{"id":41030,"date":"2011-07-04T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=41030"},"modified":"2011-07-04T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:16:25","slug":"drops-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/drops-of-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Drops of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now that she\u2019s back in the atmosphere
\nWith drops of Jupiter in her hair,
\nShe acts like summer and walks like rain
\nReminds me that there\u2019s time to change<\/em><\/p>\n

— Train, “Drops of Jupiter<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Today is Monday, July 4, 2011<\/strong><\/a>, Independence Day in the United States. As the Moon passes by the midpoint of Leo, there is an Egyptian feeling to the sky — Luna is conjunct Isis and Osiris<\/a>, figures in one of the most significant death and resurrection legends in Western thought. If skies are clear, the Moon will be visible as a thin crescent in the evening sky, itself resurrected after Friday’s eclipse of the Sun and New Moon in Cancer. The nearby planet is Mercury, which is currently the evening star. Referring to the Egyptian myth, in symbolic terms one topic Isis and Osiris focuses on is the turnover or evolution of the principle by which we guide our lives, a theme apropos of the days following such a significant eclipse.<\/p>\n

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As this happens, Venus moves from Gemini to Cancer, the latest planet to enter a feminine sign and also to cross the Aries Point. Though the Aries Point is technically the first degree of the zodiac, the three points that oppose or square that degree also count, and one of them is the first degree of Cancer. Each of these angles or cardinal points has a different theme, and the first degree of Cancer seems to influence that which happens at home, or shifts our idea of home. Anything in Cancer invokes the idea of mother and that which nourishes, particularly a deeply feminine planet such as Venus. We have an image of cosmic mother’s milk that sustains us as we live our lives here in the deeps of space, seemingly on the edge of nowhere. <\/p>\n

Our current sky is more wet with feminine energy than anything we’ve experienced in many years. The Sun, Jupiter, Chiron, Neptune and Pluto are all in feminine signs, cooling and calming the energy after a decade dominated by fire and air. To many of us it’s seemed like there would be no end to the constant parade of aggression, war and the drive for more. Planets in feminine signs, particularly the gods of transformation Chiron, Neptune and Pluto, speak of a time when there is such a thing as enough. Add Venus to that mix and actual fulfillment may be possible, which is a sense of resting gently in who you are, what you have and what you are becoming. Water and earth working together nourish growth and foster a sense of contact with the planet that sustains us.<\/p>\n

One planet currently in Pisces, in fact moving through the last degree of the zodiac, is Ceres, who is related to the Greek goddess Demeter. Demeter was connected to food, the cycle of life and death and the Eleusinian Mysteries<\/a> that predated the Olympian pantheon. So with Ceres, we have something that reaches deeper than Western civilization, touching upon the ancient roots of our agrarian way of life and also the mysteries of individual transformation. That’s a little something to think about as you munch on corn, wheat and potatoes today.<\/p>\n

— with Gary Caton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that she\u2019s back in the atmosphere With drops of Jupiter in her hair, She acts like summer and walks like rain Reminds me that there\u2019s time to change — Train, “Drops of Jupiter” Today is Monday, July 4, 2011, Independence Day in the United States. As the Moon passes by the midpoint of Leo, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/41030"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}