{"id":38849,"date":"2011-05-19T05:15:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T10:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=38849"},"modified":"2011-09-24T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T20:34:07","slug":"coming-up-for-air-heading-into-the-sun%e2%80%99s-ingress-of-gemini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/coming-up-for-air-heading-into-the-sun%e2%80%99s-ingress-of-gemini\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Up For Air – Heading into the Sun\u2019s Ingress of Gemini"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Marianne Williamson<\/em><\/p>\n

For most of you reading this, the Sun enters Gemini early Saturday at 5:22 am EDT. This experience has a double-edged quality: as the Sun methodically moves north, the days lengthen above the equator, gradually becoming shorter in the Southern Hemisphere. In parallel, the Moon and personal planets elaborate on that same theme as they make several aspects, preparing us for a new solar ingress. The remaining hours leading up to the Sun’s change of signs can thus function as steps or rungs. The ambient astrology represents an ascent that will allow us to come up for air together if we each do our part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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By the time the Moon moves into Capricorn later today, we may already be feeling the weight of that cardinal earth sign like a firefighter climbing a ladder. Working up from safe ground into challenge is counter-intuitive, requiring an informed and motivated response rather than reaction. Bearing with the dual weight of equipment and responsibility is an encounter with paradox. The gear that protects also isolates and inhibits communication while you prepare to confront yet another elemental force. In the context of this metaphor, that element is fire.<\/p>\n

On the way up the ladder, fire is encountered in the form of a cardinal square. The Capricorn Moon forms this tense aspect with the unpredictable volatility of Uranus in Aries late today \u2013 and you may find you need to reconsider your planned responses and instead improvise to deal with the unexpected. This encounter prepares us for the mutable energy of Gemini, which dismantles the current season so that summer may follow. If we are able to remain present and centered enough, we will be rewarded with a sense of growth that re-acquaints us with how we were attracted to challenge in the first place.<\/p>\n

The corresponding aspects involve the planets Mercury, Venus and Mars. Still in the early stages of their joint Taurus venture, they join Luna in successive sextiles to Chiron in Pisces. In a literal sense, a sexile is the relationship between two signs separated by one sign between them. Symbolically, it represents encouragement and support. Subject to the influence of Neptune, the flow of elemental water from Pisces is brought to bear early in the game. But as any firefighter knows, water can do as much or more damage than the flames. This is true especially when the Taurus planets and the Capricorn Moon indulge each other in a series of earth trines. As distinguished from the sextile, the trine is more the enabling type, soaking the fire fighter’s clothing, further adding to the load being carried up the ladder.<\/p>\n

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As Luna moves on, we get a chance to realize that trines are not necessarily bad and the duality represented by Gemini is not inherently duplicitous. That opportunity comes as the Taurus triumvirate of Mercury, Venus and Mars triangulates with the Pluto-Charon binary — two planets orbiting a common center of gravity. In terms of transformation and duality, this rung of the ladder is the most crucial of all.<\/p>\n

With a new century, we were presented with a new perception of Pluto as part of a pair rather than as a single planet. This shift transforms the symbolic energy from a grim monolith to an unexplored dynamic, allowing us to appreciate metamorphosis where before we had only seen destruction. It corresponds to a second wind of sorts, giving us the boost we need to finish our climb. But it also brings us to an edge.<\/p>\n

Part of astrology’s pattern for 2011 has been stress destructively released just before a change of sign. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan just hours before Uranus’ ingress to Aries is just one example. Fittingly, two planets take us to the edge of Solar Gemini with a choice. Just hours before the Sun enters the mutable air sign, on the very cusp of our weekend when we are tired and vulnerable, Mercury catches up to and conjoins with Mars. How we handle this will set a pattern that will last and come back to visit. It is for us to choose whether we create further burden or whether we give each other a hand over the top where the smoke has cleared.<\/p>\n

It is for us to decide whether our desires will quicken our minds or sharpen our tongues. It is a mutual choice of how we will apply a fresh energy. After so much of the heavy and hot, we could afford to take a load off some body’s back and have the favor returned. After being held under and having it held over us for so long we could use some relief. The good news is that we can do it for each other. The real question is whether we will consciously direct the power in our hearts to get it done.<\/p>\n

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