Tarot and Mars into Capricorn
Crux Cards drawn today from the Touchstone Tarot deck by Kat Black. What’s the push and pull in the collective energy today?
Death and the Page of Coins (Pentacles)
Saturday 6 January 2024
It is a waning moon, not a time for sowing and planting. We are haunted, maybe grieving. Dreams are vivid. Today’s waning moon is in the fixed water sign of Scorpio denoting a strong outgoing tide of deep feeling with a sting of loss attached.
The Death card shows that we are feeling acutely aware of the passage of time and of our own mortality, in witnessing the passing of those we love. Time and tide wait for no man. Oh, do they not? I knew when my birth father was about to go. And my mother, and they were still up and doing. They were still active at the time. But there was a presentiment. A tide was on the turn, pulling at my own water.
And yet the appearance of the Page of the element of Earth is timely. Mercury has now gone direct again, while energetic Mars has entered pragmatic Capricorn on 4 January and stays there till 13 February. The echoes of recent troubles may be powerful, yet this new wind may still prove favourable. Hold fast to the greatest tasks in hand...we have been stuck, but now necessary things can and should and will get done.
We are now in the second decan of Capricorn, associated with the creative and productive Three of Coins or Pentacles. This card, again from The Touchstone Tarot shows a master craftsman at work. See the sketch and quill behind him. An eager patron looks on, agog to see what beauty shall be created, proudly sponsored by him. Oh yes, he gets to claim much kudos. This is the card of making a house a home, but above all it is a card of excellence.
This is a good time to surge ahead with creative projects and businesses. A Tamil friend has a silk weaving business for instance, making sarees/saris. The Three of Coins is an apposite card for ant kind of business like this.
A medicine for grief or anxiety is to do something constructive, creative or useful. Sort your admin (yawn -but it feels so good once you've done it.)
Or read and study. Learn something new.
“The best thing for being sad,” said Merlin, “is to learn something. It is the only thing that never fails”
(T.H. White The Once and Future King)
DO something. Action in the material world. Anything really, so long as it ain’t stupid. The young man representing the Page of Coins is a scholar (from an original painting by Hans Holbein. He could equally be a crafts-person or a cook or a pet owner.
When we are treading water, or right up in our heads, we can earth ourselves by going for a walk, feeding the birds, or by giving our mind and our hands something to work on front of house.
This day of a legalistic waning Libra moon we learn that the next UK election will not be in the spring as has been lately rumoured, but will be in the second half of the year.
The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is a Taurus native, and the leader of the Opposition Keir Starmer is a Virgo native. Is Rishi waiting until late May when Jupiter will move into Gemini, or what? There is plenty good about Jupiter in Gemini for communications, publishing, teaching, aviation…but Jupiter is in detriment in Gemini, meaning that when it is in Gemini, Jupiter is sitting opposite Sagittarius, the sign it naturally rules. What this can mean is that we have super intelligent decision making during Jupiter in Gemini, or a load of flopping about, quibbling and hot air and nothing of great moment actually gets decided.
Globally, we are witnessing such dreadful devastation. Mars in Capricorn seeks to acquire- territory, resources, status. But it also seeks, like the Page of Coins or Pentacles, to rebuild.
Resolutions and rebuilding in Gaza and Ukraine can’t- and won’t come fast enough to satisfy any ideals of justice, kindness or basic decency. It never does until that last moment has long, long since passed. Those tides have gone right out, and are coming in again as tsunamis- “waves in the harbour”. I write this, realizing that I am speaking metaphorically in the very same week that Japan has experienced earthquakes and tsunamis on the very first day of 2024.
Source: Wikipedia
“As above so below.” The planet Earth, Gaia is unsettled, and so are we. The hive is rattled. The bees swarm, buzzing. We are experiencing Solar Cycle 25 and all that. This was expected to be a weak cycle in terms of solar flare activity. And maybe it will still be weaker than the average solar cycle. But it is early days in this cycle, and it is already proving stronger than was predicted back in 2019, with the next solar maximum expected any time between now and October 2024. More info HERE
But Gaia will settle again, and so will we.
The stone associated with Capricorn is the garnet, symbolic of loyalty and devotion, The garnet is considered a lucky talisman of protection, and for the health of the heart.
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The tidal metaphor is powerful, and I'm certainly feeling it in my personal life as a long tide ala a deep purge. I live on a coast with several rivers meeting it. The changes of tides, impact of rain or dry spells on the rivermouth flows and silt, watching what the tides bring in etc...it's very clear to see the relationship between the power of water and the shaping of land. It hasn't quite made we many to ' head for the hills ' just yet, rather perhaps helped me find a peace with both sudden an slow change. What a gift that is these days. Thanks for your insights. And a happy new year to you.
Thank you. Some good advice here. Looking forward to more settled days.