{"id":17346,"date":"2009-08-24T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T13:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17346"},"modified":"2009-08-24T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T17:45:58","slug":"virg-and-the-cardinal-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/virg-and-the-cardinal-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudsy fruit, Virgo and the cardinal points"},"content":{"rendered":"

I visited my friend Dominick’s cafe this morning (Dominick’s Cafe at Dreamweavers<\/a>), walked into the kitchen and discovered him explaining to his food prep staff how to wash grapes in dish detergent. “Not a lot, just a little,” he said, as he swished a few pounds of green and light purple grapes in a bowl of suds.<\/p>\n

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I asked whether this was about getting the pesticides off the grapes and he said it’s because people sneeze and cough all over them in the supermarket. All fruit that comes into the cafe is washed — including lemons and bananas. I laughed and said, “Virgo rising.” He is, with Pluto in the ascendant — very, very Virgo rising. (Dominick, who is a talented hobby astrologer and got the joke, has also been on a years-long campaign to get high fructose corn syrup out of the cafe, right down to the ketchup.)<\/p>\n

This week we get a taste of Virgo-Pluto energy with an alignment that a reader pointed out in an email a few minutes ago. Mercury is now in late Virgo and is about to enter Libra, as part of its retrograde sequence that will unfold over the next six weeks. (Please see note at end about my Mercury Retrograde Report.)<\/p>\n

Mercury therefore opposes the Aries Point or first degree of Aries. Mars for its part will ingress Cancer. Pluto is already standing in the first degree of Capricorn; so we have a Mercury-Mars-Pluto t-square right on the cardinal points. That one is going to ripple through the news, and it’s here to help us change our mind about something. Probably, knowing the human tendency to littleness, it will be about something small, but even that can be a good start and there is always the potential to make an actual decision or two. Venus will be in the first degree of Leo. That decision can be based on creative thought rather than sentiment or an emotional response.<\/p>\n

Venus, Mars and Mercury (all of which are changing signs this week) and will be aspecting Pluto in early Capricorn. This has everything to do with sex and by sex I mean the honest awareness of sexuality and all its implications. Mercury is about communication. Every now and then the sky agrees with me: talking about sex, in actual depth, from a place of authenticity, is one of the best things we can do to help ourselves, improve our relationships and improve our world.<\/p>\n

Wavers, I’m just wrapping up a Mercury Retrograde Report <\/strong>that sums up the forthcoming series of events and also offers a special 12-sign horoscope on the subject. We will have ordering information about that posted here tonight. If you’re on our Sample List you will receive an email later. The report will be half price for subscribers<\/strong>.
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