{"id":19435,"date":"2009-11-19T04:08:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T09:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=19435"},"modified":"2009-11-19T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T21:14:10","slug":"the-nessus-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-nessus-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nessus Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.”<\/em> –Abraham Lincoln<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This day started off with the waxing Moon ingress into Capricorn, conjoining Pluto and squaring Saturn in short order.\u00a0This (along with The Big Square being in separation but still functional, because as soon as Saturn goes retrograde, it will be applying again) resonates with the weekend immediately past. But that was then, and this is now.<\/p>\n

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The Scorpio Sun is entering a period of being pretty much void as we roll into the weekend, which when over will have seen the ingress into Sagittarius — hopefully allowing us to dry out our socks (or warm up after having stayed up late to see the Leonid meteor shower).<\/p>\n

Mars in Leo has\u00a0pulled into an opposition with Nessus (in Aquarius)\u00a0with Venus (in Scorpio)\u00a0finally catching up to t-square the both of them. This will make interesting, meaningful conversations — as long as we keep them in I statements.<\/p>\n

Topping things off, Pallas (in Libra)\u00a0is perfecting its opposition to Eris (in Aries) with Chiron\u00a0in sextile to one, trine other. Chiron and Eris are in a long sextile, with Jupiter and Neptune amplifying the contact. There is something here about the unruly mind (Eris) being able to come along with the crowd (all that Aquarius). The addition of Pallas says: you can be smart if you want to. But it’s optional (a trine). Oh, Pallas in Libra adds the element of politics,<\/em> which has been through the roof this week, if you happen to watch television. Indeed, of a woman<\/em> in politics. Who could that be?<\/p>\n

So what does this have to do with Abraham Lincoln?<\/p>\n

Few remember that the now-famous “house divided” speech lost Lincoln an election and very nearly ended his political career.\u00a0He was too far out ahead of the\u00a0herd and he wasn’t heard — one of those times when it did not pay to be right EXCEPT in the long run.\u00a0After all, it is politic to avoid contact with\u00a0the proverbial raw nerve of the public (unless you abuse that power, which we’ve seen a lot of in recent years).<\/p>\n

This humble correspondent finds himself on similarly shaky ground conveying his interpretation of today’s aspects, and given how unreceptive\u00a0and censoriously the Chinese government was to our president’s appeal for\u00a0freedom of expression a few days ago (censored on Chinese TV), the synchronous prospects of reception seem a bit intimidating, but here goes.<\/p>\n

Centaur planets involve shadow material — the stuff of rage and the stuff of shame, or of injury. When they are working well, they focus healing power and we not only heal the original injuries, we gather a new kind of strength. Avoidance and anxiety are the usual easy route, however.\u00a0Anger is the path of damage.\u00a0Open discussion is the dangerous road to resolution.\u00a0Nessus involves\u00a0perhaps the most volatile shadow issue among men and women, that of inappropriate\u00a0physical contact — or psychic invasion. Many things we consider abusive are not demonstrated through physical actions, but through mental invasion.<\/p>\n

In recent months the blogs that have generated the most comments on this site have touched on this theme.\u00a0Speaking as an American Caucasian male of a certain age, the simple fact that my countenance reminds so many women of someone else in their personal\u00a0shadow is part of\u00a0every day’s\u00a0pain to accept and roll with with as much compassion as possible.\u00a0With\u00a0Venus and Mars sharing the 90-degree “T” with Nessus it is time (paraphrasing Eric’s\u00a0New Moon blog of this last Monday) for something to finally happen.<\/p>\n

All over the world, on the level of our personal lives, too many real, actual, literal houses are painfully divided on this issue.\u00a0If we want world peace, it must literally start at home.\u00a0This aspect is asking all of us: If not now, when?\u00a0If not us, who?<\/p>\n

In ancient Hellenistic mythology there were two female characters who were outside the box and beyond the comfort zone of the culture, Eris and Pallas (also known as Athena).\u00a0Indeed it’s a tribute to Greek culture that the energies these two represent were not entirely suppressed.<\/p>\n

Eris, of course, is the outcast woman.\u00a0The one not invited to the party.\u00a0The aunt or niece or sister\u00a0that brings tension with the\u00a0cranberry sauce to Thanksgiving dinner. Or she is the authentic one, who is set aside because she reminds everyone how phony they feel. She is the homeless woman with child that we turn our face away from. Or the angry\u00a0refusal to be a victim. Sometimes she is the strident demand for justice, in our faces and off our radar.<\/p>\n

Palllas was the new generation.\u00a0Just as the deities of Olympus had\u00a0supplanted the\u00a0cruel and oppressive Titans, Athena overcame Jupiter’s attempt to deny her existence by literally making a headache of herself until she was not only accepted but accorded her rightful place as the only one with the integrity to\u00a0be trusted\u00a0with and the strength to hold the\u00a0spare key to the armory of Zeus himself.\u00a0What an adjustment it must have been\u00a0for Mars, Pluto, Neptune or Apollo to see her in that magnificent\u00a0gleaming suit, knowing that they had better not mess with her.\u00a0At peace\u00a0in herself.\u00a0Nothing to prove.\u00a0Nothing to fear.\u00a0The divine expression of justice through simply being that quality.<\/p>\n

Now these two oppose each other.\u00a0One of the inner circle, the other outside.\u00a0Not so different but a universe apart.\u00a0The\u00a0unresolved tension between\u00a0them\u00a0initiated the decay of the golden age and\u00a0the abdication of the divine from the hopelessly corrupt earth.\u00a0Now in opposition once again we humans are alone to\u00a0attempt what the divine failed to do.\u00a0If not us, who?\u00a0If not now when?<\/p>\n

Then Chiron, magnified by [planet] Jupiter, is reminding us that we had best not fritter this opportunity away. He is reminding us that there is no gulf that honest and courageous communication cannot bridge if we are willing to give up our investment in outrage and risk the pain of revisiting one more time.\u00a0Warning us that, if we don’t\u00a0drop the judgment, find genuine compassion and sit down to deal as though our lives depended on it then someone will surely come along to exploit the house divided and enslave us all.\u00a0The stakes are high.\u00a0We are even now being fitted for the chains, tailor made\u00a0by our own choices.\u00a0Acting together, with no\u00a0soul excluded, the human race has a\u00a0chance to break them.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service. Additional writing by Eric Francis.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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