{"id":26419,"date":"2010-07-01T05:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=26419"},"modified":"2010-07-01T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:28:01","slug":"the-fire-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-fire-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fire This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.”<\/em>
\n— Luciano Pavarotti<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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Let’s start with a brief summary of our theme since the past Monday.<\/p>\n

The partial lunar eclipse last weekend superimposed itself over the perpendicular axis of a cardinal t-square. Thus a grand cardinal cross was rapidly precipitated. The eclipse of the Moon will unavoidably be followed by an eclipse of the Sun. The period between the paired eclipses can be considered to be a short-lived continuum with long-term effects. The cardinal t-square can be considered to be a long-lived continuum with immediate effects.<\/p>\n

We are in the two week period when the two continuous phenomena are at their mutual crossroads. We are in the middle of that intersection. A place both of unparalleled perspective and unforeseeable, though apparent peril. Surviving the peril is our imperative. Making the most of the perspective is the means by which that challenge can be met. That’s where astrology comes in.<\/p>\n

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The planetary cycles synchronize. One informs the other. The shorter and longer cycles especially so. It is proposed by your humble reporter that the cardinal t-square is functioning as a sort of acclimatization process. Gradually, over a period of years, synchronous events are presenting us with the opportunity to release what will no longer serve and adapt to what will be required. This requires persistence and stamina. It corresponds with the peril.<\/p>\n

It is further posited that the eclipse cycle is functioning to organize and compress the lengthier experience thus far. That requires awareness and strength. It yields a long term perspective. It is like sprinting through a marathon while blindfolded.<\/p>\n

That’s where our daily astrology comes in. Breaking the overwhelming down into pieces that are more easily assimilated with the gradual accumulation of a bigger, wider, deeper perspective. To reiterate, the operative words for the aggregate daily processing are action, integration and relationship.<\/p>\n

Today’s ephemeral aspects — like the two continuums — are linked. Mercury is separating from a conjunction with the asteroid Juno in the sign of Cancer. Mars likewise separating from a conjunction in the sign of Virgo, with the asteroid Vesta. Finally the Sun and Moon form a water trine linking Cancer and the sign of Pisces.<\/p>\n

While there is no definitive interpretation of asteroids in astrology, there are a few that have begun to distinguish themselves. Juno and Vesta are among them.<\/p>\n

In myth, Juno was the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Hera. She was the spouse of Jupiter (or Zeus, for the Greeks). Their marital relationship was a model for what will happen when commitment is not informed by compersion. It shows that dedication to an ideal can become a mockery when the mind is not integrated with the heart. So very sad that over thousands of years the dynamics of this mythological relationship remain the familiar norm.<\/p>\n

Astronomically, it is interesting to note that the discovery degree of Juno (2+ degrees Aries) is where the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction is now situated. Opposed to Juno on the date of its discovery was, hello, Mercury at 2+ degrees Libra. Close to where Saturn is now.<\/p>\n

So when we look at today’s first conjunction aspect, synchronicity takes us by the hand and helps with today’s connection to the two concurrent and current continuums. On the most apparent level the astrological values most commonly associated with Juno (commitment, harmony and balance in relationship) find sympathy in the the sign of Cancer, implied fourth house of hearth, home and nurturing.<\/p>\n

Along comes Mercury with the idea that it would not hurt to detach and think it through a bit. Bet some of you reading can already feel the resistance coming up in your throat. After all, why mess with something that we are so deeply attached to and invested in that we don’t even know it? Why indeed. Because it’s time, that’s why.<\/p>\n

When Juno and Mercury are currently in a tense aspect — a square (90 degrees) — to where they both opposed when Juno was discovered, when that axis is currently an integral part of the cardinal t-square, can there be any clearer indicator that it’s time to resolve tension rather than perpetuate it? Can it be any more plain that an integration of intellect with emotions is long overdue in our personal lives? Can it be any more evident that the relationship modeled by Juno and Jupiter is a paradigm we can afford to lose? So how do we get there, how do we break those chains we have bound ourselves with?<\/p>\n

That’s where Mars and Vesta come in. Both have an association with fire. Vesta is named after the vestal virgins of ancient Rome. An honored and authentically autonomous tradition that took care of the symbolic eternal flame that sustained the empire from the inside. Mars, of course, was the patron of the military that used fire prominently as a weapon to protect the empire from the outside.<\/p>\n

Besides fire in the literal sense, the soldiers and priestesses had one thing in common. Going through the motions was not going to cut it. Simply observing ceremony or following orders would not do the job. Dedication was not enough. In order to do their job, the internal flame of passion was required. Only then could the external, symbolic flame be sustained. Only then could the hotly contained battle be won. Only then could the most demanding standards be met and the most arduous labors completed. This is called devotion.<\/p>\n

In Virgo the two aspects of devotion, Mars and Vesta, action and service, are integrated and grounded in a mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury. This lends a supple discretion to this second conjunction, leading us away from the fixation and obsession that fiery passion can sometimes lead to.<\/p>\n

Finally the sextile of today’s conjunctions in the sign of Cancer and Virgo can serve to encourage us that an opportunity is there to act on just as much as there is a tension. That opportunity being the integration of what inside us has been so long opposed. An integration, undertaken in the spirit of devotion, solidifies our relationship first with ourselves then with others.<\/p>\n

And while all this is going on, at the same time, on the same day, our cosmic familiars, the Moon and Sun form a brief but powerful trine (120 degrees) from the mutable water sign of Pisces to the cardinal water sign of Cancer. That says something powerful: it need not be such a struggle. If we can start from the inside and employ our passion to implement changes there, then it will easily flow to the outer expression of devotion and bring about a new season for us all.<\/p>\n

But here’s the trick. None of us can do it alone. We have to find a way to do it together.<\/p>\n

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