{"id":26736,"date":"2010-07-15T03:40:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T08:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=26736"},"modified":"2010-07-15T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T18:43:05","slug":"from-eros-to-amor-virgo-gets-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/from-eros-to-amor-virgo-gets-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"From Eros to Amor – Virgo Gets Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Walick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Those of us who are not solar Virgos might have had occasion to admire how the members of that tribe can be at once practical and adaptable. If you’re conceived in the days before a solstice, or born in the days before an equinox, you’re preparing for and adjusting to changes of pattern from before the beginning of earthly life.<\/p>\n

As we adjust to the new patterns of relationship wrought by an eclipse cycle, we integrate those new patterns into the continuum of change that is the cardinal t-square.<\/p>\n

Orientation and synchrony would have it that the luminaries and several planets have Virgo in common today as new templates of our time emerge. Venus pursues Mars there. Saturn is in the last half of the last degree, concluding its long tenure. Mercury approaches the sign where it will station retrograde next month at the precise degree to sextile last weekend’s total solar eclipse. The Sun still reaches out in support. Last but certainly not least, the waxing Moon is in Virgo all day and all night.<\/p>\n

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Luna gets us started with a conjunction to the asteroid, Eros.<\/p>\n

As astrology gradually integrates the minor planets, certain patterns seem to be taking shape. One of those patterns is that the interpretation of an asteroid in aspect is intuitively straightforward. In the Greek mythology Eros was as old as creation and as new as today. It was the bridge between the primordial and the personal, giving mortal humans direct access to the divine through relationship.<\/p>\n

What a great way for the Moon, fresh from a relation-themed and emotional eclipse cycle, to begin the day — reminding us that we have access to the divine through our bodies. It’s making the eternal eternally present. A few degrees on from there, Luna conjoins with the asteroid Child.<\/p>\n

In our natal charts, the Moon has several levels of interpretation. One of the most important is the connection to the child inside. Even as we adapt like a Virgo to the practical realities of individuation and adult responsibilities, it is important to sustain a relationship to the child we all once were. It is through the maintenance of that inner relationship that we are able to bridge our own experience with that of a younger, newer generation just as Eros bridges the human and the divine.<\/p>\n

A handful of degrees as the day goes on and Child is left behind as the Moon finds itself conjunct with the asteroid Vesta. When the practical seems insurmountable, adjustment seems impossible and with the divine so far away and childhood at its end, what is there to keep us going?<\/p>\n

Devotion.<\/p>\n

Vesta. Named after the women who were accorded an autonomous space and a sacred task: to attend and serve the sustenance of an eternal flame. A bright place in the midst of a dark and brutal empire. It was a source of purification in the midst of a cynical and rapacious patriarchy. A source of hope, a reason to persevere — from devotion, to devotion, in devotion. A relationship that is its own reason for being.<\/p>\n

From the eternally divine to the immediately personal, from the inner personal to the outer political, from the flame of devotion to the divine again, the Moon’s path today sets us an example of the journey before us, even as its last conjunctions connect back to the chapter just past. For as the day is progressing, Luna conjoins Mars in the last third of Virgo, the same fiery planet that maintained a tight sextile to the Sun for nearly a week. In the days just before, during and immediately after the darkening of the Sun, the red warrior lent its own fire in supportive devotion to old Sol. Now the Sun-Mars sextile is separating and a new chapter of relationship is beginning as the Moon makes its tribute and moves on.<\/p>\n

On towards the end of the day, this journey of discovery and revelation must certainly be taking its toll on the Moon. Such fundamental changes. So many connections. A second wind awaits, however, with a sextile from the Sun, now in the 24th degree of Cancer. So it is that the Moon finds its burden lightened and its spirits lifted by its dance partner in the sky.<\/p>\n

For its own part the Sun is accomplishing a bit of consolidation today. Besides separating from its long sextile to Mars, it is also pulling out of aspects to Sedna (also a sextile), Eris (a square), Varuna (conjunction) and the centaur, Charliko (a trine). Leaving it all behind with the eclipse, and gently helping the Moon find closure. For just as weary Luna is lifted with the sextile, old Sol reaches back with a cardinal square to the asteroid, Amor, at 23+ degrees Aries.<\/p>\n

Amor is the Roman equivalent of Eros. So the loop is closed as the day is. A step of advance is taken, starting with a bridge from the primeval divine to our physical and emotional selves. It ends as the symbol of our higher, expressive self and extends that connection to the ongoing reconstruction of our shared reality. It sets the pattern for our co-creation of the future, turning the wheel over again.<\/p>\n

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