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RECLAIMING THE FEMININE Daily Astrology Mon 31 Aug The Moon in Aries conjoins Saturn then opposes Venus. It is a day for a fresh look (Aries) at the relative values we place on career (Saturn) and motherhood (Moon). The population is in decline because women are not having enough children. There is a valuing of, and connection to life itself that is the preserve of women. This has gone awry as women feel that career is more important, that it is even a bit shameful to mainly be a mother. That is the negative side of Saturn. But Saturn also contains the answer, because he stands for tradition. What was the relationship between men and women for 95% of human history, before the big civilisations came along? The men generally occupied the public roles and did the dangerous jobs. Women had charge of the home and were the judges of character, and were listened to by the men. Any return to tradition is now seen by many as a reversion to domination of women by men, but that is not how it was. So allow yourself to think in this traditional way, in which men and women lived according to their inherent natures. This is now the fresh vision of Aries. Both genders have lost their way, women for reasons given, and men because they have been told to mistrust masculinity: this consideration sits in today's square from Mars to both the Moon and Saturn. The Moon moves on to oppose Venus. The 2 feminine planets lining up. Venus in Libra has an exquisite sensitivity, love and relatedness. The Moon in Aries wants to claim it as a value that is equally important as the obvious worldly values of Saturn. It will always need claiming, because humanity tends to value what is obvious over what is more subtle and inward.