{"id":12413,"date":"2009-03-09T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=12413"},"modified":"2009-03-09T12:22:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T17:22:55","slug":"daylight-slavings-time-and-the-full-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/daylight-slavings-time-and-the-full-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Slavings Time, and the Full Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The government changing the time proves that time is an illusion. I learned from my dad’s wife yesterday — though I haven’t fact checked this — that moving the clocks was an old Jewish tradition, which basically affected what time the Sabbath started. Sabbath is timed to sundown, but what time you call sundown is a variable. I’ve always thought Ben Franklin gave us this brilliant innovation, which serves to do little other than throw off everyone’s body clock.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of, while I have your attention. I need to write this daily astrology piece in the morning. For me, astrology writing is daytime work. This owes partly to the Kabbalistic tradition of not doing esoteric work after sundown. While I may do some privately, for the most part I do the astrology that you will see during the day. Since I can’t always predict how my morning is going to go, I cannot promise when this piece will appear every day. Generally I aim for between 9 and 10 Eastern Time. Also note, we are reorganizing our editorial team under a new editor, so some of our publishing patterns will change over the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

And one last thing — business. Daily Astrology is a “free” service, which is sponsored not by advertisers but by our subscription service, Astrology News<\/em>. New visitors tend to be the most ready to subscribe. It’s the longtime visitors who are the least likely. On one level this makes sense; on another level it makes very little sense. I hear all kinds of stories about reluctance to subscribe, or feeling guilty about not subscribing. I suggest you simplify things and consider it like paying for a sandwich in a restaurant, which most people do without thinking about it. We give you more than a sandwich: more like a full-course, organic, vegan meal. Extending this metaphor a bit, we consider advertising to be the bacon lard mixed in with the tofu — we leave it out.<\/p>\n

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Of note, Venus is retrograde, as of Friday. For your trivia files, Venus is retrograde the least of all the planets — for about six weeks out of every 18 months. I think that’s about 8% of the time, compared to Pluto which is retrograde about 40% of the time and Mercury which is retrograde 100% of the time (that was an astrology joke). So we’re not really accustomed to Venus retrograde; it’s odd in an introspective kind of way. People and things from the past show up; there can be the feeling of a time-warp.<\/p>\n

However, the astrological mood is dominated by the verging Full Moon in Virgo. The Moon just entered Virgo and is opposing Mercury, newly arrived in Pisces. This Moon-Mercury opposition is tense, and you may feel like you’re running to stand still. Oppositions feel polarized, and Moon-Mercury oppositions feel especially so. This opposition creates a mirror effect between various emotional and mental metaphors; between precision of speech and just getting out what you feel. If you’ve had a weird or unproductive morning, that had a little something to do with the Moon being void of course in late Leo. That is over; your wheels are touching the ground again.<\/p>\n

When the Moon reaches the opposition to the Sun tomorrow at 9:37 pm, this is very close to the Saturn-Uranus opposition. The Full Moon contacts Saturn-Uranus to just two degrees, which is enough to set it off like a cascade. This could precipitate big news in the public sphere, and it’s sure to shake out some emotions in the personal sphere. I can’t say for sure where the two intersect at this point, but in a word, it may be everywhere.<\/p>\n

It’s difficult for us to see how emotionally manipulated we are by television. I know that a lot of PW readers are the type to not have a television at all, or to keep it in the closet except for when they really need it. (Heck, I was in my dad’s living room yesterday and noticed that one of the reasons it’s so nice there is because there’s no TV — he keeps that down in a finished den). Television is a source of psychic contamination. The vibe is so harsh and hectic that it’s hard to imagine that anyone can think after they turn the thing off.<\/p>\n

The Virgo\/Pisces emphasis of the Full Moon (Ceres, Moon, Saturn in Virgo; Mercury, Sun, Uranus in Pisces) is playing with this tension. We are in a moment for something soft and inconsequential to sound loud and important. The main thing you can do when you hear or even feel anything is to stick to the facts. Literally, make a list of the known facts and unknown facts and size things up, rather than getting tugged into the emotional undertow.<\/p>\n

And please let me know your Full Moon stories. They are always really interesting.<\/p>\n

for now,
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