Turning to the Fertile Abyss - Venus square Pluto, Conjunct the South Node and right into Scorpio

This weekend's Venus-Pluto square on the heels of a Venus-South Node conjunction in Libra left many feeling distinctly unmoored.

Disconnecting from codependency and ideas of beauty and fairness which have overstayed their welcome is distinctly uncomfortable, after all.

The gaping emptiness and maw of the deep has been really palpable, at least to me.

But there are deep reasons for the intensity of emotion that the last few days have entailed.

We are meant to go deeper. Our ideas of beauty need to be deepened, our ideas of equity need to be strengthened, and our attention to the sacredness of each of us as an individual needs to be defended and protected.

So I write this as Venus finishes up the very last of the Libra degrees--as she dives from a square with Pluto right into the swirling feeling-state of Scorpio.

We are not meant to stay forever attached to one mode of being, to one place, or one person... as painful as that is. Some of us may be destined for life-long commitment, but even within that commitment, even within the context of remaining in relationship with anything, there are times when a ferocity comes over us, and we need to be alone. Or times when a need to know ourselves supersedes the need to nurture a connection, however deeply important that connection is.

Without creating that time for sacred aloneness, without asserting ourselves as the leaders of our own lives--a thing demanded, absolutely required and deeply achingly felt as a need by Chiron conjunct the North Node in Aries--and yet perhaps elusive, perhaps impossible to get fully, for whatever reason... but without that alone time, without that sense of Self, we grow weary with even the best of friends and companions; we grow bitter; we grow into a feeling of aloneness while in company, that is much worse that the temporary pain of a departure.

Make the break; get to know yourself. Trust that those around you also need time to blossom into their own being, to face the questions of the darkness for themselves.

In turning to face it, in embracing the emptiness, you'll find it's really very full. Sometimes it's what we have been turned away from that has the most nourishment to offer... _ . _ . I have a December discount on all my readings right now. Head on over to www.intimatesky.ca to book yours, or a reading for a loved one for the holidays.