{"id":17459,"date":"2009-09-02T06:15:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T11:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17459"},"modified":"2009-08-31T03:41:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T08:41:36","slug":"daily-astrology-for-september-2-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/daily-astrology-for-september-2-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Astrology for September 2, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author’s note:<\/strong> The references to some Eric’s past publications are from my colored memory but i’m sure that the actual articles are readily available on Planer Waves archives.<\/em><\/p>\n

Primal Scene Revisited \/ Hypothetical Points in Astrology<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It seems that Jack Kerouac’s father made his living as a printer back when each sheet of paper was laid atop the inked type by hand. Jack’s recollection was that his father thus acquired a permanent ink stain on the palm. Kerouac took this as a metaphor, implying that each of us, in the choices, patterns and habits of our lives acquire our own unique and telling stain(s). He advocated that we be aware and choose our stain(s) in a conscious manner. The irony, of course, is poignant.<\/p>\n

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Some years back Eric provided a cogent rationale for the primacy of eclipses in the hierarchy of astrological events. When one looks at an ephemeris or a series of successive charts, it becomes apparent that pretty much everything is moving. One of the few exceptions to that rule is the occurrence point of an eclipse, creating a fixed, hypothetical point (or “stain” if you will) which will continue to provide aspects to the apparent motion of celestial objects, gradually fading with time until (nearly two decades later) the completion of the eclipse cycle when the lunar nodes (and attending eclipses) return to the scene of the sign.<\/p>\n

Today, the North lunar node in Capricorn (another hypothetical point) is opposed to the point where the July 21, 2009 total solar eclipse took place, in the the last half degree of Cancer. The dark Moon, Lilith (yet another hypothetical point) is situated three degrees away, with its shadow energy, also in Capricorn.<\/p>\n

The South lunar node conjoins the stain where the Sun and Moon came together and cast a shadow over the earth on a path starting in India, up into China, and out across the Western South Pacific.<\/p>\n

Eric commemorated this auspicious event, with what i consider to be a ground breaking article that connected that eclipse with what he called the primal scene. As postulated, that particular conjunction carried the flavor of the moment that launched each of us onto the path into this world. As portrayed, each of us was positioned on the other side observing (with perhaps more awareness than power) as our biological parents acted out (with perhaps more power than awareness) the moment of our conception.<\/p>\n

Now as the lunar nodes revisit, this scene is brought forward in a different context, that of our relationships.<\/p>\n

One common and understandable pattern of human behavior is to take in our experiences, process them a bit and then project them either onto what appears before us in the present or onto the possibilities of the future. In doing so we can deprive ourselves of being fully present to and alive with the now. We can also end up choking off or shutting out reasonable expectations and choices.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is this more apparent than in relationships. If we shape ourselves after what we have witnessed since we were born, imagine how powerful (and hard to get in touch with) is the event that got us here in the first place. If we were ambivalent about that primal scene, might we not make it our own and re-enact it when it’s our turn to have sex, thus depriving us of the opportunity to claim that time for ourselves?<\/p>\n

This writer has, frankly, spent several years holding space, sitting out like Coltrane in contemplation of how Eric could so willfully disregard the admonition of his mentor (Jonathan Cainer) that sex has no place in an astrological column. Indeed (and in word), not just disregard, but take it the other way. Now, having ruminated on his characterization of a momentous astrological event followed by having to exercise some creativity of my own, the horizon begins to glow for me.<\/p>\n

Just as in the zodiac, everything moves in our lives. People, possessions, seasons, affections, inspirations, all come and go, Some in cycles. Some forever. With the application of practice and work, however, there is the opportunity to make a mark, make our stain of choice, one we can live with as our own. The music of the spheres is there too be heard and each of us can take inspiration in preparing our own improvisation when the time comes for our solo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author’s note: The references to some Eric’s past publications are from my colored memory but i’m sure that the actual articles are readily available on Planer Waves archives. Primal Scene Revisited \/ Hypothetical Points in Astrology It seems that Jack Kerouac’s father made his living as a printer back when each sheet of paper was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1772],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17459"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}