{"id":29604,"date":"2010-10-12T05:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T10:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=29604"},"modified":"2010-10-12T05:09:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T10:09:03","slug":"the-emergent-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-emergent-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emergent Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Funny thing about astrology. The geometric relationships between luminaries and planets, major and minor, trump the differences in their distance from us and each other. It’s all how their positions appear from our perspective here on Earth. Rarely is distance made moot more than today when the Libra Sun conjoins with an object that crosses the orbit of Neptune and the Sagittarius Moon relates in element to an object on the outer edges of the solar system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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First, however, let us remember that Venus is in review, preparing to cross the face of the Sun and re-appear on the other side of the sky with a new identity. Preceding that planet in transformation are four others. All four named after Greco-Roman goddesses just as Venus is. Three of them asteroids. One of them already acquainted with the concept of a new identity through the auspices of astronomy. Today we will take a look at that one and return to the luminaries to wrap up.<\/p>\n

Of all the goddess planets that changed signs on the days leading up to and including the Libra New Moon and Venus’ retrograde station, the first with substantial appointment is Ceres. Late last April this body, formerly classified the largest of asteroids, came very close to catching up with Pluto before starting a retrograde of its own which took it a third of the way back into Sagittarius, about where the Moon is today.<\/p>\n

Now Ceres is back in Capricorn and will not be denied its conjunction with Pluto in less than a week. It will be an interesting reunion. In mythology, the two were the proverbial in-laws who did not get along. The bone of contention being Ceres’ daughter, Persephone, abducted by Pluto into the underworld. Their negotiated settlement is the mythological explanation of how the seasons came to be.<\/p>\n

How Persephone felt about all this is not recorded. One gets the impression that Pluto’s company was not entirely disagreeable. Recently the asteroid named after her has been kickin’ it in Taurus with another one named Industria. No kidding. Perhaps that is how she rolls, not with a whim, but a banker.<\/p>\n

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In the meantime, Pluto and Ceres have more than old scores on their plate. Things have changed. In 2006 the International Astronomical Union, as part of a larger action, made the two of them equivalent, designating both to the new category of ‘dwarf planet’. That is to say, bodies which orbit the Sun and have sufficient gravity to form a sphere but which have not cleared their orbits enough to hang with the good old boys. In addition, recent photographs from the Hubble telescopes have documented a change in the appearance of Pluto — its complexion, as it were.<\/p>\n

Even with all those recent developments, the mythology is a strong influence on our consciousness of both Ceres and Pluto and hence on the astrology. In addition to being diametrical as regards to Persephone, they are likewise positioned as to their respective jurisdictions. To put it simply, Ceres is concerned with the surface of the Earth and Pluto’s realm is below.<\/p>\n

It is thus quite interesting that their conjunction is applying even as the province of Ceres has been connected with the domain of Pluto in Chile. Ever since August 5, shortly before Ceres stationed direct in Sagittarius, 33 miners have been trapped a half mile underground. This last weekend the drilling of an escape shaft was completed and by the time these two dwarf planets conjoin we will know whether the literal connection between worlds will have served its purpose. Meantime, as an experiment, you may want to hold that phrase, “escape shaft”, in your mind and see what happens between your own surface and depths.<\/p>\n

In the meantime the Sun has formed a conjunction of its own this morning, with a minor planet that crosses the orbit of Neptune. It is named after a royal son of Jupiter whose mortal integrity earned him a place of immortal judgment, Rhadamanthus. Symbolically this conjoining in Libra connects the center of our solar system with its outer reaches. The context is the process of review that Venus has begun. During the process of its transformation we are participating by defining the process in our thoughts. That is taking shape as Mercury approaches its own conjunction with the Sun. Today those thoughts are forming in our judgment, reflecting our integrity and contributing to the outcome.<\/p>\n

And part of that outcome is whether we will choose to to be in synchrony with Venus, Ceres, Vesta, Juno and Pallas. Will we ourselves be open to a change in our own identity, context or domicile during this period of transition? As if to lead the way with our feelings the Sagittarius Moon, already passing through a gauntlet, exacts a flowing trine of fire with Eris in Aries. This is warming things up for Thursday when the Sun will oppose Eris and Friday when Mercury will follow suit. That’s where will take up the day after tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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