{"id":22073,"date":"2010-02-04T07:10:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=22073"},"modified":"2010-02-04T13:22:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:22:47","slug":"planetwaves-astrology-for-2-4-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/planetwaves-astrology-for-2-4-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Up The Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

In most places, today dawns with the Sun having crossed the midpoint of Aquarius, the astrological cross-quarter. In the southern hemisphere, Sol is shining directly above a point halfway between the Tropic of Capricorn and the equator. Thus the energies of Candlemas, Groundhog Day and Imbolc are brought to culmination. Each day in the northern hemisphere, the Sun is tracing a longer arc, higher in the sky, setting further north each evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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As a point of background, we know that the year is divided into four seasons, which coincide with the equinoxes and solstices. What is less commonly known is that the seasons have astronomical midpoints, when the Sun is exactly halfway between an equinox and a solstice. There are always holidays clustered at these points as well: for example, Halloween at the midpoint of the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. Around the current holiday, Imbolc, we have Ground Hog Day, Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification of Mary (a Jewish tradition, six weeks after she purportedly gave birth to Jesus), as well as Valentine’s Day. It’s a turning point in the season and for the most part, winter is downhill from here.<\/p>\n

As for today: Early morning finds the Moon void at the end of Libra, having formed a trine to the applying conjunction of Neptune and Chiron overnight. Before this day is over it will have ingressed Scorpio, where it will form a square aspect (90 degrees of separation, the last quarter Moon) to the Sun on Friday or Saturday, depending where you are.<\/p>\n

If you want to have some fun, the last quarter provides an opportunity. Weather permitting, stand or sit astride a doghouse (if you live in Manhattan, you will have to improvise with an apartment house) and face the Moon as it rises in the east. Check your local newspaper for the time. Wearing goggles and a scarf is recommended. Now, imagine yourself on a motor bike, or a Pegasus or rocket ship going 67,000 miles an hour straight for the Moon. That’s exactly what is happening. At the last quarter the Moon is directly in our path. Fortunately it moves out of the way before we get there (curse you, red baron!).<\/p>\n

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Now that we’ve had some fun, let’s review the big picture quickly. In a few days Jupiter will form a sextile aspect, that is 60 degrees of separation, with Pluto. At about the same time Venus will form a tight triple conjunction with Chiron and Neptune. Mercury ingresses Aquarius on the 11th. Venus moves on to Pisces on the 12th. On Valentine’s Day the Sun and Moon make it a quad with the Neptune-Chiron thang to ring in the year of the tiger. Finally, the pair draw to exact their partnership three days later. In deep background — you guessed it! Gold star! — there’s the cardinal, serial square, 90 degrees of separation between Saturn and Pluto.<\/p>\n

Saturn’s current retrograde will take it back into Virgo this spring where it will renew old oppositional ties with Uranus. This has been going on longer with the cardinal square having started just after the Samhain cross quarter of 2008, concurrent with the election of our current President. More on that later in the year.<\/p>\n

Going on longer than that is a discussion beginning today and continued as opportunity and aspects present themselves. Namely the so-called mutual reception between Neptune in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces. Since late 2003 this subtle aspect has been there watchin’ the big river flow by. Watchin’ `em come and go while playing an almost inaudible counterpoint among the orchestra of the spheres. We have grown accustomed to its face. Now the seven-year itch has come along and it is time take a last good look because, as Joni Mitchell opined when James Taylor left in that yellow cab — you don’t know what you got, `til it’s gone.<\/p>\n

To begin, let’s roll back some thousand years to a simpler time. A time when the term “natural science” meant all science. Astrology and astronomy were the same thing. As was math, surveying and engineering. Biology was chemistry was physics. Of course, it was not a perfect thing. Aristotle had some pretty weird and demonstrably wrong ideas about how things worked. Archimedes was one tool short of being able to calculate the volume of a wine bag. The Romans could not quite get that calendar right. AND there was one really big problem that even the smartest guys were blind to, that continued on until recently, that never left us entirely and threatens to come back at any time – slavery.<\/p>\n

So, it was not exactly the good old days. For astrology, however it was a long period of acceptance, respect, stability and development. The knowledge of generations gradually accumulated and collated into something coherent. There were the fixed stars, even though nobody had any idea what they were. Onto these the ancient cultures projected their collective unconscious, forming the great Rorschach in the sky known as the constellations. Then, besides the stars and luminaries Sun and Moon there were these lights that did not twinkle and wandered around erratically — the planets.<\/p>\n

Lots of people staying up all night as required by their job, or because it WAS their job, over lots of years finally figured out that there was some order to these wanderers’ movements. The order was in the form of cycles that repeated and more importantly, related to each other. Finally it was noticed that the relationship of cycles in the sky related to cycles on the earth and in human life. Astrology was born. For a long time these wanderers numbered five. With the luminaries they were seven. So it went on for a long, long time. Then something happened. An unforeseen consequence of our own making. A really, really inconvenient truth.<\/p>\n

To be continued…<\/p>\n

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