{"id":29429,"date":"2010-10-05T05:50:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T10:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=29429"},"modified":"2010-10-05T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T12:30:10","slug":"the-shape-of-things-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-shape-of-things-past\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shape of Things Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

One day closer to the New Moon and we can feel it. It’s almost like a new year, or an anniversary, or an edge. Your ephemeris says the Libra Sun has moved its obligatory not-quite-a-degree since yesterday. Yet somehow it is still winding up to its air guitar-stroke with the ‘how we\/they think of us\/them’ feel of the centaur Thereus in Gemini. On the way there Pholus, of small cause \/ big effect fame, pops up in Sagittarius like the lamp post we didn’t see and my, that was close. It is as if the greater luminary is driving under a yellow flag, cautiously holding a place, preparing to advance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Moon meanwhile is feeling no such compunctions. Speed-reading the span of Mercury’s Virgo retrograde in a little over a day, gathering thorns there while it may. Speaking of Mercury, it’s no slouch, accelerating to join Saturn on Libra’s big couch.<\/p>\n

How we think and what we feel are in concordance on this deal, let’s get over the edge and start Libra for real. But our expressed self, conscious and creative is not so sure. There might be more than we bargained for beyond that door.<\/p>\n

Every conjunction of the Sun and Moon extinguishes the light of the previous lunar cycle while igniting a new one. The spark for that ignition is the energy of the sign in which the luminaries find concordance. Focusing that energy as a magnifying glass focuses light. With Sol and Luna coming together precisely on the the ascendant of the 9-11 chart the imperatives of Libra are being brought to the front door of that event. Striving for balance, justice and seeing the other side.<\/p>\n

No wonder the Sun seems to be dragging its feet. How would you feel approaching a threshold anticipating a stranger with your face on the other side?<\/p>\n

And what of the world, that collection of me’s that’s really one we. What precipitated from the events of September 11, 2001 has not been confined to the United States. Perhaps more than anything before or since, the whole world was watching. The empathy, fear and confusion moved the planet like a stand-sit wave around a stadium. It created a vortex in which most of us were caught up. Out of the loins of that vortex, the 21st century was born.<\/p>\n

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And what chart better represents the world than the chart of the world, the Thema Mundi. Apparently developed as a teaching device over two thousand years ago, it has some things in common with 9-11. What really took place to bring it about is shrouded in mystery. It is appears to be where a new age and its distinguishing characteristics had its origin. But most of all it is in the axis of quadrature that the most chilling correspondence is to be found.<\/p>\n

Every astrological chart for an exact time and place has a outer wheel of solar houses and an inner wheel of houses that begin with what degree of what sign was on the eastern horizon. That’s the ascendant, also known as AC. The cusp of the first house. Opposing the ascendant is the descendant, or DC — that axis runs East-West. There is also a North-South axis from the Imum Coeli (IC) to Medium Coeli (MC).<\/p>\n

And here’s the kicker, take that two thousand-plus-year-old chart, rotate the ascendant clockwise 90 degrees and you have the 9-11 chart. And conversely, the ascendant on the 9-11 chart is the Imum Coeli on the Thema Mundi.<\/p>\n

Here is where things get a little counterintuitive for most of us so please bear with a paragraph to overcome a misconception before it forms. Most of us think of the geographic direction North as corresponding with the word ‘up’. It is not uncommon to refer to the North Pole at the top of the world. But in a hoary chart it’s just the opposite. The Imum Coeli corresponds to North and it is at the bottom in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n

The IC is like the North in its winter season — in the dark. It is like the bottom in that it is the lowest point, the nadir, if you will. It is the cusp of the fourth house and represents not so much home, shelter, privacy and security as the need for those things. When the Rolling Stones sang “Gimmie Shelter” (and you should listen to it) that was as good a tribute to the IC and the fourth house as you will ever want to hear.<\/p>\n

So the world chart’s need for shelter, privacy, security, stability and nurturing rose to dawn over the horizon just as flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on New York City on 9-11. And now the Sun and Moon are conjoining in precisely that sign, at precisely that degree for the first time since the world was turned on its side by 90 degrees.<\/p>\n

And in astrology, 90 degrees represents what, boys and girls? That’s right a square. A knot of internal tension that can only be untied by conscious action. With the world’s need for shelter meeting up with Libra’s need for balance where Sol’s soul conception and Lunar reception come together, you just know that this is not going to be ordinary. What it might be is the rabbit we will attempt to pull out on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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By Len Wallick One day closer to the New Moon and we can feel it. It’s almost like a new year, or an anniversary, or an edge. Your ephemeris says the Libra Sun has moved its obligatory not-quite-a-degree since yesterday. Yet somehow it is still winding up to its air guitar-stroke with the ‘how we\/they … 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\/29429"}],"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=29429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}