{"id":28049,"date":"2010-08-23T06:27:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T11:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=28049"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:12:10","slug":"orientation-towards-deconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/orientation-towards-deconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Orientation Towards Deconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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At 1:27 am EDT today, the Sun left Leo, the sign it rules, and moved into Virgo. That significant change will be followed in quick order by the Pisces Full Moon tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Even without the Mercury retrograde and the cardinal T-Square going on, it could be considered a challenge to process the synchronous events of a sign change of the Sun and a Full Moon. When you add those things all together the bar could well raised to the level of intimidating, but by now we’re used to it.<\/p>\n

The implied theme for the week is therefore gaining and keeping functional orientation; which means balancing the emotions of Pisces with the mental base of Virgo. That orientation will begin by taking what is essentially a concurrent set of events and breaking them down: conscious ananalysis. Today the focus will be the Sun’s ingress to Virgo. That will leave Sol’s opposition to Luna as tomorrow’s subject.<\/p>\n

Part of that orientation is being able to use, honor and enjoy astrology without being caught up in the hype. Consider this simple example. You pick up a hammer in one hand, a nail in the other and you use the hammer to drive the nail into a piece of wood. It is not necessary to believe in the hammer. It is a tool. It works if you use it correctly. If you don’t know what you are doing you bend the nail, split the wood, injure your thumb or some combination of the three. Same with astrology. It is a tool. Practice helps.<\/p>\n

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Another way of getting your bearings is something we have already made a start on in previous weeks. Understanding astrology in your physical body. We started by having you draw a cross inside of a circle so as to understand the cardinal T-square with your own hands. Last week we asked you to go outside to locate Jupiter with your own eyes, then use your entire body as a kind of compass to locate Saturn and Pluto in relation to Jupiter so as to understand the current rendition of the cardinal T-square.<\/p>\n

These exercises make sense. You are made of the same stuff the planets are made of —\u00a0 stardust, literally. It’s not just the material either. It seems that the basic templates that govern how we are put together are not necessarily exclusive to the Earth but rather part of what our planet has in common with the rest of the cosmos. We are related to what we see in they sky and we are better off if we develop and deepen that relationship in our physical being as well as symbolically.<\/p>\n

This week we are asking you to continue and build on those exercises by developing a conscious orientation to your own planet. Assuming you sleep in the same place on most nights, do you know what direction your head is pointing towards when you lie down? If not, find out before you go to sleep tonight. Then tomorrow morning, wake up thinking about it. Before getting out of bed, spend a moment on your back asking yourself. In what direction is your head? Where are your feet pointing? What direction is to your right and to your left? Try it with your eyes open as well as closed. Roll to one side, then the other to see how it feels then. See if the feeling changes from one day to the next. You may even want to experiment by changing the orientation of your bed, just to see what happens.<\/p>\n

For just as it was sensible to connect physically with the sky, it is just as important to orient yourself with the Earth, especially with the Sun once again in Virgo. You see, Virgo is among other things, an Earth sign.<\/p>\n

The zodiac is a circle of time. One might consider it much like a calendar. One time around the zodiac for the Sun corresponds to one full orbit for our planet around the Sun, a year. Instead of months, the zodiac is divided into signs, twelve of them. Given that a circle constitutes 360 degrees, each sign represents 30 degrees. The Sun moves just a little less than a degree per day.<\/p>\n

Besides a name, derived from a constellation of stars, each sign has a basic identity derived from every possible combination of four elements and three qualities. Four times three equals twelve. The four elements are those of the ancient natural science and the more recent alchemy of the western world: fire, earth, air and water.<\/p>\n

The three qualities of cardinal, fixed and mutable have to do with the progress of the seasons. Get a piece of paper and draw a circle again. Draw the cross in the circle. As you recall, the four pieces of the circle created by the cross are the seasons. The lines themselves represent the beginning of each cardinal sign. The cardinal signs are followed by the fixed signs. Think if it as the pattern begun by each new season being fixed into place. Imagine (or draw) the cross in the circle rotated 30 degrees to the left and you are looking at the lines that begin the fixed signs.<\/p>\n

The fixed signs are followed by the mutable signs. Think of it as what was fixed into place is now being deconstructed so that a new season can be born. Imagine (or draw) out the original cross in the circle rotated 60 degrees to the left and you are looking at the lines that begin the mutable signs.<\/p>\n

Our modern zodiac begins logically enough with Aries on the Vernal Equinox, hence a cardinal sign. Aries is somewhat arbitrarily (but sensibly) assigned the element of fire. From there we proceed counterclockwise around the circle logically from cardinal to fixed to mutable and starting over again with a new season. At the same time we proceed arbitrarily but sensibly from fire to earth to air to water and starting over again with fire. By the time we are done, every one of the twelve signs will have a unique and progressed identity combining the logical quality and the intuitive element.<\/p>\n

Because Virgo follows the fixed sign Leo and precedes the cardinal sign Libra, it is a mutable sign. Mutable earth — at first glance an oxymoron, upon contemplation an essential part of the whole. That’s Virgo. Consider that and you will see the idea of getting oriented to the Earth when you lie down to sleep and when you awake is a timely and practical protocol to incorporate right about now.<\/p>\n

Where the Sun is corresponds to the seasons of of our planet and our individual lives. Even if we know nothing about astrology, we feel the cycle of change. That’s how the Sun moving from one sign to another registers in our consciousness. Astrology only takes that very real experience and provides a tool to break it down. With Sol moving into Virgo, the energy of the Cancer solstice fixed by Leo is now beginning to deconstruct. It can feel a little unstable.<\/p>\n

It is a good chance to practice the paradox of letting go and being grounded at the same time. Above all, it is an opportunity to reconnect with north, south, east and west in preparation for another equinox when the very Sun will spend a day or two once again sharing itself equally with us all. That’s our first day in solar Virgo.<\/p>\n

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By Len Wallick At 1:27 am EDT today, the Sun left Leo, the sign it rules, and moved into Virgo. That significant change will be followed in quick order by the Pisces Full Moon tomorrow. Even without the Mercury retrograde and the cardinal T-Square going on, it could be considered a challenge to process the … 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\/28049"}],"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=28049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}