Written by Jamie Epstein
It’s Wednesday, October 23, & Moon moves from Gemini into Cancer midday while being supported & transported by the starspace or Nakshatra called Punarvasu. Gemini vibrates with the frequency of our mental intelligence, Cancer with the frequency of our heart intelligence, our emotional IQ. “they” say the longest journey is from the head to the heart, & that’s the journey we are being invited to make today. after we finish up experimenting in Gemini, we get to feeeeeel into what really resonates in our heart, what to give up & what to keep taking up, b/c why do anything if we don’t really love it?
Punarvasu is ruled by Aditi, the goddess of abundance & the mother of all that is. after the storms of Ardra, she comforts us, reminds us that all is/will be all right in our world, creates a loving container of protection (just as tvarita in her own way does—see below). This asterism’s message: you are held by infinite love!
It’s the seventh lunar day (tithi), the seventh phase of the waning moon, until about 2 p.m. MDT, then the eighth. The seventh is related to goddess Lakshmi, whose name derives from the Sanskrit word for goal & who, as soon as she got a glimpse of him, famously set her sights on Vishnu, who became her beloved, & didn’t waver—she threw a garland around his neck to claim him & that was that! the eighth is related to the less-familiar goddess Tvarita, who famously ended the war between the forces of chaos & creation, brought balance to opposing energies. do you have your goal in sight, is your aim true? Can you embrace the good, the bad & the ugly in your life, acknowledge that they all have a purpose?
Wednesday is ruled by Mercury, who gives us the discriminating intelligence to know that just b/c someone says it’s so doesn’t mean it’s so. Let’s face it, anyone can say anything, & they do. politicians (in both camps!) spread misinformation & disinformation all the time. Merriam-Web defines “misinformation” thusly: “to give incorrect, untrue, or misleading information to.” & “disinformation”: “false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth.” Ya gotta be on your toes to separate the facts from the fictions. All hail Mercury!
And that’s your daily bliss! Which is a sort of lunar weather report. May it allow you to align with the day’s cosmic energy so you can find & create a little more bliss.