{"id":23344,"date":"2010-03-09T05:49:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T10:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=23344"},"modified":"2010-03-09T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:55:45","slug":"planetwaves-astrology-for-mar-9-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/planetwaves-astrology-for-mar-9-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emergence of Will – Mars Stations Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Today (or tomorrow, depending on where you are) is the literal red letter day. Mars has returned to the same place it occupied way back on Oct. 17, one day after it first entered Leo. No matter where on the Earth you are, sometime [in most time zones, on] Wednesday Mars will begin moving forward again after being in retrograde since just before the winter solstice. The exact station direct of Mars takes place at 12:08 pm New York time and 5:08 pm London time.<\/p>\n

This has been a long time coming. The retrograde began at the Capricorn solstice, amidst many other complexities. But it is as fresh and immediate as the aspects of the last few days. The key here is to find balance and perspective\u00a0so as to integrate the season just passing with the season just emerging.<\/p>\n

The mediation involved will be largely internal but will not take place in a vacuum. We can all help each other to find wholeness and prepare\u00a0to\u00a0fill in the details of the big picture being sketched by the outer planets. The youthful passion of Venus in Aries will now\u00a0be joined by the\u00a0re-discovered will of Mars as their fire sign trine (120 degrees of separation) which exacted this last weekend finds its full energy of expression.<\/p>\n

The Sabian symbol for the first degree of Leo is a tableau\u00a0of caution. Depending on your reference, it describes a person getting red-faced either due to emotional stress or frustrated intent. The way Dane Rudhyar puts it, the image is of blood surging to a man’s head, as the vital force surpasses the ability of the ego to hold it down. We might welcome these moments, when what we could welcome more warmly is the release of resistance they imply.<\/p>\n

We have a choice. Choice is indeed the word, or one of them. In the words of the late, great astrologer Rockie (Rachelle) Gardiner, patience is the key to heaven. After all, we have over two months before Mars emerges from its echo phase on May.\u00a0 After that we have another full month — until June 17, before the long\u00a0chapter of Mars in Leo comes to a close, right around the time that the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction occurs in Aries. That is a reference back to the Mars process we are in now.<\/p>\n

Then at the height of summer will the preceding six months be brought full circle in the midst of a new beginning.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the Kozminsky Symbols for the astrological degrees, which pre-date the Sabian by a generation, can provide a parallax view. Again depending on the reference, the image is\u00a0of a head of state being petitioned by a group of citizens. Here we find\u00a0potential for\u00a0symbiotic balance rather than self-involved frustration.<\/p>\n

The ruler steps down from his carriage to receive, the citizens acting in unison\u00a0give their participation in the form of an expression of their will. There is an exchange, an act of\u00a0integrating the two sides into the greater whole that they both participate in.\u00a0 There is a tacit recognition of where the power is for the short\u00a0run as well as for the long term. There is an internal\u00a0mediation based on external trust.<\/p>\n

Informing this process, today Mercury in Pisces squares the Great Attractor in Sagittarius.\u00a0Will the planet of intellect and communication\u00a0and the sign of resplendent emotion (and creativity) be able to\u00a0find a symbiosis as they confront the polarizing power of the the great unknown? That is the feeling of the Great Attractor, a prodigious gravitational force that bends the universe toward it. That synthesis will\u00a0require that we each be self-aware rather than self-involved. The luminaries (the Sun and Moon) provide hope, if we look to them.<\/p>\n

Today the Moon reaches the north lunar node in Capricorn. There, it will sextile the Sun\u00a0as it rises above the ecliptic\u00a0on its way to their conjunction, the\u00a0Pisces New Moon in less than a week. This\u00a0augurs well. In sixty degrees of separation, there is encouragement of the potential that the future holds. There is leverage and momentum. All aspects are useful; the sextile is one of those tools you can use for nearly everything. No doubt there is work to be done. That, too is the nature of a sextile. The\u00a0potential for achievement is nourished but it is not a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n

If we are to make the most of the cardinal T-square that the generational planets (Pluto, Saturn Uranus and Jupiter) are forming, we will need to do it together. The personal\u00a0present can be brought into harmony with the collective future.\u00a0\u00a0In unison we can co-create a solid and sustainable new beginning. In conflict,\u00a0a fate\u00a0will be served upon us to the satisfaction of none. The choice is there. The time is available, our time.\u00a0Patience and will — GOOD will — can get it done.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service. <\/strong>Some edits\/clarifications added by Eric at about 8 am ET.
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