This week's Starcodes

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Happy May Day, mid-point of spring and peak of the earthy Sun in Taurus, traditionally time to sweep out the old, bring in fresh flowers, and frolic in the fields. It’s time to dance with bells on (and maybe a surgical mask), like the old English Morris teams who stomped and sang to wake mother earth and encourage the fertility our health and our prosperity. Right now, our collective health and prosperity can use all the help they can get.

May Day has also become connected with the yearly spring urge to protest or litigate, which is our political version of sweeping out the old and energizing the new. With Venus and Mars in feisty and rash Aries right now, we have little patience with mistakes made in the past, with anything that feels old, wrong, delayed, or in the way.

Mars and Venus in Aries can bring a fresh, bright energized approach on a good day, but they can also add raw muscles to any feeling, an emotional torque that is brave, but not the most mature. This line-up in Aries inflames feelings, speeds up our reaction time, and can make even an ordinary day feel like an emergency, let alone a real challenge like our new strain of flu. This Aries energy also improves our immune system, but is associated with an inflamed immune response, like fevers, inflammations, allergies; our body’s defenses tend to react as bravely and intensely as our emotional ones.

These auspices loan us the guts to do what we need to do, but we can get way too opinionated, or tempted to misuse our power, to hit first and ask later. Even well-meaning people can overstep, and some will turn their anxiety and excitement into what feels like an emotional power trip, full of supposedly great ideas about how others should, live, love, farm or govern. In the name of decisive action in the face of an emergency, we may over-shoot the mark. It can feel insulting; don’t they know we can manage? But it is not personal to us, it is their torque. It's time for most of us to control our advice and opinions and just take action in our own life.

The emotional torque peaks this weekend as Venus squares Pluto, a heart-felt drama can poke our scars or remind us to treasure what we have in the face of what we’ve lost or could loose. We may have to let go of an identity, place, or policy that’s not bearing fruit, and strike out to find more fertile territory. The swine flu fears may take the brunt of this aspect, but if we didn’t have this drama, we’d find another. We may be asked take a risk, to love or invest even though this could be taken away next week, whether the object of our investment is the dear ones in our life or the remnants of our material resources. As the week progresses and this aspect clears, some emotional cycle we’ve been working on since February begins to tie up, and we can move on to the next chapter.
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so much more...this is really a juicy time
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