The Sun exacts its conjunction to centaur object Pholus Friday at 12:55 am EDT. With Pholus (small cause, big effect) in the midst of a whole herd of other centaur objects, asteroids and more in Sagittarius, this really is the beginning of something larger than one mere conjunction — but what exactly is it all about?
You can see the entire list of objects currently in Sagittarius here (the list is a couple days old; the Sun is about two degrees further along today). Having that many objects in Sag, especially so many that move slowly and are associated with familial/ancestral baggage and the ‘healing crises’ that can be triggered by it, speaks to how lots of us are experiencing life these days. A parade of shadowy ‘stuff’ keeps coming up, challenging us to deal with it.
Culturally speaking, much of what we’re seeing around us is continually over the top or extreme; think John Boehner, the NSA, so-called reality TV — heck, even the weather. It’s getting so the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings doesn’t just cause a hurricane halfway ‘round the world; it manages to take out multiple countries, impact the next seven generations and make the fall of Atlantis look like a dress rehearsal.
Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but I suspect there’s a good reason why the butterfly example from chaos theory is such a popular trope in modern fiction. The world feels pretty chaotic these days — and the small things we do, positive as well as negative, really do matter. Consequences matter. And consequences can be very good, not just catastrophic or regrettable. The key seems to be acting as though what you do really matters.
It does matter.