{"id":24152,"date":"2010-04-05T02:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T07:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=24152"},"modified":"2010-04-05T10:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:52:58","slug":"the-to-and-fro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-to-and-fro\/","title":{"rendered":"The To and Fro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Welcome to Monday. This week is a time when it is as attractive and appropriate to look back as it is to focus on the future. This is concurrent with the ongoing exchange between the personal and political as represented by the now continuous series of events in the first degrees of the cardinal signs. Past and future, personal and political. How we prioritize and balance between those imperatives will determine how the astrology of the next few weeks will be manifested in our lives. Therefore it seems appropriate to begin with a review of the weekend just past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Indeed, as if on cue, the aspects of the luminaries (Sun and Moon) and personal planets Mercury, Venus and Mars, amounted to something of a passion play over the past several days. Last Friday, Mercury ingressed to Taurus. Almost concurrently, the Moon moved from Scorpio’s mystery of transformation in the dark and into the eternal flame of Sagittarius. Within hours after that transit, Luna formed a trine aspect (120 degrees of separation) with the Sun in Aries. At the same time, Venus in Taurus was exacting a square (90 degrees of separation) with Mars in Leo. Soon thereafter Mercury, also in Taurus, formed its own square to Mars. That was just through Saturday.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Mercury entered the echo phase, sometimes called shadow phase, of its retrograde, which actually starts April 18. The echo phase is when Mercury will be in the degrees where it’s about to be retrograde; and when it’s covering those same degrees after it stations direct on May 12. This echo phase business is a new addition to the mythology of Mercury retrograde. We used to just pay attention to the 23 or so days of the actual retrograde; over time, a more sophisticated view has taken hold and the process stretches out about eight weeks: the two echo phases and the retrograde itself.<\/p>\n

This time around, the whole process ends just as Uranus is making its historic transit into Aries. Pretty cool how that works out.<\/p>\n

Easter Sunday closed with the Moon moving into Capricorn (joining Ceres and Pluto) and Mercury and Venus in Taurus forming a trine (120 degrees of separation) to Pluto, aspects which still in effect this morning.<\/p>\n

How to sum up such a period? Some significant shifts and changes are afoot that may not be immediately apparent; passionate energy devoted to matters personal and relational, as well as devotional. A potential that we are starting today feels like it has a little less in reserve than we would like to have.<\/p>\n

This morning finds us grateful for that perspective but left with little time to dwell on it. The Capricorn Moon starts off the day with three meaningful aspects in quick succession. A trine to Mercury in Taurus encourages us to get our heads in the game and pay attention. This is followed quickly by double-edged conjunction with Pluto. On the one hand there is the potential to be emotionally triggered by the perception that we are helpless in the path of irresistible forces. On the other there is the opportunity to stand in the awareness that the ground is still there under our feet. As if in service to the positive opportunity, Luna moves directly from the Pluto meeting into a trine with Venus in Taurus. Perhaps like a call with good news right when you need it.<\/p>\n

As if that were not enough, the Moon enters the latter part of the day with a square to the Sun, exacting the last quarter phase when Luna looks like she is cut in half and getting smaller as we progress towards the Aries New Moon next week.<\/p>\n

Speaking of half, the Sun rises today fully in the second half of Aries (that is, past the midpoint). It ends the day in opposition to the dwarf planet Haumea in Libra. Pronounced how-MAY-ah, and named after the Hawaiian goddess of fertility, an opposition to the Sun indicates a time for labor to end and birth to commence. This aspect decidedly encourages us to look forward and carries us from the weekend of personal aspects and transits and into the week when we will once again return to the big picture of the outer planets converging into the first degrees of the cardinal signs.<\/p>\n

Take some time away from the fray if you can and use it to gain perspective. This is not a time for hasty reaction but rather patient response. This is not a time to force issues but rather for persistence informed by adaptability. These things will become clear in the days to follow.<\/p>\n

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