The Scorpio Sun opposes retrograde Jupiter in Taurus shortly before 10 pm EDT tomorrow. When two objects are opposed from our point of view, it really means that Earth is in between them. We are thus passing between the two most powerful gravitational fields in the solar system right now. While the literal effect of being pulled in opposite directions may be minimized by Jupiter’s distance, the symbolism cannot be ignored. In your life, you may likewise feel torn in the midst of powerful polarities. The trick is to see beyond that. Astrology’s message is one of perspective. The next few days are, in the larger, longer picture, but a passage.
In order to evaluate what kind of passage to expect, start with the distribution of objects in Scorpio. Venus entered Scorpio three weeks ago and Mercury followed a week later. Both of those planets formed aspects to Chiron in Pisces, Pluto in Capricorn, and finally, Jupiter shortly after ingress. Venus and Mercury are now starting a different story in the latter third of Scorpio even as their previous roles have been revised and rebooted by Sun and Moon.
Sun entered Scorpio on Sunday, followed yesterday by the fleetly moving Moon. Five hours after reaching the fixed water sign, Moon had caught up with Sun for a conjunction which was the Scorpio New Moon. That was a new story in itself which likewise included Chiron and Pluto as part of its development. One sign, two stories, one following the other. Sun’s opposition to Jupiter tomorrow is the passage that combines and expands both by turning a larger wheel. That wheel is a T-square motif made up of fixed signs.
Every season begins when Sun enters a cardinal sign, either Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn. Cardinal signs are always followed by fixed signs, which witness the extension and elaboration of the new season. That extension is evocative of either stamina or stubbornness, depending on how we live it. Just like their cardinal counterparts, fixed signs are oriented so as to form a cross, two lines of axis at right angles to each other. Any three fixed signs will form a T-shape and that pattern is about to undergo a change in orientation with implications for all of us here.
Scorpio is a fixed sign. Up to now, the succession of objects in Scorpio have been forming a T-square with Jupiter in fixed earth Taurus, and Mars in fixed fire Leo. The tension implied by that arrangement has challenged us to distinguish between endurance and getting stuck, both in terms of personal focus and in relationship. After Sun opposes Jupiter tomorrow, the Taurus energy will begin to give way to the fourth fixed sign, Aquarius.
Waiting in late Aquarius is Neptune. Both the sign and the planet are well positioned to follow up on the expansive energy that Jupiter represents. Among other things, Aquarius is the representation of ‘all of us here’, the actual people who comprise the living component of any large entity such as a culture, nation or economic system. Neptune, among other things, symbolizes the cumulative result of individual choices made over a long period of time. When Taurus hands off to Aquarius, the axis of the fixed sign
T-square will turn and the choice between stamina and stubbornness will shift from personal relationship to political and social questions. But that is not now; the wheel does not turn in a day.
Now is a passage. It is a transition from Taurus-Leo-Scorpio to Aquarius-Scorpio-Leo. The transformation will preserve the assertive energy of Mars as well as the diversity of Scorpio’s collected archetypes. But it will not happen suddenly; it will be a gradual process that is best taken as a journey from one level of consciousness to something broader and more evolved.
So if you are feeling torn, pulled apart or divided over the weekend, remember that it will not only pass but feel very different by this time next week. If you can manage to see it that way now you will be aware. If you can realize and adapt the lessons you have learned over the last few weeks, you will be prepared. Even failing all that, even if you can manage to remember only that we are in days of passage from one place to another, that should be enough to see you through to a common destination, not only in one piece but as an important and vital piece of the one.
Offered In Service
Mystes the Wise; thank you.
My heart knows it’s not a phase from which we will return, but rather a stage from which he will project his own being onto the audience, one of whom is me.
How ironic is it that I baked his favorite cherry pie for the BD and he has had not a slice….!!
New Yellow it is then, shining some hopeful light into that half-dark.
xoxoxoxo
Linda, aword… when we were courting, the Philosopher Husband sent me a postcard that subtly, firmly introduced me to the agon between mother&son.
It was a Lichtenstein(esque?) image of a boy turning his face away from an aproned mother-figure offering a piece of pie. The caption read “No more for me, thanks.” (And yes, this was a *loveletter/postcard*… he was trying to prepare me.)
A taxicab-yellow used in that image became a point of reference in several of our married ‘discussions.’
Decades later, when I named one of my short stories “New Yellow,” my son flipped over the title, sensing the frisson from a remove of many years and two marriages.
The point: That piece of pie… (think about the shape). There is something about the vagina from which our boys emerge that becomes perfectly unbearable, sometimes for a while, sometimes forever. The PH could feel it 10 years after his mother’s death.
So, it’s not just a “stage” – it is built into the mater/ial that we are, with which they struggle. It’s all good. Painful – sometimes exceedingly so, but good.
I embrace you in this Scorpionic half-dark. May they come to their senses.
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Len, thank you. I think I shall second Be in thanking you not only for the astro-info, but also for the reassurance of that we are transiting – all things, I suppose are ultimately thus (transits) but just now that feels much more productive than to think this state were more permanent.
Yesterday was my struggling-to-be-grown-in-a-difficult-time-son’s 18th BD, Atlantis/Sun/Moon just having transitited his natal Jupiter,they reached his Sun for the big day – and that put A/S/M also on my natal Jupiter/NN/Neptune conjunction. The A/S/M group Trining my natal Sun as well.
As for AQ, Neptune is hovering over said Son’s natal Saturn/Pallas(Vesta) as well as hovering near the doorway to my intercepted natal sun in Pisces.
Hm…and look! my natal Merc is right on his Saturn and of course then they are both a part of that Neptune in AQ thingy you mention (thingy is an atro-term yes?) Somewhere in here is a re-birth of our former-amazing ability to communicate. Unless, of course, he prefers to continue keeping all spoken word to himself.
Well, I am still doing better at getting a look at what’s going on than at interpreting it, but I will continue to hold to the idea that this is a stage we are going through – he and I and the rest of the planet…..
Be – wish I could report on something dramatic-in-a-good-way as of the New Moon Solar Return son – but so far it is another day in my continual learning how to POV the world differently.
Thanks again, Len. I always look forward to your Good Words!
xo
Len and be – thank you both.
be: You are never a boor. Your cogent contributions are deeply appreciated.
Huffy: Thank you for your kind words.
How many times does this make that you have corroborated my intuition or queazy gut feelings Len? Way too many to count, but I’m grateful for them all. Particularly this time as my view from ground zero seems to so favor a heart wrenching perspective. From your lofty perch you have provided us the incentive to stay the course; keep the faith and understand it is only because we see from a limited perspective how the ‘now’ fits into a much larger picture.
Would I be a boor if I added the fact that trans. asteroid Atlantis was also at 3+ Scorpio when the Sun and Moon conjoined there yesterday afternoon? I do so with the feeling that I’m not alone in this sinking feeling which has descended all ’round lately. Through dreams and the hope of Jove and now you, it appears the situation may just be an adjustment, perhaps even a protective move that will be appreciated in the not so distant future. That alone will buoy my present unsure-of-what’s-to-come mental state. I think too that Atlantis with his technical penchant for cell phones, computers and all, and his very long partnership with Juno this year is providing us with an emotional link to each other during these “days of passage” this baby-step to our future.
be
Thanks so much dear Len. Really helpful! xx