Dear Friend and Reader:
Greetings from Denver.
Today the Sun is conjunct something called Admetus. I say “something” but that is questionable; Admetus is one of the hypothetical planets. In other words, it is a point with an ephemeris, which is cast (by relatively few astrologers) into charts; but it does not exist in the sense we think of something existing, particularly a planet. It is a calculated point that is treated as a planet.
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How this came to be is a long story. It’s not that strange that things without physical mass get respect in astrology; the South Node is a calculated point and it works great. NASA will never send a mission to one of the house cusps and you cannot collect rocks from up on the Part of Fortune; they exist by virtue of mathematics.
But Admetos and the other seven “Uranian points,” as they are called, seem to exist just fine. They have orbits ranging from about the length of Pluto (a couple of centuries) to about 800 years. Some day I will tell the story, which takes place in Germany in the early 20th century, where astrologers in what was called the Hamburg School came under persecution from Hitler. They were the people who came up with these points, and who also gave us the Aries Point. They still exist, though they are few and far between (one of them basically got me into UAC as its Mr. Journalist).
In any event, the Sun is conjunct Admetus today. This is a really interesting myth from the Helenic age. Some people spell it Admetos. Here is what Martha Wescott, one of the most trustworthy Uranian astrologers to ever walk the planet, says on her Keywords page:
Facing blockages; biding your time; encountering delays, frustrations, complications or the need for something else to happen BEFORE success or progress; dealing with raw materials (including stone, lumber, etc.,) packaging, inventory and storage; having cramps or other indications that reveal a tightening to endure/persevere/hang in there; issues with self-containment, shunning; literal and behavioral “cold.” Narrowing or specialization.
I’m going to take this as a cue for my UAC coverage. At the moment, it’s 8 am in Denver, I am awake and more or less conscious and about to report for the conference. I am likely to be blogging more than once a day, so please check in, and if you’re reading in Feedburner, it’s only set to mail once a day, circa noon Eastern Time — perhaps check in in the evening as well.
I am pretty sure this is going to be an interesting conference, and I promise to get the story. With the help of somebody called Lion out in Oregon, I’ll be doing audio blogs twice a day but those won’t start till Saturday, since it’s going to take me today to get the first two, and then Lion has to make the template. From there, it should go pretty quick and I’ll do as many as Lion can handle. This man, by the way, has been very helpful with some of the changes you’ve seen at Planet Waves the past five months. He has provided a vital outside perspective on how to streamline and redesign the site. I totally get lost in the sauce trying to do this, and he went through our design problems like, well, like this thing that’s eating the antiquated poured-concrete parking garage next to my studio in Kingston, which I wish I had the time to photograph.
We have an absolutely dynamite Planet Waves Astrology News in the works for tomorrow, our most incredible treatment of Mercury retrograde ever. That is running on time and will be out in the email to subscribers Friday morning and on the subscriber homepage late tonight.
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Thursday 15 May 2008
Venus (17+ Taurus) sextile Varuna (17+ Cancer)
Sun (24+ Taurus) conjunct Admetos (24+ Taurus Rx)
Ceres (18+ Gemini) opposite Quaoar (18+ Sagittarius Rx)
Venus (18+ Taurus) semisquare Kronos (3+ Cancer)
Eros (6+ Gemini) septile Apollo (27+ Cancer)
Sun (25+ Taurus) sesquiquadrate Sisyphus (10+ Libra Rx)
Pallas (27+ Aries) trine Orcus (27+ Leo)
Jupiter (22+ Capricorn Rx) quintile Hidalgo (10+ Scorpio Rx)
Venus (18+ Taurus) quincunx Quaoar (18+ Sagittarius Rx)
Amor (6+ Taurus) semisquare Uranus (21+ Pisces)
Apollo (27+ Cancer) quincunx Juno (27+ Sagittarius Rx)
Eros (6+ Gemini) semisquare Eris (21+ Aries)
April 02, 2004 – Capricorn – Weekly
You are quickly heading toward a solution to a seemingly deadlocked situation. It may be that you’ve put too much emphasis on security and not enough on taking a chance. There are virtues to both, but in the end there is very little security in the world, and its value is mainly psychological. Focus on investigating what you’re actually willing to do, and whether you leave yourself room to revise your plans or change your mind. You will need this flexibility, but at the moment it’s better to have too much to do rather than too little.