{"id":19731,"date":"2009-11-28T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T17:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=19731"},"modified":"2009-11-28T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T19:08:21","slug":"cosmic-confidential-a-sample-from-aries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/cosmic-confidential-a-sample-from-aries\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Confidential: A Sample from Aries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today under the Aries Moon, I am writing Aries Confidential<\/strong><\/a>. As I’ve been mentioning, I’m taking a new approach to the research and the writing of this year’s annual edition. Instead of being a long, rambling essay, I am going through the houses one at a time, and the result will feel more like a proper astrology reading — for a tiny fraction of the cost. I will post more today about our special offers. Here is a sample from Aries.<\/p>\n

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Mars retrograde says: 1. Inner quest. 2. References to the past. 3. The exploration of the desires that we normally deny, and have denied in the past. So the emphasis here is less about exploring relationships, sex and art as expression, and entirely about exploring your relationship to yourself, exploring sex as an expression of self-awareness, and using your creative process as an inner journey that changes you and then feeds your expressive fire.<\/em><\/p>\n

Because we live in a sexually and creatively repressed society, most of the energy and passion inherent in this house is trapped by things like denial, self-repression and maintaining our pride. You can be sure that to the extent that you experience boredom, you have denied your passion — and this transit is here to help you find it again.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet this whole process exists within a larger context, and that is the context of the people you know, and the ‘personal society’ that they form. And part of that involves how we have our sexual relationships, in particular, with the presumption of monogamy and then so many issues involving monogamy. Try as we may to relate only to one person, many people experience the presence of others who we want to share with, experience and relate to. But the social rules and norms of our culture barely even allow us to admit this to others. So we have to lock up our desires, generally out of the fear of not being accepted by others; and of being outcast from the groups we live in, particularly our friends. Too often, we try to define ourselves in ways that are acceptable to others — and now you are being challenged to define yourself in a way that is based on self-acceptance alone.
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Today under the Aries Moon, I am writing Aries Confidential. As I’ve been mentioning, I’m taking a new approach to the research and the writing of this year’s annual edition. Instead of being a long, rambling essay, I am going through the houses one at a time, and the result will feel more like a … 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\/19731"}],"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=19731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}