By Len Walllick
In his blog (“Business, as Unusual”) from this past Monday, Eric refers to Sagittarius as “the phase of the year when time seems to run the fastest.” Yet, the zodiac is full of things slowing down (in word or in deed or both) and at the same time moving forward.
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Today, Mercury (gradually slowing down to go retrograde for Boxing Day (Dec. 26), conjoins the Galactic Center, the place that implies what we all have in common. Less than a week and the messenger enters the front end of echo phase. If it has a battery or wheels, make up your mind soon.
The Sun (not slowing down but definitely going south for one more month) today exacts its conjunction to Pholus, with its feeling of sudden release; and its opposition to the beyond-Neptune object Chaos in Gemini. This setup was part of the story of the rather nervous Full Moon we just experienced. When the Sun passes by, Pholus and Chaos will still be in opposition, waiting for something new to come along and get their attention. Polarization is the theme of the week: the Afghanistan announcement is doing a good job. Yet the fact that Tiger Woods has hormones and is capable of misjudgments is getting more news gab time than any other story, at the moment.
Venus is not slowing down, but it sure seems like she’s dragging some of that Scorpio energy with her into Sagittarius as she semi-sextiles Pluto. Mars is crawling along (about a degree per week, preparing to be the first to station retrograde on the 20th).
Jupiter is taking forever to exact its conjunction to Chiron (Monday, but this is one to make last). Saturn has reached the 4th degree of Libra, very close to where it will station regrograde in January.
But on a much more practical note, the Moon changes signs to Cancer this morning. The Moon void in Gemini was that late, sloggish start everyone had; if you started anything this morning, you may need to start it over. The the Moon moves right into the cardinal sign square of Saturn and Pluto. Within a few hours today it will oppose Pluto and square Saturn. The last time it was there, when the Moon was in Aries last week, Tiger Woods had his little car accident.
This does not exactly feel progressive, and it may be obsessed with the past. So, if you check out the media news to find forward motion into backward thinking, you are not crazy (unless you believe the ostensible rationale). If you look at others and encounter opposition, don’t take it personally — they could actually be working in your best interest. If you look inside and encounter resistance, that is exactly what you should push against (others will appreciate you taking the pressure off them). If you are tempted to stay up late and get it all done, remember that there will be another day.
Just as (at the end of last week) Eric declared Mercury to be the theme-maker, your withered correspondent will now submit that the dominant aspect of our moment is the long embrace of Jupiter and Chiron. Sagittarius is represented by a Centaur and is the near-permanent home of two important galactic points (our own Galactic Core and the Great Attractor). Jupiter is the ruling planet of this sign. Chiron is the most famous of the Centaurs, damaged but also affirmed, even vindicated by his attempt to integrate his higher, human half with his lower, essential self. So what we have together coming together in Aquarius really is the full strength of Sagittarius at its best.
Therefore, let it be proposed that we be aware of what is in the midst of transition, for there we will find the time to slow down and take a closer look. May we also be able to discern where there is pressure to on-rush and find a way to be carried with with it rather thank struggle against it. May we turn inward to apply and outward to allay and may we have the wisdom to know the difference.
Offered In Service.
Thanks for your precious blog dear Len. Particularly the last paragraph. Really needed that. Feels like my head’s being squeezed in a vice right now.
Love
Liz x
Encouraging words Len, thank you. I’ve felt a lot of push and pull energy this past week, mostly in the night time, and today I made the effort to slow right down. I also kept the herbal teas coming in my attempt to water down the tension and surf “the pressure and on-rush.”
I also thought your last line was excellent.
LOL Len — “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” (I didn’t make that up.)
I feel compelled to add a note to my USB and car stories BTW….both of which are just two of an ongoing series of experiences with similiar pattern I am currently experiencing…
The essence that I left out of both stories is that in both cases the original “problem” existed because of a lie.
In the case of the USB, there was nothing wrong with it — I took it to the printer who neglected to eject it properly thereby creating a problem when I walked back to the library and attempted to re-access my files. I went back to the printer – it was an easy “truthful” answer, but instead a game was played wherein I was told that my drive was dead (I’m sorry, but I do not understand how it can be “dead” when I am looking on his computer at the files on my drive….) and he went through all kinds of hoops to “rescue” my data. But insisted when I left that the battery in my drive was dead and there was no hope for any of my data or my drive (but then, how did we rescue it?)
The same is with my car. It is “broken” because the mechanic who has worked on it routinely has a way of breaking something everytime he fixes it. I know the routine and for a variety of reasons (all based in dollars) I have continued to rely on his to keep me bandaged together and (somewhat) on the road. So now, when presented with the “big one”, he can lose me as a customer all together (no car to fix) or he can set himself up to be a hero of sorts and get it going again.
It seems perhaps the “whole story” puts this stuff more into the framework of the astrology we’re working with – ?
And I can and do hope that perhaps situations such as Afganistan will take on a similar pattern — that is, of the lie that has become the farce being shown up as a lie but in a saving face sort of way and in not pushing too hard to prove a point not worth proving….in the end who is hero does not matter, what matters is resolution.
oooooo lots of words, not much clarity there in that sentence. But I’ve got to move on with my day.
Loads of Love,
Linda
Mystes – i am grateful for your gentle, kind affirmation – it comes at a good time.
paletuger – thank you for bringing us the news from the other side of the pond.
aword – yes, as a matter of fact i did maker that phrase up. Like Han Solo, i may not have many moments, but i do have some when i can come through with something resembling worthy. Unlike Han Solo i’m not very good looking.
“May we turn inward to apply and outward to allay and may we have the wisdom to know the difference.”
Woah, did you make that up? Cool. I’m writing it out for my daily mantra.
I have to say – that’s the motto that is augmenting my continuing series of Silver Linings…….remembering in each of these moments that are shooting at me faster than I can count — to Breathe, to Listen, to ReInvent and ReConstruct internally, to take the negative force whirling at me, in me, through me and ReLease it in new form.
Thanks Len!
Linda
Thanks Len.
Some of what is arising over here at this time -:
The Directors of our largest bank are threatening to resign if they don’t get given their 1.5 bn bonuses this year (our govt are threatening to withhold, delay or reduce as we bailed them out way back and now own around 80% of the bank). General public don’t appear to be up for giving them their bonuses, so February is going to be interesting as that’s when Gov have to decide.
There is the Iraq War inquiry – where the Chair, Sir John Chilcot is leading the programme. There is a public website up where we can pose questions we’d like them to ask in case he isn’t asking the ‘right’ ones. He isn’t, but it is early days yet. Personally, much as I would like the oppositite, I find it hard to believe that they will get to the heart of anything closely resembling truth in this inquiry. However, I’m open.
Our beleaguered PM gets a daily thrashing whether he deserves it or not. Blame is still the name of the game here. But not necessarily the right people.
Some folks are reporting being on the up but in the main, businesses are still going under, jobs continue to go, houses get repossessed – it is a tough time here too. Before this crisis kicked off we had an incredibly high percentage of families living below the poverty line for such a supposedly rich country – wonder how it is now?
The Alfghanistan debate wages on. Our casualties not as great in number as US, in terms of coalition troops – thanks for link to icasualties, brilliant piece of work – but we are still losing precious people. The media asked people in the street why they thought we are at war – some didn’t know, some thought they knew (they didn’t). When govt is asked – we don’t get a straight answer from them either. And on it goes…
PLUTO – Pipe Line Under The Ocean.
H.
Len, Good show! Eightball to the corner pocket!
Yes, the moon goes into Cancer this morning (I note ‘cancer’ is the only celestial noun you didn’t capitalize – ouch!).
In my case –and maybe others– the opposition to Pluto is barreling along with more gusto than the cardinal T, perhaps because the air (hardyharhar) has been let out of the Libran tires by the big Saturn/Pluto square last month. Last week’s Aries Moon felt like an echo to me, and today an even fainter echo.
But the Pluto/Luna opposition? I woke up this morning aware of my natal Pluto in the 9th House, thinking: “This is it, kiddo. Pluto is now in your 1st house, pregnant with everything you brought in through the 9th gate. Alley oop.”
So I’m going to listen to the Cosmos as it sheers around those corners. Soul-brother Pluto and the Beautiful Swimmer (Kallinectes, the Linnean classification for crab), joined by the Calder-esque structural stylings of Libra.
Of course the whole article is much richer than my small focus – many, many thanks for writing it!
All love,
Myst
I’m just an ol’ editor.
There is a simple trick to this, which is hardly use any astrology. I know, if I say this out here where thousands of people can read it, they may think I’m skimping. Consider that astrology is homeopathic. Small doses go a long way. Heck, someone once wrote a whole poem about the Full Moon!
Thanks for contributing, Len, let’s keep riffin’
xx ee
Once again, thank you, Eric. Still working to find the pocket. Charlie Watts makes it look simple, but it’s not.