The Full Moon in Aquarius opposes the conjunction of the Sun, Mercury and Vesta in Leo. Mercury turned retrograde on Aug. 5, 2024. Mercury retrograde can bring unconscious material and unfinished business from the past to the surface. Vesta conjunct the Sun in Leo refers to one’s identity and purpose. There are several charged t-squares in the chart, suggesting that something is brewing and seeking release.

Uranus in Taurus is in exact square to the Sun and the Moon. The unpredictable and rebellious Uranus is in tight conjunction with Lempo, the goddess of love (or fairy tale gone bad), and Alicanto, the mythical bird guiding a miner to the treasure (or off the cliff).

Centaur Pholus in Capricorn dances with Quaoar square to the lunar nodes. Pholus has been described as the centaur of fast moving changes and rapid transformations. Pholus is associated with the “small cause, big effect” events.

Mars and Jupiter are in conjunction in Gemini. Venus in Virgo opposed Saturn in Pisces and squared Jupiter in Gemini this morning. The exact Jupiter-Saturn square takes place about three hours after the Full Moon. At 19+ Gemini there is a third body in conjunction with Mars and Jupiter, namely centaur Oterma that was discovered as a comet (in 1943) but currently has a centaur-like orbit contained between Jupiter and Saturn. Saturn is in conjunction with centaur Nessus. Centaurs can bring some dark stuff from the psyche to the surface, but they have a healing capacity too.

The themes of Nessus deal with the abuse of power, sexual abuse, revenge, oppression, and patterns of helplessness. They can stretch beyond one person’s lifetime, through several generations. Nessus helps in recognizing the patterns. Melanie Reinhart’s keywords are “The buck stops here”.

The transgenerational trauma is a concept that has been studied in psychology and in genetics. Research suggests that trauma can leave a chemical mark on one’s genes, which can then be passed down to future generations. That which is not dealt with becomes a burden of the next generation. For example, wars, famines and genocides are thought to leave a mark on the descendants of those who suffered them. Trauma doesn’t cause a genetic mutation, but it can alter the mechanism by which the gene is expressed.

Fittingly for the Nessus topic, it was announced today that a new interdisciplinary research starts at the University of Tampere. It explores the effects of war stress on Finns in three generations. The research is based on the service records of 1,300 Finnish men who served in the army between 1939 and 1945. The research gives an opportunity to trace the biological factors that convey the consequences of the environmental exposures experienced by the parents to the offspring and their health. The first research results are expected next year.

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