (Mercury in Cancer) and the higher mind (Uranus in Aries) can be a good thing!

Actually, whether you work in the woo or not, a grounded approach is certainly necessary for today. Either way, what I'm hearing most from the Universe at this time is that the choice is up to you. Make your decisions based on who you want to become steering yourself away from your less-mastered self and toward being a fully mastered self.

I'd encourage you to walk away from the most negative extreme of this energy which would be likened to someone who just over-indulged in negative Neptune (Moon/Venus trine) and became 10 foot tall and bullet proof (Jupiter conjunct Sun) and decided to shoot his mouth off to anyone around (Mercury/Aries) and eventually ended up in jail for it (Sun/Jupiter and Mercury/Saturn).

 

Instead, be wise (Sun/Jupiter) and enjoy the relaxing and dreamy vibrations from the sky. Then, tonight, take whatever lightbulbs go off and use them as light to learn about yourself. Use the trine from Mercury to Saturn to bring this insight to ground. And, oh yeah, keep your monster on a leash (Moon/Pluto).

Mercury/Uranus highlights that thin line between madness and genius. It is ours to decide which side of that line we fall on...not jump rope with it.