{"id":17029,"date":"2009-08-12T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17029"},"modified":"2009-08-12T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T17:06:30","slug":"leo-sun-opposing-the-triple-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/leo-sun-opposing-the-triple-conjunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Sun opposing the triple conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The Sun is in position to oppose the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune. Though the first exact opposition (Sun to Jupiter) does not occur until Friday, the Sun (currently standing at 19+ Leo) is now well within range of an opposition to the stellium (a cluster of planets or points not including the Sun or Moon), which is spread between 22+ Aquarius and 25+ Aquarius. All three points are currently retrograde. The Sun is currently advancing at 57 arc minutes per day, just shy of a degree — about as slowly as it goes, with the Earth and Sun currently near maximum distance. The opposition will happen in sequence Friday, Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

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For those trying to work this out as astronomy, remember that it’s the Earth that’s moving, not the Sun; we are tracking the Sun’s apparent position from the viewpoint of the\u0412\u00a0 Earth. What we have is the Earth suspended between the Sun and these three planets. It’s a lot like a Full Moon, only it’s not the Sun and Moon that are involved but rather the Sun and Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune.<\/p>\n

Chiron, a massive comet, is an entirely different kind of critter than Jupiter or Neptune. Jupiter is in the ‘gas giant’ category and Neptune is in the ‘ice giant’ category. It is a lot, a lot, of water. Jupiter is the largest known object in our solar system, at about 1,300 times the size of Earth and more than double (2.5 times) the mass of all the other planets in the solar system combined (this does not include the Sun). It has 63 known moons. Jupiter is so large that its orbit causes the Sun to oscillate. In other words, its gravity pulls the Sun in a measurable wobble. Neptune for its part is 17 times the mass of the Earth.<\/p>\n

So the Earth is sitting between the Sun and a massive amount of gravity coming from Jupiter and Neptune; and Chiron, something microscopic by comparison, but which can focus awareness and precipitate events like nothing else I’ve ever seen. Chiron and many other ‘minor’ points inform those who are looking that size\/mass does not mean everything. However, it does mean something, and we have plenty of it working on us now.<\/p>\n

The planets in their courses are offering us a reminder to be aware of a sense of exaggeration. Sun-Jupiter comes with the sense of large forces at work in our lives; this is a feeling or an idea, which might take many forms or pass relatively eventlessly. Yet feelings are events, and can precipitate events, so we need to be as careful and as conscious as possible as these days progress and we move through the exact alignment. Neptune tells us to check and re-check whether we are perceiving things honestly. There is a dreamy quality, and it can be difficult to pin down one’s personal truth with Neptune in an opposition. With Neptune you really have to give it time — but there can be a subtle sense of revelation that is pretty amazing to feel.<\/p>\n

There is a touch of irony here in that the world is calling on us to possess emotional balance and a measure of control above all else, but the current pace of life gives us few opportunities to do anything of the kind. This is told in the astrology and it’s told many other ways.<\/p>\n

Working in the background of the current, more obvious dynamic are many other alignments that are well within the historical range to be having an effect, and those are what we are more likely to be feeling but not giving a name to. For example, we still have several additional alignments of Saturn and Uranus to experience. The next is in about one month, on Sept. 15 (recall that the first of the series was on the day Barack Obama was elected president). Saturn is also about to leave Virgo and square Pluto, for the first of a sequence of Saturn-Pluto alignments.<\/p>\n

This is a lot, I know. It seems like a never-ending sequence of events, which in fact astrology is; but the intensity of all of this combined verges on ridiculous, and we are only warming up to the exact alignments that focus on June through December 2012 and then go on from there.<\/p>\n

I originally began this diary by saying, I feel like I need to get my awareness to a level beyond the astrology, an idea which is good advice any day; we need to be taking our real instructions from core self, which is unlikely to be fazed by any of the turbulence, changes or developments indicated in the astrology. I would propose, however, that it’s always a good idea to be aware of one’s environment, and astrology definitely counts for that. To me this kind of psychic weather calls for leadership: many of you have been preparing for these events over many years. It’s time to step out and take your role, thus allowing those who have been holding your place to move onto other points of focus that they are ready for.<\/p>\n

I’ve just checked over the asteroids and noticed that in the midst of all of this is one called Terpsichore, the muse of dance. I would take this one symbolically and literally. So let the music play…<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/p>\n

PS<\/strong>, Anatoly, our webweaver in the Ukraine, reminds me that today is the peak of the Persieds meteors<\/strong><\/a>. We are passing through the tail of comet Swift-Tuttle, which was discovered in 1862 and last visited in 1992. For those interested in size of thee bodies, the nucleus of Swift-Tuttle is just shy of 10 km across and the current estimate of Chiron is 117 km across. For comparison, Los Angeles is about 71 km by 47 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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