Balance Beam Moon

Art by Kay Neilsen

"I have a difficult time balancing letting people be who they are and standing up for what I believe."
~ Christopher Poindexter

Masterful words that ping precisely the mood du jour and overarching theme of today's full moon in Libra against the throbbing backdrop of an Aries sun. This is our partnership axis where we seek the sweet spot between me and we, an hallowed moving target as we navigate the many others that stream across our path.

Libra constantly seeks balance, a homeostasis that by its very nature can never be fixed and is constantly shifting. This delicate tightrope requires diplomacy, good manners and an empathy that overrides selfish imperatives: each hallmarks of the Libran mindset. Ruled by Venus - who is fast approaching her own sweet spot and the conclusion of her retreat - look to how your perspective on relationship (of all kinds) has shifted during her retrograde.

Jupiter will be sitting pretty at Lady Luna's right hand, his expansive imperative tempered too by his retrograde. Ensure that your growth is sustainable and resist well lit temptation to bite off more than you can chew. Captain of chaos, Uncle Pluto and Changemaker Uranus also stepping into this lunar cocktail may well deliver the shock sometimes required to make long overdue adjustments. Use this undercurrent wisely under glacial retrograde skies. Change now is experimental and not necessarily the only way forward. Play with possibility instead.

We are always battling our desire to hold on with our need to let go. The full moon gifts us both so use her lovely peak to relinquish anyone or anything whose excess knocks you off balance, while calling in whatever you need to right the scales now. Let this blushing moon illuminate both the balm of good company and the medicine of solitude, in just the right doses.


Words c. Kerrie Basha 2017