Astrology for 10/5/2023

This morning as our day gains steam, the Moon moves from engaging Gemini to Cancer. Communication takes a step back and Communion becomes the goal. We feel the need for family and connection. We look for those doorways that can bring us closer together. Family matters and when one suffers … everyone suffers to some extent. We are all on a giant bungy cord with each other.
While we long for a feeling that can carry us through the rough spots, it seems as if we are dancing on the edges of one today.
I will blame the Sun/Venus semi-square for that itch that is difficult to scratch. Expect others to irritate us quite a bit. To say we are tired, is an understatement. But we are longing for someone to see how hard we try and the amazing effort that we put into all things, even those things that do not go so smoothly.
We want one thing but what we are required to do takes us in another direction entirely. It makes work feel unfulfilling in some way. We are doing what is necessary, but it feels empty.
In such an instance, I try to sit peacefully with the emotion that is arising and allow it to tell its story and inform me. Trying to avoid these messages will only create more misery rather than less.
This month is a humdinger on all levels.
We are in the eclipse zone (six weeks before an eclipse and six weeks after an eclipse) and many things feel stirred up and we feel as if we are scrambling just to stay on our feet as life continues to try to trip us up.
Add to that we have a Mars/Neptune quincunx and so many things feel stuck in ways that will not allow us to unstick them quickly or completely. The only answer is to not seek a physical goal but a spiritual one instead. Otherwise, our confidence will suffer, and our actions will seem as if they really go nowhere. We need a spiritual reset. That will give us the door that currently we are unable to see and a direction that we cannot seem to pinpoint.
Today, life may feel like stony path that seems to want to make every step roll a bit backwards as we try to go forward.
Organic flow seems missing, and this causes additional strain just when we really don’t want it.
Mercury and Saturn will quincunx so just know that our thoughts are not our friends. Especially when they cause more problems … than they solve.

~Suzanne Wagner~