Healing Crises

For some, the recent new Moon in Cancer has pried open the secret doors of the heart. The opposition to Pluto provokes a purge, and when you're in it, it can be disturbing. What you've kept controlled rushes up in waves and overtakes you. Maybe it's something you've been afraid to bring up, fearing that it'll ruin your relationship. But this is how hard-core Pluto heals, as it brings you back to the deeper truth of your experience. In her AstroFlash report, Barbara Hand Clow writes of this challenge, saying, "You may experience a cathartic emotional crisis that presents you with a newly truthful sense of who you really are."

Hand-Clow describes the paradox that we've been sinking into the dregs of our personal swamps, while opening to the higher energies of the triple conjunction (Neptune-Chiron-Jupiter) in Aquarius. She writes, "We've been driven into old pain, and many can see that these wounds are what have been limiting the expansion of feelings and knowledge. Each time we've allowed the process to run its course, we've been rewarded with stunning spiritual insight and exquisite ecstasies."

While considering this today, I thought of a quote that's always haunted me, "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” (Horace Walpole) We deal with heavy stuff in what's called karmageddon and tragedy is at times enveloping. There is so much suffering in the world that it breaks our hearts. But at the same time, we're seeing with new eyes, as Aquarian planets grace us with the detachment of a cosmic mariner, riding the waves with humor, curious about what's happening.

We discover that the world is full of tragedy and comedy, and that we can both feel (water signs) life, and use our minds (air signs) in a balanced way. It's a step on the path of cultivating the "observer" who is in the world, but not of the world. With the chaos of change liable to become overwhelming, this kind of detachment keeps us from going under.