{"id":26827,"date":"2010-07-20T03:49:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T08:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=26827"},"modified":"2010-07-20T09:53:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:53:06","slug":"from-alpha-to-omega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/from-alpha-to-omega\/","title":{"rendered":"From Alpha to Omega"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Let’s get right down to it.<\/p>\n

This morning at 5:40 am EDT in the United States, retrograde Chiron returned to Aquarius. There it will station direct on Nov. 6, 2010. Finally, it will come back to Pisces on Feb. 9, 2011 where it will stay until early 2019.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow morning at 11:12 am EDT, Saturn direct will return to Libra where it will stay until late 2012. Saturn briefly visited Libra this year, returned to Virgo for one last cleanup visit, and is now about to move on to the new sign, rejoining the cardinal cross T-square from Libra.<\/p>\n

Before you ask, “What does it mean?” pause to consider that you may already know. From patterns in your own life. Especially patterns of relationship. Feel this one out.<\/p>\n

These are no ships passing in the night. Chiron and Saturn have had a long and auspicious relationship of their own. Chiron’s orbit crosses that of Saturn, which tells you most of what you need to know. If Saturn is a boundary, Chiron is the way through. That said, the two energies can feel identical at times. Chiron has a lot of Saturn to it.<\/p>\n

Their mutual sign transitions on successive days continue the theme implied by the recent eclipse cycle. A theme that has integrated into the the continuing story of the cardinal t-square that we are in the process of writing: relationships are evolving because they must. Today and tomorrow are part of that evolution. [Please see footnote from Eric at the bottom of this article, explaining how outer planet sign transitions work]<\/p>\n

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Let’s start with December 2001. That’s when Chiron moved into Capricorn, a sign ruled by Saturn, the sign of the established order. This just a few months after the event we now refer to a 9-11, and concurrent with the Enron scandal, the Worldcom scandal and the collapse of auditing giant Arthur Anderson. Pause to consider how the end of 2001 was so different from just a year before when we celebrated the beginning of a new century, a new millennium. Everyone’s relationship to the established order had fundamentally changed. There was a splitting apart inside the egg and a massive collapse of integrity.<\/p>\n

For some of us, it became a fanatic devotion to preserving and protecting the institutions, structures and framework of a culture upon which we depended, identified with and which now seemed threatened.<\/p>\n

For others, it started a process of questioning whether the moral, economic and governmental order we had been given was serving its ostensible purpose, or was even relevant. We were questioning whether it was the enemy we should be fearing and fighting.<\/p>\n

Then, in February 2005 Chiron did a double dip very much like it is doing now, only that time, it was from Capricorn to Aquarius, another sign ruled by Saturn*. In May it stationed retrograde while still in the first degree of Aquarius. In August it returned to Capricorn where it stationed forward in October. Chiron finally entered its second ingress to Aquarius in December and ushered in a new stage of relationship. There was a coming together outside the egg.<\/p>\n

Think back.<\/p>\n

What went back and forth for you in 2005? What forms of trial and error did you experience? How did your relationships shift with the government? With banks? With the health care system? Where did you feel connected? When did you experience alienation?<\/p>\n

Another thing about 2005 is that we had just started a series of oppositions between Chiron and Saturn, which took their relationship to an even deeper level of discovery, and another layer of connection. The oppositions began Dec. 26, 2004 when a massive undersea earthquake generated a tsunami causing unprecedented damage and loss of life in Malaysia and Southeast Asia and beyond. There was a notable psychological component to that event as well. It made an impact on our consciousness that lingers to this day. All were touched and felt an awakening to a new awareness of our common existence.<\/p>\n

Today, as Chiron starts a last, short sojourn into a Saturn-ruled sign we are experiencing yet another event originating on the bottom of the ocean. It started with Chiron’s recent ingress into Pisces, an event for which human beings are undeniably responsible, the consequences\u00a0 of which have yet to be calculated, and there seems no precedent for resolution. But like the Asian tsunami, the petroleum eruption in the Gulf of Mexico has touched us deeply in a place where we all live. We are aware of that place once again, awakening to a new awareness of our common responsibility.<\/p>\n

So it is that with Chiron’s last foray into Aquarius, Saturn is still in the picture. But the relationship is not what it was. The ringed one is moving on. Saturn has completed its back and forth. Been there, done that. After tomorrow it will also be done with Virgo again for nearly three decades. Now instead of opposing Chiron for the first of five times it is applying to oppose Uranus for the last of five times. After a long, long time in a series of signs where it has been, to say the least, uncomfortable, it is finally making ingress to a place where its energy is welcome and honored. Such is the quality of its exaltation in Libra.<\/p>\n

Perhaps more than any other planet, Saturn is in the process of putting the past behind. This will of course be a gradual thing. As long as it is in a cardinal sign it will have at least a quality of participation in the prolonged tension between Uranus and Pluto, just now shaping up. Then there is this little matter of Jupiter, original ruler of Pisces, now in Aries and soon to start its own back and forth. That alone will keep Chiron and Saturn in touch. But relationships have a purpose and when that purpose is served it is perfectly natural for them to change. Chiron and Saturn are growing apart. More and more, they will have less and less in common.<\/p>\n

New challenges are even now presenting themselves. These challenges will require an appropriate response. The patterns of the past will not serve the purpose. What we are given will no longer be what we need. Our survival will depend on what we can create, not what we can preserve. We need to know that.<\/p>\n

How ironic that an old stick-in-the-mud like Saturn would be the first one out the door. Then again, it’s comforting to know that the planet of conformity is behaving like we have a future. A future we will be able to adapt to by developing a new paradigm of relationship.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service <\/em><\/p>\n

*<\/em>Note from Eric about outer planet retrogrades. Those new to astrology may wonder why these planets dip back into the old sign on the way into the new sign. That is, for example, why Saturn entered Libra, retrograded back into Virgo, then went back into Libra. This is an illusion caused by the movement of the Earth within the solar system. It’s a perspective shift, called parallax movement. Move your head and the room seems to move; that is what is happening with the Earth and distant planets such as Pluto, Saturn, Chiron, etc. Usually a slow-moving planet will re-enter the old sign before moving into the new sign “to stay.” This is what’s happening with Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron and Uranus now — they are all involved in sign changes wherein they cross back and forth from one sign to the next. For example, soon Jupiter and Uranus will retrograde back into Pisces.
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By Len Wallick Let’s get right down to it. This morning at 5:40 am EDT in the United States, retrograde Chiron returned to Aquarius. There it will station direct on Nov. 6, 2010. Finally, it will come back to Pisces on Feb. 9, 2011 where it will stay until early 2019. Tomorrow morning at 11:12 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}