{"id":24343,"date":"2010-04-15T07:16:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=24343"},"modified":"2010-04-15T15:44:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:44:49","slug":"pay-the-man-an-immodest-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/pay-the-man-an-immodest-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay The Man (an immodest proposal)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

In the United States, today is a ritual of dismal reckoning. Income tax day. The annual deadline to report our income to the federal government and submit to its economic scrutiny. American legal tender features the faces of dead presidents. It may as well be Caesar. The source of the money logically feels entitled to its return and will go to brutal lengths to enforce that prerogative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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More than voting, more than the census, today represents participation as a United States citizen in the truest, grittiest sense. Adjusting to the idea we never really owned a dime and never will. Honoring the rite of passage under duress. Crossing the threshold into a renewed cycle. Most will file the return and move on. Some will file requests for extension, choosing unfinished business over closure. Finally there are those who, for one reason or another, decline to participate. The main thing is, it all adds up. Your dollar, my dollar, her dollar, his. Pretty small, each by themselves. Together we add up to more than any one of us can grasp. It all comes down to one of us at a time and what we do.<\/p>\n

Funny how the astrology this week has worked in parallel. The Sun and Moon ended an annual as well as a monthly cycle and started anew in Aries. Mars reclaims degrees owed in Leo. The yods with their ironic combination of complementary and adverse, energizing focus and forcing adjustment. The outer planets and the cardinal points reminding us that we individually, one way or another, are a part of collective events. Jupiter and Uranus approaching the Aries Point to cross for good. Saturn crossing a threshold only to return. Chiron about to do the same as Saturn. Neptune and Pluto approach their respective cusps only to retreat. It all adds up. But where does it lead to? How do we summarize what’s coming up?<\/p>\n

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One aspect today best extends the astrological ideas that have collected over the last many months right down to today. This aspect gives us yet another reason to recognize that we are in a profound moment of transition. That aspect is Moon conjunct Mercury. Don’t sniff, there’s a lot under your nose. Follow along and see.<\/p>\n

One day past its conjunction with the Sun and 1992 QB1 we find Luna deep into Taurus where it does not rule but finds a form of citizenship – exaltation. Fittingly a coin is picked up and returned on the flip side in four weeks. Consider. Today, just AFTER exacting as new, the Moon conjoins Mercury just BEFORE its retrograde station. Upon next return to Taurus we will have Moon conjunct Mercury again except an order will be reversed. It will be just after Mercury station direct and just before the Taurus new Moon. Just as surely as the man pays you, the day will come when you pay the man.<\/p>\n

Another thing to think about. Hearken back to the postulation that the repeating series of oppositions and squares involving Saturn, Uranus and Pluto on the cardinal points function to throw the traditional orbs of influence out the window, creating a continuum. By the same token would not today’s Moon-Mercury conjunction be considered to be a continuous phenomenon? Starting in Taurus, ending in Taurus. A circle opens. A line is drawn. The line retraces. The circle closes. Our thoughts go back and forth while our feelings go round and round.<\/p>\n

A truly fractal phenomenon is implied. Individually, we may feel small and insignificant. Our every small action rarely stops with us, however. Someone you smile at this morning may pass that on to several others, who pass it on in return. A cascade of good will is created. Conversely someone you offend will probably precipitate a whole bunch of upset far beyond your ken.. Take something like that and extend it out for a month and we could be looking at the creation of history. Not by institutions or governments. Not dictators or presidents. Not by corporations or billionaires. Not by earthquakes or typhoons. Not by any of those things we seem separated from and not responsible for.<\/p>\n

Nope, we are talking about you and me. What we do in the course of an ordinary day. What we perceive and how we respond. What attracts our focus and sets our priorities. Whether we do or do not. Pick a day, any day, it probably does not matter. But there seems to be something special about today. Keep that in mind, get ahold of yourself and for one day behave as if your every action, your every word, your every impression will create history. Maybe it will. What if it did?<\/p>\n

For a couple years now we have heard over and over about the procession of outer planets to the cardinal points. Pluto to the first degrees of Capricorn. Saturn to the edge of Libra, and back and there again. Jupiter and Uranus to the sidereal vernal point itself. We have heard about how the synchronous political events implied would be reflected in personal experience. The political getting personal. The outside pushing in. Now there is the opportunity for the inside to push out. We need not be helpless. We can be powerful. We need not be victims. We can be participants. Our decisions on what we will be to and what we will do for each other will add up. They will push out and they will be felt all the way to Pluto metaphorically and all the way to where the man lives, literally. Yeah, pay the man alright, but do it with a form of currency that does not carry his face. Do it with love and compassion for one another. See how he likes that.<\/p>\n

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