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A METAPHYSICAL BACKBONE Daily Astrology Tues 8th Sept The Moon conjoins Jupiter in Leo. A day to play and to create, joyfully. Being on this planet is a serious business. The chart shows us what it is we are here to do: namely, to respond to the callings of the pantheon of gods living way up there on Mount Olympus. We are not here to go anywhere or to save the world, but to continually find the particular balance of archetypal forces that our chart asks of us. This can be difficult, and the world can seem like a vale of tears. But today's astrology reminds us to live on the side of joy. Joy is always there if we look for it, in the simple act of remembering the life that flows through us in an ever-changing bubbling stream. So play and create, and be uniquely yourself. Jupiter in Leo is the unique connection (Leo) to the divine (Jupiter) that we each have, and the Moon is activating it. There is a broader cultural point also. For many of us, astrology is in our bones. If we push it away, it comes back to us. Astrology is founded on a sense of the sacred that goes all the way back to the Greek gods and goddesses. It gives us the only sure foundation that life can have, a foundation that the culture has lost since the decline of Christianity. As Yeats sang in The Second Coming 100 years ago: "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." Hence the ideologies and fake religions that continually arise and consume and madden people. But we astrologers are fortunate, we have the sacred, we know what is real and what is not real, we have a metaphysical backbone, we have the power to live authentically. This is Jupiter in Leo. Remember that today with gratitude, and do not compromise yourself.with the surrounding ideologies.