{"id":42819,"date":"2011-08-08T12:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=42819"},"modified":"2011-09-24T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T20:31:12","slug":"attention-span-ceres-returns-to-pisces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/attention-span-ceres-returns-to-pisces\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention Span – Ceres Returns To Pisces"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Retrograde Ceres returns to Pisces on Wednesday after having spent a month on the Aries Point. That’s the first degree of Aries. It’s the place where the Sun is on the Vernal Equinox. That is when the cycle of the tropical zodiac starts over. It’s almost as if Ceres was trying to get our attention by slowing down and turning around in that particular spot. Of course, that’s a silly notion. How could an inert chunk of rock and ice out in space possibly do that? After all, everybody knows attention can only be given, or else it must be paid. The importance is in knowing the difference, and that may be just what Ceres means in your life right now.<\/p>\n

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In astrology, planets are archetypes expressed in our lives. The nature of the expression combines the mythology (if any) behind the object’s name, its history, motion, and our correlated observations. On the whole, dwarf planet Ceres appears to have a yin character that, in western culture at least, corresponds with the feminine.<\/p>\n

In ancient western mythology, Ceres was indeed a goddess, and not a minor one. She had power. She also had a daughter. Her daughter was kidnapped by Pluto, with the tacit approval of the patriarchal authority structure. Ceres needed to use all her power in a quest for simple redress, but things were never truly set right. Rather, things were reset. It was a compromise. Ceres would enjoy the company of her daughter half of the year and mourn her absence for the other half.<\/p>\n

Thus the archetype of Ceres is expressed in our lives through the seasons. Production of food is not constant as we would please, but subject to cycles that reset and return in portion. That requires the inhabitants of Earth to adjust as Ceres did. Perhaps the most prominent reset is when the Sun returns to the Aries Point. On that day, Sol is directly over the equator and all of us together are equally sharing its light all at the same time. That appropriates a very broad meaning to the word “equinox.”<\/p>\n

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What happens when the Sun is on the Aries Point is a quality bestowed upon any object while it is there. It’s the sense of all of us together, all at the same time. It’s the idea that personal experience is actually in common and that our shared existence is in fact a personal matter. When Ceres first entered Pisces in direct motion earlier this year, it was the Vernal Equinox. The Sun was in the first degree of Aries. Now, after spending 30 days in the same spot, Ceres returns to Pisces with a message for our attention.<\/p>\n

That attention can be given or paid. Giving will mean that we are aware, possessed of our being and acting consciously. Attention given is an independent act that reflects a simultaneous sense of being alive and in connection to a larger whole. We empower others and ourselves equally when we give our attention. It is really the only thing we always have that we can always share.<\/p>\n

Paying attention is more a matter of duress. When our awareness and presence are demanded, and when we acquiesce to that, we surrender what we are and what we can share and receive nothing in exchange. Independence, equality and balance are lost as the egos of those with power over imagine themselves to be the larger whole.<\/p>\n

The message of Ceres entering Pisces at the Vernal Equinox, then taking up a preternaturally prolonged residence on the Aries point before returning to Pisces is that all of us together are about to experience a reset of sorts at about the same time. It is not the end of the world. It is the end of a long season. There will probably be loss only partially recovered. We will almost certainly need to empower ourselves and each other to prevent that loss from being greater. That empowerment will begin with our attention and whether we give it in time or pay it when it is too late.<\/p>\n

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