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Good morning! Rachel Asher here; for those of you visiting for the first time this week, I’ll be here covering Daily Astrology and Adventure for Eric until June 20.
The Sagittarius Full Moon will be upon us at 1:30pm Eastern Standard Time. In honor of this, I found an article Eric wrote on a similar Full Moon in 2004. I hope you enjoy it; Sagittarius always puts an interesting spin on things.
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See below for Eric’s article, “Sagittattitude Fool Moon,” the daily aspects and the Oracle.
Have a great day,
Sagittattitude Fool Moon
London, May 31, 2004
Sagittarius is the scene of quite a bit of action in our era of history, home to the core of the Milky Way galaxy, the Great Attractor and currently to three named outer planets — Pluto, Ixion and Quaoar. This is an impressive Full Moon, located just over one degree from the Great Attractor (at 14 Sagittarius and 2 minutes), a point outside our galaxy. While not exactly “the center of the universe” it could certainly feel like that to the unsuspecting observer whose toupee got pulled off by the point. Whatever this Full Moon represents, it is some kind of big development, be it personal or otherwise.
On the individual level and on the collective, we get a moment where it is relatively easy to sort out fact from fiction. Because the Attractor has a polarizing effect, sometimes pushing emotions, opinions and ideas to extremes, the theme of contrast — already inherent in a Full Moon — is emphasized. If there is a challenge to the chart, it is that our values are in some way tested, as is our collective sense of protection of what we value. There also seems to be an issue of “protected speech” — that is, the right to say what must be said under some kind of constitutional, regal or spiritual guardianship.
This lunation is also conjunct Quaoar, a new planet (discovered and named in 2002) associated with family patterns and family systems. This is the planet of personal creation myth as told by the family pattern. Sagittarius is the sign of international affairs (ruled, interestingly, by the Earth in the Esoteric Astrology system described in the article below) and we certainly have some international flavors coming up in this chart. It’s fair enough to say that the world is a family and that we need to do our best to treat one another as such. Idealistic, I know, in a world where civil war is generally contrived by business.
The Full Moon is sextile Neptune in Aquarius (covered in Friday’s edition), an aspect that feels like it represents psychic sensitivity rather than psychic noise. And it occurs the same day that retrograde Venus in Gemini opposes Pluto in Sagittarius for the second of three times, due to the retrograde. We are now just days away from one of the most historic astrological events of our lifetime, the transit of Venus to the Sun, which occurs on June 8.
[Editor’s Note: Just over a week ago, we celebrated the mid-point of the 2004 and 2012 Venus transits. Subscribers can read that article here.]
Meantime, this week’s Full Moon occurs in the exact degree of the Pluto-Saturn opposition that occurred a month before Sept. 11, 2001, and in the exact degree where Pluto was that morning. This calls for some kind of token “Sept. 11 development” prediction, perhaps some news event calling attention to the realty of how the attacks were exploited for every purpose other than improving world safety.
It is, in any event, the latest in a long series of aspects that loosely translate to pay attention. Sagittarius is optimistic enough; pay attention to the possibilities.
Subscribers to Planet Waves Astrology News can read the full article here.
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Eros (5+ Cancer) sesquiquadrate Chiron (20+ Aquarius Rx)
Sun (27+ Gemini) sesquiquadrate Psyche (12+ Scorpio Rx)
Eros (6+ Cancer) semisquare Sedna (21+ Taurus)
Venus (29+ Gemini) opposite Pluto (29+ Sagittarius Rx)
Amor (19+ Taurus) trine Logos (19+ Virgo)
Venus (0 Cancer) square Aries Point (0 Aries)
Venus enters Cancer (direct)
Juno (20+ Sagittarius Rx) semisquare Chariklo (5+ Scorpio Rx)
Apollo (9+ Leo) septile M87 (1+ Libra)
Mercury (13+ Gemini Rx) quincunx Psyche (12+ Scorpio Rx) – Near Miss Only
Sun (27+ Gemini) opposite Moon (27+ Sagittarius) – Full Moon
Mars (22+ Leo) semisquare Sisyphus (7+ Libra)
Sisyphus (7+ Libra) sextile Pholus (7+ Sagittarius Rx)
Saturn (3+ Virgo) semisquare Varuna (18+ Cancer)
Ceres (3+ Cancer) quincunx Hylonome (3+ Sagittarius Rx)
Eros (6+ Cancer) sextile Asbolus (6+ Taurus)
Today’s Oracle takes us to Mar 21, 2006 – Scorpio – Daily
You need to play a waiting game. You have been getting mixed signals Гђ and only you can sort things out. But your chart strongly suggests that you take it super easy for a few days as you get all the information you need to put the pieces together. The last bit in this puzzle is going to change the entire scene. In effect, you’re trying to solve a problem you don’t know you have – and once you see what’s really been going wrong, the solution will be obvious. Some odd behavior will make a lot more sense. But more to the point, everyone will be able to get on with life.