High Tides
I've been on a mini-break, traveling with my Mom to some coastal islands along Georgia. One night, we got caught in a perigean spring tide and were driving back to the mainland on a thin road overtaken on both sides by the marsh waters. We were praying that her big Buick didn't stall or get swept away! The Moon at its closest point (perigee), added to the heightened gravitational pull of both the Sun and Moon. The theme of deluge continued as we visited Sapelo Island (population 47) and learned of two times during the 1800s when the sea surged up and overtook the land. In a book I'm reading on the island, the author wrote of that time, "The ocean, beautiful, is a troubling power."
Lately, water and the great oceans of the world are coming into the foreground. The webbots of halfpasthuman predict a global coastal event and there are rumors that "future wars" (heaven forbid) will be fought over water. It's so precious, NASA has announced plans to bomb the Moon in search of it. What could be more as above, so below of a new Moon in Cancer, opposing Pluto than news of the lunar bombing by the mad scientists of a not so super power.
On a personal level, the tidal waters of the Cancer nature are stirred when Pluto is in opposition. My Mom is an early Cancer (June 23rd), and now experiencing the Pluto opposition. Pluto's lessons sometimes come through loss, and she did in fact lose her best friend this birthday. With a Pluto transit, there's no going back to who we were before...there is only being transformed into something new. It rearranges the landscape of the psyche and soul, just as a big enough wave swallows an island or city.
Image: Molly Hall
Molly,
With the passing of two icons today so soon after the Moon Pluto opposition is so telling. The loss is so telling. It will define the change of heart we are all recently experiencing. I hope you write (in your very astro articulate way) on the passing….and selfishly because you have such a great way of smoothing out the cosmic why.
Thank you Alicia — see my post above with Eileen’s insights.
I love how you weave the story of you and your Cancerian mother into this posting.
It is really remarkable that the ‘Moonwalker’ met death (Pluto) under the Moon (Cancer) and Pluto opposition. Since Pluto is the detective, as Jessica Murray calls it, we’ll surely see if it was foul play (death by medicine) by his doctor who is now on the run.
I was shocked to hear this news. I loved “off the wall” best, such an exhilarating album for dancing around in my yellow room with the Holly Hobby bedspread. Now it’s coming back that he ‘knew’ he was going to meet the same fate as Elvis (in talking to his former wife Lisa Marie). He was otherwordly and like an alien (a moonwalker), but also so human. May he rest in Peace and know the joy he brought others with his music….