Moon in Aries

You find out you were upset when you notice you have already cleaned the oven, walked round the block twice, and written the email you should not send. Feeling, for you, arrives as movement, and the Moon in Aries looks after itself by acting.

Something to push against

A decision made. A run in the rain. A door shut hard and opened again a minute later. Hand you a challenge and your mood lifts before the work has started.

Friends learn that you do not want soup and a blanket when you are low. You want a task, and the friend who says “come and help me move this sofa” understands you better than the one who asks how you are really doing. Busy and a little bruised beats rested and restless, every time. Your body keeps pace with your feelings: a bad mood burns off in a hard walk, and a good one arrives as an idea at eleven at night that has to be started at once. Sleep comes easily once the day has been used up, and badly when it has not. Tell you the truth fast and plainly and you forgive almost anything, and people come back to you because a fight with you ends.

Grief, filed under later

It is rarely a fight that unsettles you. It is being stuck: a Sunday with nothing to do, a problem nobody will let you fix, a feeling you have been asked to keep quiet about “for now”. Worst of all is being handled: the careful voice, the managed conversation, the person who decides what you can take.

Under all the doing, some feelings never get their turn. Grief especially gets filed under “later”, and later arrives on its own schedule, in the car at a red light, over nothing at all.

One word first

When the heat has nowhere to go, it lands on whoever is nearest. Before you act, name the feeling: angry, frightened, sad. One word is enough, and the speed stays yours.

Aries belongs to Mars, and in the old reading a planet takes on the manners of its host. Your Moon is staying with the planet of action, and under that roof a feeling is something you do.