I spotted the infamous recent "Supermoon" last Saturday night while riding home in my sister's car with my niece asleep in the backseat. My sister had been visiting me from out-of-state for the past four days... this was to have been the night she left, but her misplaced phone charger was keeping her around a little longer. She couldn't find her car-charger after she had packed up and was ready to pull out, and with a 2 year old along she didn't want to be making a 4-hour drive at night with a phone that was about to run out of battery life.
So I offered to ride with her through the "wilds" of Knoxville, a mid-size city that is either big and confusing or small and limiting depending on your relative experience. To my sister, it was the former, and so I navigated her journey to a Best Buy where she bought a new charger so that she could be on her way.
It was on the way back to my house, where she would drop me off, that we both noticed and commented on the brightness of the full "Supermoon." This big Moon, in its opposition to Uranus, would bring my sister back to my house again that night, her tire blown out an hour outside of Knoxille. I think it was a necessary reversal of plans... she had spent so much of her visit on the internet, incommunicado, lost in her Farmville world to really relate or connect with me. Uranus/Moon oppositions can indicate this feeling of technological distancing, but it is also ultimately the same energy that induced the crisis of a tire-blowout and brought our little family back to my home that night. It was the very energy that allowed us to have some sisterly talk and togetherness in the wee hours of the night after the long, shared endeavor of cajoling my niece to sleep with
Youtube lullabies and milk (Uranus/Internet and Moon/Nurturing with Food). Ah, Full Moon opposition Uranus. Brings us together, pushes us apart...
