{"id":25235,"date":"2010-05-20T05:03:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=25235"},"modified":"2010-05-21T02:46:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T07:46:38","slug":"shake-up-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/shake-up-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Shake-Up Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Had a difficult time getting a straight answer lately? Are things harder than they should be? Are they selling you up but never closing? Are you waiting for that one piece to fall into place? Is it down to the best you can do? Welcome to Anarectica. Where we deal with what comes up while we wait for things to come through.<\/p>\n

The last few days have seen the Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune queuing up in the last degrees of their respective signs. With just those six one could recently find every angular aspect commonly discussed in this space. The conjunction, the semi-sextile, the sextile, the square, the trine, the quincunx and the opposition. All within two degrees. All at the same time. Sounds pretty. In practice, the word cluster has come to mind.<\/p>\n

Beginning this morning, that’s all gonna change. By this time tomorrow it will have changed a lot more. Blazing the trail, as it has since before the Vernal Equinox is the planet Venus. By the time you read this, the lesser benefic will have made good its ingress into the Cardinal sign of Cancer. In doing so it sets off that by now familiar phenomenon for Planet Waves readers, the personal and political as one.<\/p>\n

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This has been going on since Pluto moved into Capricorn back when we were kids. It continued over the last two years with Uranus approaching Aries and Saturn wishy-washing between Virgo and Libra. It will continue in the coming weeks as Jupiter joins Uranus in the first degree of Aries while Pluto and Saturn tag up at second and third.<\/p>\n

Can you say “bases loaded” boys and girls? And wait until you see who comes to the plate. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Today it’s Venus on pointe<\/em> and that’s a big shift.<\/p>\n

Normally the Venus transit in Gemini is light and more than a little sweet. Time for a chat or even a heart-to-heart. The context this time around, however, has been more like jive talkin’ over the ulterior motives. Duplicity concealing hidden agendas. One could reasonably conclude that it has left us cynical and even jaded but also deprived. There is a hunger for the genuine and the authentic. There may even be a fear that those qualities are nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

Venus in the sign of Cancer brings those needs and vulnerabilities to the surface. Will they be met and assuaged or will they be exploited? Likely somewhere in between. Time will tell. The edge is sharp. We start with the question of where each of us will choose to put our energy, what our focus will be. Stay aware of that and the Venus transit in Cancer will not only be navigable but will also yield some personal knowledge that will soon come in handy for your public life.<\/p>\n

Of course the second big transit is the Sun into Gemini. This took place last night or early this morning, depending on where you live. This is a second chance for the sign of the twins. Another chance to shine a light between the lines and see the truth. Another opportunity to accentuate the positive in our discourse. Another way to look at things that will allow us to move on. And move on we must.<\/p>\n

We feel the pain of being torn from our attachments; the sorrow and despair of knowing that it\u2019s as tough as many of us have ever known; the fear of not knowing just how bad it is, or will get. We can’t dwell there, not for long. If we are to survive, we must be aware of our state of mind. We must know what thoughts to cultivate if we are to sustain. We must have a vision of where we want to be if the not-so-veiled opportunities of our time are to be availed of.<\/p>\n

That’s where the Sun’s transit of Gemini can help us serve each other. This is not a time for a voice in the wilderness. This is not the place to waste our breath on deaf ears. This a conversation of the twins, in the light of day. Soul mates sharing and caring for each other. Open minds to complement the open hearts represented by Venus next door.<\/p>\n

And just as Sol changes signs, so will have the Moon, not an hour before, into Virgo. There to reach a square aspect that denotes the first quarter, halfway between the New and Full phases. Three luminary milestones in a few hours’ time. Two transits and an aspect. That does not happen every day. Indeed it is auspicious. In order for our intellect to remain supple, our bodies must remain healthy. Take rest generously. Take food judiciously. Breathe consciously. Appreciate the precious gift of drinkable water.<\/p>\n

Should that last sentence stir your right to anger, know that it is not only a righteous but timely response. For this morning, Mars, fresh out of seven months confinement in its retrograde cycle, makes the meaningful double aspect with which we will conclude. At the same time Mars trines Eris it will be squaring Sedna.<\/p>\n

Planet Waves readers have already received a lot of information about Eris. Indeed, this is her time. The outcast woman of the ancient world come home to rule as the harbinger of our individual and collective identities in the post-modern world. She would do well, however to make room on the throne for her paleolithic sister from the sea, Sedna.<\/p>\n

In her treatise on the Taurus New Moon last week, the Finnish astrologer Kirsti Melto made the Sedna conjunction her focus. Of all the things we know of that orbit the Sun, Sedna is the furthest out with the longest orbital period. It makes Eris seem like the girl next door, it’s so far away.<\/p>\n

As distant as the astronomical object is in space, so is the ancient myth in time. The Inuit people have dwelt in the arctic regions for thousands upon thousands of years. Adapting both culturally and physically, they knew the wisdom of existing as part of their environment rather than seeking dominion over it. The unlikely but abundant source of their survival was the cold and icy sea. Sedna was the daughter tragically sacrificed to that sea for the sake of her father’s survival. There she became goddess supreme. From there she demanded to be acknowledged and heard. The Inuit people know this and honored her for the sake of their own survival.<\/p>\n

Just as Sedna called the Inuit from the cold, dark depths of the Arctic Sea, so she now calls us from the cold distance of the Oort cloud, the borderline between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. In an averse semi-sextile to Eris and a square to Mars are expressed the anger and alienation that our own planet must certainly be feeling towards its most precocious children \u2013 us.<\/p>\n

Is it really necessary for us to assume the role of being the infection of this world? Is it really possible for this planet to respond to us as if we were? Sedna knows. The mythical fate of the child sacrificed so that the parent might survive is part of that ancient knowledge. But so is the abundance that, paradoxically, the cold and dangerous realm of Sedna can yield. We are in no position to argue. It’s time to listen. Either that or face the biggest shake-up of them all, a new order of which we will not be a part.<\/p>\n

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