{"id":47400,"date":"2011-10-17T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=47400"},"modified":"2011-10-16T14:15:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T18:15:19","slug":"our-place-and-time-sun-galactic-core-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/our-place-and-time-sun-galactic-core-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Place and Time – Sun, Galactic Core and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like a long lonely stream, i keep runnin’ towards a dream<\/em>
\n-Stevie Wonder<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This coming Thursday, our Sun, still in Libra, will reach an auspicious position in the sky. Our local star is moving into a sextile with what is essentially its own sun, the center of our galaxy, located in Sagittarius. That sextile will be part of a larger set of patterns. The aggregate tableau does not foretell anything frightening or catastrophic. There is, however, a profound implication. For each and every life, it would appear that we are together entering a time of discovery and illumination regarding our place in the sun.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/dt>\n
<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

A sextile is a geometric relationship. It is two or more objects separated by sixty degrees. As aspects in astrology go, it is fundamental. It is like a building block, or more correctly, two building blocks. In other words, a sextile usually implies something constructive is happening. Like most construction projects, this fundamental aspect rewards work. What you put into it is what you get out of it.<\/p>\n

Sun is also fundamental. Most of us see it nearly every day. It is light and, ultimately, the source of any light we manufacture in the material world. Symbolically, it is the light of consciousness. When we have become aware of something, we say the light comes on. When we learn from another person’s awareness we are enlightened. Our orbit around the Sun makes it central to our conscious lives.<\/p>\n

Just as Earth orbits Sun, the Sun and all of its solar system orbit something in turn. That would be the core of the galaxy of which we are a part. When you look at the night sky with unaided eyes, everything you are likely to see is likewise on a long journey around the same center. Just as our local star is the source of our light and emblematic of consciousness, the Galactic Center is the common locus of every star we can see. That simple fact confers a spiritual endowment, but it is more than that.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The core of our galaxy is very real. It takes a lot of gravity to keep billions of stars in orbit. The source of that gravity is likely a black hole, matter that collapses into itself forever, ripping through the fabric of space time. The stars and other matter densely surrounding that hole emit a huge amount of radiation on all frequencies. All of those frequencies reach us save one, visible light. There is a very real veil that keeps us from seeing the reality of the Galactic Core with our own eyes.<\/p>\n

So it is that what distinguishes our Sun, visible light, likewise defines the Galactic Center by its absence. Sun is something we can see, The Core is something much bigger and more powerful that we must be resigned to know in other ways. Such is the gap between the physical and spiritual. The astrology this week symbolically demonstrates the potential to begin bridging that gulf. This will happen by way of a form without a name and names without form.<\/p>\n

This sextile of Sun to Galactic Center, representing a constructive opportunity, takes place every year about this time (the Sun also sextiles the GC from Aquarius each year). This year, however, both Sun and GC find themselves simultaneously in aspect to an object still known only by the year and nature of its discovery: 1992 QB1.<\/p>\n

After the discovery of Pluto in 1930, over 60 years passed before science observed another object that ventured outside the orbit of Neptune. That was 1992 QB1. Since then, over a thousand other pieces of rock and ice have been observed that likewise share that distinction. Most of them have been named, yet 1992 QB1 curiously remains known only by its initial designation in spite of the fact that it was the object that marked the threshold of all those subsequent observations. Long before the discovery of Pluto, however, human minds were at work hypothesizing the expansion of the solar system.<\/p>\n

None of the theoretical planets on the edge of our solar system were ever verified. Nonetheless, their hypothetical positions have been retained, and named, as useful reference points for astrology. Some of them, a group, are referred to as Uranians.<\/p>\n

As the Sun sextiles the Galactic core on Thursday, it will also be precisely in opposition to 1992 QB1 in Aries and almost exactly conjunct a Uranian point with a name reminiscent of the Sun, Apollon. Another Uranian, Vulkanus, will be in the same degree of Cancer that the Sun, Galactic Core, 1992 QB1 and Apollon occupy in their respective signs. A third hypothetical object, Admetos, will be in the same part of Taurus. It is as if the observations of science and the informed speculations of humanity are coming together, all at once. For that to happen now is indicative of something we all can sense, that human consciousness is on some sort of threshold between the seen and unseen.<\/p>\n

1992 QB1 and the Uranian points share a fundamental characteristic: they move slowly from our perspective. The apparent motion of the Galactic Core is so minuscule as to be, for all practical purposes, stationary. For all of these slow movers to be in aspect, to the degree, waiting for Sun to join them, symbolizes some great combination of science, imagination and spirituality waiting for our consciousness to catch up and provide the final piece of an extraordinary puzzle long in construction.<\/p>\n

We are all part of that puzzle as surely as we are all a part of our galaxy and solar system. As a matter of fact, it would seem that we are more than that; it would appear that we are crucial to the solution of a great mystery. Yet, this impending alignment of the observed and the hypothetical, the gargantuan and the ethereal, is but an opportunity. In order for the implied potential to be realized, we must do our part. When the Sun makes its annual sextile from Libra to the Galactic Core later this week, it will be like any other project under construction. What we put into this moment in history is what we will derive.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like a long lonely stream, i keep runnin’ towards a dream -Stevie Wonder This coming Thursday, our Sun, still in Libra, will reach an auspicious position in the sky. Our local star is moving into a sextile with what is essentially its own sun, the center of our galaxy, located in Sagittarius. That sextile will … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47400"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}