{"id":48,"date":"2008-04-10T09:14:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/2008\/04\/10\/sun-conjunct-eris-calling-home-the-castaway-woman\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T12:14:26","slug":"sun-conjunct-eris-calling-home-the-castaway-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/sun-conjunct-eris-calling-home-the-castaway-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun conjunct Eris: Calling home the castaway woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first chapter of <\/em>Mars Calling came out last night. You can see a sample of that on our splash page at PlanetWaves.net<\/strong><\/a>, and if you like what you read, you may subscribe from there. It’s an amazing 10,000-word essay covering all things Aries, and many cool Aries men, co-written by Paloma Todd & me. Her starting point was the Sun, mine was the Moon. We integrated our ideas and the result is a chapter called The Dark Side of the Sun. you can check out a nice sized sample on our main page<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note: the full edition of this entry will appear in Planet Waves Astrology News Friday. The expanded, edited and illustrated version has been moved to the subscriber area. It will be emailed to subscribers at about 9 am Friday. <\/em><\/p>\n

Today is an exciting aspect day. The Sun is making aspects to Eris (a conjunction) and Jupiter (square). The Sun is also aspecting Chiron and is about to aspect Neptune. The Moon is in late Gemini and will sweep through the whole aspect structure from the cardinal sign Cancer over the next 48 or so hours.<\/p>\n\n\n
\"Eric<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

So who or what is Eris? If we take a structuralist approach, that is, looking at the structure of the myth, she is a psychological component we have suppressed or denied. Given that the Eris myth involves a competition for which goddess is the most beautiful, and the prize (Helen of Troy) is the most beautiful woman in the world, we may have something about sex, sexual imagery and desirability.<\/p>\n

The opposite of Eris is pious<\/em>. The opposite of piety is being real, being in your body, expressing your needs. If you do not do this, then there are few possibilities — some version of the Trojan War (usually acted out in divorce court), the abdication of one’s personhood<\/em> (that is, a tangible sense of one’s existence, followed by community, purpose and creative mastery), and generally, depression and misery.<\/p>\n

That is to say, fragmentation. Most people do in fact walk around fragmented; in chunks of themselves.<\/p>\n

Eris is in Aries and I think that in many respects, Aries in our era is about Eris. Aries is the sense of self<\/em> and the right to exist<\/em>. We do a lot of experimenting with identity these days, but most of it is virtual. It is fast arriving at the point that anything that occurs in the physical world is perceived as, or sold to us as, a kind of threat — unless it involves spending money.<\/p>\n

Eris is here to teach us to return to the roots of our identity. I do not mean identity as an abstract concept; I mean identity as the direct experience of self and of existence. We may be so far from this that it sounds like an abstraction. We may feel like we can express our “true self” more in Second Life than we can in our First Life.<\/p>\n

Now, you may think this is a cool idea, and I make it sound appealing and logical and even practical. The question we have to ask ourselves is: what exactly do we do? How do we identify these cast off parts, and what do we do with them once we find them?<\/p>\n

Moreover, how do you relate to others — your partner, your friends — when you’re changing and accepting things about yourself that they don’t accept about themselves? What if you’re asking questions others are not asking? What if you notice things that nobody else seems to notice? What if you’re looking for answers but nobody is willing to raise the questions? Well, there are a lot of ways to avoid a meaningful dialog. There are a lot of ways to avoid receiving meaningful information about ourselves.<\/p>\n

I would like to leave that question open for now: I would like to leave it to you.<\/p>\n

 \"Eric<\/strong><\/pre>\n
Oracle for today returns May 02, 2006 – Gemini – Daily from the Jonathan Cainer horoscope by Eric Francis.<\/em><\/p>\n
     You may feel the creeping tide of pressure urging you to action. You may sense that you know what you want; so you had better go for it – now. If you can sit with this feeling, and be aware with all your senses and all the different forms of your intelligence, you’ll notice that the information keeps coming. It’s not any special fact or idea that you need, but rather the deeper source that’s informing you of everything you need to know. What you’re experiencing and learning is leading somewhere. Pay attention: try not to draw conclusions. A revelation you’re not quite expecting is at hand.<\/span><\/p>\n
Here are your daily aspects, courtesy of Serennu<\/a>:<\/p>\n
Thursday 10 April 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n
Mercury<\/strong> (13+  Aries) quintile Hades<\/strong> (25+  Gemini)
\nMercury<\/strong> (13+  Aries) conjunct Pallas<\/strong> (13+  Aries)
\nMercury<\/strong> (14+  Aries) trine Great Attractor<\/strong> (14+  Sagittarius)
\nMercury<\/strong> (14+  Aries) sextile Nessus<\/strong> (14+  Aquarius)
\nPandora<\/strong> (21+  Scorpio Rx) quincunx Eris<\/strong> (21+  Aries)
\nSisyphus<\/strong> (23+  Libra Rx) opposite Amor<\/strong> (23+  Aries)
\nAtlantis<\/strong> (22+  Libra Rx) opposite 1992 QB1<\/strong> (22+  Aries)
\nVenus<\/strong> (5+ Aries) semisquare Chiron<\/strong> (20+  Aquarius)
\nMercury<\/strong> (14+  Aries) trine Ixion<\/strong> (14+  Sagittarius Rx)
\nPallas<\/strong> (14+  Aries) trine Great Attractor<\/strong> (14+  Sagittarius)
\nVenus<\/strong> (5+ Aries) semisquare Sedna<\/strong> (20+  Taurus)
\nPandora<\/strong> (21+  Scorpio Rx) sextile Jupiter<\/strong> (21+  Capricorn)
\nSun<\/strong> (20+  Aries) quintile Kronos<\/strong> (2+ Cancer)
\nMercury<\/strong> (14+  Aries) quincunx Hidalgo<\/strong> (14+  Scorpio Rx)
\nPallas<\/strong> (14+  Aries) sextile Nessus<\/strong> (14+  Aquarius)
\nSun<\/strong> (21+  Aries) quincunx Pandora<\/strong> (21+  Scorpio Rx)
\nSun<\/strong> (21+  Aries) square Jupiter<\/strong> (21+  Capricorn)
\nSun<\/strong> (21+  Aries) conjunct Eris<\/strong> (21+  Aries)
\nVenus<\/strong> (5+ Aries) trine Hylonome<\/strong> (5+ Sagittarius Rx)
\nSisyphus<\/strong> (23+  Libra Rx) septile Ixion<\/strong> (14+  Sagittarius Rx)
\nVesta<\/strong> (25+  Pisces) square Hades<\/strong> (25+  Gemini)
\nMercury<\/strong> (15+  Aries) septile Neptune<\/strong> (23+  Aquarius)
\nMercury<\/strong> (15+  Aries) square Mars<\/strong> (15+  Cancer)
\nVenus<\/strong> (5+ Aries) septile Nessus<\/strong> (14+  Aquarius)
\nJupiter<\/strong> (21+  Capricorn) square Eris<\/strong> (21+  Aries)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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