{"id":24726,"date":"2010-04-28T07:17:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=24726"},"modified":"2010-04-28T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:09:14","slug":"water-water-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/water-water-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, water, water and the Scorpio Full Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friends, Cousins, Readers — here is your Full Moon audio<\/strong><\/a>. The article below — while a bit esoteric — looks at some of the subtler points of today’s lunar event. If you’re new to this kind of astrology, have a gander. It’s not quite “wear mauve, Gemini plays a role,” but there is some rich information and lots for the imagination. This article looks at some of the nonconventional planets that were closely conjunct this morning’s Full Moon. I explain them one at a time.
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Sample of ephemeris listing for the current Full Moon from Serennu.com. To get the planets to appear in this order you have to use the feature "sort by degrees of zodiac," which will put them in the order they appear from Aries to Pisces. There are other sorting methods which are useful for other things.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tracy, the author of the Serennu Ephemeris<\/strong><\/a>, emailed me a minute ago with some late-breaking news, to say that this Full Moon, the one happening now, is conjunct Ceto, Deucalion and Poseidon.<\/p>\n

In Greek myth, Ceto<\/strong><\/a> was or is a primal sea monster with several other names. He is the child of Gaia and Pontus<\/a>. Pontus was one of the first-born generation of Greek gods, and early god of the seas. Gaia was his mother.<\/p>\n

In planetary science, Ceto is known as (65849) Ceto<\/strong><\/a> is considered by most astronomers to be a centaur (in the class of Chiron, eccentric orbit-crossers) though I have seen it listed elsewhere as a trans-Neptunian object. It may be one of those points that defies easy categorization because it meets certain qualifications of both.<\/p>\n

Deucalion<\/strong><\/a> is a character from a Greek flood myth. One day a long time ago, Zeus was pissed off, so he let loose a deluge, “so that the rivers ran in torrents and the sea flooded the coastal plain, engulfed the foothills with spray, and washed everything clean. Deucalion, with the aid of his father Prometheus, was saved from this deluge by building an ark, like his Biblical equivalent Noah<\/a> and Mesopotamian counterpart Utnapishtim<\/a>” (in the words of the Wikipedia editors, if you can believe them). In astrology he is a TNO. In astronomy he is (53311) Deucalion<\/strong><\/a>, a trans-Neptunian object with an orbit of about 295 years — a classical Kuiper Belt object. From an old article on the water worlds<\/a>, I quote my colleague Philip Sedgwick: Deucalion relates to “understanding the flow (tides of life), manifestation ability, magical, resourceful, and seeing the talent in everyone.”<\/p>\n

Then there is the hypothetical point Poseidon<\/strong><\/a>, named for the Greek god of the oceans and seas. This is not actually a planet — it’s a calculated point that comes out of a German school of astrology from the early 20th century (these are variously called the Uranians, the Witte points or the TNPs). It has a circular orbit of a good few hundred years; I keep losing the list of low long the orbits of the TNPs are. They are used primarily by Uranian astrologers (modern followers of Witte). They actually work; it is weird. They “don’t exist” anywhere but the ephemeris, the chart and our minds (if we know about them) but still, they are interesting to read in a chart where they appear prominently and today, this is true.<\/p>\n

For delineations of the Uranian hypothetical points, you need to go to another kind of specialist. Martha Lang Wescott<\/a> gives these key ideas: “Uplifting people\/ideas; psychic vibrations; persuasion; intellectual or spiritual influences; ideological or moral stances; spread of ideas; advertising; interest in business practices\/ethics; inspiration; religion; mediums; clarity; enlightenment; receptivity to The Force; reactions to the media; windows, mirrors, refraction of light.”<\/p>\n

So we have three points conjunct the Scorpio Full Moon right now — a sea monster, a character who built an ark to save himself and his family from the rising rivers, and the Greek god of the seas and oceans (also known as the Earth Shaker). This is a close conjunction, with all four points occupying a little over one degree, as you can see above. And, this is a demonstration of how much fun it is to study astrology. You learn about myth, astronomy and psychology all at the same time.<\/p>\n

And once again, here is your Full Moon audio<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friends, Cousins, Readers — here is your Full Moon audio. The article below — while a bit esoteric — looks at some of the subtler points of today’s lunar event. If you’re new to this kind of astrology, have a gander. It’s not quite “wear mauve, Gemini plays a role,” but there is some rich … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/24726"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}