Monday Morning Note: Hey there, please check for your new blog circa 9 am Eastern Time. efc
Saturday note to readers: I won’t be updating this weekend. Taking a moment to give my writing mind a rest, packing a drum, camera and picnic, and heading for Beltane at the Center for Symbolic Studies in Rosendale. I am looking forward to being miles from my computers for the day and into the night, which starts in about five minutes. :-))
Here is an aspect from today:
07:55:13 UT – Eros (19+ Taurus) trine Logos (19+ Virgo Rx)
Talk about it!!
Note to readers: We are at the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech incident. Here is the edition we published at the time referring to the Thema Humanum or the chart of humanity.
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Planet Waves Astrology News is about to be distributed to subscribers. It may already be posted to the subscriber website. Today’s edition looks at the concept of values as it relates to Taurus. This issue is dedicated to everyone who is working to make her living doing specifically what she considers to be the right thing. You could call it “how not to sell out.”
Here is a sample:
I was first acquainted with the term values in Philosophy 101 at SUNY Buffalo, taught by Prof. Paul Kurtz. It arrived in the title of a textbook called Ethics and the Search for Values. I know that, for this reason, I equate the idea values with that of ethics. It may actually be easier to think of values as a subset of ethics: one’s personal inventory of right or wrong. Values are the inner psychic elements by which we determine what is right or wrong for us, as individuals — if we take the time to stop and think.
In effect, a value is a contract with oneself by which one guides one’s life. It is a commitment to invest vital energy (of which money is one form) somewhere that we feel is right, and to divest it from where we think it’s wrong. That requires an ethical judgment, or it calls for one. Usually this pertains to a person, to some activity in the world and, very often, to where we put our cash. In the process of relating to the material world, the ethical assessment is overlooked entirely. What we want is determined externally, by how brilliant an advertising person is; by how manipulative a videographer is at morphing a Mercedes with a slinky young woman.
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As for aspects — take a look at the curiosity below: Mercury making three sesquiquadrates on one day. I’ve put the whole line in bold.
Generally speaking, big news does not break on a Friday, but I think something is up. Mercury is making three aspects to bodies (one determined little planet, one weird asteroid and one ridiculously large galaxy) hanging around the Aries Point. The aspect is a sesquiquadrate or sesquisquare (135 degrees, or a square + a semisquare). One astrologer I know calls this aspect “magical” (I bought him a thesaurus for his birthday). Another school (the Uranian astrologers) thinks of sesquisquares as a trigger aspect.
For reasons I’ll get into more next week, we’re in a hot spot for the Aries Point ripple effect; that is, news that thumps the world and vibes your cubicle. This is because the Taurus New Moon is exactly on May 5, the day that the Sun is 135 degrees from the Aries Point (right about where Mercury is now). Thus, there is a New Moon sesquiquadrate the Aries Point, “magically” triggering something.
I am not in the mood to make predictions: and I can tell you this. The economy is one thing, and your life, your personal wellbeing and that of your community are entirely different things.
My friends, it’s Beltane season. Make love, not war. And make love; increase your wealth.
I’ll be back tomorrow with some materials commemorating the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. That is something we really need to never, ever forget. We have a friend called Elena in the Ukraine, not far from where this website is produced, who has done some truly bold and awesome photography riding around on her motorcycle in a vast dead zone of thousands of towns and cities.
Thanks for tuning in. It’s good to be with you.
Friday 25 April 2008
Pallas (19+ Aries) quincunx Logos (19+ Virgo Rx)
Eros (18+ Taurus) quincunx Quaoar (18+ Sagittarius Rx)
Apollo (21+ Cancer) square Eris (21+ Aries)
Sisyphus (16+ Libra Rx) semisquare Saturn (1+ Virgo Rx)
Amor (29+ Aries) sesquiquadrate Great Attractor (14+ Sagittarius)
Arachne (1+ Libra Rx) conjunct M87 (1+ Libra)
Sun (5+ Taurus) quintile Varuna (17+ Cancer)
Mars (22+ Cancer) square 1992 QB1 (22+ Aries)
Mercury (16+ Taurus) sesquiquadrate Pluto (1+ Capricorn Rx)
Mercury (16+ Taurus) sesquiquadrate Arachne (1+ Libra Rx)
Mercury (16+ Taurus) sesquiquadrate M87 (1+ Libra)
Vesta (2+ Aries) septile Admetos (24+ Taurus)
Pallas (20+ Aries) sesquiquadrate Hylonome (5+ Sagittarius Rx)
Venus (23+ Aries) sextile Neptune (23+ Aquarius)
Arachne (1+ Libra Rx) square Pluto (1+ Capricorn Rx)
Apollo (21+ Cancer) trine Psyche (21+ Scorpio Rx)
Mercury (16+ Taurus) quincunx Sisyphus (16+ Libra Rx)
Sun (5+ Taurus) quintile Neptune (23+ Aquarius)
Amor (29+ Aries) sesquiquadrate Ixion (14+ Sagittarius Rx)
Vesta (3+ Aries) square Kronos (3+ Cancer)
The Oracle takes us back to April 30, 1999 – Aries weekly
I’m one of those people who smells people. I might have been a beagle in some recent past life, but it seems natural to run up to folks, sniff their crotch and sometimes even lick their hand. I suggest you adopt some version of the Dog as your totem for about the next five or six weeks, doing the Pooch Review on everyone. If you do, the voice of a puppy will whisper in your ear the secret intentions of whomever you meet, though your first impressions alone will tell you everything you need to know. (Special assignment, unrelated to dogs: Sit naked in front of a mirror in a dark room for one hour, and write down whatever the shadows tell you.)
Philip Sedgwick says M87 is “technically” a part of the Super Galactic Centre, and gives it’s position as 2Libra03’33”. Eric gives M87 the position of 1+Libra. I’m interested in it’s position and interpretation as distinct from ZS. Got http://www.planetwaves.net/astrology/libram87.html, which is great, but why 1+ and not 2+? What specific ideas does M87 bring that differ from ZS? It woke me up this morning, that huge energy. I jumped up in bed, yelled “M87!” and got straight onto the computer.
taa xxx kim
also, just a curiosity, in the above article Eric comments that Uranus was discovered at 23Cancer and during the same week M87 was catalogued after much detailed and painstaking effort by Messier. Eric says the Sabian Symbol for 23 Cancer is “gathering of a literary society”, which doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. In Human Design, it falls in Gate 62, which reads “Discovery – A genius for the unusual. The ability to discover valuable information in detail work and to find innovative applications for this knowledge.” It also adds something intriguing – “what was missed in the detail work may be of great importance and value” Hmmm, a mystery to unravel.
First off I really enjoyed all the versions of today’s edition, and all who contributed to it. The Pea Patch news relating to women, and Eric’s advice about what we are worth. You see today is my solar return. At 5′ 22.59 = 5′ 23 Taurus. Everyone in the Astrology World it seems (myself included) are talking about the Mars/Jupiter Opposition. We have here a ‘heads up’ about the Sesquiadrate’s…I find that delightful. So, ummm what about the that opposition? And that Oracle is fab too. Smiles.