Dec. 27 “MUTUAL RECEPTION 101”

Mutual reception—the awkward dynamic of two planets occupying each other’s domicile—is like the planets are wearing each other’s clothes but aren’t exactly sure how to pull off the look. Worse still, locked in a square against one another, they’re picking each other apart for missing the mark on an authenticity they themselves know only too well. For instance, Venus in Aquarius is rolling her eyes at Uranus in Taurus for clinging too desperately to material comforts, while Uranus in Taurus ridicules Venus in Aquarius for being too weird, too detached, acting like plain approachfulness, tactile pleasure and emotional warmth are beneath her. Each wants the other to yield, yet both refuse to bend.

Then there’s JUPITER in Gemini, the fast-scrolling social media junkie, cobbling together a moral code from bite-sized influencer rants on TikTok and YouTube. It’s all dopamine hits and trending hashtags, with depth sacrificed for clickbait. Meanwhile, Mercury, single-minded and wedded to one “ final” source—say the Bible, the NYT, or a present-day “Wired” style publication—believes they’ve got the full-sized absolutely truthful word. This Mercury relies on dog-eared expertise but risks missing the bigger conversation. In the midst of their standoff, Jupiter’s scattershot morality annoys the shit out of Mercury’s rigid devotion, while Mercury’s suffocating monomania grates on Jupiter’s craving for a wide variety of confirmation bias he calls “breadth”. Neither side sees the value in the other’s approach, can’t see eye to eye, forget abou’…

to make things worse of all, the moon is currently in hell at 29º Scorpio:

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