longer.blue

THE DEMON LOVER Daily Astrology Sun 6th Sept Moon conjunct Mars in Cancer, square to Saturn. Last night I dreamed about Ghislaine Maxwell, the ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, who is serving 20 years for sex trafficking. Prior to Epstein, she was the doted-on daughter of the notorious Robert Maxwell. She has spent her life in thrall to dark masculine father-figures, and done their bidding. She has no children. Moon in Cancer is the archetypal mother, Saturn inhibits her and Mars in Cancer, in its fall, can be dark. If you are a woman, it is a day for exploring the dark masculine in yourself. What men have you been attracted to in your life who turned out to be unwholesome? When you were young and naive, did charm and swagger - false masculinity - take you in? Are you pursued by dark figures in dreams? This aspect works the other way round too. If you are a man, have you been attracted to women who are cold or who want to own you, devour you even? In the dream, I found Maxwell alluring, but as I awoke, I realised I must steer clear of her. Men and women, have you wanted to be taken care of in ways that an adult needs to do for themselves? Demon lovers will provide this psychological security for you, at the price of your soul. We all do these things, and it's unconscious. One can only describe Ghislaine Maxwell as possessed by the shadow animus, and it is a good way to look at these forces in ourselves, for they are archetypal and compelling. They don't make us sex traffickers, but they have us caged. The second half of life is a Venus journey for men, and a Mars journey for women. Venus has a stunning, transcendent beauty, Mars the courage and awesome power of a god. They are ours to encounter. But they also have a shadow side, wrestling with which is part of the journey too, and enabled today by Saturn.