Assistance and reiteration can come in many forms. Even in astrology, if there is a clear message from one aspect, chances are another elsewhere in the zodiac is reinforcing it. Similarly, if one part of the sky seems to indicate a challenge or a problem, a solution or helping hand can be found in another corner.
Such is the case with the indications that we are collectively facing some sort of crossroads, tipping point or dilemma in our lives. As described yesterday, the Sun making a square to the lunar nodes (two calculated points) this week is an eclipse-like event that is urging us to make some sort of decision and take some action. Also, Venus opposing Saturn is reiterating that this decision point involves balancing our relationships (and our internal experience of them).
If this has struck a chord with you, there is a good chance that the presence of the Moon in Taurus yesterday and today has colored how you feel about the increasing tension being generated by that square and the opposition. You may have noticed the material and financial implications of any choice you face have taken taking a particularly emotional tone. Perhaps the thought of taking the steps you face feels like a beautiful opportunity, because you’re in a position to sense the dynamic energy of movement inherent in change. Or possibly you’ve been experiencing a sense of impending loss and the fear that comes with it, wishing you could hold on to what is familiar.
If you find yourself fitting that last description, there is a little something going on today that may help you to shift perspective. And if you are already feeling optimistic and adventurous, you have support in that. The Sun in Pisces is making a sextile to Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto often gets a bad rap as being about scary upheaval, but without its evolutionary impulse, we would stagnate. And the key to using the energy afforded by the Sun’s square to the lunar nodes is to recognize what constitutes stagnation in our lives — and then make choices that lead us into the unknown.
It’s rather like how traveling an unfamiliar road does not in itself mean that you are lost, or that you should not continue. It simply means you have to go forward with awareness and an amount of care as you approach curves and hills you cannot see beyond.
But back to Sun sextile Pluto. A sextile is known to be a supportive and flowing aspect (if a bit subtle at times); the trick is that it, like a square, asks us to make some effort to take advantage of its energy. It’s rather like how a door is only a useful entrance if you are willing to turn the knob and push a little, and then walk through. According to Isabel Hickey, Sun sextile Pluto pairs a person’s desire to advance and evolve with the ability to release the negative thoughts and attitudes that might otherwise derail them.
With the Sun in super-creative and spiritual Pisces and Pluto in solid, business-like Capricorn, this looks like imaginative solutions with genuine grounding in reality are at hand. It’s really just up to you to stretch your mind a little to recognize them — stretch it loose enough that the negative falls away. Then stretch out your fingers to grasp these solutions (the doorknob!). Relax your heart and soul enough to feel the beauty of no longer fearing what’s behind the door and clinging (if you were) to the room you’re in. And maybe by the time the Moon enters Gemini later this evening, you’ll be able to perceive twin solutions rather than ‘good’ and ‘bad’ — or twin problems.
FYI: Per Maeve’s sense of humor… in case anyone thinks I’ve been evicted. I have not. I have never been evicted from any home I have ever lived in. But this is the first time I’ve had to nullify a lease.
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Yeshe, thank you for sharing the story of your Da’s passing. There has been a little too much abrupt death and witless violence in my world this month. So good to hear the clear light lifting in someone’s joyous surrender. ((sniffle))
No, really.
Yah… Mae (ve), there’s some effort involved in the househunting here cause SXSW is in town for the next 10 days and all the RE folk are consumed with providing temp housing. And then there is the question: how am I going to pay for this? Who knows how this is going to shake out. I can’t quite see it yet. . .
Be, thanks for the wishes, and Carrie, you too… You’ve seen how the whole weekend evolved – there’s no feeling of catharsis on my street, just coma. Hope you get a fun deal on the hotel, which can be as good as a vacation in some places. Alleyoop!
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Mystes,
So glad you are getting away from that. As the title of this article says “Raodside assistance at the crossroads..” You will have assistance; by someonbe or something I am sure. My thoughts are with you; I hate moving after doing it so much my whole life.
As for us, the plumber came and scoped out the pipes and found standing water under the house which shouldn’t be there. That water made it impossible to see the real problem so they will likely have to actually dig up the floor to get at it and fix it. This may mean a hotel stay for us when that happens because of the lack of working toilets when they do it.
As for the crossroads and all that; I am not feeling all that right now in me; just the tiredness of getting over this bad bronchitis (the antibiotics are doing their work because I feel so much better already) and the feeling of not being up to teaching my son very well (but that is always with me). It is a snow day here in beautiful Flagstaff; I am so glad for that.
Time to make home made spaghetti sauce woth lots of fresh garlic and onions, dried herbs, EV olive oil, and crushed tomaotes.
Thanks, PW folks for the beacons every day.
I am graced to be here with all of you. Love, Blessing and Light to all. Thank you for sharing your lives, your experiences your minds and hearts.
Yeshe,
My condolences on your father’s passing, but I’m sure he meant it when he said he was going on the greatest adventure of all. Couldn’t resist looking at the ephemeris for his birthdate and as transiting Mars was opposite his Uranus at the time, it would make it a wow factor for him . That his Uranus was opposite his Venus as well as his eclipsed Sun-Moon in Virgo must have helped him look at it that way. That your own Pluto-Uranus was so close to his Sun-Moon-Venus makes it quite apparent how much you cared for each other. Thank you for sharing your story.
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Hey mystes,
Like Maeve said, hope you find your new home soon. I mean, that is not so subtle a suggestion that it’s time to move on, huh? Seems to me that the nudges and opportunities are much easier to feel and see lately, or maybe I’m not as thick-skulled as I used to be. Wherever you land I’m certain it will be a delight for you; body and soul.
be
By the way, I received the call that he was being admitted to the hospital on the day Mars retro conjuncted my natal Plu/Ura conjunction that sits on my midheaven.
i have spent the day catching up on all of the beautiful writings concerning the astrology of late. I was holding vigil for my 88 yr old father for 4 days before he literally walked out of his body, Friday afternoon, and left this dimension. In his words, “I’m going on the greatest adventure of all, and I’m ready for it!” He was born, Sept 10, 1923 during a total eclipse of the Sun. We know this because my grandfather had to light a kerosene lamp in order to read the doctor’s book as my grandmother was giving birth. i can’t think of better astrology to go out on. His love and compassion have been touching people’s hearts far and wide for the last few days. And he gave all of his children the greatest lesson of all – how to die a good death. om mani padme hung
Mystes – Elvis has left the building. Given how everything happened, it really seems like there should be the right place just _waiting_ for you. Although =something= says you have to work for it. But it’s there. And the timing is just so, else you’d not have been, uh… evicted. (on a whim, looked up “evict” on mw.com which made me laugh)
Glad to see you around today.
Thanks, Maeve… I’m fine, just a little dotty. I ‘formally’ still have a home-base, but my energy has *left* the premises, so my boundaries are a bit broken and runny. Faux-homeless, as it were. But I am talking to RE people right now, have a storage unit set up, am starting to pack. Next 7 days will be whirly-twirly.
(I’m smiling now; thank you for noticing. Really.)
Back on board soon. . .
M
Mystes! I’ve been thinking of you the last few days, concerned at your absence from PW. Glad you’re okay, at least physically. I think.
I hope you find your next best home soon!
Mmm-yeah… A weekend of increasing violence in my neighborhood culminated in a murder 50 feet from my front door.
Needless to say, I am moving. Doesn’t take a sextile to know which way the bullet blows…
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Thank you, Planet Waves Daily Astrology. The first paragraph is at once precisely concise and a work of sublime beauty that Venus (our proxy for this week, as you put it yesterday) would admire. Thank you also for reiterating that we are in-between eclipse cycles as graphically indicated by the Sun’s position square the nodes – we should all keep that piece in our pocket for the next few days. Thank you also for the reminder that we can work with Pluto constructively if we so choose.
Rob44: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. The majestic beauty of your inspired words brought a tear to my eye. Your wide yet focused holistic grasp makes me think that Chiron is very strong with you.
This week’s readings are a lesson in the primacy of metaphor and interpretation in service of illumination. In that vein, I appreciate the effort made to find and articulate a balance between various emphases regarding the current ‘crossroads’. Such willingness brings the reader closer to a crossroad of understanding itself. Ideally, to a more useful position between the darker and lighter aspects of turning points encountered.
Like some here, I’ve experienced a more burdensome transit through recent passages. There’s been a building weight which some input seemed to add to, albeit unintentionally. So I received Len’s offering yesterday as a break in building intensity. He not only illuminated new aspects of the zodiacal realm for me, but opened a different perspective on the overall dynamic at hand. And in so doing, offered a beam of hope in the midst of what’s increasingly looked like gathering clouds.
For various reasons, absorbing this week’s readings have shifted my focus toward certain tools and away from others. Wisdom sources each embody inherent strengths and weaknesses. In the crucible of transformation, one eventually ascertains which lenses may distort more than illuminate, particular to oneself. Likewise, the language used by a given tradition may grow too archaic to speak to modern sensibilities; symbolism fossilized in time’s amber can lose relevance. That tendency then demands more from the interpreter as translator: fluidity, flexibility — and the instinct to trust that an improvised riff may lead to a new song entirely.
Watching such dynamics unfold here has been instructive. Another gift lies in witnessing the public expression of an internal conversation between site contributors regarding interpretation of data — celestial, worldly, and synchronistic. It’s helpful to see what might have stood as unresolved space between seemingly contrasting perspectives navigated, and thoughtfully. And extended again as synthesis — one that reveals more deeply without compromising the original direction of a given source. The whole being greater than the sum of its parts.
In short, it’s constructive dialogue; a graduated gestalt. That it’s deftly engaged in service to a greater good is reassuring for this reader, who’s come to rely on this remarkable experiment in rendering the collective and cosmic consciousness. On this bending river, I’d rather have access to several cartographers and weather forecasters than one.
Within the gaps between all such reports, we are ultimately responsible for our own navigation. But its gratifying to hear an increasingly coherent voice emerge here, one built on multiplicity yet joined in common intent. It’s an organic process that functions as guidance. It also models and inspires a deepening trust of Self, as Self reflects, and is reflected by, the valuable tool and community nexus that is Planet Waves.
Thank you Amanda, I’ll take this with me today
Just exquisite! Thank you. So describes what has been happening these last days. The possibility of losing my job, a terrible bout of flu I can’t get rid of – and suddenly seeing my mind that is Conan the destroyer, and hacks away at everything I am, do, think…I’ve been on his case for a while now (natal Mars in Virgo, retrograde, but also long before that)- but it was only yesterday that a kind of curtain dropped. Having such a destructive mind is like walking up a mountainside with a terribly heavy load. Letting go of that negative mindset doesn’t mean the mountain isn’t there any more – but at least you no longer have to go up it with that terrible load. For all those beautiful minds out there, that like me, have never given themselves any rest, drop that load if you can – and cut yourselves a little slack! xxx