October 2, 2022 | 5:13 pm (PST) | Keyword: Militarism
The moon is jetting through Capricorn, the sign of its detriment, fueling an intense desire for recognition. An emotional need for authority drives competitiveness and the motivation to realize plans that probably include a dream or goal that’s important to you. In fact, you may be aggressively pursuing professional ambitions that confer status, prestige, security and respect or working hard as an entrepreneur or in a leading industry. At this time, you have very little patience with weakness or laziness in others, but pride can cause you to become self-centered, insensitive to the rights and needs of others, and bitter at the prospect of failure. Positively, this is a period where you’re especially prepared to act with courage and decisiveness in emergency situations or take advantage of opportunities. Much of the activity of the cycle will include persons with strong Capricorn featured in the natal chart–sun, moon, or rising sign.
Major undertakings will involve a personal commitment to a project, cause, idea, or belief that requires you to gather information in order to make a decision or choice. Once you’ve determined a strategy, you can act swiftly, forcefully, and decisively. While your goals may lack support or receive opposition, the negativity can actually prompt your conviction or dedication to achieve your desires, and you’re willing to work long and hard with great discipline. However, you’ll need to reassess present and future objectives to ensure that goals will truly offer the emotional fulfillment you seek when completed. Despite brilliant insight, without direction there can be more bluster than action and accomplishment. From one moment to the next, you can be enthusiastic about a project or endeavor and then suddenly lose interest.
Part of the decision-making process will include greater group involvement. These associations will tend to be more emotionally charged, although situations afford the opportunity to experience strong emotions without the burden of emotional responsibility. You may spend a great deal of time discussing issues or problems through exchanges that encourage you to share feelings. You can also benefit from a large circle of acquaintances who help you emotionally and financially to achieve your hopes and wishes.
In fact, friends and acquaintances, especially among women, will hold significant influence over you both positively and negatively. Positively, you’ll experience a close emotional bond, harmony in the domestic sphere, or assistance through women in general.
However, your attachment to others is also likely to vacillate. This period highlights the battle of the underdog and the influence can incite strikes or industrial turmoil. It can be difficult to tolerate those you feel are attempting to dominate or closely monitor you. This may stimulate responsible concern for humanity that unites with the capabilities of leadership. The star Bellatrix is working in concert with Mars and the Part of Organization (a mathematically calculated sensitive point) spurring you to take up battle–personal or social, or fight for the environment.
But the Part of Private Enemies is also linked to the South Node indicating issues related to family or to the past. In the goal of stability, a conflict exists rooted in defending self against the drain of serving the emotional needs of others. The tension can provoke estrangement through marital or business partnerships or close relationships. In some cases, the problems are because of additional responsibilities or concerns regarding a parent. Personal ambitions may be put on hold due to delays or conditions beyond your control. Be careful of impulsive judgment or overreactions that can create accidents, stress-related illness, depression, or resentment toward authority.
On a personal level, you may be unable to depend on significant others for one reason or another. They could be unreliable or unsupportive or you may refuse their assistance. Some may be threatened by your need for independence or vice versa. If you’ve been alone for a long time and have become romantically involved, you may fear giving up your freedom for the demands of a committed relationship.
In light of these situations, perhaps you draw closer to friends while detaching from family, especially if family is not encouraging your goals or life direction. In response, friends become family and you’re more apt to confide in them, and they in turn, are more likely to assist you in any endeavors. Measures taken that support independence may include going off to school, relocating, living on your own, becoming self-employed or self-supporting. The effort toward autonomy can feel both exhilarating and exasperating due to frequent changes in your plans.
The spontaneity of the influence signals speed, but also the possibility of escape from limitation and constraint. If you’ve been in search of answers, you may soon receive a message or the answer to your queries. This can also indicate healing energy that brings the end of an illness, the onset of recovery, or the advice to act quickly to escape from an undesirable situation. The Universe is nudging you in new directions in areas of life where you’ve become stagnant or too set in your ways while in the process becoming much too willing to put up with all manner of pressures rather than make necessary changes. Perhaps you lose a job or experience a tumultuous energy of change that shakes up your life. As stressful as this feels, you’ll eventually realize that you’ve gained your freedom.
The keyword for this cycle is militarism and can emphasize an attraction to politics or military careers, but also those who are active, ardent, and militant. This cycle asks that you use discernment in following your enthusiasm in channels that lead to trouble or danger or inspire heroic effort for an important cause. These will be persons whose motives for action is far from selfishness and driven more so by the kind of conviction that leads one to lay down the life in the service of what one believes is right.