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Though she may not identify herself in public, I associate her with a number of feminine archetypes — the witch, the whore, the spinster, the lesbian, the solitary artist: generally she is not a householder, but she certainly can be, and this energy is getting stronger in the culture and that will resonate on some level with everyone. I think of Eris as the woman who knows she is different and is not afraid to be different, even though she may do it quietly.<\/p>\n
She is the inner attribute of women who have not necessarily embodied their truth. For those who are aware of the Lilith archetype — the original woman, created equal to Adam — she is in this cycle of mythology. The problems with this energy generally arrive when she goes covert; when she conceals her agenda; when she refuses to state her needs because she is afraid that they will become a cause of discord. And this, more times than not, is the actual cause of discord.<\/p>\n
Mars coming in for a square feels like a clash on the level of sibling rivalry. Mars and Eris are brother and sister. Mars is the essential male energy; the glyph is a circle with an arrow at the exact angle of an erect penis. The turbulence is between something that is inwardly authentically feminine and something that is outwardly, blatantly male. Men and women understand little about one another’s respective plights, or human conditions. I would propose as a man that most women think they “want their men to be men” but don’t understand what that really means. There is something a little wild about maleness, and I think this scares the bejesus out of the overwhelming majority of women, who feel that energy must be contained and controlled.<\/p>\n
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Men do the same thing to women. That inner Eris archetype wants the absolute freedom of self, and this is blatantly threatening to most men, who cannot deal with the fact that the women they engage with have the power of choice. I have also noticed, as have many feminist scholars, that many women are in a colossal conflict between their drive to individuate and their culturally-instilled conditioning to be “good” and well-behaved.<\/p>\n
These are the basic ingredients of the misunderstanding that is the war between the sexes.<\/p>\n
But think of it as a square: an internal crisis that we live with, often unconsciously. Gender conflict is exacerbated by a crisis of self-confidence that strikes most people down to their bones. I was walking around earlier today and it occurred to me (in the form of an email to send my therapist): I have said a lot about sexual repression, and gender oppression. I have not until now noticed how that is funded nearly 100% by the lack of self-confidence that it would take to take up these issues. In other words, if we are afraid of ourselves, we will never be able to meet one another face to face.<\/p>\n
Instead, we spend a lot of time and I do mean a LOT of time either pandering to one another’s insecurities, or trampling on them.<\/p>\n
With this as the background, there are two other aspects well worth mentioning. Venus is conjunct Uranus in Pisces, a brilliant illumination of passion and freedom of the kind that transcends conflict by its unmitigated originality. Venus, whose orbit and planetary properties are more similar to Uranus than any other planet, will invent her way out of this kind of Mars square Eris conflict if she needs to. But in that aspect structure, the next thing that happens is that she opposes Saturn and it can feel like back to the drawing board. And the drawing board is better than being discouraged. We need nothing, if not courage right now.<\/p>\n
The Sun is in a stunning conjunction to Jupiter today, a central moment in the Aquarian lineup that is so strong right now — which by the way is also expressed as the two rulers of Aquarius (Saturn the traditional ruler, and Uranus, the modern one), face to face in a long opposition with Venus right in the mix. This is Aquarius six ways from Sunday.<\/p>\n
I will have more on the eclipse later in the weekend.<\/p>\n
Thanks for tuning in.<\/p>\n
Dear Friend and Reader: I was just soaking in the irony of New York’s governor choosing an anti-choice, apparently regressive Senate replacement for Miss Rodham the day that Mars squares Eris. I’ve identified Eris as being the representative of the outcast woman; the one who lives on the edge of town, who comes to the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,36,52,54,103,3,117],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Eric](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/sign_white.jpg?resize=185%2C45&ssl=1\" "\\"Planet")
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