{"id":24182,"date":"2010-04-08T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=24182"},"modified":"2010-04-08T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:40:29","slug":"edge-of-the-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/edge-of-the-hedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge of the Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"

“<\/em>If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow…”<\/em>
\n— Page\/Plant<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hesitated to quote that song because, for Pete’s sake, who’s not sick of it by now? Ironically, that’s precisely how the shoe fits. No matter where we are on this Earth, we have begun a new season. One would dare say, not a moment too soon for most of us. Hence the recent transits and aspects of the Sun and Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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With few (if any) exceptions, our individual lives are entering new seasons. Behold the recent transits and aspects of the “personal planets” — Mercury, Venus and Mars.<\/p>\n

Finally (though many still deny or resist this) our cultures, our civilizations, our age, our very epoch are beginning a new season. Reference the grand dance of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto around towards the first degrees of Aries, Libra and Capricorn.<\/p>\n

Can you see how everything seems to be happening at once? Can you see how what is happening in your personal life is so closely related to your awareness of and participation in the public and the political? It is because the cycles of the earthly seasons, the course of human life and the the long elliptical paths of the spheres are synchronizing, coming together, intersecting. This is not to be dismissed as symbolic. We are up to our noses in it. The only questions are whether we swim with the current or against it and (perhaps most important) do we pull each other down or keep one another afloat?<\/p>\n

Today’s astrology blog is a meditation on three items found in the hedgerow that is today’s chart. They may seem random. It’s up to you, dear reader, to decide how they fit into the symphony of synchrony as we all participate in writing the score.<\/p>\n

Chiron is in a void-of-course period before its temporary transit from Aquarius to Pisces in less than three weeks. The modern definition of void-of-course (which is controversial) means a planet or point is in the last degree(s) of a sign and not applying in aspect to any other body before entering the next sign. Aspects that count are usually considered to be conjunct, sextile (60 degrees of separation), square (90 degrees), trine (120 degrees) and opposition (180 degrees).<\/p>\n

A term usually applied to the Moon, void-of-course implies that the planet in question is driving with the clutch down. But there are exceptions. Note that Chiron is in a quincunx (150 degrees) to Saturn in Virgo. This is a supremely imporant aspect. Note also that Chiron is in the last degree of Aquarius — a degree which can be granted an honorary exemption to the void-of-course idea because its Sabian symbol — spiritual initiation — is so potent. And while Chiron is separating from Neptune, Neptune has a very, very wide orb of influence — wider than any other planet — and the two are definitely still working together.<\/p>\n

Just over five years ago now, Chiron entered Aquarius in a manner much like it is preparing to enter Pisces. It put a toe into the water carrier in February of 2005, pulled it out and finally made the plunge in December of 2005. So, it’s not been void-of-course for a long time. Imagine somebody you live with and see every day and take for granted after a while. Suddenly they are out of your life for a few weeks. You either begin to appreciate them more or realize that you are better off without. Perhaps the realization happens gradually or suddenly that someday the parting will be for a good while longer. That this respite is preparation for the inevitable. That’s what we are going through right now. Pay attention, see what comes up as you contemplate the empty chair across the table from you.<\/p>\n

Items number two and three, the Sun and Moon. Some very interesting aspects with minor planets today. The sum of these that would seem to be greater than the parts.<\/p>\n

The Aries Sun is applying to conjoin Osiris, a main belt asteroid (between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter). Named after the complex Egyptian deity that, among other things was a merciful judge of the dead. At the same time Sol opposes Rhadamanthus, an object out there past Neptune, named after the fair and just judge of the dead in Greek mythology. Same job, different culture, in polarized relationship, hmmm… Throw in a trine to two asteroids conjunct in Sagittarius. Eurydike (or Eurydice, the great and tragic love of the great mythological musician Orpheus) and Cupido (you know, the kid with the good-thang arrows) and we get this image of love and death and compassion in the balance somehow.<\/p>\n

The Aquarius Moon starts the day with a trine to “fertile” Chaos (an asteroid in Gemini) and ends conjoined with Nessus, a centaur planet, which has been sitting in the hedgerow for weeks now in a slowly applying in sextile to our postmodern heroine, Eris in Aries. Yup, one heck of an aspect, sneaking up on us for a long time.<\/p>\n

Remember, centaur planets are associated with the psychological concept of “shadow material”. The bad penny that is the wages of past trauma and affront. Carry it and the memory will never leave you. Spend it and it will come back. Only if we own and transform it can the attraction or attachment be released. Among centaurs, Nessus is quite literally the most touchy, having to do with the personal experience of abuse. In the sign of the collective, an awareness that we share that experience in common.<\/p>\n

Eris in Aries. That has a ring to it. Sort of like repeating the name of the great boxer, Muhammad Ali. Like that iconic man, a catalyst for an entire generation to shed the ill-fitting identities given to us and say “Hell no, i won’t go (there)!” Taking a new name and taking what goes with it.<\/p>\n

Yup, been there for weeks in the hedge, that sextile, growing and flowing so close to home, just out of view. Luna comes along like a sensitive hand, reaches into the brier and… wouldn’t you know it, Chiron’s on vacation. Guess we will have to grow up and take care of ourselves.<\/p>\n

Edits re. Chiron by Eric. Offered In Service.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow…” — Page\/Plant Hesitated to quote that song because, for Pete’s sake, who’s not sick of it by now? Ironically, that’s precisely how the shoe fits. No matter where we are on this Earth, we have begun a new season. One would dare say, not a moment too soon … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"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\/24182"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}