{"id":21053,"date":"2010-01-11T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=21053"},"modified":"2010-01-11T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:50:26","slug":"venus-superior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/venus-superior\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Superior"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

“Sophisticated lady, everybody knows how she got her name”
\n-The Duke and Mitchell Parrish<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a special day folks. Venus, the Sun and the North Lunar Node are in a tight (to the degree) conjunction at 21 degrees Capricorn. Whoa, Whoa. Let’s back up a bit and take a look. Be patient now, if we want to put it all together we gotta cover some background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After all, it’s sophisticated.<\/p>\n

A little over a month ago Richard Tarnas attached a comment to Eric’s blog on the subject of fate versus free will.<\/a> Among his cogent comments was the salient observation that astrology is Terra-centric. That’s not because astrologers believe that the Earth is the center of the solar system or the galaxy or the universe. It’s because that’s where we are, every one of us, directly above the center of our planet. It makes sense, therefore, to start with that.<\/p>\n

From there, it makes sense to ascertain where those lights in the sky are in relation to us. That’s where astrology started. People observing the Sun, making note of it’s location when it came up in the morning, its path during the day and where it went down in the evening. Same for the Moon, planets and stars at night.<\/p>\n

The data was recorded, talked about, passed on. Succeeding generations added to, tweaked and passed on it turn. After a while it became evident that there were cycles in the relationship of right here to out there. Those cycles found correspondence in other events (like the seasons), hence the accumulated knowledge became useful.<\/p>\n

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Among human beings it seems that knowledge has a relationship to power. Power is a form of currency. It can get you something to eat. It can get you laid. It can get you some real estate, clothing and shelter. Beats working for a living. That’s motivation for you.<\/p>\n

After the Sun and Moon the most observed, measured and recorded relationship cycle was probably between us here and Venus. It’s bright, difficult to mistake for anything else and its patterns mark out some very interesting intervals (more on that some other time).<\/p>\n

The first thing one notices about Venus is that its cycles do not include it moving clear across the sky. For a while it appears in the East, rising a little higher every night until it gets about halfway up to the zenith. That’s called the maximum western elongation for inquiring minds who want to know. Then it’s rising a little less high every night until it disappears behind the Sun for a while and shows up in the West where it repeats the same shtick with a twist. Just before she disappears again by passing in front of the Sun she stations retrograde. Just after that passage (appearing in the East again), she stations forward to start it all over again. She gets around on her own unique terms. Maybe that’s what The Duke had in mind. We now know her orbit is inside of the orbit of the Earth. Hence, for us right here, Venus (and Mercury too) appear to get only so far away from the Sun and no further.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back on the farm. Today we are at the part of the sophisticated cycle called the superior conjunction. We here, Venus there, Sun in between. Think of it as Sol eclipsing Venus. This time around (from our point of view), it’s on the North lunar node. The point beyond which the orbit of the Moon rises above the ecliptic. Very close to where the partial solar eclipse will take place on Friday, closing the loop opened by the partial lunar eclipse on New Year’s Eve. Concurrent with Mercury stationing forward. That’s a lot. Now that you have the knowledge, can you feel the power? Told you it would be worth the walk. Hallelujah, slip me a fin, will ya’ and let’s wrap it up.<\/p>\n

Gravity is the curvature of space time. The more gravity, the more that curvature resembles one of Eric’s favorite metaphors – a vortex. Sun got gravity, Venus got gravity. Line them up with us and you’re punchin’ a vortex in space time. A few days later, line up the Moon (she got gravity too) between Sol and us in pretty much the same spot (the node, you knowed!) and you punch that hole even bigger.<\/p>\n

Gets better. In his October 5, 2009 blog Eric equated the North Node (Rahu in Hindu) to the future, incarnation, the concept of dharma (“acting as if to hold the world together”) and “…a set of potentials and the feeling of a calling that, if we’re paying attention, guide us in the direction we need to be going and which feels vaguely like a calling.” In other words, beginning today and through the week we got it goin’ on just right if we can keep our hands inside the car and our eyes open. Believe it, come this time next week you don’t want to be saying “whut happen?” with the rest of us saying “oh dude, you missed it?”. Stay straight and sober for a couple days and you won’t regret it.<\/p>\n

Now wasn’t that worth a fiver? Now that i can afford it, i’m gonna go get a haircut. Want to look sharp for the occasion. But before that i want you to put your left hand on your hip, your right hand over your solar plexus and do that samba thing while i play you something from Jim and the boys that goes like this:<\/p>\n

“The gate is straight, deep and wide, break on through to the other side!” – The Doors<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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By Len Wallick “Sophisticated lady, everybody knows how she got her name” -The Duke and Mitchell Parrish It’s a special day folks. Venus, the Sun and the North Lunar Node are in a tight (to the degree) conjunction at 21 degrees Capricorn. Whoa, Whoa. Let’s back up a bit and take a look. Be patient … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"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\/21053"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}