{"id":28207,"date":"2010-08-30T10:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T15:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=28207"},"modified":"2010-08-30T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:34:24","slug":"the-sky-does-not-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-sky-does-not-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Does Not Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Yup, Mercury is still retrograde in Virgo. If we could see that planet right now, it would appear to be going backward even though we know good and well that it is not. That’s how the phenomenon of the truth coming out can be associated with this period: knowing better than to be deceived and acting to overcome deception. Knowing and acting, as it turns out, are also the essential elements of a seditious act. Our unhidden agenda today is to recruit you in just such a act.<\/p>\n

Hearkening back to last Thursday’s blog, the seventh annual “big Mars in the sky” Internet hoax has been making the rounds. Every August since 2003 the bogus e-mail is believed and forwarded by nearly everyone who reads it. Fooled for seven years in a row — sound familiar?<\/p>\n

With all due respect to those who feel that being repeatedly led down the garden path may eventually lead to some sort of enlightenment, your skeptical correspondent feels strongly that the time has come to say enough is enough. It is in this spirit that we encourage you to make a practice of looking at the night sky as soon as you can, as often as you can. Tell your friends. Call the folks who have taken up permanent residence in a traffic jam in China. Tweet the tea party. Send a letter to a soldier. Tell them to stop looking at lies and look at the gosh-darned sky. The rest will follow of its own course.<\/p>\n

That’s the seditious act.<\/p>\n

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Don’t think so? Consider how many times you have seen a sunrise versus how many times you have looked at this computer display. Think about how many times you have seen Jupiter or Venus lately versus how may times you have watched a so-called news program. Pause and contemplate — do you know what time the Moon rises tonight? Bet you know what time your favorite program is on, don’t cha?<\/p>\n

So, now the part of you that wants to be lied to is making a point of order. You cite the dictionary that defines sedition as the incitement of public disorder or rebellion against a government. Come on, really, what’s the government? After recent events can you even begin to tell where the government leaves off and British Petroleum (or banks, or stock markets, or the media, or the Internet, or the gun-toting mercenary) begins?<\/p>\n

And don’t you think that encouraging everybody to turn off the devices, pull out the buds, go outside and look up is not an incitement to disorder? Try it sometime. See what the police do. Find out what the officer says when you say that you and your friends are looking at the Moon. When you hear the answer you will realize it is almost too late.<\/p>\n

You see, the sky does not lie. The Moon cannot be bought. The planets cannot be influenced. The stars cannot be intimidated. Believe that someone is indeed working on those things, but not yet. In the meantime, the work has been done on us. Let’s take a cursory look at history.<\/p>\n

The last time Pluto was in early Capricorn, over 200 years ago, the majority of human beings the world over made a living directly off the land. This is not an easy life but it does have some advantages. If you grow your own food, it is difficult for someone else to withhold it from you, or poison it. If you are in a field or paddy, you can talk without being heard. You can also see the sky in detail as it goes through its cycles. Heck, you live with it.<\/p>\n

Contrast that to living in glorified rabbit-warrens most of us reside in. Compare that to working in a cubicle. Consider how so many of us go from one stationary box to a moving box to a stationary box and then reverse the process to end our day. We are surveyed, marketed and observed, evaluated, irradiated and recorded nearly every moment. In the name of what? You believe that?<\/p>\n

So, if the sky is visible tonight, go out and look at it. Take a friend. Call up your neighbor to join you. Contact everyone you know, wherever they are and ask them to do the same and keep doing it. Look up and witness truth. It will change you. It can change the world. If we do it right, there will be those who try to stop us. Drive us back inside our separate boxes to plug into our separate boxes and be deceived alone. Those who attempt that will show their true colors and we will transform this T-square from something happening to us into something we are creating.<\/p>\n

And what do we look for up there while we are finding ourselves again? Stay tuned. We will offer a tip three times a week. For tonight, just go out and look without an agenda. Be free.<\/p>\n

Meantime, what’s up with today’s astrology? Begin by remembering that the four elements of ancient natural science are fire, earth, air and water. Also remember there are twelve signs among which the elements are evenly divided in a manner that is at once arbitrary and esthetically correct.<\/p>\n

Mercury retrograde in Virgo is a good place to start. Recall that Virgo is an Earth sign. Another good place to start on any given day is by locating the Moon. Today, the Moon is in Taurus all day long. Taurus is also an earth sign.<\/p>\n

Signs of the same element generally get along with each other. Planets or luminaries in signs of the same element usually follow suit. Think support, think flow. That’s the relation between the Moon and Mercury today. Especially during the part of the day when they are both in the middle of their respective signs.<\/p>\n

In astrology the Moon represents our emotional, intuitive selves; the part that feels. Mercury, on the other hand, corresponds with our analytical and intellectual selves; the part that thinks. Finally the earth element is usually interpreted to combine the image of the practical, stable and nourishing. A mix of sensations that characterize the ground under our feet.<\/p>\n

So the relationship of retrograde Mercury and the Moon augurs well for a balanced, nurtured harmony between our thinking and feeling selves and that’s a welcome thing for a Monday. But all is seldom well, even in paradise. In the middle of another sign is an indicator of not only potential trouble but how to see it coming.<\/p>\n

Let’s go back to the four elements. We already know that signs of the same element get along with each other pretty well. Proceeding from that, it stands to reason that there would be some combinations of differing elements that do not play well together. Fire and water would probably be an obvious first choice. Oddly enough that combination is not the slam dunk of a thumbs down it would seem to be — but give it time and form will tend to function.<\/p>\n

Another, not so obvious mismatch is earth and fire. Once again, not one hundred percent, but especially in retrospect, the relationship is nearly always one-sided and hence unstable.<\/p>\n

In the middle of the mutable fire sign Sagittarius is something that is so far away that it seems to be standing still relative to us. It is called the Great Attractor. In reality it is powerful and unknowable. In astrology it functions to represent the same things.<\/p>\n

All we really know about the Great Attractor is that millions of galaxies, including ours, are moving in that direction like so many lemmings. It also seems to be retreating from us as fast as we are moving toward it. We can’t see it. We don’t know what it is. Gravity is apparently what is being expressed, but even that is not clear. We are not equipped to do much more than be aware of it. This mystery and power lends it a spiritual component but the aura also includes the polarizing and unsettling.<\/p>\n

At the same spot is a mysterious object from our own solar system. It follows an orbit that, at one point, carries it out past the orbit of Neptune. It is hence categorized as a Trans-Neptunian Object. Its name is Ixion. As much as the centaurs of mythology were trouble makers, they had nothing on this guy.<\/p>\n

By tomorrow the Moon will have moved on. In a few days the same can be said for Mercury, although it will return to the point where it is today when its apparent motion is forward again. But Ixion and the Great Attractor have been conjunct for a long while and will remain so. We can afford to return to their story in the future, more than once, at opportune times, a little piece at a time.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, take this with you for today. Where and when we find power, influence, arrogance, disrespect and indecency congregating we should not avoid or deny it. That will only make it a more potent brew. Neither should we partake of it; we may be tempted, but it is not nourishment.<\/p>\n

Instead, observe it. Take the grounded balance of feeling and thought that the Moon and Mercury provide us with today and use it as a baseline. Notice where it finds confrontation. Notice where you find tension. There you will notice some very interesting correlations if you are honest and courageous.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, go outside and share the news. The sky does not lie.<\/p>\n

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