{"id":27813,"date":"2010-08-17T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=27813"},"modified":"2010-08-17T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:46:12","slug":"first-in-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/first-in-the-body\/","title":{"rendered":"First in the Body"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The focus of yesterday’s blog was accessing the new rendition of the cardinal T-square in your physical body and intuition. Precipitated by retrograde Uranus’ return to Pisces until next March, it is the first time Jupiter has been alone in early Aries, opposed to Saturn in Libra and in a square to Pluto in Capricorn. One might say that Jupiter is now fully fledged, flying solo for the first time.<\/p>\n

The cardinal T-square now has acquired some layers: that Jupiter represents expansion and Saturn contraction, and their opposition represents the knotty problem of integration\u00a0of opposing principles. Their mutual square to Pluto represents the path to resolution through conscious evolution. The long-term consequence of the long-term aspects is to reboot patterns and paradigms for an even longer time. The experience and practice of relationship will, to a great extent determine how it all turns out.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot to intellectualize, much less keep track of. That’s how we came to offer such exercises as drawing basic diagrams and actually getting out under the sky and pointing your arms here and there. The more you can feel the T-square the easier it will be to feel your way through what may seem like externally enforced changes. The less you have to think about it, the more authentic your responses will be.<\/p>\n

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So hold those drawing experiences and the physical enactment in your body memory and let’s move on to what this busy week is bringing. First, as already alluded to, Jupiter’s expansion ethic may seem a little shaky now without the boost of Uranus’ encouragement towards self-actualization. Don’t believe it when that comes up inside. It is balance with Saturn’s admonitions that will keep us whole when we participate or are dragged through the process of Plutonian transformation. If we yield entirely to Saturn now, our evolutionary growth will be stunted. Fly like a young bird by being persistent in your practice. Results will come with consistent effort and time.<\/p>\n

A big part of that time element is the fact that Saturn exacts the last of three square aspects to Pluto as this week draws to a close. A series that began last October, it defined what may be called “a” if not “the” previous rendition of the cardinal alignment by introducing the trans-personal element. When that happened, whipper-snapper Jupiter was still in Aquarius as part of a triple conjunction with Neptune and Chiron. This week will turn the corner on that. It initiated the connection of our everyday life to the formative abstract of history.<\/p>\n

That is not to say that Saturn is heading for the bench. This will be gradual. The Ringed One will persist as a functional part of the T-Square for a long time. After this week however, it will proceed to eventually diminish its influence even as Jupiter and eventually Uranus step in to take their turns modulating Pluto’s re-creation of pattern and paradigm.<\/p>\n

Also taking place at the end of the week are the conjunction of Venus and Mars in Libra concurrent to the hour with Mercury’s retrograde station in Virgo.<\/p>\n

Long in development and dramatic in its manifestation, the conjunction of Venus and Mars at the 14th degree of Libra has a curious quality of not being fully defined even at this late date. Nevertheless, it’s been a stirring tale. It really started last March when Venus trail-blazed its way across the Aries point, showing Uranus and Jupiter how it’s done. This took place just days before Mars stationed direct in the first degree of Aries. Hence a hot fire trine initiated a long, romantic chase.<\/p>\n

Month after month, sign after sign, Venus set precedent after precedent for planets that would follow after. Even Mercury acquiesced to Venus taking the lead. But all through that, milestone after milestone, Venus had designs set on this conjunction. Now, romantically, it takes place at the last moment, on the same day of Venus’ maximum elongation to the East. Venus catches Mars just as she succumbs to exhaustion. Does that stir your heart or what?<\/p>\n

But there’s something not quite so storybook about this. The conjunction takes place in Libra, a cardinal sign, focus of the T-square and all it implies. It as if to say that even the most romantic personal relationship is not exempt from the big picture. That there is no place to hide, no exclusion to the tide of history. Of course, we have seen this before. Ernest Hemingway and Boris Pasternak have written compelling novels on the theme. Now it’s us and it’s part of the integration process in the Jupiter-Saturn opposition because, after all, Libra is ruled by Venus and Aries is ruled by Mars.<\/p>\n

So while we may be well advised to steel our hearts and teach our children to do the same, this conjunction is not over yet. Such a long and arduous pursuit must certainly yield a benefit for Mars and a blessing for Venus. Just how is what we should keep our eye on in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Ah yes, the coming weeks which will characterized and possibly dominated by what promises to be one deep and broad Mercury retrograde in Virgo. Before this year began, it was Capricorn where Mercury stationed in late December and Capricorn where it transpired into January. Then it was entirely in Taurus with a retrograde station that just preceded by days the Sun’s ingress to the same sign, and now Virgo. The third Earth sign in a row to contain a Mercury retrograde. Is the third time a charm? That’s where we will continue on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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