{"id":48692,"date":"2011-11-14T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=48692"},"modified":"2011-11-14T11:22:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T16:22:59","slug":"small-causes-big-effects-proceed-gently-with-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/small-causes-big-effects-proceed-gently-with-clarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Causes, Big Effects: Proceed Gently, with Clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor Arroway, who in the film "Contact" portrays the first scientist to make contact with extraterrestrial life. Her father once advised her as a young girl to make small moves, which is one theme of the astrology this week. In a perfect world, we would also have news about extraterrestrial life -- most of action is focused on the sign Sagittarius. Promotional image \u00a9 by Warner Brothers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today is Monday, Nov. 14, 2011<\/a><\/strong>. This week, all week, the astrology is dominated by the centaur planet Pholus. You may have never heard of Pholus, but you’ve felt its effects many times. It’s the thing at work when a small decision or action has an unexplainable, cascading effect where one thing leads to another to some unexpected — and large — result. When Pholus is in the picture, it’s vital to use the energy in your favor rather than have it work against you. As with all the centaur planets (the first of which was Chiron), the key to this is awareness.<\/p>\n

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Awareness — that elusive thing. Every spiritual or therapy tradition has a name for it: mindfulness, raising consciousness, focus, paying attention, coming out of a trance. Then there is real life. We live in a world where it’s considered okay to drive a car through a crowded city while simultaneously listening to the radio, drinking coffee, smoking a cigarette and talking the phone. Nearly everything around us is designed to distract us or put us in a hypnotic state.<\/p>\n

This is the week to drive (and only drive) while you’re driving, eat when you’re eating and read when you’re reading. Even if you’re an extremely talented multitasker, keep things down to a dull roar and really pay attention, because this week your actions will have effects. You can prevent things from going in unwholesome directions if you know this, and you can remind yourself that small moves mean a lot.<\/p>\n

It’s also the week to proceed with intention. Either work on developing your vision, or stick to the one you’ve got. Sagittarius, where most of this astrology takes place, is a visionary sign, and the aspects are calling for clear focus and making conscious choices, as if what you decide actually matters. The chances are it matters far more than you think.<\/p>\n

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In a moment we’ll provide the technicalities about this astrology, in case you’re curious. Two more points first. One is that on many accounts, the sky is lit up with centaur energy. For different reasons, Chiron, Pholus and Nessus are all activated right now. Centaur energy is edgy; it can have us feeling on edge, which is sometimes a double edge. There can be confusion between healing and wounding; there can be unusual fear or psychological material coming to the surface. Situations can be unusually reactive. Prepare for this in yourself, and expect it in the people around you.<\/p>\n

Second point: one of the planets involved in the setup describes the absence of moral or ethical boundaries. Be especially cautious of anyone who professes that there is no difference between right and wrong, that ethics are inconvenient or that it doesn’t matter if this thing we’re doing hurts someone. We are in an extended moment when things really do matter, and matter a lot more than we may think.<\/p>\n

The technical description of this astrology involves Venus and Mercury reaching the middle of Sagittarius. At the moment there are many slow-moving planets and points right there. These include Pholus, to which both Venus and Mercury will be making conjunctions; the North Node of the Moon, which has a feeling of amplifying karma; and the Great Attractor, which amplifies everything that comes into contact with it. So if Pholus is reactive, Pholus together with the North Node and the Great Attractor is several orders of magnitude more potent.<\/p>\n

Then add one last thing — a slow-moving Pluto-like planet called Ixion. That’s the piece cautioning about suspending morality and warning that you or others might be tempted to do so. One not-so-little problem we face on this plane of reality is not understanding karma. That is to say, we don’t tend to understand the relationship between cause and effect. Our actions have effects and what happens in the world has a cause. But most people pretend this connection does not exist. If there was ever a week to consider the reality of karma, this is the one.<\/p>\n

Let’s check in with some local news and weather \u2014 what the Moon is up to today and Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Moon enters its home sign Cancer today just before 2:19 am EST. The Moon\u2019s usual emphasis on home, the maternal and our emotional tides in this sign starts to look like an astrological Baskin Robbins ice cream store; not quite 21 flavors, but close. Shortly after arriving in Cancer, the Moon immediately makes aspects to several planets, indeed, the many planets that are occupying the early degrees of the signs. This is a caution against being emotionally reactive<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Chiron in the first degree of Pisces picks up a flowing trine from the Moon, letting you feel both the emotional tone of the things you need to heal just now, as well as giving access to the creativity you can use to do so. Uranus, in the first degree of Aries (the Aries Point) takes a square aspect from Moon — an unpredictable surge to our inner landscape, precipitating unexpected events and adding fuel to act in the form of tension. Beware of the sensation of emotional instability \u2014 let it pass, if it floods into your brain. Part of what you want to guard against is any form of overreacting to what you perceive. Do a little reality check and make sure that you know what you’re talking about before you say anything.<\/p>\n

Mars is in early Virgo, still opposite Chiron; it too will take an aspect from the Moon. Sextiles help give us traction, which in this case would be mental and intellectual traction. If you’re starting to feel your feelings run away, tap into the mind level and start reasoning with yourself.<\/p>\n

Speaking of sextiles, the Moon simultaneously makes this enabling (in the best sense) angle to retrograde Jupiter in early Taurus. Then it makes an opposition to Pluto \u2014 another aspect that could lead nearly anyone to over-react.<\/p>\n

In the background of all of this astrology is a grand trine in the earth signs, between Mars, Jupiter and Pluto. Here too is an aspect worth a few moments of care and caution: grand trines can feel like getting caught in a whirlpool. Notice the direction of events. Try to catch the kind of flow that you don’t want early in the game, early in the day or early in the week, and gently use your intuition and clear decisions to set things in the right direction. The operative words here are clear and gently.<\/p>\n

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Today is Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. This week, all week, the astrology is dominated by the centaur planet Pholus. You may have never heard of Pholus, but you’ve felt its effects many times. It’s the thing at work when a small decision or action has an unexplainable, cascading effect where one thing leads to another … 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\/48692"}],"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=48692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}