{"id":25361,"date":"2010-05-24T04:26:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=25361"},"modified":"2010-05-24T04:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T09:27:21","slug":"once-in-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/once-in-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Once In A Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

“You may ask yourself: well…how did i get here?”
\n–Talking Heads <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last week was quite a workout. As the Sun approached the end of Taurus, it was in a square (90 degrees of separation) to Neptune in the 29th degree of Aquarius. As Venus approached the end of Gemini, it was first in a square first to retrograde Saturn in Virgo then to Uranus in the 30th degree of Pisces. The transit of both the major luminary and the minor benefic to different signs just before the weekend changed the scenery and substituted the antagonists but kept the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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For no sooner was Sol in Gemini that it formed a square to Chiron in Pisces last Friday. Venus in turn was surfing in the sign of Cancer but two days before feeling the undertow of an opposition to Ceres on Saturday followed by an opposition to Pluto late yesterday. Finally to top it all off, Jupiter (in Pisces) opposed Saturn (in Virgo) in clash of the titans late Saturday or early Sunday, depending on where you are.<\/p>\n

By the time you read this the Venus-Pluto and Jupiter-Saturn oppositions will be separating but still functional to a degree.<\/p>\n

And thus we find ourselves washed up on the beach of Monday morning, If we have had any sort of respite over the past few days, it has been in change. A change of the “what” in the “Now what?” but precious little opportunity for “Not now”. A different direction from which the wind is blowing but no relief from its relentless velocity. This slope is about to get steeper yet, at the end of the week.<\/p>\n

The next few days give us the opportunity to gain perspective over the last few. It is from that perspective that we will gain our traction and the energy to apply it. If there is anything to synchronicity, the aspects and planets involved can give a clue what is going on within and without. Let’s start with the inside.<\/p>\n

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A square aspect suggests internal tension which requires first awareness and then action to resolve. Square a personal planet to an outer one, and a temporal aspect is introduced.<\/p>\n

The Sun and Venus synchronize with the cycles of personal and interpersonal expression.
\nWe normally think of those processes as taking place within a human lifetime. Introduce Uranus with an orbital period of over 84 years and Neptune with a period of 165 and the tension bridges more than one lifetime. What’s internal is (surprise!) more than just “little ol’ me”. It’s what our parents and their parents and those before went through, living inside of us, expressed through us, finally up against the wall symbolized by outer planets in the last degrees of their sign.<\/p>\n

No wonder we don’t know what hit us. Mostly we don’t know what us is. We are not only the “me” with experiences in “this body”. We are each the expression of the DNA that not only runs “this body” but carries the experiences of bodies before. The term “us” not only carries over space to other individuals in this time. It carries across time to individuals who are materially (not just symbolically) in this space that we call “my body”.<\/p>\n

And that’s what a square from a personal to an outer planet means. The resolution of the internal tension carried and passed on for generations. Now, finally, ours to gain closure. Now, finally, ours to try something new. Now, finally ours to break a pattern that did not work and find one that does. Rest assured, we are being watched and supported, and rooted for. They watch us from within. And you thought you were alone. No way, Jose. They are with us now.<\/p>\n

The Sun’s square to Chiron was addressed by Eric Francis in last Friday’s subscriber edition. He saw it as an opportunity to “…note the sense of injury that we may feel to our creative\/expressive side and use this as a means to provoke self-awareness and healing” especially in regard to what a parent experienced. Given Chiron’s orbital period of 51 years in addition to the synchronous context of the Sun coming off a square to Neptune and one might add the sense of this being a once in a lifetime opportunity to to express what the prior caretakers of our DNA would not. To create what they could not.<\/p>\n

And then there is what is going out in the world around us. In addition to awakening to our power to wreak havoc to creation, there is at the same time a sign of hope. Hope in creation anew. It is there that we find synchrony in the oppositions that carry over to today. Between Venus and Pluto. Between Jupiter and Saturn.<\/p>\n

Jupiter, as the greater benefic connects with abundance and needs met. Saturn, as the greater malefic, rhymes with limits to and conformance with as the price for entry. Uranus is part of the equation, functionally conjoined with Jupiter, it adds its inexplicable capacity to go from here to way over there suddenly, without traversing in-between.<\/p>\n

Venus, among other things, relates to interpersonal expression. Pluto, among other things is the imperative to transform. Oppositions reflect an external bind, polarity, tension on either side with us in the middle. Resolution is gained by negotiating each side separately.<\/p>\n

In several places, on widely separated continents and hemispheres, the symbolism of these planets and aspects are playing out. In Iran and Thailand. In Greece and Puerto Rico. The protagonists are predominantly young people. There are a disproportionate number of women. In other words, the disenfranchised. They are being denied a share of the abundance. Their needs are not being met. The limits to entry are squelching their self- expression. The conformance required is not returned with tangible benefit.<\/p>\n

In other words, they are being ripped off, and they know it. Their response is two-fold. To put pressure on the established order on one side, negotiating for change. On the other side, to create a new order of relationship between themselves, transforming the standards they were given and (perhaps most importantly) providing them with a means to sustain their resistance even as the established order is having a bit of trouble sustaining itself.<\/p>\n

It’s a bit of a miracle, really. These predominantly young rebels are of different cultures and languages. It’s not as if they have a manual to go by. Yet they are simultaneously coming to the same conclusions, taking the same actions, following the same methods. All at the same time. Uranus is coming to the fore.<\/p>\n

So, how does that relate to you, in the now, reading this blog? Well, are you paying attention? Are you receiving what you have been implicitly promised for your efforts? A job worthy of your expensive education, for example? Are your efforts to fit in being reciprocated in proportion with an adequate place to be in? Is that expensive business suit resulting in higher wages? Are we getting a return on our investments? Is our property worth less than the debt incurred to purchase it? Are we getting ripped off?<\/p>\n

There is an old saying. If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. Today the Libra Moon forms a sextile to Mars in Leo. Let us take it as a clue. The sextile is a seed, an opportunity to grow. Let the seeking of balance that is Libra and the deep feelings that are the Moon find nourishment in the assertiveness that is Mars and the self-expression that is Leo. Get angry all right, but let that anger have a direction. Let it be the energy that will fuel a beginning. A beginning towards restoring balance. Carry that forward tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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