![\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/das2.jpg?resize=215%2C227&ssl=1\" "\\"Daily")
Today the Moon is in Aquarius, where it will stay until Friday just before noon Eastern Time. The Moon will make a conjunction to retrograde Nessus today. Recall that it was at exact opposition to Nessus at the time of Michael Jackson’s passing, so it’s been two weeks or half a lunar cycle since that happened. Before going into Pisces the Moon will make conjunctions to three additional planets in Aquarius — in order, Chiron, Neptune and Jupiter. All three are retrograde, due to the position of the Earth relative to them.<\/p>\n
Mars ingresses Gemini late Saturday night Eastern Time, and for now will be dangling at the edge of Taurus, gradually working toward its new sign and new cycle. This to me is an illustration of integrating male energy, as is often the case when Mars is on the edge of a sign; in this case a sign traditionally ruled by Venus.<\/p>\n
We live in an era where both sexes struggle to integrate male energy. Very few girls or women spend enough time around men who have integrated their Mars to have any clue what it feels like; the same can be said for men, who at least are handed the circumstance of being male and have no choice but to have at least some few experiences; but we see a lot of men who polarize either macho or feminized without actually consciously taking over the functions of Mars, one by one. I would just remind us again that we face a special challenge because there are so few examples how to do this in a healthy way.<\/p>\n
And there are so many misunderstandings about sex. For example, consider how the thing we rely on the most dependably for sex or reproduction to happen at all, male erotic desire, is one of the most maligned emotions in the universe; it currently verges on a crime. I believe that our society (meaning Western society, the only one I have a clue about) runs in cycles, where one sex or the other is blamed for<\/em> sex. At different points — we can name a few — sex was the ‘fault’ of women and men were expected to be victims. In other times sex is the ‘fault’ of men and women are the presumed victims, such as currently.<\/p>\n To me this is about the alternation of attempts to integrate Venus or Mars. I know that woman, as a collective entity, are struggling for their sexual identity — though there are many venues for women to make discoveries about being female, from the birthing process (which pretty much guarantees certain discoveries) to a gradually evolving notion of female equality, many new opportunities to participate in the world that were unheard of within our culture 50 years ago, to neo-Pagan movements that worship and honor the Goddess and connect femininity to nature.<\/p>\n Mars void of course in Taurus reminds me that we live in a time when, many places and in many ways, maleness is disconnected from reality; it is considered a crime; the vast majority of people paraded before TV and newspaper cameras are men; and an erect penis is often considered a weapon. It would be a grand idea to consider the adverse effects of this fact on both women and men; and to consider what we might do about it here and now.<\/p>\n The first thing as astrologers would be to remember that we both possess Venus and Mars in our charts, and we need to take full ownership of both.<\/p>\n Friends, Cousins, I am about to dive into tomorrow’s Planet Waves, still figuring if I want to write it in Taco Juan’s over in Woodstock. My current concept is to sum up some of the conversations I’m having about the nature and the purpose of astrology. This feels a bit like pearl diving, so let’s … 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\/16337"}],"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=16337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/sign_white.jpg?resize=185%2C45&ssl=1\" "\\"Eric")
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