{"id":25981,"date":"2010-06-17T06:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T11:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=25981"},"modified":"2010-06-17T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T18:25:40","slug":"our-place-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/our-place-in-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Place In The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

“Any experiment that shows results is a good experiment”
\n— Rudy Ballentine<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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Here’s some homework for the weekend. An easy and decidedly un-scientific experiment. It will give you a chance to learn something about astrology in your own body without having some dude (or dudette) you never met telling you what to think.<\/p>\n

One of the cool things about a New Moon is what happens after Luna’s conjunction with the Sun. The lesser luminary moves on and it moves fast. It forms aspects (angles) to other planets along the way. Some of those aspects are with slower-moving planets that have hardly budged by the time the Sun moves in to occupy the same degree of the same sign where the Moon was just a few days before.<\/p>\n

That gives us a constant, the slow moving planets, against which to compare the variables. We get a chance to compare with our intuitions and feelings the difference between the Sun and Moon. Isn’t that better than being told?<\/p>\n

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Last Saturday, June 12th, we had a New Moon.<\/p>\n

Think back to late last Sunday, June 13th when Luna had moved on to late Gemini. There it squared (90 degrees) Saturn in Virgo while simultaneously forming a trine (120 degrees) with Neptune in Aquarius. How did the structures in your life interact with your dreams that evening? This coming Saturday the same square and trine will be repeated except it will be the Sun in place of the Moon. Remember your dreams this coming Saturday night and let us know what happened in “comments” next week. What have you got to lose?<\/p>\n

In the meantime (which is a groovy time) we are on the threshold of two big astrological events. This coming Monday, June 21st, is the Cancer solstice. Sol moves into the cardinal sign of Cancer and we have a change of season. First day of summer for those of us north of the equator, longest day of the year. First day of winter for the southerm hemisphere, shortest day of the year for those down under. It happens just once a year, folks.<\/p>\n

On the following Saturday, June 26th, we have a Full Moon in Capricorn. Which also happens to be a partial lunar eclipse. Which also happens to be be a grand cross in the early degrees of all four cardinal signs. Which happens to involve five planets, both luminaries and the lunar nodes. No doubt about it, it’s a big deal. So far as we can tell, a never before and never again big deal. So far as we can tell.<\/p>\n

Your curmudgeon correspondent is not going to tell you what all that means. Not today. You don’t need that. Heck, we are on the threshold of actual experience. Instead, the service offered today is a bit of perspective. Something which, frankly, we could use a little more of around here.<\/p>\n

The blogs of this past Monday and Tuesday have had as their theme the idea that we should approach the solstice and grand cross one day at a time, picking up awareness from the daily aspects along the way. We continue that theme today with a focus on just one aspect involving the Sun.<\/p>\n

Today finds the Sun in late Gemini applying to oppose the Great Attractor in late Sagittarius. Do not be mistaken, this is a big deal too. It happens just once a year. It puts us in our place.<\/p>\n

Most of the time we walk around with the consciousness that the Sun is big daddy. As the center of our local gravity well, source of all life on earth and a star in its own right, that’s not far off. Then we become aware that Sol is part of a larger collection, a galaxy. That this galaxy has a center. That our solar system and billions of others rotate around that mysterious, energetic, massive, unseen core like the Moon around the Earth, like the Earth around the Sun.<\/p>\n

This changes our perspective; it pulls us out, way out. Big daddy is suddenly a very little guy. Our planet is even smaller. This changes our awareness. The seasons and cycles on our scale of existence are replicated by seasons and cycles on a scale beyond our comprehension. That the unavoidable conclusion is all seasons and cycles are connected in synchrony. That each and every one of us are a part of that whether we know it or not. That knowing it, accepting it and being conscious of it can, does and will make us into something different that we were before.<\/p>\n

Late tonight or early tomorrow depending, we here on earth will be in the middle with our Sun on one side and the Galactic Core opposing it. Their gravity will pull on us from either side. The powerful energy they both put out will meet where we exist and we will have cause to consider the following.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year the Galactic Core moved into the 28th degree of Sagittarius after nearly 70 years in the 27th. That means this is the first time in nearly 23 thousand years that the Sun has opposed the Galactic Core in that degree of that sign. Multiply 23 thousand years by ten thousand and get over 230 million years and that’s how long it takes our solar system to make one orbit around the center of our galaxy. Our planet, as part of the solar system, has made that trip nearly 20 times.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, we have some big honkin’ aspects and transits going down. We have some big scary disasters happening. Some of our own making. Some just passing through. Yeah, people just like you and me are hurtin’ and struggling and dying and being born faster than you can shake a stick at. But think. The rock you are on right now has made maybe twenty trips around the Galactic Core and it’s still here for you to cling on to.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot more astrology we could write about today, but, really, isn’t that enough?<\/p>\n

Besides, you’ve got homework to do. Expecting a full report on Monday.<\/p>\n

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