{"id":17270,"date":"2009-08-22T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17270"},"modified":"2009-08-23T05:01:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T10:01:17","slug":"faith-is-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/faith-is-a-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith is a cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"William Lilly.\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a9\/William_Lilly.jpg\/180px-William_Lilly.jpg\" alt=\"William Lilly.\" width=\"180\" height=\"219\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Lilly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My own cosmic thoughts today are focused on the Sun in the last degree of Leo, about to change signs to Virgo. This is sometimes (though rarely) referred to as the Sun being void-of-course; sometimes it&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anaretic_degree\">anaretic,<\/a> which means in the last degree (or two, depending on whose concept you use). The rules for void-of-course evolve. From what I understand, the modern adaptation is a bit different than the Elizabethan one (modern astrology, as we practice it today, has deep roots in the mid-1600s, particularly through an astrologer named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Lilly\" target=\"_blank\">William Lilly<\/a>). To me it means that the Sun makes no new aspects to major planets or points before ingressing Virgo tonight. Though despite being in Leo, it is rather trine to Pluto in the first degree of Capricorn, which aspect will perfect, earth-to-earth, over the next 24 hours or so. I have grown to love the feeling of the void-of-course or anaretic Sun. I notice unusual developments, have unexpectedly authentic conversations, and there is a sense of relief that the expressive\/ego consciousness of the Sun is muted. The ego is generally rooted in the past; the anaretic quality is about the need to embrace change. I also think of the Leo to Virgo area as the sphinx point, where we combine the energy of a woman with the energy of a cat. Or maybe just notice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My own cosmic thoughts today are focused on the Sun in the last degree of Leo, about to change signs to Virgo. This is sometimes (though rarely) referred to as the Sun being void-of-course; sometimes it&#8217;s called anaretic, which means in the last degree (or two, depending on whose concept you use). The rules for &#8230; <a title=\"Faith is a cat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/faith-is-a-cat\/\" aria-label=\"More on Faith is a cat\">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\/17270"}],"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=17270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}