{"id":23025,"date":"2010-02-25T06:41:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T11:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=23025"},"modified":"2010-02-27T10:40:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T15:40:38","slug":"whats-up-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/whats-up-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Up Doctrine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The Moon is a fast lady about now. Up to nearly 15 degrees a day, soaring back up towards the ecliptic. She starts off playing favorites by enabling (trine) Uranus and snubbing (quincunx) Neptune, who knows what sort of dues she is accumulating as she leaves them in her dust? Luna has bigger fish to fry, and we mean fry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Porpoising out of the sign she rules before the end of the day to smack into Mars coming at her in the early second degree of Leo. Seems fast and loose, wet and hot. Can you keep up? Can you handle the ride, mister? Whoo whee, she is on a roll towards the Virgo Full Moon that will preside as February becomes March.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Sun is heading towards a another conjunction that will be concurrent with the Full Moon. This time the partner will be Jupiter. It has been said that March comes in either like a lion or a lamb (ending the opposite way). Unless Luna runs out of gas, your stalwart correspondent is leaning towards the leonine beginning. Caution could be advisable, however. Before the end of the end of today, Sol will form a square with the asteroid Hybris in Sagittarius.<\/p>\n

Hybris is another way of saying Hubris, a rich literary tool of the ancient Greeks. The equivalent of pride before a fall. Basically it says if you get too angry, too arrogant, too confident, you will do something that will bring you back down to reality with a thud. Those consequences are referred to an Nemesis. The Sun is due to square the asteroid of that same name, just before the Pisces New Moon (on the Ides of March, yet) at about the same time Mars turns direct. So, that’s when we will find out if synchronicity is a beach or a bea-tch. Meantime, play it safe. Don’t go crusin’ if you can’t take the brusin’.<\/p>\n

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Oh yeah, to reiterate, what could be the tres formidable<\/em> full Moon event just might be Chiron exacting its sextile with the Galactic Center. IF there is anything that is being concealed about that which is too big to comprehend, this will be would be the impetus to reveal it. The concurrent applying conjunction of Ceres to the Galactic Center will, if anything, assure that what we find out will be good for us once we digest it, assuming we can.<\/p>\n

But, we aren’t there yet. So slow down and sit back while we pick up where we left off this time last week. The seven year itch is prompting Uranus to move on from Pisces to Aries this Spring. Once there it will team up with Jupiter to put the Mr. T. into the ongoing cardinal point square between Saturn and Pluto. Ah pity, ah say, ah pity the fool… who will buck that trend.<\/p>\n

The end of the Uranus tenure in Pisces will also be the end of its mutual reception with Neptune in Aquarius. It is precisely because it has lasted so long that we have taken so long to examine it, one bite at a time. It is also because the end of this trend may very well prove to be as conversely powerful as the beginning of the new one.<\/p>\n

We first discussed astrology on the ascendant, integral to the development of human cultures and civilizations, part of us. Then we reviewed how curious minds and clever hands can eventually open a can of worms – the invention of the telescope and the discovery of Uranus. Most recently we touched on the still unfinished process of integrating a huge amount of new data (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Eris, etcetera) into a system that had remained unchanged for so long.<\/p>\n

Yup, astrology had some issues to address, but it was also, at the same time under siege. It’s very survival as a system of thought was in question and still is.<\/p>\n

Most of you reading this are a product of what we call western civilization. Maybe not your genetic component, but in your language, or your mathematics, or your style of dress or your values. Somewhere western civ got most of us by now. Following is the incomplete, short story. It began as an odd combination of the pan-Greeks who would do anything to relax, and the pan-Sumerians, who could not relax if that was all they had to do. The Roman Empire was a big part. Before them it was like little bunny foo-foo. Bop them on the head, take their stuff, move on. The Romans co-opted, they consolidated, and they brought infrastructure. Of course, if they didn’t like the way you looked they would revert to brutality instantly. Even when they fell apart, there was enough scaffold left to build on. Kings owned land, serfs farmed the land, middle management kept the serfs in line and they all had to deal with what grew on the bones when the Roman carcass decayed away — the Church.<\/p>\n

By the thirteenth century, the Roman Catholic church was the established order in Western Europe. It had a lot of material, it had a lot of property, it was able to leverage that real estate and for want of a better word, money to do pretty much whatever it wanted. This included compelling people to read certain things and not others. Teach certain things and not others. Write about certain things and not others. Go along and you could ride the gravy train. Resist and get arrested, or worse.<\/p>\n

One of the things that the Church was really sensitive about was the idea that the cycles of the planets and luminaries had any correspondence with earthly events. Heaven forbid, literally. This culminated with a series of condemnations that drove astrology underground, to the fringes of society, the province of outlaws and outcasts where it barely stayed alive. Of course, in other areas of the world — some yet not discovered by western civilization — astrology continued to flourish for the moment. But wait.<\/p>\n

In attempting to refute that heathen, Aristotle, those same condemnations inadvertently opened the way for yet another attack on astrology from what would become an opposing flank. In an attempt to suppress competing doctrine the way was opened for that which was not doctrine at all – empirical skepticism.<\/p>\n

And from there we will continue…<\/p>\n

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