{"id":43674,"date":"2011-08-16T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T13:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=43674"},"modified":"2011-08-16T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T14:05:07","slug":"how-to-thrive-on-change-and-even-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/how-to-thrive-on-change-and-even-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Thrive on Change and Even Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is the anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, the perfect blend of order and chaos. Photo is of Max Yasgur (1919-1973), who invited the festival to happen on a grazing pasture of his dairy farm in Bethel, New York. His neighbors did not appreciate this. Everyone else did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 16. 2011.<\/strong><\/a> The Moon is in Pisces, approaching a conjunction to minor planet Ceres \u2014 the first minor planet ever discovered (that was back in 1801). This is an emotional, even sentimental alignment, which could be describing some deep movement of energy, especially regarding mothers and daughters. This is a day to pay attention to the subtle level of feeling (Pisces always says ‘subtle’). There is something here about women understanding how they’re shaped by their mother’s vision for who they’re supposed to be. Yet for many this may be a background theme, as we’re in the midst of a spectacular triple conjunction this week, which is exact today: Mercury, Venus and the Sun in Leo.<\/p>\n

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Mercury is just as retrograde as it was yesterday, but we’ve now reached the peak of the cycle — the Sun and Mercury are in a close conjunction that will be exact at 9:03 pm EDT.<\/p>\n

That conjunction is Mercury passing exactly between the Sun and the Earth, and is the midpoint of the Mercury retrograde experience we’re in.<\/p>\n

(The technical name for this is the Mercury-Sun interior<\/em> or to astronomers, inferior<\/em> conjunction.) I’ve noticed that this is one of the ‘unusual things happen’ days such as something out-of-pattern that grants an opportunity.<\/p>\n

Venus is also in the picture, but it’s on the other side of the Sun from our point of view. That’s a Sun-Venus conjunction, but it’s called the exterior<\/em> conjunction because Venus is ‘outside’ or on the other side of the Sun. (Astronomers call this the superior<\/em> conjunction.) So there’s a row of planets strung like Christmas lights \u2014 Venus, Sun, Mercury, Earth. This is invisible to us because they are all so close to the Sun.<\/p>\n

That means a lot of Leo conjunctions, one after the next. These are not ‘major’ conjunctions such as when very slow moving planets get together and shake up the whole world, but there is the feeling of a shuffle, a dance, a little chaos; there is an atmosphere of uncertainty in the air. Since the conjunctions involve the Sun, that’s about expression. Expression is always a little chaotic. This is illustrated in what is called the Sabian symbol for the degree, a little description of a scene that goes with each degree of the zodiac. For today’s conjunction, the degree is, “A person sitting in neglect of their body, totally concentrated on inner spiritual attainment.”<\/p>\n

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The creative process (in the symbol, described as ‘spiritual’ but it’s the same thing), which we think of as being designed to produce something beautiful, is inherently chaotic, at least for a while. This can be a difficult thing for ‘artists’ to relate to ‘non artists’. It’s more challenging for ‘non artists’ to let go of their sense of how the day, their mind or the flow of events is supposed to be ordered, and let go of control sufficiently to allow for a real creative flow. The insistence on order holds down creative energy. Gradually releasing that sense of control can and usually does open up the flow of creative energy.<\/p>\n

But then some discipline is required to harness that energy and turn it into something useful or presentable. Which is more challenging, letting go of control to allow the energy, or creating the discipline to harness the energy? I’m going to take an educated guess and say that for most people the first one. Once you’ve opened up, it’s pretty easy to get some routines down that help you capture your energy in a useful form. But with all the control dramas and control issues that people out themselves and others through, and the rigid way in which society is (or tries to be) organized is the thing that gets in the way.<\/p>\n

One of the interesting things about this grouping is that it’s trine Eris, one of the more recently discovered small planets going around our Sun. That’s in Aries, so while there is a shuffle in Leo, we’re talking to Eris in Aries (a trine usually connects points within the same element). Think of Eris as injecting a small dose of her tendency to disorder (which can be about identity) into the richly creative golden brew forming in Leo.<\/p>\n

Speaking of gold, our friend Gary points out that based on traditional astrology, this alignment looks like some deep psychic alchemy \u2014 but it’s at the advanced stages. Something is coming together, some new elements of the psyche are forming, and from the looks of things it will focus into something new, letting off a bit of heat in the process. Speaking of heat, alchemy and a little chaos, the Moon will enter Aries tonight at 8:01 pm EDT, where it will pick up a highly energized Uranus \u2014 we will go over that in tomorrow’s edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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