Today is Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. No sooner did Venus and Mercury, newly in Sagittarius, square Chiron yesterday, but today they immediately moved on to form trines with the cosmic light socket, Uranus in Aries. Trines are a flowing aspect between signs of the same element. In this case that is fire – the element of combustion, ignition and initiative.
Those three words just brought to my mind a rocket lifting off, but in the shift from squares to trines, the movement is closer to a catapult. The squares with Chiron created the tension of needed movement, kind of like when the arm of the catapult is pulled back and momentarily secured while its operator takes aim. Now that we see our targets, courtesy of Chiron raising awareness, we can cut the attachment, transmute the tension into volition, and cover some real ground.
It’s been an interesting week following Venus and Mercury. In Scorpio, square Neptune, they cast our desires and judgment into doubt and a dreamy sort of idealism. Moving to Sagittarius and squaring Chiron, they brought our attention to any form of denial we carry about our desires. Now comes the really cool part: the current trines are an opening and opportunity to actually do something about this awareness, rather than simply to consider how lovely it all is. Neat, huh? The universe is actually waving us along the runway with giant light-up batons so we can achieve takeoff with our new, ignited understanding.