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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Leo monthly for May 2003.
Be patient with a professional situation. Your role in the world is changing fast, and it’s about time. What feels like crossed-communication or a confusing circumstance is working itself out quite well, and at this point there’s no use rushing things. Keeping a handle on certain aspects of your personal life is by far the wiser investment of your concern. If others seem lost in a fog or bent on representing reality in a way that just doesn’t add up, it’s a fair enough presumption that they’re going through an important process of trying on certain aspects of life that they’ve long denied are really meaningful to them. Remember that changes anyone close to you goes through represent opportunities for you to renegotiate the terms of relationship, and thus, to redefine yourself. In such processes, intentions are everything. If a discussion or situation seems to be exceeding the bounds of sanity or meaning, keep coming back to your original intentions for being there — or anywheres.
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Eris is currently aspecting my ascendant and it seems she’s been in some sort of communication with Ceres. She says she’s tired of being misrepresented and especially of being misunderstood. She says we clearly have enough information, (the narrative about the apple is a big clue, she says) but it seems the energy to process it has been being diverted for centuries and the suffering it causes the Earth, and consequently all being, makes her weep. She says that we seem not to understand that we have a simple choice to make between which we accord the greater value, co-operation or competition since they cannot exist in the same space; and that any time we are willing (and able) to consider the implications of this choice and then act on them, she shall then be able to assist. So, accord or discord?
First we have to discern, then we have to choose. Now is a good time. Apparently Haumea is on standby, and she is not alone.
“In Hesiod’s Works and Days 11–24, two different goddesses named Eris are distinguished:
So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife alone, but all over the earth there are two. As for the one, a man would praise her when he came to understand her; but the other is blameworthy: and they are wholly different in nature. For one fosters evil war and battle, being cruel: her no man loves; but perforce, through the will of the deathless gods, men pay harsh Strife her honour due.
But the other is the elder daughter of dark Night (Nyx), and the son of Cronus who sits above and dwells in the aether, set her in the roots of the earth: and she is far kinder to men. She stirs up even the shiftless to toil; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order; and neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28mythology%29