Today is Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.. There are many ways we feed ourselves, and each other: from the choices we make around how and where we buy, grow, prepare and eat food; to things like spiritual practice, building community, giving and receiving love, and standing in our truth and acting on it. This week’s astrology brings the more literal food themes into focus with the ingress of Ceres into Aries – activating the ever-sensitive Aries Point – tomorrow. Your favorite astrology website – Planet Waves – is planning to feed the fires of activism and revolution by participating in the Internet blackout later today.
We’ll have details about our participation in the Internet direct action later in the morning; for now, let’s stick to the astrology. Sort of.
Minor planet Ceres, named after the goddess of the harvest, is set to arrive in the first degree of Aries, where personal and political unify with a bang, tomorrow at 1:35 pm EST. This puts Ceres into a conjunction with Uranus, where it enters the Uranus-Pluto square. Aries is a sign of innovation and Uranus-Pluto is shorthand for revolution. Add Ceres, and you have a call to stand up for your rights in the realms of agriculture, food safety, and the intersection of personal and cultural attitudes toward food commerce and consumption. Ceres on the Aries Point wants you to notice where your attitudes around eating and nourishing yourself and others intersect with (for better or worse) with those prevailing in your community, wider culture and even the world. After all, all food comes from the Earth – and we’re all on it.
With a synchronicity that might be considered bizarre were it not for the fact that astrology keeps proving itself over and over again, yesterday an article that was making the rounds on Facebook looked suspiciously familiar. It was a controversial piece Planet Waves had reposted last year when it broke on the Internet, accusing Whole Foods, Organic Valley and Stonyfield Farms of cutting a backroom deal on genetically modified alfalfa with Monsanto and the USDA.