Dear Friend and Reader:
Pluto is in the news today. Several planets are making aspects at once, which is going to let out a little of that Plutonian force like tapping a nail into a shaken-up keg of beer.
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As you can see from the aspect list below, there are a lot of aspects many days. The system we’re using, created by a friend in the UK, tracks about 100 planets of various shades, and provides what is called an aspectarian. The list does NOT include aspects made by the Moon; it only includes what are called “mutual aspects,” that is, aspects between bodies orbiting the Sun, and a few fixed points in space such as the Galactic Core.
Scanning the list, Pluto comes up three times today, one of them being in an aspect everyone (as in all astrologers) will see — Mercury square Pluto. Mercury has made a number of squares the past few days. This is deeply introspective and it’s a reminder to keep things that way — and to keep them light, in the interpersonal world. One of the problems with squares is that we can experience them inwardly, and then if the pressure is too intense, project them, mainly as inconsistency.
So the thing to do with Mercury squares is work them out for yourself. Get clear, and then be clear when you communicate. This is particularly true where Pluto is concerned. In other words: how much are you coming from fear, and how much from creativity?
It will be interesting to see how horoscope writers handle this particular aspect today, particularly given that it’s in the powerful cardinal signs, suggesting that it is time for action of some sort. Of course, the rest of the newspaper will be pretty interesting too.
Eros trine Pluto is a reminder that the underlying subject matter driving the equation of one’s life forward is generally erotic in nature. You don’t have to advertise this, but you have to know about it. In other words, you need to understand your motives, so that you’re in touch with your motives. The idea is, if you want to be happy, balanced and moreover effective, don’t allow yourself to be unconsciously driven by deep, dark motives; rather, pay attention to those motives, so that you will be the boss of your own mind and not the other way around.
This is pretty much the game of astrology. Its detractors say it’s about “fate,” but actually you could not get further from the truth for most astrologers — though I will admit that quite a few of them are indeed confused, because of the allure of astrology’s supposedly predictive powers. Within certain limits, astrology can be predictive, but that has to do with the talent of the practitioner and his or her alignment to Spirit. It has very little to do with astrology itself, since you could just as well use coffee grinds.
What astrology offers is a coherent map of consciousness and in effect, a diagram of the options we have open to us. Most of those options are on the level of ideas.
Note that Mercury is opposite something called M87 at the same time it is square Pluto. (We’re working on getting the new version of Word Press to connect to the article with an illustration of M87.) This is a big amplifier. It is the THING that is on the Aries Point. Many astrologers have noted that the first degree of Aries works like a planet. Most of them don’t know there is a fixed point right there, in the form of a huge galaxy on the ecliptic, i.e., the path of the Sun.
Speaking of the Sun — it, too, is aspecting one of these galactic points, called the Great Attractor. This is another one that 99% of astrologers pretend is not there. But this is a little like visiting New York City and pretending midtown Manhattan is not there. The Great Attractor is invisible, far from our galaxy and drawing toward it the Milky Way and a million other galaxies.
A trine from the Sun will open up some of that potency to public (and personal) availability.
Today should be a pretty interesting day. Listen to what you hear, and pay attention to what you say.
Thursday 03 April 2008
Chariklo (9+ Scorpio Rx) septile Pluto (1+ Capricorn Rx)
Mercury (0+ Aries) sesquiquadrate Hidalgo (15+ Scorpio Rx)
Eros (1+ Taurus) quincunx M87 (1+ Libra)
Amor (20+ Aries) sesquiquadrate Hylonome (5+ Sagittarius Rx)
Eros (1+ Taurus) trine Pluto (1+ Capricorn Rx)
Sun (13+ Aries) quintile Hades (25+ Gemini)
Venus (26+ Pisces) quincunx Sisyphus (26+ Libra Rx)
Sun (13+ Aries) sextile Nessus (13+ Aquarius)
Mercury (1+ Aries) opposite M87 (1+ Libra)
Mercury (1+ Aries) square Pluto (1+ Capricorn Rx)
Sun (14+ Aries) trine Great Attractor (14+ Sagittarius)
Mars (11+ Cancer) quintile Asbolus (29+ Aries)
Atlantis (23+ Libra Rx) septile Saturn (2+ Virgo Rx)
Saturn (2+ Virgo Rx) semisquare Varuna (17+ Cancer)
Venus (26+ Pisces) square Galactic Center (26+ Sagittarius)
Mercury (1+ Aries) sextile Ceres (1+ Gemini)
Amor (20+ Aries) quintile Kronos (2+ Cancer)
Uranus (20+ Pisces) sextile Sedna (20+ Taurus)
Sun (14+ Aries) trine Ixion (14+ Sagittarius Rx)
May 30, 2002 – Scorpio – Weekly
Are you grieving the loss of the original woman you once were who you may have sacrificed to goals you did not really want or were forced to give up in order to survive in the world? The fact that you can feel at all is evidence that she is still alive within you for she is the part of you who feels. Yet for her to find full expression in your life you must not be afraid to become her entirely and surrender to her necessities and desires. This holds true particularly among your friends who are the people who often limit who we are the most. Her primal wound is really about judgment and the fear of judgment and yet she is in all truth blameless. For the men: can you stand a real woman in your life? Can you give her the room and the freedom to BE?