{"id":32648,"date":"2011-01-03T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T13:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=32648"},"modified":"2011-01-03T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T13:21:49","slug":"of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

If you are reading this, congratulations. You made it to the first Monday in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After a New Year’s weekend appropriately contained by a Sagittarius Moon, we awaken to Luna in Capricorn. That alone indicates that today will probably be real enough. With that in mind, we are going to depart from the usual protocol of focusing on one or two astrological events in depth. Rather we will touch on many things lightly with the objective of getting oriented.<\/p>\n

The big news this week will be two conjunctions taking place overnight or some time tomorrow, depending on where you are. The first one is the New Moon, which is also a partial solar eclipse that will be visible from much of Europe, North Africa and central Asia. We will review that today. The other event will be the last of a series of three conjunctions between Jupiter and Uranus. This one is taking place in the 28th degree of Pisces. We will leave that for tomorrow’s blog. Before we scratch either surface, however, please kindly allow us to get perspective. First, an anchor to the departed year.<\/p>\n

The subject of our blog last Thursday was Mercury’s direct station. Since that time, all the major planets have been in direct motion. We had a taste of that between December 5 and 11. Now we get the whole meal. The trend will continue until the end of January when it is Saturn’s turn to backpedal. Consider the possibility that this period of direct motion may have a certain quality of experience. The kind that goes along with the term “of course”, muttered to yourself when you realize something that should have been plain and clear all along.<\/p>\n

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Today has a little of that same quality. Besides the Moon changing signs, the two planets that will distinguish the astrology for the epoch we call 2012 each pass a couple milestones of their own today. Uranus forms a square aspect to the Galactic Center for the third time since last spring and the last time until the year 2064. Pluto, for its part, exacts a Capricorn conjunction with the asteroid Pallas Athene just hours before moving past the point where it stationed retrograde on April 7, 2010; thus ending the second echo phase and bringing closure to its 2010 retrograde cycle.<\/p>\n

What to make of that? Once again, keeping it light. Uranus is currently in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter. Pluto is in Capricorn, ruled by Saturn. Because of what is going on in those signs as well as their current individual placements, both Jupiter and Saturn are very strong right now. Between them, the flux between their fundamental traits of expansion (Jupiter) and limitation (Saturn) are an important key to the current astrology. When Uranus moves to Aries for the long haul later this year that will change. The cardinal T-square of 2010 will enter a new rendition and the comparative influences of the planets will shift.<\/p>\n

That new rendition will consist of seven cardinal square aspects between Uranus and Pluto that will last well into this new decade. The Galactic Core will be integral to the astrology during that time, especially the next few years. In one way or another, this period will see patterns being set that will last a very long time. Consider that, among other things, Pallas Athene has to do with patterns and their recognition and “of course” the first Monday of the new year would see elements that correspond with the astrology of the previous year coming to an end. At the same time the stage is being cleared for some new templates not yet defined but which are already being hinted at.<\/p>\n

Which brings us back to the partial solar eclipse that, along with the New Moon will take place in mid-Capricorn 4 am EST tomorrow morning. This means that Luna will be longitudinally conjunct with the Sun. As it is with every New Moon, it is on the same spot of a two-dimensional zodiac chart. It also means that the Moon is close enough to the ecliptic plain of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun to be almost conjunct in latitude. Thus, in three-dimensional space, the Moon will be almost directly between the Sun and the Earth and will, for a short period, block out part but not all of the Sun.<\/p>\n

This event follows and pairs with the Full Moon total lunar eclipse that took place just minutes before the Capricorn Solstice. As such, it is a conclusion. We are, as it were, coming out the other side of something. What that would be is the question.<\/p>\n

The whole process started in the midst of so many other things. Let’s stick with the obvious. We are on the other side of a transition between calendar years. That is not a small or trivial thing. While earthly and celestial cycles may find other times more logical for beginnings and endings, the Gregorian protocol now in use is the practical means by which temporal things are measured. Whether budgets, plans or objectives — personal or public, business or political — nearly all events are arbitrarily confined and defined by the frameworks of 12 months, 52 weeks and\/or 365 or so days.<\/p>\n

We are also on the other side of a retrograde. The total lunar eclipse on the Capricorn Solstice took place while Mercury’s apparent motion was still in reverse. Now it is direct. Finally, we are on the other side of a solar transition because the Sun was, after all, in Sagittarius, albeit the last degree, when the exact opposition with the Moon took place. In sum, it would seem that what we are approaching the other side of what is, for want of a better word, perspective.<\/p>\n

We’re nearing the other side of how things looked to us just before the season changed. We approach the other end of what we were going through when Mercury was in backward mode. We appreciate how it feels when the luminaries are conjoined rather than opposed.<\/p>\n

That, in simple and general terms is what this solar eclipse will hold. A change of perspective encourages us to hear or play a different tune. So here we are, on the other side of the last blog of 2010, when we suggested that today would call for a modulation. A change of key, or tone, or tempo. Now we can see that from another perspective.<\/p>\n

We can make a beginning by visualising it. Think of a wave form. Draw one on paper if you want to. A line that gradually curves up, then down, then up again and moves from one side to the other. It’s easy. You know what a wavy line looks like and drawing it comes natural. Now, pause and think about what distinguishes one wave form from another. It’s a combination of how far away from each other the wave crests are, and how high they go. Move the crest of each wave closer or farther apart and you have modulated the frequency. Increase or decrease the height of each wave and you have modulated the amplitude.<\/p>\n

Now, think of yourself as a wave form. You do certain things on a regular basis, right? If you were to select a few of these things and do them more often, or less, whichever seems appropriate, you would be modulating your own frequency. For example, brushing your teeth three times a day instead of two. If one were on the other hand to increase or reduce the quantity or quality of whatever regular practices you select, that would mean you are modulating the amplitude. In other words, brushing for two minutes rather than one. One would propose that some sort of modulation would begin to present itself as appropriate by this time tomorrow.<\/p>\n

In sum, be open. Open to a different perspective as well as a change of practice. Try some modulation experiments. Let your intuition guide you as to the subject matter. Sooner or later, it might come together and you may well consider it to be a matter of course.<\/p>\n

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