By Len Wallick
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At 1:27 am EDT today, the Sun left Leo, the sign it rules, and moved into Virgo. That significant change will be followed in quick order by the Pisces Full Moon tomorrow.
Even without the Mercury retrograde and the cardinal T-Square going on, it could be considered a challenge to process the synchronous events of a sign change of the Sun and a Full Moon. When you add those things all together the bar could well raised to the level of intimidating, but by now we’re used to it.
The implied theme for the week is therefore gaining and keeping functional orientation; which means balancing the emotions of Pisces with the mental base of Virgo. That orientation will begin by taking what is essentially a concurrent set of events and breaking them down: conscious ananalysis. Today the focus will be the Sun’s ingress to Virgo. That will leave Sol’s opposition to Luna as tomorrow’s subject.
Part of that orientation is being able to use, honor and enjoy astrology without being caught up in the hype. Consider this simple example. You pick up a hammer in one hand, a nail in the other and you use the hammer to drive the nail into a piece of wood. It is not necessary to believe in the hammer. It is a tool. It works if you use it correctly. If you don’t know what you are doing you bend the nail, split the wood, injure your thumb or some combination of the three. Same with astrology. It is a tool. Practice helps.