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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nLibra has themes we recognize: relationships and how we do them; the concept and expression of beauty, as much for its own sake as for the sake of what it is representing; and a quality of subtlety that can give way to a creative fire like none other, under the right circumstances.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend Mercury ingressed Libra after more than two months in Virgo. That two months included one of the most psychologically challenging Mercury retrogrades in a while. It’s unusual for Mercury to spend so long in one sign, but that’s what happened this time around. Its ingress into Libra is the covering-all-bases moment of ‘this whole mentality is over’; whatever journey Mercury retrograde in Virgo, or Mercury in Virgo, represented, is over — and now we take with us, and apply, what we learned. At the moment of the New Moon, Mercury is conjunct Saturn in Libra, which you might say is about applied creativity.<\/p>\n
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This event will take place rather precisely on the ascendant of\u00a0the chart for a certain event back on Sept. 11, 2001. That event being Flight 11\u00a0colliding with the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, which creates a moment of transparency for this blight on world history.<\/p>\n
This auspicious conjunction of Luna and Sol will be the focus of our Daily Astrology & Adventure blogs this week.\u00a0To\u00a0begin this journey,\u00a0we will review the astrology of the past several days. Then we will look at three of today’s aspects to get a\u00a0feel for developing issues.
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\nBy the time you read this the Sun will have left its conjunction with Saturn several clicks (known as degrees) behind, not to be revisited for another year; that one is also an annual event. Also, Venus and Mars are slowly departing\u00a0in sweet sorrow from yesterday’s union in Scorpio. Mars is pulling away toward Sagittarius while Venus is slowing down, about to back up and head into Libra. The\u00a0planets of\u00a0yin and yang will next meet in May of 2011 on the lush\u00a0fields of Taurus. But before then, their intricate dance in Scorpio continues; we have a Venus retrograde beginning later this week, a developing story that we’ll be following in this space.\u00a0
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\nAppropriately,\u00a0this aspect\u00a0of\u00a0exploring gender metamorphosis\u00a0is rearranging itself just as luminaries are\u00a0getting into the act, applying to a conjunction of their own — the New Moon.
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\nIn addition, late on Saturday or early yesterday, depending on where you are, Mercury moved into Libra.\u00a0This ended over two months of\u00a0tenure in Virgo, the sign\u00a0of Old Fleet-Foot’s dual rulership and exaltation. These last nine weeks included a powerful retrograde period, the third consecutive\u00a0earth sign retrograde for Mercury this year, and later in the season we have another retrograde of Mercury that touches earth sign Capricorn.
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\nCurrently, Mercury in Libra aligned with the cardinal cross that has been developing all year; Mercury has been, and will be, talking to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, those planets also having recently completed some significant chapters. As if on cue, when Mercury crossed the Aries Point, the U.S. put out terrorism travel advisories for Americans abroad in Europe.<\/p>\n
All of the planets that took part in the cardinal cross earlier in the year are\u00a0now experiencing a transitional period, both individually and in concert.\u00a0If synchronicity were to be believed, such a concordance might herald something for all of us that we can create or that ‘might happen’ and in any event is worth paying attention to.
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\nThis is an invitation to partake fully in the change of paradigm, or reality framework, implied by the outer planets. <\/p>\n
Yet, there\u00a0remains a sort of drag as most of us remain to some extent invested in protocols for how we live our personal lives that are becoming less and less tenable. Many have decided that these customs just don’t work but don’t know what to do about their circumstances, or their guilt. What is up with that and how to address it are the subjects we will address with the New Moon and the days leading up to it.
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\nPerhaps\u00a0the best example of overstayed attachment is the Republican Party in the United States. This last week they recycled a promotional strategy that worked 16 years ago, as if nothing had changed in the meantime.\u00a0This last year they have been\u00a0falling all over themselves\u00a0to incorporate an increasingly narrow-minded, radical and crackpot fringe as if this were 1980, when defeating the Equal Rights Amendment for women was all the rage. Five candidates on various Tea Party tickets are campaigning to disallow women’s right to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy even in the case of rape or incest. Seemingly until last week that was just too ridiculous, stupid and unfair to even consider. Now it’s the thing that supposedly gets votes.<\/p>\n
What makes it even worse is that even those opposed to draconian politics and governing models are overwhelmingly intimidated by prospects for its success. Buffaloed and backpedaling rather than advancing confidently against the obstruction of progress, there is no actual progressive agenda being articulated. That would not happen\u00a0if there were not some internal concessions inhibiting external confrontation against that which does not work any more and, in reality, never has.
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\nSo\u00a0it seems that we are revisiting\u00a0a theme of the cardinal T-square, that the personal is political.\u00a0In this case, personal inhibitions, conflicts and even pathologies influencing the conduct of our public (and hence political) lives. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
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\nToday, the Sun\u00a0provides a clue in what\u00a0might be called a co-dependent relationship with the centaur planet, Thereus.\u00a0Philip Sedgwick interprets Thereus as having to do with\u00a0an attitude\u00a0commonly applied to relationships — comparing ourselves to others.\u00a0Status, in other words, which usually comes in the form of feeling superior or inferior to another based on\u00a0image\u00a0and appearances is the path of least resistance.<\/p>\n
There is also a theme of getting the word out.<\/p>\n
Taken in combination with Sol as the representation of how we express ourselves,\u00a0we\u00a0find it challenging to develop\u00a0and live by our own values because there seems to be\u00a0more security in accepting those handed down to us. Even if we know good and well that they don’t work. Even if we can\u00a0feel more whole and less conflicted by bucking trends sustained only by an inertia\u00a0derived of coercion.
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\nIn an interesting parallax,\u00a0the\u00a0Moon forms an aspect of its own today that is geometrically identical with Sun-Thereus but with a\u00a0completely different feel.<\/p>\n
A few hours before leaving Leo behind, Luna develops a fire trine with the core of our galaxy.\u00a0The\u00a0Galactic Center in Sagittarius is a powerful\u00a0indication that we are more authentically distinguished by what we have in common than by our differences.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Moon\u00a0connecting with our emotional and intuitive component, culminating in a sign ruled by its counterpart is well positioned to open\u00a0us up to the flow of that truth. While our egos may be preoccupied by keeping up with the Joneses, our hearts are better served by\u00a0being open to\u00a0what it’s like to actually be them.
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\nWhich leads us to Mercury’s first substantial aspect in Libra.\u00a0Mercury and its progress through the zodiac finds itself associated with how we think. Today, it briefly stands in the shoes so long occupied by Saturn. In a cardinal square to Pluto in Capricorn there is tension. How we think confronted by the imperative to transform it. But there is also some common\u00a0ground. Both are recently\u00a0in direct motion again. Their brief encounter today may not have profound consequences but it is at the very least indicative. If we can resolve our inner tension by moving forward\u00a0and revising our reasoning process we can avoid having to deal with the same problems over and over again.
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\nSo those are\u00a0the first few steps on our way to getting a grip on the week.\u00a0Topics are already developing that will influence our interpretation of the New Moon. The\u00a0equivalence of our personal and public lives is taking\u00a0on a Libra flavor.\u00a0How we define ourselves\u00a0needs to be balanced with an evolved reality.\u00a0What we are invested in and attached to is\u00a0feeling\u00a0less sustainable, both within and without.<\/p>\n
The definitions and the practices of relationship that we have inherited are not working so well.\u00a0The goals no longer serve. The resolution of these things begins by transforming how we think, and how we respond to what we feel. Thursday\u00a0we will experience a New Moon in Libra. For the next three to four days, the Moon will be in its extreme waning phase, which is another way of saying the end of the lunar cycle. Therefore, this is the time to focus on ending old cycles and seeding the new cycles. Remember that most … 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\/29433"}],"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=29433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAlbert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.\u00a0That would seem to be the issue we are faced with this week.
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