{"id":11297,"date":"2009-02-16T08:09:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T13:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=11297"},"modified":"2009-02-16T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T02:35:03","slug":"aquarius-sub-heads-for-pisces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/aquarius-sub-heads-for-pisces\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Aquarius Sun is heading for Pisces"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Now that we’ve been a alternate lovestyle website for the past three days, we can go back to being an astrology site. If you’ve been away from Planet Waves this weekend, in honor of Valentine’s Day we have been posting the best of our sex writing from over the years. This column is called “Daily Astrology and Adventure” — sex, environmental causes and politics would be the “and adventure” part of that.<\/p>\n

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

We are now in the last days of Aquarius. The Sun enters Pisces — the last sign of the 12 — on Wednesday at 7:46 am ET, and from that point it’s just 30 days till spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Pisces and the end of Northern Hemisphere winter also ends the astrological year. I am sure nobody is complaining about this except for ski resorts. It’s been a long, difficult and indeed cold winter. Thankfully heating fuel was not the $5 a gallon that was being predicted over the summer. As for summer down under, it has been one of the very worst on record, with bushfires in Australia killing many people and causing much damage, grief and havoc. These were the worst bushfires ever in modern Australian history.<\/p>\n

If I have not mentioned it before, Kirsti Melto, one of our minor planet aficionados, pointed out recently that Typhon, a slow-moving planet, is mixed up in the Saturn-Uranus opposition. It is in Virgo, in a tight conjunction to Saturn. Typhon is a god associated with hot, dangerous winds — and its involvement in Saturn-Uranus is quite apropos of the raging fires we saw in Victoria, at least from a mythological perspective. I mention this after the fact because Typhon is going to be in that position for a while. Properly called (42355) Typhon<\/a><\/strong>, this is an object in the scattered disk, that is, beyond Pluto for much of its orbit. Wiki is not listing the length of the orbital phase; we will check that for you soon. (That would be 232 years, just shy of the length of Pluto’s orbit [that being 251 years] but a lot more elongated, a bit like a centaur or a comet.) Saturn-Uranus can be considered Saturn-Uranus-Typhon — which to me is a hot weather advisory warning for summer in the Northern Hemisphere. It also adds awareness of something spicy to the mentally sluggish energy that we might associate with Saturn in Virgo.<\/p>\n

Speaking of hot: Mars is conjunct Jupiter today, in Aquarius. This is hot in a broad-minded kind of way. Mars, currently moving through Aquarius, about to make conjunctions to all the planets you see below at right — except for the Sun, which moves faster than Mars. Look for those ways you can expand your awareness into the ideas that are possible if we work together (Jupiter and Aquarius) rather than if we work alone (Mars in nearly any form).<\/p>\n

Today is the last quarter Moon, though this occurs after the overnight square of the Moon (in Scorpio) to Chiron (in Aquarius); and this morning’s emotionally boggy square of the Moon to Neptune (which is\/was exact at about 8 am ET). This sequence feels like working out a turning point: consider the aspects in order, ending with the quarter Moon; after which the Sun is void of course for about a day and a half (till it enters Pisces). The Moon will be void of course from shortly after reaching last quarter phase until it reaches Sagittarius today at 7:53 pm ET. So for a little while today, we have both the Sun and the Moon void of course.<\/p>\n

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February 16, 2009 7:53:02 AM EST<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, the whole concept of void of course<\/em> is a bit controversial, though its meaning is simple enough: the Sun or Moon is about to change signs, and it has no more major aspects to make while it’s in the old sign. The trip through a sign is like a cycle, and at the end of the cycle, the process begins to disengage. The whole effect is about one cycle (the Sun or Moon through a sign) giving way to the next. It’s a little like shifting gears in car; if you are using a clutch, you need to do the shifting process either very consciously, or with second nature.<\/p>\n

With astrology, it’s best to be conscious rather than let your hands and feet do the work without the involvement of your mind. Every one of these cycles, particularly the Sun through a sign, gets a little tired at the end, and we might be fatigued with the way things have progressed. The Sun through Aquarius has been exhausting and difficult for many people; there has been a Mercury retrograde, two eclipses, the Saturn opposite Uranus and much else, all piled up. The chart at the right is a snapshot of the positions of the major planets and asteroids as I am writing this morning.<\/p>\n

The Sun void is something that is referenced in the Elizabethan texts but generally not by modern astrologers (unless they are practitioners of something called horary astrology). Still, I think it’s meaningful — every bit as meaningful as the Moon being void, which becomes a more useful concept as you start to gain direct experience; easily enough had, since it happens two or three times a week. I have noticed they are both real enough phenomena to keep an eye on, and I am particularly intrigued by what happens in the last days before the Sun changes signs (another way of saying Sun void of course, assuming there are not planets out there in the very late degrees).<\/p>\n

The Sun void is a condition that feels one of a few ways, though we will see how this entirely unique experience manifests; what I’ve noticed is that it’s a phase of time when unlikely things happen. Let’s see if one of them can be figuring out that we really do need to pay attention; wishful thinking (such as in the political solutions being applied to a recession, or resolving our personal issues) is not enough.<\/p>\n

Drive carefully today, and let’s do that Aquarian thing and work together as we experience the last two days of the Sun in the signs of cooperation.<\/p>\n

Yours & truly,
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