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Thanks for this reminder, Sari.<\/p>\n
We’re in the last hours of the Aries New Moon, which of course throws the spotlight onto Venus retrograde. The Moon, as it’s now in the extreme waning phase by just two degrees, makes new a series of conjunctions over the next few days, and we can fee these.<\/p>\n
The planets are currently clustered to one side of the solar system (one quarter, actually) and this has always felt to me like a moment when experience is especially concentrated. This has been going on for months, as the planets grouped first in Aquarius, then Pisces and now in Aries. The cluster is starting to fan out a little bit (spread mostly through three signs), but still the Moon goes past all of these planets in about one week; then it squares them; then it opposes them; then it squares them again; and so on.<\/p>\n
(Of note, today’s New Moon is square Pluto in early Capricorn.)<\/p>\n
So this is a ride. It’s superconcentrated time. And this feeling is increased as the Sun reaches the cardinal points, which it’s just done and which is still unfolding.<\/p>\n
Sun-Venus in Aries is about how we relate to this strange concentric experience of seeking self in self and self in other; and of seeing other in self. Ego structure can be really a strange thing to study; it’s often a question of how perception perceives, and that means how it perceives itself in relationship to other. Part of where I know we get into trouble is having not claimed ourselves, our existence, as independent from other.<\/p>\n
I would also relate that there are theories of personality that explain how and why the male and female ego structure are significantly different entities, and conceive of existence differently. We can train ourselves to see from other viewpoints, but we don’t often see the one we have — and gender roles are so accepted as at least being different that we don’t often see the many ways that this difference influences our cosmology.<\/p>\n
Were we to actually experience gender as a diverse experience within ourselves, that is, actually and consciously, it would feel a lot looser than the current rules make it out to be. Venus retrograde in Aries is one meaningful version of an alternate reality; it’s a way to seek something within ourselves that we tend to project outward. I would sketch it out a little like this — for men (particularly heterosexual, but not only), we have an opportunity to seek this elusive, beyond-beautiful thing we see as Woman as existing within ourselves; and some of the contradictions we project onto Woman as also being inner experiences as well. For Woman, she has an opportunity to be a self without having to orient into relationship with Man as a prerequisite.<\/p>\n
This is a veiled subject in many ways, this notion of seeking the validity of self in other, though\u0412\u00a0 think it may be one of the most all-encompassing factors of human existence at the moment. If we don’t look, this makes it very difficult to see who we are, and if we do look, we get many opportunities to see the choices we have about how to relate to one another.<\/p>\n
Brother Sun and Sister Moon coming together represent a greater joining; a merging of the two major elements of personality; that which expresses and that which reflects.<\/p>\n
A few thoughts on this waning phase. Keep an eye on that pressure. Personally I’m sitting here deciding what less I can do for everyone.<\/p>\n
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Sari writes below: There was a processional wobble last week (19th march) a birth pang on our path to the 2012, and these days we are truly under pressure. Retrograde Venus hopefully will encourage us females to take responsibility for our competitiveness and ruthless drive to be top dog. If we are really going into … 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\/13054"}],"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=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}