{"id":49303,"date":"2011-11-28T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=49303"},"modified":"2011-11-28T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:54:50","slug":"tough-decisions-sun-square-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/tough-decisions-sun-square-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Decisions – Sun Square Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sun in Sagittarius is moving to square Mars in Virgo at the end of the week. Since aspects involving Mars tend to express well in advance, we should start looking at it now. It all starts with the Sun, source of our daylight, archetype of your consciousness. It is largely when signs host the Sun that they reveal their characteristics and an aspect to the Sun is a defining baseline for other objects in astrology. This week’s solar aspect to Mars may be defining for you, implying a choice or set of choices that will reveal the true nature of your focus and give you a chance to think about it.<\/p>\n

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It is natural to check in with yourself when Sol is in Sagittarius. Its mutable quality is about preparing for a new season, in this case initiated by a solstice, when the Sun’s apparent motion on the horizon stops and changes direction. The fire element energizes those preparations for initiative and stimulates us to imagine a new direction for our conscious action. The Sun’s presence prioritizes acting with awareness, as do some other long term constants unique to Sagittarius.<\/p>\n

For centuries, Sagittarius has been the home of two distant points beyond our ken. From the middle of the sign, what we can only call a Great Attractor humbles us in contemplation of the unknowable. In a later degree is the homing signal of our place in creation, the galactic core. Over a generation, Sagittarius has been the home of a disproportionate number of Centaur planets, encouraging us to go where we fear to tread. This year brought the lunar north node, with its eclipses, reminding us to be responsible for what steps we do take. Finally, the recent solar ingress to Sagittarius took place during the stormy prelude to Mercury’s retrograde station in the same sign. That’s a lot. It probably corresponds to a lot on your mind, and it does not include the other eleven signs and their resident objects to which Sun is connecting by aspect. Virgo is one of those signs; Mars is there. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Virgo shares a mutable quality with Sagittarius, but its distinguishing element is earth. Signs with a common quality are oriented in a cross configuration on the zodiac and aspects between them are always either oppositions or squares. The difference in element contributes to the tension that a square implies. Earth confers a pragmatic approach to the preparations for a change of season. The archetypal energy of Mars is lending itself to Virgo’s “git ‘er done” ethic. The approaching square between Sun and Mars is, at least in part, a tension between the Virgo imperative to do it now and the Sagittarius inclination to first consider just what it is we are about to do.<\/p>\n

Squares are commonly felt as an inner, psychological tension but sometimes they elaborate eloquently in our common existence. This last week provides an excellent example that bridges the Martian archetype to the actual planet. It is the tale of two missions to Mars.<\/p>\n

On the one hand we have the initial success of launching\u00a0NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, otherwise known as ‘Curiosity’. It a one-ton robotic vehicle designed to roam the surface of Mars equipped with a jack hammer and a vaporizing laser, all powered by plutonium-238. The mission of Curiosity is to search for evidence of life. What the hey? Search for life with what is in fact an all-terrain weapon? Of all the brilliant scientists who participated in this mission, did any one of them pause to consider what they were about to do? Apparently not. The brain trust assembled at Cape Canaveral on Saturday seemed to have one focus to the exclusion of all other perspectives: Do it and do it now before the launch window closes, giving us another two years to actually think. If you think that’s a success, wait until you get a 14-ton load of the failure right over your head.<\/p>\n

Russia’s concurrent Mars mission, with the unfortunate name of Phobos-Grunt, has pooped out in an uncontrolled orbit above our own planet. That’s 14 tons, half of which is Nitrogen Tetroxide and Hydrazine, which will end up in somebody’s rain should, as seems probable, the Grunt plummet back to where it came from. Oh yes, there also is an undisclosed amount of radioactive Cobalt-57 on board which will do wonders for your thyroid. Once again, did anybody think about the consequences of failure before designing, constructing and launching this thing? Can you say ‘nyet’ boys and girls?<\/p>\n

All this is not to say that we should be afraid to act in our own lives. It is to say that we should not be consumed by mindless action or ambition. What you choose to do during the course of this next week may well be necessary. Nobody will deny the importance of feeding yourself or your family, for example. The square of Sun to Mars is simply saying that every action resonates endlessly beyond its original intent or justification and, unlike some of the greatest minds among us, you should take that into account. Consider dispensing with the hard-ass and try some hard thinking. Necessity should not be the mother of regret.<\/p>\n

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Sun in Sagittarius is moving to square Mars in Virgo at the end of the week. Since aspects involving Mars tend to express well in advance, we should start looking at it now. It all starts with the Sun, source of our daylight, archetype of your consciousness. It is largely when signs host the Sun … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"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\/49303"}],"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\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}