{"id":31091,"date":"2010-11-23T06:45:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T11:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=31091"},"modified":"2010-11-23T06:45:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T11:45:26","slug":"moon-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/moon-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Continuing from yesterday, this is the last of over four consecutive days when Luna will be situated in a sign opposing the sign where the Sun is. That is an extraordinary length of time for that particular aspect to last. What’s even more impressive is how this functionally extended Full Moon is winding up. If we count only the conjunctions in Gemini and the oppositions in Sagittarius, our luminary of the night chalks up no less than 18 aspects to various planets, exotics and asteroids in one day. That’s one every 80 minutes. That’s more than one for every degree. Once again, that is counting only the Moon’s conjunctions and oppositions to objects in only two signs over the course of one day — today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Synchronicity would thus dictate that wherever Gemini and Sagittarius fall in one’s chart would bear witness to a fast and furious variety of alliances and confrontations. It could get confusing. It certainly looks taxing. It might do well to review how to deal with those two aspects. In the process of doing so we might find a singular, typifying extrapolation to simplify your day.<\/p>\n

Conjunctions are when two bodies occupy the same degree of longitude from our point of view here on Earth. The orbit of influence that makes the conjunction functional will depend on the source you refer to. In general, anything less than five degrees apart is considered to be a single conjunction. That would make the early lunar sweep from Siwa to Diana to Psyche one committee meeting, merging the energies of all four with the sign of Gemini and the third house. Neatly opposing those three asteroids conjoining the Moon are three bodies in Sagittarius (in order): Pallas, Mars and an object that orbits out past Neptune named Quaoar.<\/p>\n

As a way to sample and narrow things down, let us select the first pair of opposing asteroids the Moon encounters and see if we can find a theme. While the name Siwa is a way of saying Shiva in some parts of the world, it does not appear as if the Hindu god of creation and destruction is what the discovering astronomer had in mind. In 1874, when Johann Palisa identified this object of the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, he apparently drew upon a faded local mythology. In this case, Siwa was named after a fertility goddess of the orally-transmitted pagan tradition of the Slavic peoples.<\/p>\n

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The Gemini Moon in conjunction with Siwa would seem to combine to tell a tale. A story of our own personal emotional and intuitive recollections from a time long past. Perhaps childhood, perhaps a previous generation, maybe even a previous species. Now that story wants to be expressed as a feeling long held or belief somehow forgotten.<\/p>\n

Pallas is on the other side in Sagittarius, geometrically and thematically opposed to Siwa. As an influential member of the Greco-Roman pantheon Pallas is repeatedly commemorated in writing, sculpture and architecture. As a goddess she is strikingly modern, representing the human potential of women above and beyond fertility and reproduction. But as Joni Mitchell implied, there’s something lost with something gained. You don’t have to be Freud to figure out what it means to be born in a full suit of armor, emerging into the world from the head of a male deity.<\/p>\n

The word opposition makes the aspect almost self explanatory. It is an external thing about being in between polarities, something like being in a bind between two people or traditions or institutions. When experiencing a bind, introducing the two sides and asking them to talk amongst themselves probably won’t work. Instead, it is for the party in the middle to negotiate with each part separately, becoming the solution as much as creating one.<\/p>\n

Turns out that one example summarizes what the Moon is going through today, a process of mediation between expression on one side and manifestation on the other. What’s being negotiated is a pathway between opposing notions of identity as assumed not through the intellect but through emotional attachments and inherited conditioning which we are only intuitively aware of. How are we made and what we can make of ourselves?<\/p>\n

So a complicated multitude of conjunctions and oppositions is made simple and what begins as a bewildering day becomes routine. We encounter people with expectations. We bring desires of our own. We negotiate our way through polarities and define ourselves in the process. Sounds pretty normal now, right?<\/p>\n

And what should synchronicity provide us with but a supporting sextile immediately after the Moon has traversed those three successive oppositions. A sextile to Eris, the dwarf planet out there on the edge of the solar system, up there in the middle of Aries, representing the post-modern challenge posed by the issue of identity.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month Mike Brown, co-discoverer of Eris and a number of other minor planets, described how Eris itself is still in the process of being defined. Seems that when this body passed directly in front of a star, the measurements yielded by the occultation clearly indicated a smaller diameter and denser composition than previous thermal and photographic observations predicted. This further distinguished Eris from Pluto, a more familiar dwarf planet that was originally assumed to have a lot in common with the newcomer.<\/p>\n

The Moon is simultaneously engaged in a rapid series of oppositions and experiencing a preternaturally long standoff with the Sun. This signifies the process of defining identity and encapsulates developments since the Moon went full two days ago. Add to that yesterday’s beginning of Solar Sagittarius with the onset of Mercury’s echo phase. By new characters taking the stage, the plot develops. When the plot develops, the identity of the characters is defined. But even as the wheel turns, the continuity is sustained. The essential elements are drawn out as if for emphasis while the ephemeral moments congeal into a stable theme.<\/p>\n

Speaking of theme, now more than ever, Jupiter rules the sky. That’s where we shall take up again in two days when the fortunate among us get to celebrate the occasion of a square meal.<\/p>\n

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