{"id":43080,"date":"2011-08-15T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=43080"},"modified":"2011-08-11T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T21:56:10","slug":"is-it-true-the-leo-conjunctions-want-you-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/is-it-true-the-leo-conjunctions-want-you-to-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it true? The Leo conjunctions want you to ask."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Monday, August 15, 2011. <\/strong><\/a> The Moon is in mystic Pisces all day, but the hot news of the week is the big Mercury-Venus-Sun conjunction tomorrow. This is very close now, with Venus meeting up with the Sun today before the two of them align with retrograding Mercury. In other words, you’re probably feeling it; and it may feel a little complex. This is in part because the trio is also trine Eris and opposite Nessus.<\/p>\n

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You’ll want to keep an eye on your thoughts today and tomorrow. That the triple conjunction is happening in Leo shines light on facets of self and self-concept; Leo also relates to childhood. A retrograde Mercury crossing paths with Venus in this sign may point to a sense of devaluing — of your sense of yourself, your ideas, your feminine side, or childhood dreams and ideals. <\/p>\n

Eris can manifest as a fracturing of self-concept or as the eventual unity of the same; Nessus relates to cycles of abuse and karma, and the idea of ‘the buck stops here’, among other things. This means you may experience an eruption of self-doubt or a crisis of self-esteem. Any latent, buried and festering issues of psychological abuse — personal and collective — may come to the surface. Remember that any pain of this sort has a purpose: abuse patterns and wounds to the psyche, just like physical infections, need to come to the surface to heal. And here are three planets aligned in Leo, sign of the Sun, to help things along. Ultimately, this is a process of getting clear: What pattern do you want?<\/p>\n

As you sort through any self-esteem issues or old abuse patterns, keep an eye on how you’re feeling. Old mental scripts do not need to be<\/em> true to affect our emotions negatively, sometimes without our noticing that it’s happening. If you need to, check yourself Byron Katie-style, asking yourself The Four Questions: <\/p>\n

Is it true? <\/p>\n

Can you absolutely know that it is true?<\/p>\n

How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?<\/p>\n

Who would you be without the thought?<\/em><\/p>\n

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With the Moon in Pisces squaring the north node in Sagittarius, this is a good day for introspection, despite all the fire in the sky. Use the fuel consciously; a flowing Moon-Jupiter sextile at 4:21 am EDT may help. After that, the Moon will be running void of course. Because the Moon will not have another \u2018conversation\u2019, or be able to pass the baton she picked up from Jupiter before changing signs, this is not a great time for beginning new things. If, however, what you want is to \u2018fly under the radar\u2019, then you can do so now. (Gary says he literally begins long trips on a void moon if he can because nothing happening means he arrives safely and with no tickets.)<\/p>\n

The Moon will also cross the North Bending of the lunar nodes today. The nodes are the places where the plane of the Moon\u2019s orbit around Earth crosses the plane of Earth\u2019s orbit around the Sun. The North Bending is the Moon\u2019s highest point above Earth\u2019s plane of orbit. It also means the Moon is square its own nodes. <\/p>\n

In general, lunar things tend to feel obvious and urgent; they tend to manifest themselves \u2018like it or not\u2019. And events involving Pisces can have a sense of mystical longing or moodiness. So between the North Bending of the Moon and its void of course status in Pisces, today all things lunar and Piscean will be at once unconnected to or without conversation with the rest of the planetary pantheon, and yet also very obvious and manifest, like the Sun at noon. <\/p>\n

Perhaps if there is a sense of disconnectedness that is very obvious and manifest, this is serving a purpose: to unplug from something which is obviously not working on the physical level, and to begin to look to the spiritual for both solace and rest from any frustration connected to it. You may find some insight into the deeper purpose for this limitation or disconnect. Perhaps you are barking up the wrong tree out of some ego attachment, or perhaps you are working from a Chronos perspective (chronological time in which people are \u2018in charge\u2019, via clocks and calendars) when it is not the spiritually appointed time, at which point you may align yourself with it (a Kairos perspective<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Thursday of last week, Len described the Sabian symbol<\/a> for tomorrow\u2019s triple conjunction of Mercury, Venus and the Sun. It is a man completely involved in his inner meditation at the expense of all outward activity and care. It may be that today\u2019s void Moon is setting us up for the detachment of that symbol for tomorrow’s triple conjunction, though its energy may feel anything but detached now. Take your time to notice today what comes up, or places in your life where you feel obviously stuck or disconnected. Keep your self-esteem issues and any questions of psychological abuse in front of you where you can see them. Listen to any message coming through any sense of un-connectedness you may feel, and see where it points you tomorrow. Give your thoughts the attention they call for, without getting seduced by any unfounded self-doubt, and note where they carry you as you reconnect with the world.<\/p>\n

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

Notice and choose: in fresh horoscopes weekly and twice monthly, the current sky speaks through your Sun and rising signs. Eric unfolds the themes in Planet Waves subscriber edition<\/strong><\/a> and Planet Waves Light<\/strong><\/a> so you can notice your patterns and choose consciously.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Monday, August 15, 2011. The Moon is in mystic Pisces all day, but the hot news of the week is the big Mercury-Venus-Sun conjunction tomorrow. This is very close now, with Venus meeting up with the Sun today before the two of them align with retrograding Mercury. In other words, you’re probably feeling … 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\/43080"}],"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=43080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}