{"id":10425,"date":"2009-01-30T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T14:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=10425"},"modified":"2009-01-30T19:44:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T00:44:29","slug":"ceres-square-pholus-watch-your-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/ceres-square-pholus-watch-your-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceres square Pholus: Watch your Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

We’ve just sent out Planet Waves Astrology News <\/a><\/strong><\/em>to subscribers. The lead in this edition covers the article from Sunday’s New York Times Magazine<\/em> on Canadian sexologist Dr. Meredith Chivers (which received considerable discussion below). The piece is called “Kaleo: Venus Unbound.” It looks at erotic sex roles as proposed by Chivers; and at how Venus and Mars work in men and women — and the ways they are corrupted now (and what we can do about it)..<\/p>\n

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Photo by Sean Hayes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The article took several days to write and research, and I did the final draft yesterday at my hideout in Woodstock, Taco Juan’s. There’s excellent food (find out for yourself if you’re ever in Woodstock), no Internet connection and an excellent bookstore next door called the Golden Notebook. When I finished working I stepped outside, went to the back parking lot and was met with the vision of the Moon-Venus conjunction blazing in the evening sky: a cosmic thank-you note from the goddesses.<\/p>\n

Today, Ceres, the goddess of grain and of mothering, is square Pholus, a centaur planet that tends to let things out of their container. This may be an emotional day for moms as regards their daughters, and there is plenty of chaos in the sky to accentuate the potency of the matter — such as Mercury slowing to a stop in Capricorn, where it will change directions on Sunday Feb. 1. Mercury is in what’s called the storm phase — like the rush of water when a ferryboat is pulling into the terminal and the pilot throw the thing into reverse. It’s like the boat is moving two directions at once, one direction against the ground and another direction as the water churns around it.<\/p>\n

Ceres to Pholus first reminded me of people having a hard time keeping up with medical diets. I am one one — I am strictly wheat-free, which includes about five other grains and most lately sushi rice — so I know how hard it is. I don’t suggest you experiment today. That is, it would be better if you didn’t say, “Oh, I wonder what would happen if I eat that.” Stick to what you know works for your body.<\/p>\n

But lots of us are trying to watch food consumption, and this is a good day to pay attention. Do you really need to eat things with corn syrup? Do you read ingredients lists on packages? It’s really interesting thing to see what is in everything you put in your mouth. (Taco Juans has two kinds of vanilla syrup, I learned; one made from corn syrup and artificial vanilla; and the other made from cane sugar and real vanilla.) I don’t eat anything that I don’t know the ingredients of, right down to checking the industrial foodservice packages at the movies to see just what goes into the popcorn. If the ingredients list is long, I don’t eat it. I have a long list of additives I skip (nearly all of them, but I have a few peeves that I keep for pets — such as MSG). Try this for a while and see what you become aware of.<\/p>\n

Be aware: Mercury is stationing. Especially if you’re on a medical diet, pay attention. Read that list three times. Make sure you know all the odd little ingredients that are listed, like hydrolized vegetable protein, which is another way to say gluten.<\/p>\n

Catch you tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader: We’ve just sent out Planet Waves Astrology News to subscribers. The lead in this edition covers the article from Sunday’s New York Times Magazine on Canadian sexologist Dr. Meredith Chivers (which received considerable discussion below). The piece is called “Kaleo: Venus Unbound.” It looks at erotic sex roles as proposed by … 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":[456,1],"tags":[36,59,61,964,52,37,38,117],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425"}],"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=10425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}