{"id":25039,"date":"2010-05-10T06:36:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=25039"},"modified":"2010-05-10T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T20:28:36","slug":"childhoods-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/childhoods-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood’s End"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

As if on cue, Luna switched gears late yesterday. From an emotional weekend of Pisces conjunctions the Moon made its transit into Aries, setting us up for today, Monday. Mercury is in its last full day of retrograde. Its apparent motion slower than an arc minute per day. Venus continues its nightly climb into the twilight, still faster than anything but the Moon. By now, most of us have had a chance to see it in the western sky after sunset. It’s unmistakable, a bright and steady diamond. Mars has one more week before it emerges from the echo phase of a retrograde that seems long ago and far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Sun also has some interesting aspects today as well but first the big picture. Over the weekend we were humbled by eruptions from the Earth. Ash from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokul once again shut down air traffic in much of Europe, including flights across the Atlantic. There is no end in sight and the disruption comes at a time when the economies of Europe are already under a great deal of stress. In the case of both the volcanic ash and the threat of monetary collapse, there seems to be no quick solution. We are in this for a long, precarious haul.<\/p>\n

Also over the last few days our best hope for quickly stemming the hemorrhage of oil into the Gulf of Mexico was dashed. The much-ballyhooed containment structure was lowered over the main wellhead and quickly rendered useless. The high pressure and low temperature prevalent at the bottom of the sea quickly combined to form a volatile ice that filled the dome and clogged the opening through which the petroleum was to be siphoned off. Now we are left with alternatives that will take longer, much longer, with no promise of success. In the meantime, the flow continues. Mitigation by burning is severely limited in its effectiveness and only serves to transfer pollutants from the water into the atmosphere. Dispersants are cosmetic at best, being toxic in and of themselves and accelerating the damage to any life on the sea floor. Just as with the volcano, we are in for a long and painful experience.<\/p>\n

In temporal and formal synchronicity, Uranus and Jupiter make their way towards the first degree of Aries. Pluto retrogrades back towards the first degrees of Capricorn. Saturn grinds slowly, slowly backwards in Virgo where it will station forward at twenty-seven and a half degrees when this month comes to a close. Together they are in a long, continuous t-square aspect, 90 degrees of separation. Together, over a long haul they exact and intensify that alignment. An alignment that, ever more clearly, will be concurrent with the need to re-align ourselves on both the individual and cultural level.<\/p>\n

The Moon in Aries has little patience for such things. Energetic at best, childishly impulsive at worst, it represents our challenge today. Early on it finds itself in a square aspect to the asteroid Atlantis and other minor planets in the fifth through tenth degrees of the cardinal signs Cancer, Capricorn and Aries. These same objects were prominent in the chart for the explosion of the BP oil rig back on April 20th. In other words, Luna will find herself at odds. Between the desperate need for a quick solution and the reality that none is at hand. The temptation will be to do something, anything, no matter how reckless.<\/p>\n

As if that were not enough, Luna ends the day with two fiery trines. First to the overwhelming and polarizing influence of the Great Attractor in Sagittarius. Then to militant Mars in Leo. This is a lot of energy with limited constructive outlet and limitless potential for exacerbating an already bad situation.<\/p>\n

How do we adjust to the fact that there are no quick solutions? With what do we brace ourselves for the the slow and unrelenting assault on our ability to hope? On what ground do we re-structure our expectations yet again? We begin with restraint. We continue with foresight. First we reign in the urge to simply react with panic. Then we re-direct that energy towards making headway against despair. One foot in front of another, one step at a time, for a long haul. That will put us in the same mode as the outer planets and make us a part of the solution. It may seem too little too late, but it is exactly that perception that we must overcome.<\/p>\n

As if in answer, the Taurus Sun’s aspects today act as a beacon of faith, however faint. Beginning the day with conjunction to the asteroid Requiem and a simultaneous sextile to the asteroid Child in Leo, we are reminded that we find ourselves at our childhood’s end. Like the book by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the theme is the transformation of our kind. Unlike the book, there are no space aliens involved, at least overtly. We are on our own to clean up our messes and change our ways. We are on our own to grow up. The Earth can no longer afford to be our parent. We must transition to make it our respected and honored spouse.<\/p>\n

Later in the day the Taurus Sun’s guidance continues with a conjunction to the asteroid Photographica and a simultaneous trine to the large classical Kuiper Belt object, Varuna. Mythologically, Varuna is about as far back as it goes. Presiding over both the heavens and the oceans, it is possibly the big daddy of Indo-European divinity. It may even be one and the same with the ancient Ouranos, from which the name Uranus is derived. As such, it is associated with the oldest memories, possibly going back to the origins of social humans.<\/p>\n

This brings to mind a frighteningly frivolous interpretation as well as more sober and mature one. On the level where the intimidating and humorous come together, well, if there ever was a day to get a photograph of an alien, especially a progenitor, this would be it. Don’t get your hopes up, however. Remember this is childhood’s end. No, the grown-up way to approach this aspect is this. Now is the time for us to take a picture of ourselves. Our crowning technology rendered inert. Our troubles large and entirely our own doing. The survival of our kind threatened by our reckless, impatient, childish ways.<\/p>\n

Take a picture and remember it. Make that picture a myth so that the human race will remember it for as long as it will know the sea and sky. Fix this image of this time in our collective memories so it will not be forgotten for as long as our kind may be blessed to survive.<\/p>\n

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By Len Wallick As if on cue, Luna switched gears late yesterday. From an emotional weekend of Pisces conjunctions the Moon made its transit into Aries, setting us up for today, Monday. Mercury is in its last full day of retrograde. Its apparent motion slower than an arc minute per day. Venus continues its nightly … 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\/25039"}],"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=25039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}