{"id":29544,"date":"2010-10-11T06:23:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=29544"},"modified":"2010-10-11T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T19:22:29","slug":"the-emergent-yin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-emergent-yin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emergent Yin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

In astrology, concurrent equals meaningful, and rare equals auspicious. Today’s blog will expand on that. Let us begin by noting the boundaries of this period and keep them in mind as a sort of background. Cognizant that the end is written in the beginning, re-examine the circumstances under which the retrograde began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We are now well into the Venus retrograde which started within hours of the Libra New Moon late last week. Venus spends only about seven percent of its time — the least of the major planets — in apparent backward motion.<\/p>\n

The retrograde will re-trace most of the first half of Scorpio. On Oct. 29, it will conjoin with the Sun. This will be an interior (alternatively called “inferior”) conjunction. That means it will be directly between the Earth and Sol. On the same day, Mars will ingress Sagittarius. It is also worth noting that this is taking place on the anniversary of Saturn’s first square to Pluto.<\/p>\n

Venus will then continue its back track into the last few degrees of Libra where it will station direct on November 18. That will be the same day Jupiter stations direct in Pisces. For the remainder of 2010 and the first half of 2011, we will find Venus rising higher and higher in the eastern sky before dawn, the so-called morning star.<\/p>\n

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There seems to be a prevailing opinion that retrogrades have a negative connotation. Notice the reaction you get when you use the word in conversation. Some of this no doubt comes from the frustration commonly seen during a Mercury retrograde, which unfortunately constitutes the gateway experience into astrology for many people. Add to this that Scorpio is a sign of detriment for Venus and we may well be tempted to expect the frustration and affliction of the qualities with which Venus is associated: desire, abundance and well-being.<\/p>\n

Negativity is a difficult habit to break. It’s easy to indulge attitudes that allow us to evade responsibility. It’s tempting to see challenges as a burden. Therein is the opportunity of this period we have entered. As the brightest of planets follows the sunset more and more closely, gradually disappearing from the western sky, we must keep in mind that it is not going away altogether. Before long, it will be transformed, literally heralding the start of a new day. In between, it is not a process of setback, but rather review.<\/p>\n

That transformation was foreshadowed by a new star in the Planet Waves sky, Lisa Roberts. In her beautifully concise October 9 blog, Lisa drew our attention to a set of asteroids that changed signs in the days leading up to and including the Venus retrograde station.<\/p>\n

Those asteroids are Juno, Pallas, Vesta and Ceres. Even though asteroids are relatively new tools to astrology, they have already begun to distinguish themselves in two ways. First, they have lent a degree of gender balance to a solar system long dominated by masculine principle. Second, their interpretation has, in practice, been proving to be rather straightforward.<\/p>\n

Combine these two areas of distinction with the fact that Venus and the Moon are the more ancient and traditional astrological repositories of the feminine principle and we just might be witnessing the beginning of a trend in recent days.<\/p>\n

The concurrent sign changes of Juno, Pallas, Vesta and Ceres are taking place when Luna is ending its old cycle and reforming anew in the sign signified by scales of balance. It is the beginning of a period when the energetic signatures of four goddesses’ energies will be subject to a fresh interpretation through the perspective of their new signs, just as Venus is changing direction on its way to the other side of the sky.<\/p>\n

It appears as though something is emerging from the realm of the yin. That alone is a good reason to leave our conditioned notions of retrograde behind and embrace the coming two months of Venus review with an eye towards the constructive and the positive. For it is not the planets that shape us. It is our decisions and actions that write the story. That begins with our thoughts. Our thoughts are matters of judgment. Our judgment is a matter of integrity.<\/p>\n

That is not to say it will be easy. We each have work to do. How to begin that work will be the subject of our Daily Astrology blogs this week.<\/p>\n

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