{"id":22471,"date":"2010-02-10T08:21:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=22471"},"modified":"2010-02-10T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:35:54","slug":"moon-is-slow-last-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/moon-is-slow-last-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon is slow, last quarter; Mercury is in Aquarius"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mercury has entered Aquarius, signaling that the December-January Mercury retrograde is indeed a thing of the past. This is a faster-moving mental energy, more oriented on ideas than on labor, and suggesting that you lean into the habits of taking notes and solving problems.<\/p>\n

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Planets for Kingston, NY, at 8:18 am EST, showing Uranus (in blue) precisely in the ascendant, with Jupiter (in green) in the 12th house. The Moon is not shown but is above and slightly to the right of what you see here. That big cluster of planets is stuffed in the 12th house. Because the Sun is there (seen in red), you can tell it's close to sunrise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Contrast with: the Capricorn Moon is moving about as slowly as the Moon goes — under 12 degrees a day, being distant from the Earth. That can give the feeling of too-slow progress or the sense that one’s feelings are frozen. For astro-historians, William Lilly, the Elizabethan astrologer, once said that the Moon acts like it’s retrograde, when moving slowly.<\/p>\n

This, as she moves toward the New Moon in Aquarius (exact Saturday), described in detail yesterday’s subscriber edition. I sampled yesterday’s edition to the Cosmic Confidential Diary<\/strong><\/a>, for those who would like to see it.<\/p>\n

Luna does not reach Aquarius until 6:32 pm EST \/ 11:32 pm GMT on Thursday. (Note, the reason I don’t give Australian time is that it’s difficult to make the conversion by brain, there are different Australian zones, and obviously it’s not cool to make errors in aspect times. I will get us in the habit of using GMT if those down in Oz will learn how to do the conversion from the time in England to the time where you are.)<\/p>\n

What we need to be watching is the Sun as it approaches Chiron-Neptune: that is going to intensify things, and push certain things to what feels like a crisis point. The less conscious one is, the more one becomes a puppet to the planets. Heck, it’s difficult enough when you’re really paying attention. Sun-Chiron has the feeling of both intensity (generically, that is what Centaurs add, but they have specific themes). To wit: the injury of maleness, and\/or being aware of what father struggled\/struggles with. The Sun-Chiron conjunction happens once a year and we are now in its moment. <\/p>\n

This is the time to remind everyone that men experience certain specific kinds of psychic and physical injuries, strain and challenges that are endemic to the male ‘role’ they plan and are indeed expected to play. It’s really great when women honor this and assist them, just like it’s great when men recognize that women have certain extremely challenging roles, and life goes easier when men assist with them.<\/p>\n

Sun-Neptune says: be realistic. Look for what you’re not seeing. Listen for the truth, including the truth of peoples’ intentions. Are they saying what they are doing and doing what they are saying? Are you? Here is what I can tell you about Sun-Chiron-Neptune in alignment: no deceptive scheme is exempt from being exposed under this astrology. That includes self-deceptive schemes that end up deceiving others. Neptune in Aquarius has done a fine job of fogging things over. Chiron will do a fine job of helping those with their eyes open to see the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mercury has entered Aquarius, signaling that the December-January Mercury retrograde is indeed a thing of the past. This is a faster-moving mental energy, more oriented on ideas than on labor, and suggesting that you lean into the habits of taking notes and solving problems. Contrast with: the Capricorn Moon is moving about as slowly as … 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\/22471"}],"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=22471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}