{"id":38104,"date":"2011-05-09T04:03:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T09:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=38104"},"modified":"2011-05-09T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:16:41","slug":"betwixt-and-between-personal-planets-in-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/betwixt-and-between-personal-planets-in-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Betwixt and Between – Personal Planets in Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Mercury and Venus exact an unusual conjunction in Aries today only hours after both conjoin separately with Eris. The three planets occupy one degree of the zodiac. This is essentially a single, continuous aspect for the three objects involved. It begins an eventful week for the so-called personal planets.\u00a0Their\u00a0common and collective activity imply that we are somewhere in the midst of setting new patterns and starting new cycles in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The term personal planet is reserved for the three\u00a0with orbital periods around the Sun that repeat scores of times in a typical human life span — Mercury, Venus and Mars. For Mercury, that period of time is about 88 Earth days.\u00a0A year on Venus is about 225 days for us. Finally, Mars, the third\u00a0member of the group, takes about 687 of our days to make the solar round trip. The implication is that such short periods of time correspond to patterns and cycles you are likely to experience over and over again during a single tenure on Earth.<\/p>\n

The current, long term weather report for the personal planets is\u00a0that\u00a0they\u00a0will all have followed the Sun into Taurus by this time next week.\u00a0Mars goes first, sometime early Wednesday (3:04 am EDT) for most of you reading this.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, however, Mercury and Venus have some unfinished business. That business begins with today’s triple conjunction with Eris in Aries. This follows the pattern set when Mars and Jupiter conjoined with Eris, then each other, in one continuous aspect to end April and begin the month of May. According to the established order, Osama bin Laden ended his earthly residence about the time Mars and Jupiter were completing the final phase of that merger.<\/p>\n

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Regardless of whether that’s true, the indication of astrology is that at that point, one cycle ended and another began. That’s because conjunctions in astrology are usually interpreted as the beginning of a new cycle for the objects involved. Because they also represent the merging of the signature energies, today’s aspect is likely to be more personal but just as auspicious. With Mercury about to emerge from the\u00a0echo\u00a0phase of its Aries retrograde and enter new territory for the first\u00a0time in two months this coming Wednesday, this would characterize a new pattern\u00a0of\u00a0thinking.<\/p>\n

With Venus identified\u00a0with\u00a0attraction,\u00a0and\u00a0Eris\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0post-modern\u00a0evolution\u00a0of\u00a0identity, the sum total comprises a departure from previous patterns of preference. What was once your type may not appeal to you so much anymore. What you once overlooked may now merit another examination. You just might end up rooting for a different team.<\/p>\n

But don’t jump to conclusions right away. It’s not a new cycle yet. We started off by referring to today’s conjunction as unusual and indeed it is. That’s because Mercury is not up to its usual apparent speed after having stationed direct a couple weeks ago. As a result, it is Venus that appears to be moving faster for the time being. Venus catches up with and passes Mercury today, not the other way around. Finally, it will be Venus that conjoins with Jupiter first on Wednesday (when there is so much else going on) and at the end of the week enters Taurus first.<\/p>\n

The discrepancy cannot continue forever, however. Soon Mercury will once again be the fleetest and that means it will catch up. It means another conjunction very soon in the context of a different sign. When that happens, the personal planet aspects of this day and this week will have developed and matured to a deeper and fuller interpretation.<\/p>\n

So for the time being, note corresponding events in your personal life rather than act on them. Don’t place your bets just yet. We are betwixt and between, the balls are still in the air, and the information is still coming in.<\/p>\n

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By Len Wallick Mercury and Venus exact an unusual conjunction in Aries today only hours after both conjoin separately with Eris. The three planets occupy one degree of the zodiac. This is essentially a single, continuous aspect for the three objects involved. It begins an eventful week for the so-called personal planets.\u00a0Their\u00a0common and collective activity … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"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\/38104"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}