With four planets in Libra (Sun, Saturn, Mercury and Venus) my mind and experience is centered on relationships. This astrological concentration is highlighted this week by the full moon in Aries (Tuesday the 11th) and the ongoing transit of Uranus through Aries, who’s opposing energies really light up the ongoing tension between our need for radical, individual freedom and our longing for and commitment to our relationships.
As this topic of Self and Other has been meandering through my awareness this living inquiry has been fed by two things: 1) collaborating on a art show and 2) reading Joanna Macy’s, Coming Back To Life and Lynne McTaggert’s book The Bond.
The journey of collaborating on 15 art pieces with another distinct, creative and strong individual (both of us are Aries) has been a phenomenal workshop on these themes of self, other and creativity. In the end we thankfully found our collaborating groove but it took us many uncomfortable stages before we got there. There is an art to collaboration. Libra in fact, ruled by Venus, rules both art and relationship highlighting that relationship is in face a creative process. (more…)