{"id":37405,"date":"2011-04-25T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T08:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=37405"},"modified":"2011-04-25T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:28:28","slug":"greater-than-your-shadows-venus-square-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/greater-than-your-shadows-venus-square-pluto\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Than Your Shadows – Venus square Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Len Wallick<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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In this phial is caught the light of Earendil’s star…May it be a light to you in dark places…”<\/em><\/div>\n
Gladriel’s gift to Frodo (from “Fellowship of the Ring”)<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Overnight tomorrow and into Wednesday, the heroic quest of Venus in Aries reaches its second great milestone aspect, a square with Pluto. This follows a\u00a0conjunction with Uranus over the weekend just past. That’s a big shift. The conjunction was a combination of energies in the context of one sign. The approaching square symbolically indicates something entirely different: contrast and tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In astrology, a square takes place when at least two objects are separated by 90 degrees on the zodiac circle. That means they are necessarily in different signs. That’s where a lot of the contrast comes from. The energy a planet expresses at any given time includes not only the identity it carries around, but also where it is, the planetary ruler(s) of that location and the distinguishing combination of element (fire, earth, air or water) and quality (cardinal, fixed or mutable).<\/p>\n

The tension part comes from the geometric figure of the same name. It is structurally unstable in the material world. If you build something with a square shape, the 90 degree corners need to be reinforced to maintain the tension and hence, the form. Otherwise it will become a parallelogram and the structure will ultimately collapse. That is not a good thing for buildings and furniture. For our inner lives, however, the release of tension means that stability has not been lost but in fact re-attained.<\/p>\n

It is perhaps because we are so involved with our outer lives that the square aspect has an undeserved reputation as something to be\u00a0dreaded, avoided or despised. If we buy into the cookbook astrology formula that we are about to encounter a difficult and discouraging setback, who would feel otherwise?<\/p>\n

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What if we saw it differently? What if the square of Venus to Pluto really was a chance to notice what is going in inside of ourselves and act on it? What if we could scratch the itch and address the pain? What would that look like? It looks like a road map. The nature and timing of a square in the sky informs us of where and when to look on the inside.<\/p>\n

Right now, Venus is literally the\u00a0bright light on the eastern horizon just before dawn, the proverbial darkest hour. Weather permitting, you can see it with your own eyes. Because of that one factor, the fact that people have always been able see it for themselves for as long as our kind has walked this Earth, the mythology and the thing itself are one in our minds. While in Aries, its innately understood energetic expression as attraction itself can be harnessed to guide our self awareness. It is as if we are being directed to pay attention to what we are attracted to and what we find attracted to us as a source of self knowledge.<\/p>\n

Pluto is literally and figuratively operating from a different angle. We can’t see it easily in real time. A comparatively small number of people actually have. Only a century ago, no human being knew of its existence. It is associated with an ancient myth about places we don’t want to go and things we don’t want to think about, but that is obviously recent and arbitrary. The only way most of us can ‘see’ Pluto is through the aegis of scientists and even science is not sure what it really is. In recent years and months, its appearance and atmosphere have changed significantly as it continues into the greater part of its orbit from which it has never been observed. Heck, we are thinking about taking bets as to whether or not the damned thing grows a tail and becomes a comet.<\/p>\n

Pluto’s time in\u00a0Capricorn since 2008 has\u00a0already\u00a0coincided with big shifts in\u00a0our\u00a0collective relationship to the established order and in our individual relationships to the power structures in our lives. This provokes us to re-examine our perceptions of just what the huge institutions of government, economy culture and religion actually are as well as who and what purpose they serve. That can lead to some powerful feelings of repulsion. Well, how about that.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0particular\u00a0square\u00a0of\u00a0Venus\u00a0to\u00a0Pluto\u00a0can\u00a0thus\u00a0be\u00a0expressed\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0useful\u00a0way.\u00a0It\u00a0is\u00a0about\u00a0contrast,\u00a0in this case, attraction and repulsion.\u00a0Both\u00a0exist\u00a0for\u00a0real\u00a0as\u00a0part\u00a0of\u00a0our\u00a0inner\u00a0lives.\u00a0There\u00a0is\u00a0tension in the contrast. Go ahead, tell us\u00a0that\u00a0isn’t\u00a0true for you. Finally, there is the task of resolving that tension and growing stronger from the experience. And how to do so? Well, you can start with what you know, really know, really damned good and well know — your attractions. You can use them as a light.<\/p>\n

You can take that light to dark places where things are too big, too dark, too complicated or too far away to comprehend. You can use that light to dispel the darkness and realize that those things you don’t want to think about, those places you don’t want to go, the mysteries and fears that are used to control you are not so different from what you know dammed good and well. And when the tension falls away you will know yourself better and you will feel your gut relax.<\/p>\n

Who could not use a little of that about now? Oh, and one other thing. The next time some chump cookbook astrologer tells you to give up on yourself and roll over, do me a favor and tell him you’re not a dog. Don’t let no Pluto square stomp on you. You are way better and more powerful than that.<\/p>\n

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