{"id":40960,"date":"2011-07-01T00:36:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T04:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=40960"},"modified":"2011-07-01T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:21:42","slug":"cancer-eclipse-revealing-the-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/cancer-eclipse-revealing-the-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer eclipse: revealing the diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Total solar eclipse from March 29, 2006. Photo by Anthony Ayiomamitis. (www.perseus.gr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today is Friday, July 1, 2011<\/a><\/strong>. Just after 4:53 am EDT there is a partial solar eclipse at 10 Cancer. It\u2019s the third and final eclipse of the current cycle and the first eclipse of a brand-new Saros cycle, as Len and Eric have written about recently<\/a>. The Sabian symbol for this degree is, \u201cA large diamond in the first stages of the cutting process,\u201d and is strikingly apropos.<\/p>\n

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Planet Waves has been discussing different aspects of letting our new\/true selves emerge for the last month, and here we have an eclipse that embodies the paradox we\u2019re all working through: we are already here, have been moving along our own process of awakening with the last two eclipses, yet the advent of a new Saros series of eclipses puts us at a special point of newness and revelation. We have been gems for our entire lifetimes, but we are just beginning to reveal ourselves to ourselves and to the world.<\/p>\n

The chipping away with hammer and chisel takes skill and patience; you may feel untrained in the art and are looking for worthy teachers. Remember that as both the gem and the gem-cutter, you can afford to be gentle with yourself as you chip and grind and polish away the layers that are not valuable or useful, and which mask your true brilliance.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re in a process of becoming fully present and engaged in this current existence, but it requires a willingness to lose what has held us securely in place — and is actually in the way. The process asks us to have faith in the act of cutting, in our training and in our intuition. As the gem, we can\u2019t know our ideal shape yet; as the gem-cutter, we have to simultaneously see the reality of our rough state while noticing the hints and signs of the inner structure; we\u2019re asked to see \u2018what is\u2019 and envision potential in a unified gaze.<\/p>\n

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The main aspects to this eclipse are Saturn making a square from early Libra and Chiron and Neptune making a trine from early Pisces. That Saturn square is emotional discipline: the \u201carduous training for perfection\u201d Rudhyar describes as we chip away to manifest an ideal. Saturn is also the inherent crystal structure of the gem, which is perhaps not obvious at first but is waiting to be revealed. And we reveal it through Chiron and Neptune in Pisces. Any creative act gives the cutting and chipping and polishing a positive outlet, providing this eclipse energy a welcome expression — even as we figure out what it is within us we need to express.<\/p>\n

It may be clich\u00e9, but you really are a diamond in the rough. Remember to do a little of what you really love today, since what you love to do is what you are meant to do with this life. Go ahead, show yourself what you\u2019re really made of — and be patient; this will take time.<\/p>\n

Amanda Painter with Gary Caton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Friday, July 1, 2011. Just after 4:53 am EDT there is a partial solar eclipse at 10 Cancer. It\u2019s the third and final eclipse of the current cycle and the first eclipse of a brand-new Saros cycle, as Len and Eric have written about recently. The Sabian symbol for this degree is, \u201cA … 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":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960"}],"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=40960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}