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This occurs within hours of Venus stationing retrograde in Aries, a six-week journey that feels to me like self-knowledge. It seems like a confrontation that is precisely the opposite of denial, which so deeply characterizes so many relationships-with-self. I think that this particular pair of events coupled within 24 hours of this crucial high court argument in California is brilliantly archetypal, and I will save my full commentary for the Friday edition of Planet Waves Astrology News<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>sent to subscribers — as much to write it just once and incidentally to encourage you to try a subscription if you haven’t done so. The real work of social progress is individual growth, and that is precisely what we are talking about here.<\/p>\n Mercury is still closely conjunct Neptune, though the conjunction (in Aquarius) is now separating.<\/p>\n The Moon is in Cancer in the second quarter phase, heading for new gibbous. In the next 24 hours it will square Venus in Aries, then trine the Sun and later tomorrow square Eris in Aries. The Cancer Moon has something to say about comfort, nourishment and nurturing. So too does Ceres opposite Sisyphus, reminding me that many people relate to food as a lifelong struggle: what they can eat, how much they can eat, what constitutes a sin and what is allowed, and the use of food for things besides eating and simple pleasure. Given the proliferation of both toxins and heart disease, we have nearly come all the way into thinking of food as poison rather than thinking of it as the thing that helps keep us alive — and this is a very deep struggle, between that which we might feel nurtures us and that which we might feel kills us — but isn’t that the story of the world in so many ways, for so many people.<\/p>\n The combination of aspects today suggests that food needs to be a conscious, intentional act every time we involve ourselves with the stuff. I suggest that the whole stuggle be cast as one of awareness.<\/p>\n Friends, Readers, Comrades: Today as the California Supreme Court hears arguments for and against Proposition 8 — the referendum from last year which bars same-sex couples from marrying in that state — Mars is conjunct Chiron in Aquarius. I introduced this conjunction in a brief entry last night (see Dante and Virgil making out below), … 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":[31,52,3,117,1205,30],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246"}],"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=12246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12246"}],"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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