Standin’ at the crossroad, tried to flag a ride.
— Robert Johnson
For the next several days, Pisces Sun, the perpetually opposed lunar nodes (currently in Sagittarius and Gemini), and centaur Elatus in Virgo will compose four points in the precise shape of a cross. To help you work with that pattern, we will examine the parts without losing sight of the whole. The whole is what the aspect looks like, a crossroad, where you are standing, with all of the potential that image implies.
This particular crossroad connects points in the four mutable signs; Pisces, Sagittarius, Gemini and Virgo. When Sun occupies mutable territory, it means the season is literally about to change. For example, we are now less than a month from the Vernal Equinox and we know that because Sun is in Pisces. By extension, any aspect between objects in mutable signs symbolizes impending change in the seasons of your life. Just like a change in earthly seasons, it’s something you can feel.
Planets in different signs which share the same quality (cardinal, fixed or mutable) connect not only through particular shapes but also to corresponding feelings. One sensation often associated with that sort of connection is tension, like the feeling of standing at a crossroad, trying to flag a ride before dark. The perceptible strain can originate from two places, inside and/or outside. Anxiety you bring to yourself from the inside corresponds to points on the cross pattern that are at right angles to each other, and that is called a square aspect. Resolving a square requires action. Suspense originating from outside relates to points opposing each other on the cross and that is logically called an opposition. Oppositions imply negotiation. Sometimes, as is the case this week, squares and oppositions occur together in a larger picture. Fortunately, the Sun is part of that picture.