{"id":25524,"date":"2010-05-31T01:45:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T06:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=25524"},"modified":"2010-05-31T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T14:55:28","slug":"a-remembrance-of-things-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/a-remembrance-of-things-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A Remembrance of Things Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We are able to find everything in our memory<\/em>
\n–Marcel Proust<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a national holiday set aside in tribute to those who have given their lives in military service. It is synchronistic that this is also the first full day of Saturn out of retrograde, once again moving forward, affording us a review of the past and a clue to the future. The ringed one stationed direct yesterday (just after 19:08 UTC) at twenty-seven degrees, forty-nine arc minutes, fifty-seven arc seconds in late Virgo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Let us remember.<\/p>\n

Saturn first entered Virgo on Sept. 2, 2007. While there, it exacted its first of five oppositions (180 degrees aspect) to Uranus in Pisces — this, on the same day Pres. Obama was elected. On Oct. 29, 2009 it dipped a toe into the next sign, Libra, much as Chiron (in Pisces) and Uranus (in Aries) are doing now. Soon thereafter it exacted its first of three square aspects (90 degrees of separation) with Pluto in Capricorn.<\/p>\n

On April 8 of this year, Saturn retrograded back into Virgo as if to get its affairs in order. It will return to Libra this coming July 21st to exact one more opposition to Uranus, one more square to Saturn and one more square to Pluto in the weeks to follow. Then it will move on to enjoy a vacation of sorts in Libra, a sign in which the ringed one is exalted. That transit that will last until Oct. 5, 2012.<\/p>\n

For now, until late July, there will be a glimpse of the future in remembrance of the past. Among other things, Saturn in astrology represents the principles of contraction, limits and boundaries. It has an affinity for definition in structure. Among other things Mercury, the ruling planet of Virgo represents adaptability with regards to our thinking as well as being amenable to variable means of communication. The challenge of Saturn’s transit in Virgo has been to integrate the qualities of the two planets — a challenge that for the most part, has been unmet. These are affairs to be gotten in order, yet two successive Mercury retrogrades in Earth signs, Capricorn and Taurus, have not helped. These disruptive transits have periodically placed the mutable at odds with the grounded at what seemed to be the worst possible times.<\/p>\n

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The context of the ongoing cardinal t-square has likewise brought out some of the more stubborn characteristics of things Saturn. In its rapid cycling of polemical tension between the revolutionary energy of Uranus and the evolutionary imperative of Pluto, there has been but little hope for achievement of resolution. This has been reflected by a hardening of partisan lines in politics and an increasing polarity in our personal lives. Many have taken refuge in the simplicity of absolutes and extremes. Only a brave few have acknowledged the fact that we must endure a messy process to secure a sustainable future.<\/p>\n

Once again, however, necessity is proven the mother of invention. With a concurrent shift of crucial influences however ephemeral, the unfinished integrity of Saturn in Virgo can yet be achieved.<\/p>\n

A system is an interconnection of relationships working together to create a whole. Chiron, among other things, makes us aware of crucial weaknesses that threaten the function of a system. The ingress of Chiron into Pisces was concurrent with the beginning of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. It brought vivid imagery of the extermination of life over thousands upon thousands of square miles of ocean and coastline. It brought acute awareness that the the petroleum industry was risking a disaster that it had no plan to stop. It made us conscious that whole systems upon which we depend could tumble like dominoes if one puny mechanical system among many should fail. It is gradually waking us up to the fact that a holistic approach is the only way to proceed from here. That would mean setting aside our differences and interests to act as one. That would require the strength of Saturn’s structure to be informed by the inclusive nature of Mercury.<\/p>\n

The first degree of Aries carries the implication that the personal is political and vice versa. The ingress of Uranus into that degree implies among other things, the beginning of a new cycle. Also implied is the unpredictable, the dramatic, the sudden and the shocking. Historically, it has been concurrent with the sudden and unpredictable. It holds the hazard of reckless confrontation and thoughtless reaction. It holds the opportunity of thoughtful innovation as a means for both harnessing the ambient energy and avoiding catastrophe.<\/p>\n

The transit of Uranus into Aries was quickly followed by another in a sequence of failures by the established order. The so-called “top kill” attempt to smother the hemorrhage in the Gulf was overwhelmed by the pressure of the petroleum. No substantial progress has been made. Remaining remedies involve more time and higher risk. People are starting to get scared. People are starting to lose composure. Panic is setting in. Consequences are accumulating and gathering weight.<\/p>\n

In the long run, our personal responses will matter as much as the political. Even while no individual has the resources to stop this tragedy, we can each begin by assuming responsibility for the part we have played in it. There would have been no motivation for British Petroleum to take such a terrible risk if there were less demand for their product. Which there would have been if we were more conscious and conservative about using it.<\/p>\n

We can begin by making ourselves aware of how we use petroleum. Yes, running our automobiles, often with only one occupant, is a big one. Looking into how your electricity is generated is another. There are also plastics, disinfectants, synthetic materials, pesticides, detergents and fertilizers among an overwhelming number of components in our material lives made from oil. Interestingly, most of these products have one thing in common: they are used to keep the natural world at bay, going beyond the limits the natural world would impose upon us. They were invented as if we did not originate from the natural world, are not a part of it, nor require balance with nature in order to survive.<\/p>\n

This is where the Mercury consciousness could be informed by Saturn, and that innovative thinking should be tempered by an awareness of consequences, not a denial. Our expanding output of toxins is long overdue for contraction. The ability of the Earth to sustain the weight of our existence has limits. The resources of the earth have limits as well. This is the only place we have to live and we had best get on with making it more, not less, livable.<\/p>\n

The remaining weeks of Saturn’s time in Virgo afford us a chance to consolidate our memory of the recent past. Just as meaningfully, Saturn will symbolically provide us with opportunity to consolidate a shape for our future. We can honor the imperative for progress that is Uranus in Aries. We can acknowledge the inevitability of evolution that is Pluto in Capricorn. We can take faith from Mercury that we have not forgotten how to think. Individually and collectively, we can find creation in chaos.<\/p>\n

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