By Len Wallick
“Imagination is more important than knowledge” – Albert Einstein
Today’s astrology continues the complimentary themes of individuation and integration started in yesterday’s blog. First, however, another review of the big picture. Saturn is backing up like a big old truck, bound for Virgo one more time to make its penultimate opposition with Uranus. Mars is backing up like a little red Corvette bound for its sextile aspect to Saturn and inconjunct Pluto, serving to balance and temper the new Moon.
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Chiron and Neptune will exact their long conjunction on Feb. 17. On that same day, Venus will form a visible conjunction with Jupiter in Pisces. The New Moon on Valentine’s Day will herald the Asian Year of the Tiger and be part of a tight four-way conjunction — Sun, Moon, Chiron and Neptune. Lots of interesting stuff, especially when one considers the unusual but telling concurrent aspects.
Now to rejoin today, Tuesday the 8th. The Sun enters the 21st degree of Aquarius (about 21 days into that sign) and forms two sextiles with the dwarf planet Eris in Aries and the other with the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar in Sagittarius. [Eric adds: When the Sun makes contact with a planet, it picks up and amplifies the energy of the planet, and gives it to us in some tangible form. Here, we have a story about where identity crisis (Eris) meets family patterns (Quaoar). How does this look? Well, identity crisis may not seem comfortable, but it helps us break free of family conditioning. It is the questioning of that conditioning. Over and over again, we ignore the influence of families on our state of mind or the condition of our lives; therefore we often don’t respond to the influence,]
Quaoar was discovered in 2002 and was assigned the minor planet number 50,000. This was not luck of the draw. This was a number that astronomers had been saving for when they found the large object they were looking for beyond Pluto. Quaoar is an amazing planet but it turns out astronomers could have waited. Four bigger ones have shown up since (though size means little in minor planet astrology — that is the point). Quaoar was named after the creator god of the Tongva people, the first Americans who inhabited the Los Angeles area for centuries without messing it up. It is a binary object: it’s really two planets in one.