{"id":33424,"date":"2011-01-20T06:59:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T11:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=33424"},"modified":"2011-01-20T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:17:00","slug":"coming-together-sun-into-aquarius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/coming-together-sun-into-aquarius\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Together – Sun Into Aquarius"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

At 5:18 am EST, the Sun left the cardinal earth sign of Capricorn where it has been since shortly after a total lunar eclipse last month, and\u00a0is now in Aquarius. Aquarius is\u00a0a fixed air sign as oxymoronic as the combination of element and quality would imply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The traditional ruler of Capricorn and Aquarius is Saturn, so there is potential for\u00a0some continuity. Over the two centuries or so since its discovery in 1781, Uranus has been somewhat arbitrarily and sometimes controversially designated as ruler of Aquarius. The book is not closed on this. For those of you who have gotten to know and tolerate those of us solar Aquarians, the designation might make sense when you consider that the axial tilt of Uranus is over 97 degrees — in other words, the poles are roughly parallel with the plane of the solar system, where other planets have their equators. That’s how we roll.<\/p>\n

Where Saturn and Uranus come together is in the designation of Aquarius as the sign of the collective. The cooperative assumption of common purpose\u00a0leading to agriculture and civilization is\u00a0Saturnalian,\u00a0while the term “We The People” is definitely a Uranian expression. There’s your oxymoronic quality again as well.\u00a0On one hand, subordinating individuality to serve the common good, while on the other, taking note of when “…it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.” It makes perfect sense and it doesn’t.<\/p>\n

Preceding the Sun into Aquarius are the largest-asteroid-become-smallest-dwarf-planet\u00a0Ceres,\u00a0as well as\u00a0our red friend Mars. There are also two bodies soon to leave after long tenure. Neptune will try the waters\u00a0of Pisces this April, then return later in the year to pack its bags\u00a0to make a long-term commitment in 2012 to the sign it co-rules. Chiron, having dipped its toe last year is preparing to swim the distance when it dives into Pisces early next month.<\/p>\n

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And then there is Nessus. Like all centaur planets, Nessus is\u00a0associated with the psychological concept of shadow material. This is\u00a0residue of past injurious experience, carried forward either as toxic behaviour or as the source of healing and empowerment. With this particular object, the shadow is often one of abuse absorbed while still young, impressionable and defenseless. The karmic push-back is one of the primary sources of grudge. Moving slowly through the sign of the collective for what seems like an interminable period, it is something we have all come to feel for a few years. Even more than Neptune and Chiron, Nessus has become the identity of the sign and vice versa. In this little planet is all the peril and promise of the Aquarian experience in this era that bridges the end of second millennium and the beginning of the third.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0brings us back to the\u00a0current immigrants to Aquarius. Ceres has a lot in common with Saturn in that the mythology of both included instruction of the human race in the life-giving practice of agriculture.\u00a0From both we learned to\u00a0work with the cycle of the seasons to create food surplus during the growing season, making possible collective survival during a season of dearth. Being Persephone’s mother, Ceres\u00a0also has something in common with Nessus in that both know about abject pain and toxic response.<\/p>\n

Having both Ceres and Nessus present in Aquarius at this time presents a synchronicity every bit as double edged as the conjunction of Mercury with Pluto and the retrograde station of the asteroid Juno over the past couple days. Recently, and resulting from a combination of reasons, some basic commodities have become quite scarce and expensive. This would include staple foods such as wheat, rice and corn. Copper and cotton have also come up short. How we respond to this as a collective will go a long way towards determining what edge of Ceres we will experience during its time in the fixed air. Will the circumstances be abused by speculators and those whose agenda is to sow the seeds of discontent? Or will the situation become the mother of compassionate necessity, ushering in an age when Uranian innovation is leveraged to meet the challenge of Saturnalian limits? It’s up for grabs. The energy of Mars, soon to conjoin with Ceres, can be used creatively and constructively just as it has the potential to inflict further pain and deteriorate the social order.<\/p>\n

Think you are helpless? Use that Mercury-Pluto conjunction from two days ago and think again. Just as with every other trend in these cardinal point times, we can make a difference with our own choices. Think anew about the food you buy and where it comes from. Not just the cost to you, but also the cost to others by figuring in the expenditure of resources and the burden placed on the planet. Locally and organically grown becomes more than just conversation. Also, think about those with whom you can share, even just a little bit. One box of oatmeal adds up to so much more at the local food bank. It all adds up. It’s like exercise. The little bit every day that you can manage works out to more than the big amount you never get around to.<\/p>\n

Today is another beginning for the Sun, the symbol of our highest willful expression of self, shining our light out into the world. Just as with the extraordinary series of anaretic Full Moons or the closely concurrent transition of sign by the personal planets, Sol is part of a bigger picture in both its timing and placement. For today it is in supportive aspect to the Aries Point, the point where the personal and political intersect. This is the same exact\u00a0place that the second biggest object in the solar system — the planet Jupiter — will occupy less than 48 hours from now. That will set some bigger wheels turning and all of it will reflect the light of the Sun.<\/p>\n

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