Today is Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. It’s Labor Day in the United States, a holiday to honor the working class, or what is left of it — strategically located far from May Day so that we’re not associated with the communists and socialists. The Moon is in Sagittarius today until it enters Capricorn at about 10:03 pm EDT. Along the way, the Moon will make a conjunction to the Galactic Core, which gives a flavor of mysticism, spiritual longing and may have the emotional tug toward ‘home’ that the Galactic Core represents.
The mid-Virgo Sun is aspecting all those small, slow, weird planets we mentioned in Friday’s subscriber edition — especially the ‘bonfire of the vanities’ aspect of Narcissus conjunct Phlous and the Great Attractor. There are many others involved, and the Sun will aspect them by conjunction, square or opposition.
All week we’ll be on a big adventure through the dusky side-streets of minor planet astrology, with the rare opportunity to witness what few astrologers have had a chance to observe. The thing about these minor planets is, they tend to reveal themselves when they’re taking aspects from the Sun. One of the ways we learn is to tune in and watch.
Today the Sun is opposite minor planet Borasisi in Pisces. Borasisi, a slow-mover taking about 292 years to orbit our Sun, was discovered in 1999. It was named by some imaginative astronomers after a concept in the fictional religion of the Kurt Vonnegut novel Cat’s Cradle. The novel plays on the themes of world destruction, and what happens when the masters of technology lack any ethics. The Pisces New Moon back in early March was conjunct this little planet, and was the subject of a Friday subscriber issue called With Love from Borasisi. This foreshadowed the Fukushima disaster nearly six months ago. (This was a little weird. The story of Cat’s Cradle comes out of General Electric, and so did the designs for the reactors that melted down.)