{"id":37850,"date":"2011-05-05T02:31:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=37850"},"modified":"2011-05-05T02:31:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T07:31:10","slug":"serious-moonlight-a-lunar-review-of-the-aries-stellium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/serious-moonlight-a-lunar-review-of-the-aries-stellium\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Moonlight – A Lunar Review of the Aries Stellium"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

For an unusually long time, there has been a large, rare and extraordinary collection of planets in Aries. By this time next week, some of those objects will be following the Sun into Taurus. Starting last night and through tomorrow, the Gemini Moon is taking a sextile census of each member of this cardinal fire stellium while it lasts. Now is a good time to look back at the what and how and also consider what now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The precise definition of a stellium will differ depending on where you look or who you ask. In general it’s considered to be a close cluster of planets, usually in one sign or house. It happens every once in a while and brings a lot of focus to the energy signature of the host sign. With Aries, the unavoidable theme is self and the particular collection of planets has been emphasizing an unprecedented opportunity for self awareness.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to understand how the outer planets can remain clumped together for a long time. Some of you may remember the Aquarius stellium a couple years back. It consisted of Uranus, Neptune and Chiron, each one appearing to move very slowly from our perspective. Once they had come together, it took a long time for the small differences in their relative apparent speeds to result in a separation.<\/p>\n

It is unusual, however, for the faster moving, so-called “personal planets” (Mercury, Venus and Mars) to stay in one sign together for very long. Yet, that is exactly what has happened with with the Aries stellium. It has been an extraordinary and beautiful combination of sequence and timing.<\/p>\n

The Aries recipe for mixing a durable and coherent stellium cocktail is slow first and speedy last, with a twist. Eris has been there for about 80 years, long enough to stake a claim as the host and hero. Jupiter joined in January after a preliminary visit last year. In the second week of March (Can you believe it? March!) the fastest moving planet, Mercury, barreled in to provide the twist with a retrograde that will ultimately keep it in the sign for over two months as opposed to the standard two or three weeks.<\/p>\n

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Uranus followed Mercury a few days later, and started flexing its shock and awe muscles as we watched a nuclear disaster unfold in Japan. The Sun clocked in, and recently, out — with its usual precision as first Mars, then speedy Venus joined the gang last month. That’s just a summary of the major players in the long-running Aries production. The whole thing has had better legs than most first run movies and a lot of Broadway plays. And with the Moon dark, you can actually see four of the planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter) without a telescope in the eastern sky just before dawn.<\/p>\n

Now the Gemini Moon is characteristically offering us one last appreciation while simultaneously preparing us to move on. A sextile aspect is more than just a separation of sixty degrees on a zodiac wheel. It is nourishment without gluttony, encouragement without enabling, compliment without flattery. It is the first solid aspect, a foundation and reference point for the rest.\u00a0As such, the next few days are a good time to be thinking, and talking, about where we go from here.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0combination\u00a0of\u00a0sequence,\u00a0timing\u00a0and\u00a0diversity\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0sign\u00a0of\u00a0Aries\u00a0has\u00a0brought\u00a0us\u00a0a rich and lengthy period to develop\u00a0a\u00a0foundation\u00a0of\u00a0self\u00a0awareness.\u00a0It’s\u00a0not\u00a0over\u00a0yet,\u00a0but\u00a0it\u00a0is\u00a0time to consider what we can or should build on that foundation.\u00a0The Moon is now taking us through a transition of reflection while also preparing us for constructive action. Luna is reflecting on all the things that self can be while preparing us discover all the things that self can do.<\/p>\n

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By Len Wallick For an unusually long time, there has been a large, rare and extraordinary collection of planets in Aries. By this time next week, some of those objects will be following the Sun into Taurus. Starting last night and through tomorrow, the Gemini Moon is taking a sextile census of each member of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}