Last night the Sun in Aries made its conjunction to Vesta and tomorrow it conjoins Eris. As much as we know about Eris – the myth behind the planet; its seemingly permanent placement in Aries (though Mike Wallace’s Eris was in late Pisces); the sense that it represents some sort of identity chaos or a ‘lost’ or cast-aside part of ourselves – astrology is still pretty new at understanding all of its nuances. Conjunctions of the Sun with a planet are one of the clearest ‘proofs’ we can get in forming delineations. It will be fun to see what the next few days produce in terms of ‘Eris news events’.
In some ways every day of this era is an ‘Eris day’ for each of us, since this planet has been in Aries for almost all of the last century as well as what we’ve experienced of this one. In some way, the themes of Eris have defined our collective experience of ‘self’; and it seems that with each decade’s new technologies, our conception of self and expression of self have had facets added and dispersed, rather than simplified or unified.
From our many individual online personas to ‘the powers that be’ deciding corporations count as another variety of ‘self’, things are getting curiouser and curiouser. It’s reasonable to expect — in this current phase of diffracted, identity-less uprisings (the Occupy Movement), attacks on the personhood of women, the talking heads in commercials proclaiming, “I am a PC” and the citizens of Facebook Nation declaring, “I am Trayvon” – that the Sun’s annual conjunction to Eris may come with a few surprises this year.
Considering that Mars stations direct this week too, it will be worth watching for revelations both within your self and in the news.
Judith Gayle wrote in her article Saturday, “things feel a bit differently these days, and in this time of internal chaos — with the unaware blindly defending their tribalism but the newly awake searching for options — some stray fact might be the pry-bar that lifts the lid and lets in the light.” Well now – that pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? We’ve been writing all week about ongoing aspect structures spurring us to acknowledge our internal chaos and search for options. And with first Mercury and now Mars stationing direct, as well as Vesta holding open the door for the Sun, it seems the scene is set for some “stray fact” to pry the lid off of something we’ve been needing to get a good look at.