{"id":44952,"date":"2011-09-02T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=44952"},"modified":"2011-09-02T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T18:02:45","slug":"eris-and-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/eris-and-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Astrology: Eris in the Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Friday, Sept. 2, 2011<\/strong><\/a>. The Moon is in Scorpio until Saturday evening EDT, when it goes into Sagittarius. At the moment (Friday morning) it’s making an exact opposition to Jupiter in Taurus. And the Virgo Sun is trine Jupiter, which has just stationed retrograde. So that puts Jupiter into the spotlight, which in Taurus describes getting real about what’s important to you. The trine from the Sun is an aspect that features prominently in this week’s Planet Waves horoscope.<\/p>\n

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However, I think the distinctive aspects of the weekend both involve Eris. This is a relatively new planet, and one of the more significant of the many discoveries in recent years because it is the most distant one known to be orbiting our Sun, and it prompted the reorganization of our ideas of what a planet is. Eris is the one that got Pluto ‘demoted’ back in 2006. Remember that? One of the theories I’ve been developing about Eris involves how this planet represents the castaway woman<\/a>. This can be about specific people — in particular, excluded people (often women, but there are plenty of excluded men) — or the aspect of our psyche that feels excluded from the world around us. <\/p>\n

Being cast away, or feeling excluded, can have many strange expressions, one of which may be humanity’s dependable propensity to go along with the next war, no matter who the enemy might be. That’s because with Eris, the enemy is perceived within. When that happens unconsciously, we either project it outward as conflict, or take it on as a feeling of deep alienation.<\/p>\n

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We have other options. The first Eris aspect is a trine from Mercury in Leo. That is happening today. Any planet taking a trine from Mercury is about a conversation with that energy. Mercury trine Eris is about a dialog with the cast off part of ourselves, the aspect that feels alienated, fragmented, unaccepted or unable to fit in. Rather than speculating about the whys and the other specifics, I suggest you ask what’s going on, and wait patiently for your answer. Meanwhile, you might notice the extent you go to ‘fit in’, and size up how well or how poorly that has been working for you. The trine is an opening; the opening is likely to be a conduit for passionate energy that is suppressed by the sense of being outcast. This not merely a conversation about how cruel and insensitive the world is. It’s a conversation about what to express and how to participate.<\/p>\n

Eris is under some pressure from two other aspects that are about to happen. One is more immediate; the other happens in the autumn. The immediate aspect is exact Sept. 6, though it’s close enough to be in full effect now. That is Mars in Cancer square Eris in Aries. Mars has been making a lot of aspects lately to other planets on the cardinal cross: such as an opposition to Pluto, a square to Uranus and a square to Saturn. These have been tense, and with any luck, productive in that you made some decisions.<\/p>\n

Now we have another one of those squares brewing. Mars in Cancer making a square to anything is about a buildup of emotional pressure. To start with, one could not contrast two more different energies than Mars and Cancer. Mars is assertive, hot, demonstrative and depicted by a sharp object. It is the essence of ‘male warrior’ energy. Cancer is the energy of gestation and nurturing. It’s receptive, cool and symbolized by ocean water. Mars in Cancer accentuates the self-centered nature of both that planet and sign, and can drive the sense of need to the point of a frenzy. When you put that under pressure, the result can be stressful (as we saw with Mars square Saturn as Hurricane Irene tore up the East Coast).<\/p>\n

Mars in Cancer square Eris in Aries is likely to call attention to the emotional state underneath the alienation described by Eris. It’s time we understood this for what it is. It’s time we stopped criticizing ‘the needy’ and started understanding what we all need, and what happens when we don’t get it. Once you start listening to people, you find out that even the most ‘normal’ among us feel alienated. But many are afraid to say anything, so as not to upset all the cool people who are pretending not to feel alienated. This aspect could be illustrating some interesting dramas, but it can also be a focal point of self-awareness and action. As this aspect manifests (the effect will be stronger for some people than for others), we will need to have some patience with one another as we gradually move toward the core layers of what it’s about.<\/p>\n

One last, which I will be getting into more as it develops. That is Saturn opposite Eris. This one is going to get a whole Friday edition of Planet Waves, but the upshot is this. Eris in Aries also describes a sense of personality fragmentation. This we try to compensate for in our relationships (Saturn in Libra). Saturn opposite Eris is a confrontation between these two ideas: one, that we’re fragmented, and two, that that we try to make ourselves whole, and assemble the pieces of who we are, in our relationships. This is one reason why so many relationships are such a struggle: we’re using them for something that they really cannot do.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile — in more immediate news — the Moon will be in Sagittarius from Saturday evening through Monday. There is a lot going on in Sagittarius, which I cover in detail in today’s edition of Planet Waves. I’ll post a sample of that article after the Moon is in Sagg, to give you an idea. Back with another edition of Daily Astrology on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. The Moon is in Scorpio until Saturday evening EDT, when it goes into Sagittarius. At the moment (Friday morning) it’s making an exact opposition to Jupiter in Taurus. And the Virgo Sun is trine Jupiter, which has just stationed retrograde. So that puts Jupiter into the spotlight, which in … 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\/44952"}],"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=44952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}