Thursday 10 October

Moon in Sagittarius

As part of my training for Routeburn Track, I have a bit of a training plan in place. My aim isn’t so that I can bound up mountains with the greatest of ease, twirl around and break into song at the top (although I very well might do that- the singing bit, anyway). Rather I just want to prepare my creaking body to the extent that I can enjoy the scenery, snap the photos, soak up the environment and enjoy the 3 course dinners at the end of each day without pain.

Anyways, while I go for distance on my Saturday walks, Wednesday is hill day. I hate hills…and there are no shortage of them where I live. The route I have mapped out includes 6 serious ones.

I’ve found that when I look at the top, I feel it more- perhaps because there’s the destination and I’m not great with destinations. Instead, when my quads are burning and my ankle feels like it has a vice around it, I look down, or to the side- as if not seeing the top is a way to pretend that it’s not really as steep as it feels.

Perhaps if I had a stronger Saturn in my chart I could look at the hill and use all sort s of motivation one foot after the other techniques to get to the top, but in true Piscean, Neptunian style, suspension of reality works better.

Today you might feel like engaging in a little unreality as well as Venus squares Neptune.

Neptune dissolves boundaries, and Venus in Sagittarius jumps over them. Put it together and it might seem like anything is possible, or real- even if it is pure fantasy. This aspect might also have you wanting more- simply because you don’t know when to stop. I’m already feeling it!

This is what I wrote last time about this aspect- it fits perfectly this time around as well:

Where is it written that one should live in the real world? Since when is reality more fun than daydreaming? Who says that romance is dead? Why do people want to encourage you to throw away your fantasies?

Venus square Neptune presents questions like these. Sure you may be just a tad idealistic and unrealistic in your romantic dealings. Sure you may put the object of your affection up on a pedestal that no mortal can possibly stand on for long. But you know what? Everyone has the right to live like a Piscean for 24 hours or so, or more specifically like someone with Venus in Pisces, or someone with a 12th house Venus…or both.

This transit brings out the unattainable, the short term and the impossible- rose coloured glasses, little cafes where someone is playing La Vie en Rose and smooching along the Left Bank of the Seine (or whatever side it is that you are supposed to smooch along). A weekend in a luxury hotel or an island resort with someone you have fantasised about for too long that you know you can never have and should never have.

Very often the boundaries that break down now weren’t real to start with- so it is with relationships that are formed now. Enjoy them, but be aware that love affairs now will be romanticized.

At the very least this aspect stimulates the imagination, sends of sparks of creativity, inspiration and artistic temperament.