{"id":29935,"date":"2010-10-21T06:18:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T11:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=29935"},"modified":"2010-10-21T10:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T15:20:37","slug":"where-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/where-to-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Things are falling into place for the Aries Full Moon taking place tomorrow night or early Saturday morning, depending where you are. This opposition of the luminaries has been our theme this week for two reasons. First it is the second of two consecutive Full Moons to occur in the same sign. One could consider it a variety of blue Moon — popularly taken as the second Full Moon in a calendar month. This astrological type of blue Moon takes place every two or three years and thus qualifies as auspicious, but not necessarily rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The second unique consideration is that Venus is in the same degree of Scorpio as it was for the immediately previous Aries Full Moon of September 23. This synchronization of placement and timing goes beyond rare, defies precedent or subsequent duplication. Sort of like you. It takes place in a year of one extraordinary event after another.<\/p>\n

There was the simultaneous and prolonged occupation of three cardinal points by trans-personal and epochal planets — the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in Aries, the last of which was in July of 1927. It will not happen again for over a thousand years. And we had the first conjunction of those same two planets in Pisces; the last time this happened was over seven centuries ago. That’s just to name a few.<\/p>\n

Now, with the major planets outside the asteroid belt in a period of transition, things are getting personal. Today is the first full day of Mercury in Scorpio, currently occupied by Venus and Mars. Those three are the personal planets. So called because they orbit the Sun many times in a typical human life, marking out the months and years. By the day after tomorrow, Sol will have joined them in Scorpio, illuminating the days in a rhythm that is at the root of astrology.<\/p>\n

Mars rules Scorpio and is on its way out the back door of that sign. It also rules Aries, scene of tomorrow’s astrological blue Moon. Venus is retreating towards the front door on its way back to Libra where it, in turn, rules and where Sol will experience the second consecutive opposition to Luna. You thought the old cardinal T-square represented everything at once.<\/p>\n

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Now it’s personal. It’s also as complicated as politics and as simple as love. This is where we become attached but in a different way than to what we have been accustomed. Not attached to our expectations, or our conditioning, or to outcome. It is now, in this period that we become attached to the great cosmic train of events. Some are aware and in active participation, having bought a ticket and boarded intentionally. Some are running to leap on before it leaves the station, shirt tails and shoelaces flying. Still others will catch a sleeve or buttonhole and be dragged off the platform, kicking and screaming.<\/p>\n

Just as we all are born in pretty much the same way, as we all need to eat and as we all transition from this place sooner or later, there will be no exceptions. We are on this train together and this is where it begins.<\/p>\n

The return of Venus to within two arc minutes of where it was for the previous Aries Full Moon is evocative of progression, the practice of starting with the natal chart and moving the luminaries and planets one day (or one degree, as the case may be) for each passing year. Luna is the only progressed object that has a chance to make it all the way around the chart in a human lifetime. Tomorrow, it’s like we get a similar experience in miniature, progressing from the first degree of Aries to the last.<\/p>\n

The first degree of Aries and the Moon have a lot in common, relating to our youth and the person we once were but never left behind. Think of what goes through your mind on the occasion of the vernal equinox, for example.<\/p>\n

The last degree of Aries, also known as the anaretic degree likewise has a lot in common with a progressed Moon changing signs. Something like a rite of passage. This is especially so when both the Sun and Moon change signs soon after their opposition. Two cycles are being completed at once. There is implied a final evaluation in preparation for advance to a new curriculum. This can be stressful and overwrought and convoluted especially when Mars is in a square to retrograde Neptune.<\/p>\n

But it’s the placement of Venus that is the saving grace, linking the Aries Point feel and fresh experience of the September Full Moon to this one. Venus is helping us to see that this is no end, only a transition, simultaneously personal and collective, linking the two realms of experience. As we implied at the beginning of the week, it is not a last chance, it is a second chance. A chance to see that progression is not a linear phenomenon, but a cyclical one. An opportunity to recognize and appreciate that life goes on if we let it.<\/p>\n

With Mercury now rising ahead of the Sun, all we have to do is think ahead to get past the moment that has been building in tension over the past few days. Think ahead and let go of what is gone. This day like any other is a time like no other. It may not be entirely possible to enjoy the ride, but it is appropriate to appreciate it.<\/p>\n

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