{"id":10978,"date":"2009-02-10T08:33:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T13:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=10978"},"modified":"2009-02-10T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T14:04:04","slug":"saturn-uranus-sun-conjunct-neptune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/saturn-uranus-sun-conjunct-neptune\/","title":{"rendered":"The dust and the debris – and productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The dust and the debris are settling from yesterday’s lunar eclipse, the Mercury retrograde that ended about one week ago and the solar eclipse a week before that, so this was one of those times when eclipses and Mercury retrograde overlap — and they are always chaotic. Economic news is of course the top issue in the world right now, and it’s perhaps the one where the personal meets the political most closely. “Economy” means home<\/em>. It’s our environment; the place where our energy circulates, and most would say this happens in the form of money. I say it happens in the form of creative energy, because ultimately we run on ideas: that is, if we are doing anything besides exactly what we did yesterday. That need to try something new is the constant demand of business. At what point do we jump into this cycle with some creativity?<\/p>\n

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I understand that there are extremely serious issues with a banking system<\/strong><\/a> that cannot seem to avoid purchasing $1,200 waste baskets for its million-dollar office renovations. (That is the least of its problems, but it reveals the mentality<\/strong><\/a>.) Apparently in September there was an electronic run on the banks so serious that the United States was hours from economic collapse; I did not believe it either, but check out the link (sent by Fe Bongolan) and see what you think.<\/p>\n

Then you have little things like utility companies raising their rates when people conserve energy. That kind of punishment is sending the message that we may as well crank the heat and leave the lights on. I recognize that power companies have to stay in business too, but you don’t do that exclusively by passing the burden directly to the ratepayers. We need to come around to the conclusion that the ecconomy as we currently experience it is a ripoff. It is a giant machine that harvests our energy<\/strong>. We also need to notice that the way the world does business is not sustainable. If we project a consumption-based economy into the future, there is no way we can sustain this.<\/p>\n

On today’s aspect list, I see that Apollo has entered Capricorn, the sign of business, where it will soon make a conjunction to Pluto. Apollo is (on one level) about making the same mistakes over and over again. Martha Lang-Wescott<\/strong><\/a> reminds us about that feeling of banging your head against the wall, over and over again. It certainly seems that way. When it makes a conjunction to Pluto in the next few days, we may just notice that’s what we’re doing.<\/p>\n

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Banks are only part of the economic system. Individual human productivity is the rest. And we are seeing an incredible productivity issue. It is difficult to give evidence, and spot evidence — convincing in writing, because that’s how writing works — is not really proof. How productive do you really feel? Do you relate to what you ‘make’ in your job? Do you use the product that your company makes, or that you are involved with? And what can you do that would benefit people?<\/p>\n

Now for the fabulous question — where does the idea come from that the thing that we do that’s the most valuable is the thing that’s needed least? Do we really have an economy based exclusively on feeding addictions? On lottery tickets, beer, coffee, pizza and mindless shopping? How are the pot dealers doing? Are people still refilling their antidepressant prescriptions? If you have any extra money to spend once you’ve paid the utility bills, where are you spending it?<\/p>\n

Today’s Chart<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today the Virgo Moon is approaching the opposition of Saturn and Uranus. That is the long-standing aspect (it lasts two years with a long warmup and cooldown on either side). The Moon passes through this as we move through the next 36 hours and the feeling is with us now: it’s the frustrations of getting our emotions (the Moon) involved in the struggle of these two opposing energies, Saturn (structure) and Uranus (that which would change structure). We are in a massive restructuring, also indicated by Pluto in Capricorn. This is VERY longterm stuff, it’s deep and you, personally, have no choice but to participate. Pluto, the king of this whole restructuring thing, is square the Aries Point, and that brings all of us in personally.<\/p>\n

Of note, Kirsti Melto informs me that a minor planet in the Kuiper Belt, called Typhon (a god involved with hot, dangerous winds, and cyclonic storms like hurricanes) is blowing through the opposition as well — which gives us a window into the bushfires that have been consuming Victoria, Australia (where we have some readers).<\/p>\n

Mars is in Aquarius, and is slowly working its way across that sign, about to aspect the many planets that are there: Jupiter, Juno, Nessus, Chiron and Neptune.<\/p>\n

The late Aquarius Sun is in a near-exact conjunction to Neptune, and that is one energy we might be feeling: the desire to deny the whole problem, to numb out or to disappear. Neptune has a profoundly creative side, though you may not think you have access. It involves tuning into the subtler realms of your mind, what some call the spiritual dimension, only the experience doesn’t need to be passive. You can take this as an active challenge.<\/p>\n

I’m not trying to play Pisces and make this sound easier than it is — but I can tell you this, panic is not going to get us out of this one and it’s not going to make our lives any better. All that will work are creativity and taking care of one another. We could start by not being so cut off from our neighbors. Sticking together is the only thing that’s ever worked in the long-run on this planet. I don’t think it will fail us now.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Friend and Reader: The dust and the debris are settling from yesterday’s lunar eclipse, the Mercury retrograde that ended about one week ago and the solar eclipse a week before that, so this was one of those times when eclipses and Mercury retrograde overlap — and they are always chaotic. Economic news is of … 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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978"}],"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=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}