{"id":25867,"date":"2010-06-14T06:36:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=25867"},"modified":"2010-06-14T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T20:08:11","slug":"one-step-in-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/one-step-in-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"One Step in a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick | <\/strong>Edits by Eric Francis<\/em>
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It’s Monday, Flag Day in the United States. A little-observed holiday, it commemorates a resolution made by the Second Continental Congress to adopt a symbol for the nation which declared its independence nearly a year before. As such, it’s a good day to consider some moments coming up in astrology. Moments which will continue to be symbolic of our period a long time hence.<\/p>\n

We stand on the threshold of the Cancer solstice. One week from today, just after 11:28 UTC, the Sun will be directly above the Tropic of Cancer. The Sun enters the sign Cancer at this time, and is the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. It will be the first day of winter for our sisters and brothers south of the equator, though our idea of winter and theirs are two different things. There are not a lot of snow plows in Australia or South Africa, and they are closer to the Antarctic Circle than they are to the tropics.<\/p>\n

We also stand on the threshold of a pair of eclipses on the axis of the opposing signs Cancer and Capricorn, which correspond to the ones at the time of the holiday season about five months ago. The first will be a partial lunar eclipse during the Capricorn Full Moon on June 26. The second event will be a total solar eclipse with the New Moon in Cancer on July 11. Eclipses generally come in pairs and arrive with an acceleration of events, a concentration of energies and a feeling of fate being at work. Eclipses feel like crossing from distinct one compartment of time to another; moving through a threshold or divide.<\/p>\n

In the case of both the solstice and the lunar eclipse the Sun will be in meaningful aspect to the planets of history gathered near the cardinal points: the cardinal T-square that is our current piece of the 2012 alignment. Uranus and Jupiter (still in a conjunction) in very early Aries will still be square Pluto retrograde in the early Capricorn — this lasts for a while. Saturn will be direct in very late Virgo, about to ingress Libra and ramp up the energy — currently close enough for nearly the full effect.<\/p>\n

With the lunar eclipse, the Moon, the lunar nodes and Mercury will join in.<\/p>\n

Thus the cardinal t-square will become a cardinal grand cross, spanning a period of nearly a week. This brings the energy in from all four cardinal points — Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn; plus an eclipse. Here we have one of those zones of time when world events leap off the computer screen and newspaper pages.<\/p>\n

This sequence of events includes with it a change of season and moves quickly into the start of a powerful eclipse cycle, directly involving five major planets and both luminaries. It would do us well to prepare to be aware lest the events of that auspicious time render us unconscious in our reactions. Better to be fully present and respond in a manner that will make the most of the opportunity for progress. Eclipses are great if you want your life to move, to change and to evolve. For those who like to resist, they can be painful.<\/p>\n

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Part of the preparation is to be fully aware and conscious of every day along the way. That will allow us to build tally of context in which the events of the cardinal grand cross may be integrated and understood by each and all. It is in that spirit that this observation of today’s astrology is offered.<\/p>\n

With the impending auspicious alignment of so many of the zodiac’s major players it may seem strange to start off with a dwarf planet. On the other hand, given the position and corresponding mythology of that body, it seems entirely appropriate.<\/p>\n

Ceres continues its retrograde odyssey. Its time in Capricorn, conjoined with Pluto near the cardinal point of that sign bore witness to the hard place we have come to on our planet of residence. Now in the twenty-ninth degree of the mutable fire sign Sagittarius, its journey has taken on a spiritual element.<\/p>\n

Today finds Ceres barely separated from a sextile (60 degree aspect) with Neptune in Aquarius as it applies to square (90 degrees) Saturn in Virgo.<\/p>\n

Astronomically, Ceres is part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It constitutes about a third of the mass of that illustrious collection of rock and gravel that populate the space between the outermost personal planet and the innermost planet of history. As such it symbolically bridges the cycles of human life with the cycles of human culture: the inner planets tend to govern the personality, then comes the asteroid belt, then Jupiter (the planet of world culture) is the next planet out.<\/p>\n

Mythologically, Ceres (and her Greek counterpart, Demeter) correspond to that modern concept known as mother earth. Arbiter of the seasons and the nourishment derived from agriculture, her story is integral to the story of all mothers. She is the repository of the cyclical mysteries that surround propagation and sustenance. She is also destined, it seems, to know grief and loss.<\/p>\n

While retrograde in Sagittarius Ceres’ sextile to Neptune holds the promise of reconciliation born of forgiveness. In the Greek mythology, it was during a visit to earth that she had a had a rather unpleasant encounter with Neptune’s counterpart, Poseidon. It was a rape. To make matters worse it took place while she was mourning estrangement from her daughter, abducted by Pluto. It was a bad scene all around.<\/p>\n

Now, with Ceres in the sign of cleansing spiritual fire and Neptune in the sign of the collective, comes an opportunity for reconciliation. Can we forgive each other? Can we forgive ourselves? Can we recognize that all human beings are one just as the dry land of Ceres and the Oceans of Neptune constitute one planet? Can we channel the fire of our furious anger to burn away the ephemeral while sparing the eternal truth?<\/p>\n

The test will come when the Moon reaches twenty-eighth degree of Cancer as this day is drawing to a close, forming the apex of a yod. This aspect is part of today’s experience of awareness as a step towards the solstice and the eclipses.<\/p>\n

In astrology, the Moon is where our emotions and subjective being find connection with the cosmos. Cycling rapidly through signs and phases it represents the fluctuations we experience living one day at a time. In a quincunx (150 degrees) to Neptune, Luna expresses the degree to which our immediate emotional devotions can be averse to longer term ideals constituting the dreams to which we aspire.<\/p>\n

In simultaneous quincunx to Ceres there is expressed the paradox between providing nourishment and security for ourselves and loved ones and existing so as to contribute to the long term sustainability of life on earth. In both cases it is a question of finding balance while under pressure and awash with conflicting emotions. That will not be easy, but if we can use this yod as a first step towards formulating the need for that balance in our thoughts, we will have made a good day of it.<\/p>\n

We can also make a good beginning of it. For today is also the first full day of Venus in Leo. Touching on this transit, we will conclude, leaving space for further observations as it progresses.<\/p>\n

First of all, there is the Moon. Still carrying the experience of the yod, it will follow Venus into Leo before this day is done. Thus Luna will connect today with our immediate future. For just as it closely followed Jupiter into Aries and Mercury in to Gemini, the Moon persists in trying to tell us something. Something that, appropriately, we can only apprehend intuitively. Something which is emerging into the conscious. Pay attention to what comes up from within you this evening.<\/p>\n

Second, Venus is slowing down almost imperceptibly on a daily basis. Its apparent daily motion is nearly ten arc minutes less than it was at the beginning of the year. Finally, Leo is a fixed fire sign. During the next four weeks both the element and the quality will place Venus in a unique position to inform the momentous aspects to come. The first one is tomorrow, which may bring solutions to a few of the pressing problems faced by the world.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service. Edits at 10:30 am ET by Eric Francis. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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