{"id":20890,"date":"2010-01-05T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=20890"},"modified":"2010-01-05T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:39:15","slug":"forget-the-math-go-with-the-feel-affinities-and-disposition-in-todays-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/forget-the-math-go-with-the-feel-affinities-and-disposition-in-todays-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the math, go with the feel – affinities and disposition in today’s astrology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

So much of the astrology lately has had to do with the aspects (angles) between planets. This big one, of course, is the long 90-degree aspect (square) between Saturn and Pluto in their respective cardinal signs. This, of course, is leading up to the t-square (two 90-degree aspects and a 180-degree opposition combined) when Jupiter and Uranus reach the first degree of Aries in a year or so. Eric, of course, has fingered this as an important significator of the astrological take on the wider cultural phenomena that the year 2012 represents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Today, however, your intrepid correspondent is suggesting that the aspects can pretty much be put aside in favor of other things. Every sign has an alchemical element (earth, air, fire and water) as well as a quality (cardinal, fixed, mutable) associated with it.<\/p>\n

The combination of element and quality tells you something about the personality of the sign. Taurus, being of the fixed earth combination, for example implies about as earthy as one can get. We place the foundations of nearly all our buildings in the earth precisely because we want them to stay fixed in place. Virgo, on the other hand, being the combination of mutable and earth implies a more paradoxical makeup. Each sign’s particular combination represents both a field of strength and potential for weakness.<\/p>\n

In addition, each sign is corresponded with a ruling planet or luminary. In the multiple millennium before the telescope there were more signs (12) than visible planets and luminaries (7), so some planets had to do double duty. Finally, there is a house associated with each sign, the succession of which traces a progression that begins from self and proceeds to expand and evolve. There is a longer story in the houses and rulers but we may leave it at that for the purpose of this missive.<\/p>\n

Today begins with the Sun at mid-Capricorn, a sign ruled by Saturn. The Moon is winding up its second day in Virgo. Mercury is the ruling planet of Virgo and it’s retrograding entirely in Capricorn. Saturn is in Libra. Venus is the ruling planet of Libra and it’s currently catching up with the Sun in Capricorn. Mars is retrograde in Leo, ruled by the Sun, which is in Capricorn. Jupiter is essentially void (with some interesting minor planet exceptions) in the twenty-eighth degree of Aquarius, originally ruled by Saturn which takes us back to where all the roads of pre-science planets lead today – you guessed it – Capricorn.<\/p>\n

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The sign of the goat means something different to each person. Where is it in your chart? What sort of relationships have you had with people born with the Sun in Capricorn? The Moon? The ascendant? Whatever it means to you, if synchronicity is valid, today’s experiences should represent a form of total immersion with the energy and an opportunity to get the feel of and learn the language of that sign and the energy (think 10th house, or, if you want to dredge up something really deep – again a long story- the 7th house). Briefly, the 10th house represents aspirations and goals in relationship to what i can only call our individual audience (those individuals AND institutions whose collective evaluations determine our reputation, our influence, the status of our individuation). It also corresponds to the mid-heaven (MC) or South of a traditional zodiac that starts at the first degree of Aries. The 7th house is more like down in the audience, part of it, in contact with it. If any of you has ever made eye contact with a riot girrl in the mosh pit, you know that potentials associated with the seventh house. It also represents the descendant and the compass direction West.<\/p>\n

One other thing, the Capricorn energy field seems to have a yin (or feminine) affinity and that may be the most significant thing of all. Now that we have the feel, let’s add just a bit on today’s notable aspects.<\/p>\n

Mercury and Venus have an extraordinarily quick conjunction in Capricorn (moving in opposite directions at a combined speed of over two and a half degrees a day). Please forgive is this does not somehow represent a broom closet assignation during coffee break. And if it does, be safe, OK?<\/p>\n

Chiron is in a decidedly non-Capricornian (air to fire) sextile with 1992 QB1. Please look in Planet Waves’ archives\u00a0 from October 16, 2009\u00a0with Eric’s recommendation that 1992 QB1 be named Radharani<\/strong><\/a>, and we can see in this aspect the growing awareness of a threshold approaching (and a possible connection to the Mercury-Venus quickie). This is reinforced by the fact that Chiron and Cubie are both in meaningful aspect (semi-sextile and square, respectively) to the North Lunar Node, near which a solar eclipse will take place in 10 days – that works out pretty darned neat, huh?<\/p>\n

Finally there is a very interesting minor planet conjunction right around the eighth or ninth degree of Scorpio. With Deucalion (the Greek equivalent of Noah), Ceto, Poseidon (both deities of oceanic attribution), Lachesis (the second of the three Fates, the one who determined the length of the string) and Pallas Athene (justice informed by wisdom), all together in the darkness of fixed water there would seem to be something wet, mysterious, trans-formative and mysterious going on. Which leads us to Pluto, and hence back to Capricorn, but then, you knew that was coming a mile away.<\/p>\n

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