{"id":24273,"date":"2010-04-12T05:16:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=24273"},"modified":"2010-04-12T08:06:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:06:14","slug":"odds-and-yods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/odds-and-yods\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Yods"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Yesterday’s conjunction of the Aries Sun with Eris reminds us that it was Venus that got there first, as part of a hero’s journey, on the day after the Vernal Equinox. Today Venus continues to be the theme setter, but first the big picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Saturn is in the last degree of Virgo, in retrograde towards it penultimate opposition with Uranus in late Pisces. Pluto is also in retrograde back towards the first degrees of Capricorn heading for a concluding square with Saturn and the first of a long series of squares with Uranus. That will climax the long series of outer planet cardinal point aspects that will carry us up to and through the concurrent phenomenon known as 2012.<\/p>\n

Mercury is slowing down as it cuts ever so deeply into the onion of of its echo phase. It will station retrograde in less than a week at 12+ degrees Taurus. Mars is slowly speeding up but has five weeks to go before emerging from the backside echo phase of its solstice retrograde. One into a dive, the other surfacing. Deep memory is implied, destiny is not.<\/p>\n

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Back to our hero. As the Sun started a new season with its ingress to Aries, Venus started a new season for Eris with a conjunction that advanced both with a theme of integration. That continued with Mercury and, yesterday, with the Sun setting Eris up on the tee of transition, representing the shifts we will need to make in our consciousness. That which was spurned at once adjusting and being adjusted to. Jupiter is on deck.<\/p>\n

Today Venus, now in Taurus where it rules, continues on the wavefront. By forming a quincunx aspect (150 degrees of separation, also called an inconjunct) with the Great Attractor in Sagittarius. The planet of harmony in alienation to the most profound point of polarization. Two signs differing in both element and receptivity. Like the worst blind date ever. Perfect! What better place to start if adjustment and integration are our goal? Take a look at the long continuum of cardinal point activity. Take a look at the retrograde activity. Is adjustment not appropriate? Is integrity not necessary? And so to to the yods. There are two of them today, involving the same signs, one will be our focus.<\/p>\n

Saturn is ingressing the last degree of a mutable earth sign. Chiron is egressing the last degree of a fixed air sign. Going in opposite directions and in quincunx. Sixty degrees away from Chiron, in the last degree of Aries is the main belt (between Mars and Jupiter) asteroid, Pandora. This formation of one sextile and two inconjuncts is called a yod. Let’s focus on that one and break it down a bit.<\/p>\n

In a yod, the two planets in sextile are usually seen as working together, bringing out the best in each other. In myth Pandora was the storytelling tool of a patrilinear culture seeking to reconcile the existence of evil by blaming it on women. That’s not very nice. As a matter of fact, the story itself has been the source of a great deal of suffering. In astrology, there are two sides to most every story. Chiron invokes the theme of two sides with an emphasis on the positive. The positive role of this asteroid would seem to be revealing what is already there but which was overlooked, suppressed or denied.<\/p>\n

Chiron is certainly up for some revelation. After getting strapped into and limited by the sound bite “wounded healer” it would seem high time to move beyond that. Especially given the impending, albeit temporary transit into Pisces. Let’s start by considering the fact that is was discovered only 33 years ago. Because of that it would make sense to
\nde-emphasize the myth and focus on two other things. The discovery chart and the category of object.<\/p>\n

Using the most commonly accepted discovery chart (November 1, 1977 at 9:56 am in Pasadena, California) One finds Chiron in the fourth degree of Taurus, in loose opposition to the Sun. The ascendant is very nearly on the Galactic center in the 26th degree of Sagittarius. The moon is in the last degree of Cancer.<\/p>\n

True to the ascendant, Chiron was unusual in its appeal. Unlike any other recently discovered planetary object, including Pluto, it was enthusiastically received and almost immediately incorporated by astrologers. Perhaps because the term “quality of life” was coming into common use at the time. Ironically because quality of life was slipping away from us. The timing was exquisite. No wonder<\/p>\n

The loose opposition to the Sun in Chiron’s discovery chart is in synchrony to its classification as a centaur planet. Taken as a group, they imply the concept of shadow material. This is the memory of loss associated with the trauma of abuse. This is the imperative to recover that which was lost by integrating and owning the experience which precipitated it. With a discovery placement in Taurus opposing a Scorpio Sun, there is the challenge of integrating the entirety of life’s cycle and seeing it as a whole. The leaves of last year, fallen and decayed form the nourishment of this year’s foliage. Hence the sextile of Pandora to Chiron encourage us to look at each of them anew. With Saturn inconjunct to them both we are brought back to the long term, the big picture.<\/p>\n

Among all the major planets, Saturn is associated most closely with the inertia of the established order. The idea of operating within limits. The lasting structure. The dominant paradigm. The immovable object. It is, has been and will for some time be in a continuous square aspect with the irresistible force of transformation and metamorphosis represented by Pluto. This has led to tension and fear as all of us, as befits a cardinal point square, are compelled to be a part of the process to the same degree that we are part of the established order. Saturn, as the focus of today’s yod, is invested with the idea that our future need not consist of catastrophic collapse. There is an alternative, adjustment. Adjustment born of awareness of how perspective can be consciously redirected. Adjustment nourished by consciousness that phases are part of a continuum known as cycles. Adjustment matured by the assurance that the fear of loss can be redirected towards a journey of new creation. A journey that we are all a part of.<\/p>\n

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