Today is Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011.Today the mid-Virgo Sun is square the centaur planets Hylonome and Pholus, and an intergalactic point called the Great Attractor. This translates to emotional volatility and the possibility of fast changes, potentially helpful, potentially difficult — but the key is to be able to navigate your own emotions through these fast changes. There is a time for ‘sitting with’ things and a time to move with some agility — and we are currently in one of the latter phases now.
Tuesday morning at 7 EDT sharp, the Capricorn Moon is conjunct Pluto, shortly after squaring Uranus. This is an aspect calling for precisely that kind of agility. It may have a solitary or lonely feeling, though the experience at the core may be something more akin to soulful.
Back to the solar aspects that are at center stage. Since late last week, we’ve been developing the story of the minor planet cluster in mid-Sagittarius, involving many planets that you may have never heard of until now. In case you want to go deeper, here are references to each: Pholus, Hylonome and the Great Attractor. These pages are not comprehensive, but they will get you started on sorting these points one by one.
The Sun emphasizes expression of whatever it contacts. Hylonome has the theme of wide-scale anguish and individual grief. It can range from the sadness inherent in mass poverty to individual loss — and how we approach these things in a coherent way. Pholus is like an activating agent or a catalyst. It’s an accelerant that can push any experience forward, and can be associated with processes that run out of control. Both Hylonome and Pholus have associations with healing, merely by dint of being from the centaur group of planets. What they represent can become a focal point, and then that awareness can be conveyed into a productive purpose.
The Great Attractor, for its part, is not a planet. It is a massive object way beyond our galaxy that is spewing radiation on every frequency except visible light. It attracts, magnifies and polarizes, in various combinations. It can be associated with things that are so large we don’t see them, and some things that are so large we will never see them. (Contrast this with the nearby Galactic Center, which can have the feeling of being ‘behind everything’ but sooner or later you might notice, based on enough observation.) With the Great Attractor, you might never know what you’re dealing with, and this is the case today for many people who have no idea that they are being sold pain, grief and suffering as a manufactured product. I mean this literally, as a fact of advertising and ‘news’.