How are you bb?
Me? I’m exhausted. Waking up from a long nap.
The moon was void for almost the entire week from February 22 through the 28. Beyond a few hours here or there where she clocked in for a shift (notably at the Full Moon in Virgo on the 24th), she was blissed out in the abyss. Void moons aren’t rare occurrences, but they’re usually for a few hours at a time, maybe several hours that take up the working day, sometimes it’s a full day of listlessness. Almost never is the moon void for a week. But in the last week of February almost never was our lived reality.
I knew this long void was coming and yet, I still ended up with an entire week’s worth of work to do on Monday the 26th. As the moon traveled through the depths of Hellenistic Void, a condition that ancients refer to as feral, I battled with my remaining brain cells, churning out what I’d promised on deadline. The astrologer can’t always heal herself.
I’ve been thinking about what it means to be feral, or “in a wild state,” as it relates to the void. When we’re in a wild state, we’re not showering before the virtual work meeting. We’re bed rotting. We’re watching all 10 hours of “Who TF Did I Marry?” on TikTok. We should be free. Naked. In the woods. Undisturbed. I’ve been thinking about all the ways the very human need to be feral is denied. When there was a “Snow Day” in NYC on February 13th, kids were still required to sign onto Zoom school. Why weren’t those kids (and their parents) allowed to be feral? The lie of technology in late capitalism is that it provides ease and clarity, when in practice it denies us rest. What we call productivity is exploitation. We wake up to this truth under a void moon, when we’re too exhausted to pretend.
Why do we keep showing up? What are we even showing up to? Who are we showing up for?
As the astrological forecast made crystal clear, February was a strange month. The pileup of planets in Aquarius—peaking just after the New Moon in Aquarius from February 9 through the 17—provided so much information about how we’re individually and collectively meant to meet the future. But this was of course done in a very Plutonian way. Power and loss come hand in hand. To map our next course, the current path must be destroyed or dissolved or disowned.
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