{"id":36407,"date":"2011-03-31T02:50:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T07:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=36407"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T20:40:08","slug":"mars-neptune-and-the-nexus-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/mars-neptune-and-the-nexus-of-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars, Neptune and the Nexus of Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span>By Len Wallick<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

Whenever you advise a ruler in the way of Tao, counsel him not to use force to conquer. For this would only cause resistance”<\/em>
\n-Lao Tzu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If there is anything to astrology, the big picture will endow our time with the opportunity to end conflict and unify humanity, one person at a time, one day at a time. The coming days will bring this lesson home from several points in history, courtesy of Mars, Neptune and the New Moon, which is the unifying locus of the astrology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Mars will enter the sign it traditionally rules a day before Sunday’s New Moon, also in Aries. For Neptune into Pisces, it’s the day after. Both events are a big deal, and both are part of something bigger: A confluence of events surrounding the time and location where one lunation cycle ends and the next begins. The theme is moving from opposition into unity.<\/p>\n

It’s been a long time since Mars has been in Aries, since the last day of May 2009. It’s been nearly a century and a half since Neptune was last in Pisces; Abraham Lincoln’s 53rd birthday in 1862, to be exact. Over the course of the next several days they both come home to the signs they are most closely identified with.<\/p>\n

The conjunction of the Sun and Moon this coming Sunday is not only closure on their most recent opposition. It is the other side of the space-time coin.\u00a0The ‘super’ Full Moon was about geometric orientation in space. Earth was the focal point of a grand mutable cross. One axis connected the nearest and furthest points of the lunar orbit (perigee and apogee) which were, respectively, conjunct with the Moon and Sun at the time. The other axis of the cross was the line of opposition between the lunar nodes. Because of the players and their orientations, it was an arrangement that had some of the spatial qualities of an eclipse.<\/p>\n

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Just as the Virgo Full Moon approximated some geometric qualities of eclipses, the Aries New Moon is setting up to do the same thing with time, pulling into the present events from the past and future.<\/p>\n

When retrograde Mercury crossed into its echo phase on March 17 it did so by passing a point, approximately 13 degrees Aries — near the middle of the sign. When Jupiter opposed Saturn on March 28, it was within one degree of that point. Sunday’s New Moon will be in the same spot.\u00a0This is a relationship in time. One spot, three dates. It connects those three dates to this coming April 23 when Mercury will station direct at the same spot.<\/p>\n

It also connects to the year 2000 (the last year of the 20th century) when Jupiter was last conjoined with Saturn (along with the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars). It was another big deal New Moon which was closely followed by a stolen election; that precipitated eight years of perfidy and two wars the United States is still involved in. Just as the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction has come to its conversion point, so it seems have the illegitimate martial enterprises originating with that period. Once again, a connection in time.<\/p>\n

Neptune and Mars changing signs on the day of the New Moon widens the temporal connection to include two United States presidents — Lincoln and Obama — attempting to govern a nation divided by war.\u00a0Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1862 must have been a somber occasion. The last time Neptune was in Pisces, he was presiding over a the worst sort of political conflict, civil war.\u00a0Things were not going very well at the time. People of the same nationality were murdering each other in a conflict over the nation’s founding proposition: that all humans are created equal. He was compelled to issue a formal proclamation — the Emancipation Proclamation — to make the issue clear.<\/p>\n

Conversely, the last time Mars was in Aries, President Barack Obama must certainly have felt some internal conflict when he stood in the presence of the fallen at Arlington National Cemetery. He proclaimed that he would exercise his prerogative as Commander In Chief only when absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n

Which leads to perhaps the most telling of the time connections in the nexus we now occupy. Shortly after the New Moon, Mars will conjoin with Uranus on the Aries Point. This volatile combination invokes the presence of Pluto in Capricorn by way of its early cardinal sign placement, and awakens us to just what the 21st century warrior may have come home to.<\/p>\n

The last time Pluto was where it is now, the most powerful empire in the world, Great Britain, ignored Lao Tzu’s advice. It used force and provoked a resistance that led to a revolt (the American Revolution) that ultimately brought the British to be supplanted and displaced by its former colonies in North America.\u00a0It is the irony of our times that the succeeding empire, the United States, is now so deeply invested in the use of force that it\u2019s the only thing that it’s any good at anymore.<\/p>\n

But that force is no longer useful or relevant except to cause a new cycle of resistance when the world needs it the least. When oceans are dying and ecosystems are being decimated, when the continued viability of DNA itself is in question, the very ideas of both force and resistance are rendered absurd, no matter how just the cause. The decision can no longer be left up to those with the power to force the issue. Their track record sucks. It is up to those of us with no power except to say “no more.”<\/p>\n

That’s the meaning of this New Moon folks. What began with war when Pluto was last in Capricorn — as it is now? What was divided by war when Neptune was most recently in Pisces? What was deluded into war when Jupiter and Saturn were conjoined? What strained to justify a decade of war when Mars was on its way out of Aries? That’s right — the United States has finally found that what goes around comes back. It’s not just one planet, it’s a bunch at once. It’s not just one nation, either. It is all of us together, all at once.<\/p>\n

We are at a nexus when we must change our ways. The polarities which have served as the excuse and scaffold for our material conflicts must be resolved if we are to continue a material existence at all. And we can’t sit back and expect the power structure that has brought us to this fine predicament to get us out of it. The established order is bankrupt literally and figuratively; it is powerless except to make things worse. It is for individual human beings to begin with each other. One person at a time, one day at a time. You know what to do, you always have. That’s how you come to be reading these words today.<\/p>\n

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