{"id":15782,"date":"2009-06-17T15:11:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T20:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=15782"},"modified":"2009-06-17T22:51:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T03:51:43","slug":"astrology-eris-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/astrology-eris-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon conjunct Eris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eris is still a new factor in astrology. Few astrologers have written about it, and it was barely mentioned at last year’s United Astrology Conference. Here are a couple of my articles: Pluto in the Age of Eris<\/a>; Dancing with Discord<\/a>; and a short downloadable book that I offer as a gift from time to time, Eris: Facets and Fragments of Self<\/a><\/em>. (There are several others scattered throughout the archives over the past three years.)<\/p>\n

Eris is the 9th largest body known to orbit the Sun, being 27% more massive than Pluto. It was first photographed in 2003, and when it was noticed in photographic plates in 2005, it was code named Xena (after the warrior princess TV character). Though the Xena connection is all but forgotten, it was that reference that clued my friend Paloma Todd into the delineation of this planet, based primarily on the fragmented<\/em> plot structure of the warrior princess series.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2006, the International Astronomical Union reorganized the solar system and categorized Pluto, Eris and the first asteroid, Ceres, as dwarf planets; there are now several other dwarfs as well. I covered this development at the time in an article called The Foggy New Edge of Neptune<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Note: all the links above are subscriber materials from earlier in the Planet Waves series. Subscription information is at the right margin.]<\/p>\n

At the moment, the Aries Moon is conjunct Eris. The conjunction is currently applying and will be exact today at 8:06 pm EDT. This might give us an opportunity to tune into the energy signature of this planet. Because it’s spending more than a century in Aries (it has a very unusual orbit of 557 years), I believe that energy pattern has a lot to do with Aries qualities such as identity, intention and motivation. Aries is about volition; it is the sign that turns the key on existence and the conscious awareness of existence.<\/p>\n

We get a clue from Alice Bailey’s system of rulerships in the book Esoteric Astrology,<\/em> which proposes that Mercury is one of the esoteric rulers of Aries. Aries is not just about drive, desire and plundering (Mars themes), it’s about sentience and conscious existence (Mercury themes).<\/p>\n

One of the problems or challenges we face at this time in history is identity chaos. We have so many influences telling us who we are supposed to be and not supposed to be; what we are supposed to look like and not supposed to look like; that it makes Christian morality seem quaint and lovely.<\/p>\n

In Western society and much of the developed world of Asia, we have many opportunities to think of how we are, who we are and what we are. We are no longer bound to one concept of self, of gender, of sexual orientation or of a place in society. All of these options, I believe, become factors in the identity chaos that I assocaite with Eris. I would just put out here that this is very challenging for many people. Many have no clue what to do or what to be, and that’s the result of having many options and not being dictated to; and the old forms not containing the more complex sense of self that we possess in a world that can truly be called postmodern.<\/p>\n

There is a parallel theme in today’s Sun square Uranus aspsect, which is at full throttle right now. Today may still have some surprises in store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eris is still a new factor in astrology. Few astrologers have written about it, and it was barely mentioned at last year’s United Astrology Conference. Here are a couple of my articles: Pluto in the Age of Eris; Dancing with Discord; and a short downloadable book that I offer as a gift from time to … 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\/15782"}],"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=15782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}