{"id":34208,"date":"2011-02-14T06:05:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T11:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=34208"},"modified":"2011-02-14T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T17:10:26","slug":"reality-nibbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/reality-nibbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Nibbles: Saturn and Haumea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Layers down underneath it all, a certain dwarf planet named Haumea has been in the thick of our astrology all year. Today, as a result of alerting elbows from both an erudite reader and the planet Mercury, we will finally give it some overdue attention. But first, a little foreplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Over the weekend the Mean North Lunar Node entered Sagittarius to stay for about a year and a half. This is one of two auspicious hypothetical points where the Moon’s oblique orbit intersects the Earth’s ecliptic to the Sun. This is a point that will not return to Capricorn until nearly two decades have gone by. This places the so-called south node in Gemini and begins a new era of eclipses and relationship themes between two opposing, volatile and dynamic mutable signs. It should be interesting. It will certainly be a change.<\/p>\n

While we are on the subject of things lunar, let us not forget that this is the seventh consecutive Monday of 2011 that is taking place under the auspices of a cardinal Moon. Late overnight or early this morning, depending on where you are, Luna moves into the sign of Cancer where it will oppose Pluto about 12 hours later. That aspect, in turn, resonates with the ambivalence and polarity that Valentine’s Day has come to represent.<\/p>\n

It would seem that there is room for a full range of feelings as regards to this ostensible holiday, which, unlike many, is purely social with no discernibly consistent astrological background. Whether you take it in blissful indulgence, blithe indifference or passionate offense, this year’s combination of lesser luminary, epochal planet and an axis so recently vacated by the nodes would seem to offer room to validate your feelings whatever they are. The key is to exercise restraint in expressing those emotions. After all, we have a long week ahead of us. You would be well advised to save your juice.<\/p>\n

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One reason to conserve your energies is the big astrological event that comes on Friday. That would be a Full Moon. Not only that, it’s the fifth consecutive Full Moon in the last (or anaretic) degree of its respective sign. This time it will be in Leo with Luna conjunct the hypothetical point called Isis-Transpluto. The Sun will, of course, be in the last degree of Aquarius for this opposition of the luminaries. In Sol’s Aquarian company will be Neptune, Mars and Mercury all in close attendance. We will get back to that in the blog this coming Thursday.<\/p>\n

There is plenty to keep us occupied in the meantime, but it all seems to have a common theme. No matter where one looks, that prevalent melody seems to have something to do with Saturn. Aquarius and Capricorn, the two signs traditionally ruled by the Ring-ed One, are packed with major and minor planets. Like the recent spate of Monday cardinal Moons, this serves to remind us that we are in a transitional period that amounts to a continuum in the longer run. By now we should be familiar with what that is.<\/p>\n

Even though Saturn’s role in the cardinal T-square is long past, it seems that we are living in the continuous legacy of a day very near Halloween of 2009. That was when the Ringy Thingy exacted the first of three 90-degree aspects with Pluto. This started up the whole series of cardinal point events that will carry on with Uranus and Pluto resuming their own series of square aspects next year. All through that time, the implicit association has been with the concept of relationship. Since that fateful day, the perspective has shifted to and fro as if to explore the various potentials and perspectives of how one interacts with another or with others.<\/p>\n

Today to keep us on task is Mercury, representing among other things, our thinking. Acting from Aquarius, the sign of our collective consciousness, the Fleet One forms a flowing air trine with retrograde Saturn bringing fresh air to its tenure in Libra. Tomorrow, the mercurial breeze features what has long been Saturn’s near-conjunctive companion operating under the radar, the dwarf planet Haumea we referred to at the beginning of this blog. So, finally, we are down to the strokes of the day.<\/p>\n

Somewhere along they way, Saturn seems to have acquired a reputation. Perhaps because the phenomenon of this particular object returning to its incidence on a natal chart has, along with Mercury retrogrades, become one of the most commonly dreaded astrological milestones. In both cases, the popular interpretation says a lot more about our relationship to fear than to the actual event. Then, of course, there is the balancing role that the Ring Master plays to the expansiveness of the other trans-personal planet, Jupiter. It’s a tough and unpopular job to say ‘when’, but somebody has got to do it. In the long run, it’s not bad news to encounter limits and boundaries. Without them, everything would ultimately become diffuse and exhausted. With them we acquire definition and identity. Indeed, it would seem that one of the most valuable lessons of our time is for all of us to become more like Saturn while still retaining our compassionate humanity. This sort of balancing act takes us back to to the subject of Libra.<\/p>\n

The location of planetary exaltations is one of most ancient parts of astrology. They go so far back as to be — like Homer and Abraham — beyond historical recovery. The fact that Saturn is exalted in Libra therefore conveys a very old wisdom. It tells us a story that ideas of balance, limits, boundaries and detachment are just as important to relationships as the abundant passion implied by Libra’s ruler, Venus. This combination is demonstrated by the fact that the first day of Libra marks one of the two days every year when the Sun is positioned directly above the equator, transferring the abundance of its radiation from one hemisphere to another in a perpetual cycle of green reciprocation.<\/p>\n

Enter our dwarf planet, Haumea, named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth and fertility. It was discovered on December 28, 2004 just two days after the Asian tsunami that still reverberates in our memory, and not named until nearly 4 years later. Much like its namesake, which also paradoxically represents the inert element of stone, it is as enigmatic and elusive today as when we first became conscious of it. That’s the most important thing to remember. Above all things, this object is still in the process of being defined in both the astronomical and astrological sense. Just so happens that defining things is among Saturn’s specialties.<\/p>\n

It is almost as if Haumea has been waiting for the other shoe to drop; waiting for Saturn to complete the process of converging identities. A process that was started and repeated by Venus, as recently as this last August. That moment has of late been delayed — a postponement that will prove to be discernibly appropriate.<\/p>\n

Haumea is located way out there in the Kuiper Belt, a collection of asteroid-like objects in the same general vicinity of Pluto and Eris. It takes a long time to go around the Sun — about 283 years. Because of that, it’s apparent motion has carried it less than seven degrees from where we first became aware of it. It is therefore of and about Libra, taking a great deal of its identity from and bringing a fresh renewed perspective to that sign. Last month it was within a degree or so of exacting a first conjunction with Saturn since its discovery. Then, both objects stationed retrograde within a week of each other. Thus, the inevitable was put off until just a day before the Sun next stations over the equator on its way South toward the tropic of Capricorn.<\/p>\n

You read that right. The first conjunction of Saturn and Haumea since Haumea’s discovery will take place on the day before the Libra equinox. That, dear friends, has got to represent some sort of synchronicity. It is where we will pick up again tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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