{"id":32898,"date":"2011-01-10T03:46:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=32898"},"modified":"2011-01-10T03:46:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:46:22","slug":"a-transitional-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/a-transitional-step\/","title":{"rendered":"A Transitional Step"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Mercury, Neptune and the Galactic Center are key to our astrology today, but first a look at the Moon and selected events of the recent as well as distant past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Today is the second Monday of 2011. Just as it did on the first Monday of the year, the Moon starts the business week entering a cardinal sign. A week ago the lunar ingress was to Capricorn, today it is into Aries. In both cases the Aries point was activated. The implication is that the first two Mondays of 2011 are associated with the beginning of a new paradigm of some sort. One that is consistent with the characteristics of the lesser luminary. Having to do with the personal, intuitive and emotional progressions of a shorter, more intimate cycle. A cycle that, by benefit of its positional context, connects with the collective as well. After today is over, compare it to January 3 and see what parallels you can come up with.<\/p>\n

Along the lines of a new beginning, it is worth noting that Eris stationed direct yesterday. This ends a period of retrograde motion that started on July 18 last year. It places the planet ostensibly associated with discord into a meaningful and possibly even auspicious concordance with the so-called major planets which are all in direct motion at this time. It also provides us with some perspective.<\/p>\n

At the time of Eris’ retrograde station, Saturn was completing its last tour of Virgo, Jupiter and Uranus were still on their first foray into Aries, and the cardinal T-square was still going through its motions. Now of course, Saturn has completed a decade-long series of squares and oppositions to outer planets and is moving on to other things. Jupiter and Uranus have also recently exacted their last conjunction for a long time. Thus this direct station of Eris comes at a time of transition as we build to the next rendition of the cardinal point squares, when Uranus and Pluto resume their own series again next year.<\/p>\n

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Today is also an important anniversary in our relationship with the solar system. It was 401 years ago that, after observing Jupiter for several nights in a row, Galileo Galilei concluded that several of what he first thought to be fixed stars were in fact moving. After a few more days he realized that these objects were satellites of Jupiter. This observation, which was soon independently confirmed, put an end to a primary underlying assumption of ancient western cosmology, that all heavenly bodies circled the Earth. It was the beginning of modern astronomy. It also got Galileo into a lot of trouble with an established order that was threatened by and resistant to any sort of fundamental change.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, it is also possible that Galileo unwittingly observed Neptune, which was conjunct with Jupiter at the time. It may have been one of the objects that he did conclude to be fixed stars. As momentous as the discovery of Jupiter’s moons proved to be, imagine what it would have been like if Galileo had realized what he was looking at 171 years before the eventual discovery of Uranus. This was nearly three quarters of a century before Newton formulated the laws of motion ultimately resulting in the determination on paper of Neptune’s position before finally identified by telescopic observation in 1846.<\/p>\n

Thus we are called to humility. If one of the greatest minds in history can miss a trick, so can any one of us. That applies especially to astrology which is as intuitive as it is systematic and ultimately verified by retrospect. This also connects us to today’s astrology of which Neptune is an important part.<\/p>\n

Let us begin, however, with Mercury, which while in direct motion is still in the final echo phase of its own retrograde cycle. This process included two previous conjunctions with the Galactic Core. Today completes the third. The first was before the station retro on the Sunday after Thanksgiving in the United States. The second was in December while old Fleet Foot was in backpedal mode during the same time frame as its conjunction with the Sun — a total lunar eclipse and the Capricorn solstice. Perhaps the third time will be a charm, perhaps not.<\/p>\n

One of the things conjunctions are supposed to symbolize is a merging of energies. This particular case would appear to defy or at least confound that definition. When the planet that symbolizes our conscious, thinking mind conjoins with the Galactic Center — something of scale beyond human comprehension — it is bound to be problematic. If there is a way to bridge the apparent contradiction between the aspect and the participants, Neptune may hold the key.<\/p>\n

Today, Mercury and the Galactic Center share a sextile with Neptune. Sextiles are, among other things, encouragements to apply ourselves. Neptune, among other things, connects with the unconscious, even impaired potentials of our mind. It leads us to consider whether this time of astrological transition is also an opportunity for a transition of human consciousness. One that would eventually help us make sense of conundrums such as today’s featured conjunction, or at least start us on the path of an entirely new perspective. This would in turn help us to prepare for the challenges of the new rendition of the cardinal point phenomena that Pluto and Uranus will resume next year.<\/p>\n

Assuming that this transition of consciousness will not descend upon us all at once, what are we supposed to take from this aspect today? Perhaps the first thing to do is to recall Galileo’s experience and that of several other astronomers after him who observed Neptune without identifying it: that its final discovery was in the abstract, leading to that in the actual; that this planet historically corresponds to the gradual process of connecting what is perceived unconsciously to that which is conceived consciously.<\/p>\n

So it is that our minds may be uncomfortably present to thoughts or even actual experiences that it cannot resolve today. We may get the hint that we have been there before. We may even be able to make a connection with specific corresponding events in the recent past. But taking that last step and finding a way to make it all fit may not be a matter of collecting additional information. It may have to do with finding a different way to think about what is already in front of us.<\/p>\n

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