{"id":18082,"date":"2009-09-23T08:18:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T13:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=18082"},"modified":"2009-09-24T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T15:53:51","slug":"in-a-nutshell-astrology-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/in-a-nutshell-astrology-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"In a nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"

All day yesterday I was wondering what the Yes Men were up to. Late Monday I came back upstate and, with a few aches and pains from trooping all over the city with cameras and gear, and missing a bit of sleep, I finally heard from Mike last night.<\/p>\n

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The Survivaball, in promotion of the coming Yes Men movie that opens Oct. 7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Today, a cadre of Survivaballs took the UN by storm! Success! Not. Seven of the guys were given summonses for mischief, and one lucky guy got arrested: Andy!” He may still be in the can; I have not heard a legal update but I know they have that angle covered handsomely.<\/p>\n

The photo at left is someone posing in a Survivaball. This concept was presented several years ago by the Yes Men impostering “Halliburton” officials at a business exec conference somewhere; as a concept for how the wealthy capitalists who are causing climate change can deal with the consequences. If The End arrives, you step out of your building and inflate the device, and you’ll be fine. You can float, you can crash, you can bounce — no matter what happens.<\/p>\n

Donning this outfit and bouncing into the United Nations is how Andy and seven others got arrested\/ticketed yesterday. (I could imagine them floating up to the west side of the UN in the Harlem River, but I think they took the sidewalk.) This means somebody else has to cover the city in promo literature for their film, which opens at one theater in Manhattan on Oct. 7. More about that another time — I am proposing a New York City field trip to the opening. I am pretty sure they will have lots of volunteers to pass out their leaflets for The Yes Men Fix the World.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s go to the astrology. The Sun is still in the first degree of Libra, at 39 arc minutes as I write, which is to say that today is the first full day of autumn in Hemisphere North and of spring in HemiSouth. The Sun is also about to square Pluto, exact now to about four arc minutes applying, which is the defining theme of this equinox: our first Libra equinox with Pluto in Capricorn. The next of many firsts associated with Pluto in Cap.<\/p>\n

There is something relational about the Libra Sun. There is something independent and a bit lone wolf about the Sun square Pluto. This aspect is about relating to one another in a meaningful way, as individuals. This is actually the conversation that’s the subtext of all our relationship chatter; the skill to get, which is a skill based on maturity or a natural gift, not just on a concept. And that is: relating to another person as a self-contained, self-directed individual. You can so very often size up the crisis of our relationships as: we get involved and lose our independence; what we can experience now is what it might be like to have it back and relate to others intimately at the same time. Imagine that.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mercury retrograde is the leading actor in a scene taking place in Aquarius and right next door, across Virgo\/Pisces. Here is what it looks like. You know about the Saturn-Uranus opposition, right? That is in Virgo (Saturn) and Pisces (Uranus), and it’s very exact right now and that’s really the engine behind the Climate summit as well as the Yes Men’s message back to it.<\/p>\n

On the Virgo side, we have Pallas and Mercury conjunct Saturn, opposing Uranus, and that, as we are discovering, is liberationist and sparky and Mercury is providing the means of expression for all the tension of those two huge planets facing off. Pallas Athene adds a political theme; that is what she does. Political, legal, ethical, guardianship, the law in action. Exactly conjunct Saturn in Virgo today. We are seeing the astrology that is the keynote of our era; what’s called a T-square of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto is coming into focus, and this is the energy, the vibe, that will take us into and through 2012. From the Western astrology viewpoint, it’s the equivalent of the flying saucer that everyone is expecting.<\/p>\n

The Neptune connection is that it’s aspecting the Saturn-Uranus opposition, by semisextile and quincunx. In other words, it’s in the conversation, granted, in a way that requires some adjustment and conscious integration, but the “we are one” factor of Neptune in Aquarius is indeed present in the mix.<\/p>\n

What we are also getting is a tap into an earlier era, the time of the Uranus-Pluto conjunction that spanned the mid-Sixties, wherein all the same players were involved. This is going to set off, as in activate (among other people) everyone in their mid-40s (among whom I number) because we have so much astrology piled into this zone of the zoo: to wit, Uranus-Pluto (in Virgo) opposite Chiron-Saturn (in Pisces).<\/p>\n

It’s having its affect on everyone. I am seeing people in their early 20s and early 30s just as stirred to consciousness, though some are figuring out that they are squares, which is painful at first, until one makes the choice to wake up, forgive oneself for the past, and get on with the adventure of existence. You can do it, because you want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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