{"id":20453,"date":"2009-12-22T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=20453"},"modified":"2009-12-22T10:46:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:46:32","slug":"centaur-asteroid-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/centaur-asteroid-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness in the First Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick <\/strong>with Eric Francis<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday was the Capricorn solstice (first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, first day of summer south of the equator). There were a lot of big aspects that day, particularly Jupiter making its last conjunction to Neptune in 14 years. It’s also the first solstice with Pluto in Capricorn. Coming down off those momentous events today heralds something more subtle but perhaps useful — the Sun and several minor planets in the degree of their respective signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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For as long as astrology has been around one would think that there would be consensus on what the first degree means. That, however is not the case, leaving your sophomoric reporter to stick his neck out with some opinions of his own.<\/p>\n

First, it’s either\/or. Just as there is no such thing as a little bit pregnant, neither is there a little bit Capricorn. Just as Mercury stations on a dime, the cusp between signs is a razor’s edge, not some sort of gradient. The change is abrupt and total. Another observation is that the first degree of any sign exhibits a cardinal point quality, not just in the sense that the personal is political (as Eric has so often said) but also the idea of a reset, a new beginning in a new pattern. Finally, the first degree has a quality that ranges from refreshment to excitement, depending on who you are, and this can most often serve to awaken awareness.<\/p>\n

With the Sun there is a 5th house quality of daring self expression,<\/em> in the first degree of Capricorn, the key words might be structured use of creative energy.
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Capricorn also implies a social role — a role in society, which all of us have, but few of us recognize.<\/p>\n

For a few days things will seem to hang in the balance awakening us to the awareness that this is a turning point in the the cycle of darkness and light; we might be reassessing that role we don’t quite know we possess.<\/p>\n

Ceres, now classified as a dwarf planet (making up about one third of the mass of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter), concurrently finds itself in the first degree of Sagittarius (the sign just vacated by the Sun). It’s graphic representation (or glyph) is strikingly similar to Venus with the form of a sickle (used to gather the harvest represented by Ceres) replacing the circle in the upper part of the female gender symbol. Hence we have a decidedly female energy associated with harvest, nourishment and food.<\/p>\n

With the Jupiter-colored energy of Sagittarius one can perhaps consider physical nourishment; but really Ceres in Sagittarius seems to be about spiritual nourishment.<\/em> Also, after a couple months in Scorpio, one might expect a shift in how we connect to what we eat: we might be seeking a more enlightened view. With the recent, compromised conclusion of the UN Climate conference in Copenhagen, we could be thinking more and more globally about where our next meal is coming from: where as in, was your grape juice grown in Argentina? Did your Whopper come from Brazil?<\/p>\n

Sagittarius is about where<\/em> something happens — especially if it’s far away.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, there are even more planets in the first degrees of their signs, but to go there we must get a little more obscure. Note, some of the planets we’re about to mention are covered in a Planet Waves annual edition called Small World Stories<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Those eccentric, unstable, comet-like bodies now known as Centaur planets have, in Planet Waves, come to be associated with what Eric (borrowing from Carl Jung) has referred as shadow material. The community of minor planet astrologers is in agreement here. The first Centaur planet discovered was Chiron, who is about healing through the raising of awareness<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You know, bringing stuff from shadow to light. Shadow the collected baggage of our early knocks; what we deny about ourselves; the parts of us that are cast off or in conflict. There are three Centaurs currently in the first degree of signs, suggesting that they are working together as an influence to help us shift awareness. Can you spot that influence in your life? How do you want your change to come? ‘Out of nowhere’ or in a way that you have planned?<\/p>\n

Finally, perhaps the most significant: asteroid Juno, one of the classical asteroids, has just arrived in Aries (and is on the Aries Point right now). She represents our ideas about marriage,<\/em> whether true or not, which are now being transformed as she is in the first sign; and is square Pluto and the Sun — representing imminent change, from the inside.<\/p>\n

She was Jupiter’s wife. As the protector of women and marriage, it was her unique irony to be betrothed to the most notorious of philanderers. She was known for her jealous rages which resulted in most of Jupiter’s lovers suffering an ignominious fate. When she finally found an attraction of her own (Narcissus) it was unrequited because he preferred to spend his time loving himself. The woman could not buy a break. However, if we look at this group of myths about marriage<\/em> we will see that it’s precisely that.<\/p>\n

In the first degree of the first sign (square to the Sun), there fresh start implied for all that Juno represents, if (and only if) she can reject the role of victim and the reflex of vengeance <\/em>to find a new way to express her identity. But the thing is, that means she has to change; if we want our relationships to change, we must reject the role of victim. We do need a new story in our relationships.<\/p>\n

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