One of the things Eric mentioned in his discussion of this week’s grand sextile was the idea of consciously re-patterning one’s life. In a world that often feels like it offers too many options one moment and yet seems to push conformity (such as in relationship models) the next, it’s easy to feel at a loss for which new pattern your life really needs. The sky is suggesting we get back to basics on this one, with love.
For starters, the Venus-Pluto trine (a leg of the grand sextile) is exact today at 8:52 am EDT. Yes, Pluto has a reputation as being difficult. But with a Venus-Pluto trine, chances are any love-life upheaval will have beneficial long-term effects.
More often, however, this aspect is associated with deep love unions, a deep desire to create, deep reservoirs of emotional strength and self-sufficiency in relationships, deep empathy for others’ struggles, and a tendency to see the beauty and good in others — no matter how deep it is buried.
Have you noticed a theme yet? A Venus-Pluto trine takes love deep, perhaps even to its creative source. Generative energy is powerful stuff. In earth signs (Venus is in Virgo, Pluto in Capricorn) think of the deep heat below the Earth’s crust, forming mountains through tectonic plate movement and volcanoes making new islands.
In the end, the result is fresh ground to stand on. And fresh earth tends to be fertile, abundant with its bounty, and attractive to everyone from earthworms and butterflies to farmers.
You could call Venus trine Pluto in earth signs ‘the Earthly expression of cosmic love’. Working in tandem with that aspect is another expression — one perhaps less obvious yet still influential. The asteroid Eros in Gemini is currently opposite the Galactic Center in late Sagittarius (exact late Tuesday night into Wednesday).
Eros, named after the Greek god of love, has perhaps had its work cut out for it in Gemini, working to bring both our lighter and darker inner twins (or male and female, or whatever duality calls to you) into communion. The Galactic Center, the origin of our galaxy (and therefore of us all) tends to feel too huge to really wrap our minds around. Yet there are times (notably when the Sun makes its annual conjunction to it in late Sagittarius) when its message of cosmic unity finds its way through the static into our consciousness more easily than usual.
This may be one of those times. Awareness of the grand sextile has primed many of us to think of (and perhaps more importantly, feel) ourselves as interconnected. We’re aware of the need to look at past and current patterns in our lives, and choose carefully a design for living that’s in harmony with our inner guidance and our deepest desires for the good of the world we inhabit.
As you negotiate the opposition between Eros in Gemini (your halves united in love) and your cosmic origins, there’s no need to get lost in metaphysical philosophizing. Eros and the GC are working in tandem with Venus and Pluto, which have a pretty sweet handle on more earthly manifestations of love. If you feel yourself called to look, feel and dig deep, know that it’s your roots — both cosmic and earthly — calling you.
You’ll want to be grounded in love toward the end of the week, as Mars enters the Uranus-Pluto square. That’s a ‘get real’ moment if ever there was one, calling for patience, awareness and creative outlets — and we’ll have more about that later this week.
cheers to you in your shifting Strawberry! those words are my mom’s sage advice, you can find more simple truths here – http://www.amazon.com/Tool-Book-Assisting-Conscious-Awareness/dp/1432717928/
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Beautiful analysis & beautiful astrology.
I am feeling more CUES coming to us from the planets than I have ever felt, like the planets are shouting at us what we have to do to keep this cosmic creation we are all in together continuing to create life.
I’m thinking — and mostly feeling, hearing, struggling to voice — a massive, collective re-patterning of the biophilic/ biophobic axis of the human-nature relationship FROM the Western culture’s biophobia and erotic disengagement from nature TO collective biophilia as a key Pluto-Cap transformational shift that brings in our fresh Jupiter-Cancer shift.
Wonderful article, Amanda.
It is so in keeping with my life at the moment because my patterns have completely changed as a result of changing my attitude ever so slightly and as a result my entire life has been reborn. I have met the intellectual, creative, spiritual and physical mirror of myself and am delighted to say that we are about to become engaged, with plans to marry in the late spring.
A very funny story happened yesterday morning that Eric will love. My soon to be fiancé and I were having an intimate conversation yesterday morning with the window opened at the head of my bed. There is an energetic, spiritual element to all of our communications, he is highly evolved and studied in India when he was very young. A true yogi. A few hours later a photographer I am working with and I were walking a few doors down to have lunch at a local restaurant and I spotted two moccasins in the grass together, placed perfectly side by side, one a man’s, one a woman’s. They were placed on the property line of the house next door to me. I said to my photographer friend that he needed his camera. Obviously someone had made a shrine. I asked an 80 year old man who was sitting on the porch of the house two doors down from me if he knew anything about these moccasins. He told me that two young people had been having sex on the porch of the house right next to me, in broad daylight on Main Street in a small Vermont town, and had left their moccasins to commemorate the event. It is clear that Dorian and I co-created this event on an energetic level. When I told him about I had had seen, his response was to say that perhaps a beautiful soul was conceived that morning and that we had participated in the event. Beautiful thought. I am able to manifest very well on my own but with Dorian our gifts have increased dramatically. There is no space we do not fill for each other, even to the extent that much of his poetry and a screenplay he is writing are about us, even things written 20 or 30 years ago. We are truly blessed.
Mia
Amanda, this is truly rich & beautiful, and takes me down a path I’ve been working to find my way through for some time.
The idea of consciously re-patterning makes me realize that one of patterns that doesn’t work for me is this imperative to get something “right” on the first try. It creates an insecurity that comes out as anger, derisiveness, brittleness, and a heavy allegiance to the right/wrong paradigm.
The imperative is described in part through my Mercury ascendant & 12th house Sun (with a little Damocles in the 7th for fun). Not trusting that I exist outside of my impact on others puts a lot of pressure on my mental capabilities to “get it right.” (There’s also a lot of progressed energy in Virgo playing into that perfection game.)
But I believe the deeper root of the pattern comes from an environment where there never seemed to be enough love or compassion for vulnerability — so little breathing room around learning & becoming. Everyone was so fragile & mutually unsupported that vulnerability felt deadly.
Which is a perception. Which I, blessedly, can change.
What if I could see vulnerability more like your image of fresh earth? Fertile, bountiful, rich with potential for growth? What if getting it “wrong” the first time out was actually the first step in figuring out where I am, what I have to work with, & where I’m going? What if learning & becoming were not about getting it “right” or “wrong” but about finding my own path? Or even (Cancer Sun talking here) loving well? Or seeing clearly? What if learning & becoming were simply about learning & becoming?
Daniel & Stormilarue, I continue to find your metaphor of “shifting the crystal” a potent & reliable tool on the deepest of levels. I continue to be grateful to you for sharing, and to this entire community for holding a rich and fertile space to grow within.
You really nailed it, Amanda. Thank you for helping to put it all in perspective and in a very positive light.
Wow, Amanda, amazing piece. Given the often-cynical times in which we live, it’s difficult to praise your work today without appearing faint or fraudulent. So just let me say you have left me convinced and excited about the prospect of cosmic love like nothing written in a very long time (and i’ll be you can guess about when that was). Great achievement, and i mean that sincerely.