Waning Emotions

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Today is the waning phase of this month’s lunar cycle and the Capricorn Moon square the Aries Sun places our yearning for safety and security in combat with our desire to be courageous and daring. The Moon is challenging both the Sun and Mars and inhibiting our ability to bask in the fullness of our radiant light because some aspect of ourselves is dampening our enthusiasm and cooling our passion. A Capricorn Moon can leaden our emotional self confidence making us feel emotionally awkward and stiff. When we are under the influence of Capricorn we experience the serious, responsible, authoritative aspect of ourselves limiting, restricting, and structuring, which are necessary processes in becoming who we are as long as we don’t over do it. Mars and the Moon are in mutual exchange, each offering something to the other, and giving us the courage to explore our feelings so we can get to the root of why we inhibit the full expression of ourselves. Mars has been traveling through Cancer since last October giving us time to become familiar and comfortable with our feelings so we are less dependent on reacting to the feelings of others and more confident in asserting our own. The last months haven’t been an easy time unless you have a healthy Uranian appetite for emotional instability or are addicted to “the call of the wild”. For the rest of us just learning to manage our emotional vulnerability has been challenge enough and, today, the Capricorn Moon is beckoning us onward toward emotional maturity.