{"id":38214,"date":"2011-05-12T05:06:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T10:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=38214"},"modified":"2011-05-12T05:06:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T10:06:44","slug":"to-be-and-to-do-coming-around-to-taurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/to-be-and-to-do-coming-around-to-taurus\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be and to Do – Coming Around to Taurus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
\n-John Muir<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The luminaries and personal planets will move in a common energy for the remainder of this week and into next. It is a tableau symbolic of the fabric of life that weaves us all together. It also represents an attachment to life itself. The question is whether we are to be connected together in action or bound separately by fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Moon is in Virgo today, a sign ruled by Mercury. Tomorrow, it will continue to Libra, and the rulership of Venus. By the end of this week it will be in Scorpio, with its Martian disposition. Along the way Luna will oppose all three of those ruling planets and finally the Sun. By the time the luminaries exact their opposition in the form of the Full Moon that will start next week, all of the personal planets and the Sun will be together in Taurus, the other sign of Venusian rulership.<\/p>\n

The common denominator is Taurus, the symbol of animate matter and material life. First the Sun moved there. Then, the current lunation (period of time between New Moons) began there. Now the fixed earth sign is coming into its own with the three planets most closely associated with our daily lives: Mars, Venus and Mercury. In return, our daily lives become about the immediate potential and peril of being here, moment-to-moment, in this body.<\/p>\n

There is no reason why conscious life in a physical body should be the sole form of sentience. However, it is the only state of a human’s being that we can access directly through our physical senses. Therefore for many, being becomes equivalent to having. Acquisition, consumption and accumulation take over as the purpose and meaning. Granted, the tastes and sounds, the sights and sensations of our time on Earth are not to be denied. Those experiences put life in our living. Also not to be denied, however, is the fundamental fact of biology that the body through which we have those experiences does not function indefinitely.<\/p>\n

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Life therefore becomes a matter for us to decide. This, of course, assumes an awareness of being alive and conscious of a choice. Granting that, the decision is whether to be means to have or to do. The astrology has some clues for us.<\/p>\n

If, as the Moon is doing now, we separate ourselves, we move into polarity to the fundamentals of life in the framework of earthly matter. We choose having as the illuminating purpose of being. But even as the realities of biology and is consequences accrue, all material possessions become only cold reflections of life’s light. A determination to have and hold makes loss inevitable and is the root of fear.<\/p>\n

If, on the other hand we take inspiration from what the Sun and personal planets are now doing, we make a sounder investment of our ephemeral material being. This is because the Sun, Mars, Venus and Mercury will be only passing through Taurus, albeit together, in a serendipitous representation of action.<\/p>\n

If, emulating those planets, we bring the the inner light of our consciousness, our desire, our attractions and our cognitive powers to bear while we have the chance, being becomes a precious opportunity to do. Any potential of loss is eliminated because actions, once accomplished, cannot be undone. Thus the source of fear is banished and we can live as free spirits without burden. We can be occupied in the joyful work of making rather than taking.<\/p>\n

The problem is that goes against our conditioning. The necessity to feed and protect our bodies was long ago expanded and extrapolated to become an imperative towards acquisition as a cause in itself. We have been convinced that having more confers safety. Then of course, for most of our cultural history, the majority of us have been put to work with no other objective than to increase the material holdings of the few. In a manner truly human we have reinforced that conditioning on ourselves and others by invoking fear of losing what cannot be held in the first place — life.<\/p>\n

By some grace and good fortune, it is also our potential as humans to overcome our attachments and conditioning. We can do this because we have the capacity to be conscious and aware. We can step back and see from a different perspective without having to leave the confines of our body. One of the tools available for this purpose is astrology, whereby we hitch ourselves to the motions of the Sun, Moon and planets with the full knowledge that their symbolic status reflects our own.<\/p>\n

The most basic truth of astrology, both literal and symbolic in its meaning, is that those lights in the sky keep on moving. Nothing we can see stands still up there in the sky. So it is with life on our planet. All of us pass through. None of us stay to have and none of us hold on to what we had when we leave. To be invested in having and holding is to have a life of fear and loss. To be committed to being and doing reveals life’s purpose at its best.<\/p>\n

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