{"id":43028,"date":"2011-08-11T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=43028"},"modified":"2011-08-10T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T21:43:26","slug":"in-the-middle-with-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/in-the-middle-with-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Middle with the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Thursday, August 11, 2011. <\/strong><\/a> The Moon is in Capricorn most of the day before transitioning to Aquarius just before mid-night at 11:48 pm EDT. The Capricorn Moon usually feels more than a little cautious and serious, and for now that is a perfectly good thing for you to connect with. After leaving a conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn yesterday, the Moon is now plowing through the territory between Pluto and Uranus in Aries, whose square aspect is beginning to rear its head. In the end, the Uranus-Pluto squares will in many ways define this entire decade. For now we are just beginning our initiation into what this will look and feel like in our lives. <\/p>\n

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As the Moon waxes toward Full (on Saturday at 2:58 pm EDT, at 21 degrees Aquarius) it is now activating these squares via their mid-point. In other words, it is stirring up the interior of this aspect, the heart and soul and guts of what it is, and lighting that up for all the world to witness and become aware. <\/p>\n

This territory that the Moon is crossing right now is home to the constellation Cygnus, the graceful swan who flies above us, and brings to mind the myth of Leda and the Swan. In that myth, Zeus came to Leda in the guise of a swan and seduced her. Swans and \u2018swan medicine\u2019 are also associated with shape-shifting and profound states of awareness and transformation in the shamanic traditions of other cultures. And the theme pops up again in The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen.<\/p>\n

Transformation is the name of the game when it comes to Uranus-Pluto. As noted in the Tuesday subscriber issue of Planet Waves:<\/p>\n

Anything at that midpoint comes under the spotlight of the Uranus-Pluto theme, which is about crisis bringing about deeply necessary structural change. There happens to be a slow-moving minor planet right there, conjunct the Full Moon and right at the midpoint: Nessus.<\/p>\n

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Nessus has a theme of the cycles of karma, or as author Melanie Reinhart puts it, ‘the buck stops here’. One other attribute of Nessus is ‘potentially inappropriate sexual conduct’, a theme that shows up in the Leda myth. Nessus is, on many levels, about responsibility coming home to roost. We can use the wisdom of Swan to navigate the entry into the powerful combination of Uranus, Nessus and Pluto, which will have effects well into the end of the current decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Transformation can feel daunting in chaotic times, and some may find it traumatic. But we have a little time to wrap our brains around Uranus-Pluto, and find ways to open up to the process that are creative, productive and meaningful. Right now, we\u2019re getting a little extra juice in this endeavor. The other planet currently activating the epic squares between Uranus and Pluto is the red planet Mars. If you are an early riser, you can see Mars in the pre-dawn sky,<\/a> shining near the twin stars Castor and Pollux. Morning sky planets are relatively \u2018young\u2019 in their sojourn across the sky and so this Mars is still inexperienced and gawky. In addition Mars is currently \u2018out of bounds\u2019 which is to say beyond the confines of the path which the Sun demarcates in the sky. Out of bounds planets often behave just as the term suggests, like a maverick, with no sense of boundaries or balance. When it is a young Mars, well, things can get more than a little heated.<\/p>\n

The natural function of Mars is to separate things and make distinctions, to draw the proverbial line in the sand. What we have now are lines being drawn in places that are already beyond any line that matters: the riots in the UK and the Wisconsin recall elections (among other cultural dramas) as well as personal situations. Today\u2019s opposition of Mars in Cancer and Pluto in Capricorn can serve to intensify and\/or contain this. It is a matter of choice. Mars went out of bounds on July 24, 2011 and returns within the confines of normal celestial activity on Aug 22, 2011. So Mars has reached his furthest extreme and is already on his way back. It makes no sense to \u2018go there\u2019 with someone or something that is clearly out of bounds. All we need to do is to allow the prodigal son home. As someone on my Facebook page suggested, it may takes a lot of self control to feel and act out what is peaceful, but sometimes it is the meek who are the strong ones.<\/p>\n

By Gary Caton with Amanda Painter and Eric Francis<\/em><\/p>\n


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