Centaurs, trines and a sextile: to heal and create

Good morning readers & welcome back…I’ll be here with a new edition of Daily Astrology & Adventure before noon Wednesday. –efc

Dear Friend and Reader:

Looking at today’s aspect list, amazingly there are just four aspects between all the planets and asteroids we use; and they all involve either a centaur or, in one case, an object just beyond Pluto called Quaoar. We can stand to have a quieter day, but I’m not convinced this is what the planets are reflecting.

I’m not the only one noticing this, but I don’t know anyone who isn’t pushed to the max. Well. I have one friend, Mick, who is pretty chill, but lately (like a lot of people) he’s been stressing over finding a different business to be in (we think he’s found one — credit repair). He is a Pisces and wants to do something that is useful to people and fun for him.

But he’s one of the lucky ones — he has a mellow attitude and he makes a yoga, at this point of his life, of not putting himself under a lot of pressure.

Young people, people advanced in their careers, students, people without jobs — everyone seems to be going at full throttle. People without jobs or commitments, but they have NO time to do what they want! That’s the one that cracks me up.

What

is

this

about?

It may seem either necessary or fulfilling to anyone who can’t quite see the futility of nonstop engagement. The game is a lot more fun if you’re on top of it. Not everyone is. Not everyone has work that engages their spirit, their creativity or even their mind. In that case, on a trip to we don’t know where, speeding down a freeway in the dark and pouring rain is at least a way to pass the time.

I manage to keep myself busy, as you see. I measure the quality of my life a few ways, principally by how I feel every day. Since returning to the states, I’ve been consistently happy and emotionally stable despite managing a workload that I never dreamed I could.

I also measure based on how creative my relationships are; how much people are willing to, want to, and actually do, share sex, affection and food with me; how much bandwidth I am able to devote to my fiction and photography project, the Book of Blue. [Note, readers of this project who want to follow the Vancouver thread as it develops, please write to me at egg -at- bookofblue.com for the URL. I’ll reply if it’s clear that you were a reader of this series, which ran from December through mid-March and is now continuing.]

In short, I measure my life in happiness and creative results that are based on an exchange. Not just productivity; not just the bank balance — Planet Waves is incredibly, inexplicably productive, and my return to this blog has seen people becoming a lot more conscious of the benefits of subscribing to our services — we’re doing pretty well. Unlike most businesses during a recession, we are a growth industry. But I have learned this not a good enough personal metric for me: the metric has to be in love and in art, and in how my body and mind feel from day to day.

Am I intimidated by anyone? What is my fear level? How are my basic physical functions? These seem to be the more meaningful ways of assessing my state of existence.

One thing I am witnessing with great interest is the crisis of purpose that so many people are in. I hear it constantly: people want to be doing something with their lives that is more interesting, and more reflective of who they are. One of the things we’ve lost as the social progress of the Sixties has all but evaporated is that it is more difficult for people to give themselves permission to do what they want; or alternately — the more serious issue, if you ask me — is that many people just don’t know. Many talented, successful people who make a lot of money don’t have a clue what they really want.

As an astrologer, one of my specialties is helping people figure out this very thing. Astrology is utterly brilliant at spotting resources, neglected creative talents and profound gifts for humanity. Astrological work, or study, allows you to go into this without a huge crisis; rather, with a sincere sense of inquiry.

However, the power of astrology in this respect is muffled by the emotional baggage most people bring in the door. We can get a lot done — yet at first most of it tends to fall under the general heading of healing rather than creating. Of course, if you take a creative approach to healing, you set the stage for a creative approach to existence. And that is exactly the approach we need right now. The old, slow way is not going to work: for one thing, it has very little appeal to people who not only want results, but who need them.

There are some things that cannot be rushed. There are emotional layers that take time to go through, if we apply the intellect — and we have become too stupid lately; we must take the time to think and consider our lives. But awareness, the ultimate healing, can change in no time at all. But here is the paradox: if we become aware, the first thing we may become aware of is fear and/or pain. This MUST, as in UNQUESTIONABLY, be addressed first.

As for some aspects: Mercury trine Pholus seems like opening the throttle on ideas. Pholus is the “small cause with a big effect” and Mercury is about the skill of directing the mind; it is about applying the creative spirit to the conscious stream of thought. Mercury is about applied technology, including the technobiology of mind.

Pholus can unleash energy and curiosity without bound, but it will tend to do so indirectly, in a sequence of cause and effect relationships that start one place and take us a very, very different place.

Sun trine Quaoar says: don’t let your family’s insanity stand in the way. The Sun is about expressing one’s glory; one’s creative will. Quaoar is about family patterns. I will give you a clue: most of those family patterns involve the propagation of fear, and the suppression of creative and sexual energy. Could there be a relationship?

Aspects for Tuesday 08 April 2008, courtesy of Serennu.

01:43:01 UT – Mercury (9 ar 59’37”) trine Pholus (9 sa 59’37” Rx)
02:57:03 UT – Ceres (3 ge 36’17”) sextile Bienor (3 ar 36’17”)
05:13:30 UT – Asbolus (0 ta 17’48”) trine Okyrhoe (0 vi 17’48” Rx)
09:17:38 UT – Sun (18 ar 55’2″) trine Quaoar (18 sa 55’2″ Rx)

May 01, 2004 – Aquarius – Monthly

The terrifying thing about being real is the feeling that you were faking it all those years. But if anyone can confront this, it’s you. Of all the signs, I believe that Aquarians are most dedicated to the truth as a matter of deep principle, because the truth is a kind of contract by which we live. You of all people can, therefore, see the pressure society puts on every one of us to be a lying hypocrite. At a certain point, one must make a decision: which way of life is easier? And one must make a stand, which is the decision between living for who you are, versus living for who you’re told you have to be. At the moment, the top item on the agenda is your career. Does your work fulfill your deep intention of building and strengthening the integrity of the world? Just ask — don’t answer.

Oops — here is the real aspect list! I was pulling it from the wrong source. Thanks Tracy! It seemed awfully calm, for 100 planets and points.

Tuesday 08 April 2008

Venus (2+ Aries) quincunx Saturn (2+ Virgo Rx)
Sun (18+ Aries) semisquare Ceres (3+ Gemini)
Pallas (13+ Aries) sesquiquadrate Orcus (28+ Leo Rx)
Mercury (9+ Aries) trine Pholus (9+ Sagittarius Rx)
Atlantis (22+ Libra Rx) septile Great Attractor (14+ Sagittarius)
Eros (5+ Taurus) quintile Apollo (17+ Cancer)
Eros (5+ Taurus) sesquiquadrate Logos (20+ Virgo Rx)
Mars (14+ Cancer) quincunx Nessus (14+ Aquarius)
Amor (22+ Aries) opposite Atlantis (22+ Libra Rx)
Mars (14+ Cancer) quincunx Great Attractor (14+ Sagittarius)
Venus (2+ Aries) septile Admetos (24+ Taurus)
Sun (18+ Aries) trine Quaoar (18+ Sagittarius Rx)
Sisyphus (24+ Libra Rx) quincunx Admetos (24+ Taurus)
Eros (5+ Taurus) semisquare Uranus (20+ Pisces)
Venus (2+ Aries) quintile Jupiter (20+ Capricorn)
Venus (2+ Aries) square Kronos (2+ Cancer)
Eros (5+ Taurus) quintile Varuna (17+ Cancer)
Eros (5+ Taurus) quincunx Hylonome (5+ Sagittarius Rx)
Apollo (17+ Cancer) semisquare Saturn (2+ Virgo Rx)
Psyche (24+ Scorpio Rx) opposite Admetos (24+ Taurus)
Mercury (11+ Aries) septile Chiron (20+ Aquarius)
Eros (5+ Taurus) quintile Neptune (23+ Aquarius)