{"id":28715,"date":"2010-09-14T06:19:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T11:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=28715"},"modified":"2010-09-14T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T13:53:09","slug":"tracing-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/tracing-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracing the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Shortly after midnight EDT, Pluto stationed direct ending a retrograde period that started back in the first week of April. Consider how long ago that was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Back then, Mercury had not yet stationed retrograde in Taurus, this last Sunday night it finished its subsequent retrograde in Virgo. Saturn had just rolled back into Virgo one last time, now it’s further into Libra than it has been for nearly 30 years. Jupiter and Uranus had not crossed the Aries point yet, now both are back in Pisces after having passed that cusp a second time. Chiron had not ingressed Pisces yet, now it’s back into Aquarius until next year.<\/p>\n

Yup, a lot has happened in the last five months or so. Way back then very few people had heard of a Deepwater Horizon or a WikiLeaks. If there is anything to synchronicity, taking stock of those events will be part of what Pluto will be a involved with for the rest of 2010. Shortly after 2011 begins it will be breaking new ground in Capricorn until next April when it will be time to backtrack again. This pattern is something like three steps forward followed by two steps back repeated over and over. Progress is slow but steady and no stone is left unturned. This alone tells you a lot about Pluto in astrology.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday we had a look at how some minor planet activity in mutable signs, coinciding with the Mercury station, implied a web-like interconnectedness going beyond temporal synchrony. If that representation is valid then the mutual forward movement for Mercury and Pluto has implications going beyond the fact that they were less than 30 hours apart. The most obvious case is that both planets are in Earth signs.<\/p>\n

One of the things we have reviewed in recent weeks is that each of the twelve signs is distinguished by an association with one of the four elements of ancient western natural science: earth, air, fire or water. Furthermore, we have discussed how different signs sharing the same element seem to be compatible with each other. This compatibility can take the form of communication or reinforcement between planets in different signs of the same element. This is especially so if the planets in question share a similar placement in the respective signs.<\/p>\n

Following from all that, it would hold that current events would seem to reflect Mercury and Pluto sharing, exchanging, and in sympathy with each other. Part of that would be emulating what the other does when stationing forward.<\/p>\n

If that were the case with Pluto, one would expect a sort of “storm” phase when the issues of the sign (Capricorn, society’s institutions and structures) were suddenly reflecting the issues of the planet (Pluto, transformation and metamorphosis) in a concentrated, even exaggerated way. That seems to be exactly what is happening.<\/p>\n

Your loyal servant humbly submits that this phenomenon is the conceptual link between recent events such as the uncontrolled fires in urban Detroit and rural Colorado, the explosion of a steel gas main in suburban California and the fact that school districts all over the United States are barely able to open the doors as a new school year begins.<\/p>\n

The maintenance of the tangible infrastructure of public services has gone the way of research and development in the private sector — neglected in favor of short term concerns. The budgets of fire departments and school districts have not provided for the additional personnel equipment and\/or facilities to meet the increased demand for their services. Peter has been robbed to pay Paul for quite a while now and this Pluto station is emulating the Mercury storm in that the truth of it is coming out all over.<\/p>\n

Conversely if Mercury were taking on a bit of Pluto’s act, we would expect a focus on things turning around slowly regarding the issues of the sign (Virgo: healing the mental-physical interface) and the planet (Mercury: conceptualizing and communicating) with an emphasis on the shadowy and indeterminate.<\/p>\n

Simply bearing witness to the ninth anniversary of the 9-11 events reveals just such a case. This year’s observations have been characterized by the sharp relief between the amount of time that’s elapsed and how little progress has been made to reconstruct, resolve and reconcile after the event. And as long as we are using words starting with “re”, the resistance to revealing the facts has assumed downright Plutonic proportions of confounding complexity.<\/p>\n

As a way of addressing the complexities on the astrological level, it would now seem appropriate to consider the two planets that have recently and concurrently changed signs. Can Jupiter and Venus be integrated into the perceived web of interconnectedness in a manner that follows how we have woven Pluto in with Mercury?<\/p>\n

We can start by determining the element that characterizes the differing signs to which Jupiter and Venus have now taken up residence. What do you know, both Scorpio and Pisces are water signs. So there is some interconnectedness to Mercury and Pluto and we can assume that Jupiter and Venus are in conversation.<\/p>\n

But the nature of this conversation may not be so much of an exchange as a comparison. Unlike the two planets that concurrently stationed direct in Earth signs, the two that have ingressed water signs so close together in time are going in different directions. You might say that Venus is going into Scorpio through the front door while Jupiter is using the back entrance into Pisces. As they move into differing signs of the same element from opposite sides they will have a common experience. Both will conjoin with another planet for a second time, the first such aspect having been in the sign of previous domicile. Jupiter gets to go first and that’s where we will continue on Thursday.<\/p>\n

We appear to be encountering a web of connections that can bring us an awareness of recent, current and future astrological activity. The warp that forms the scaffold of that weaving is the cardinal T-square representing connection through the quality of signs. The close timing of recent changes of direction and sign indicates a weft to complement the warp. So far, that complement seems to be in an elemental relationship.<\/p>\n

Saturn gradually leaving the cardinal point aspects behind and Pluto now direct, again that weft of timing and element will take on a greater role as the cardinal T-square evolves into a different thing altogether. Something that will take on the character of evolution itself. But that’s later. In the meantime we participate in the weaving even as we ourselves are woven, exploring and growing to understand the web we have encountered as the seasons change.<\/p>\n

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