{"id":50628,"date":"2011-12-15T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T05:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=50628"},"modified":"2011-12-15T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:28:19","slug":"creative-devotion-and-the-galactic-core-just-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/creative-devotion-and-the-galactic-core-just-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative devotion and the Galactic Core: Just Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Thursday, December 15, 2011<\/a><\/strong>. The Sun is approaching a conjunction with the Galactic Core in late Sagittarius. Meanwhile the Moon is working its way through the last third of Leo and enters Virgo at 10:58 pm EST. Just before it changes signs, however, it makes a quick series of oppositions to planets in late Aquarius. The most notable is a near-simultaneous pair of oppositions to Vesta and Neptune, which are nearly conjunct.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s like our lunar receptor picks up the signal specifically to give us a little preview of the conjunction on a wavelength we can sense more palpably. As you may know, aspects involving Neptune can sometimes fly under the radar, get lost in the depths, or come through to consciousness via more indirect routes (such as through dreams or making art).<\/p>\n

Vesta makes its exact conjunction to Neptune on Friday and, because the planet of illusion and denial is involved, one possible assumption is that we may expend our creative energies in a non-productive manner. But the annual conjunction of the Sun with the Galactic Center is placing a different spin on this aspect.<\/p>\n

Paul O. Hewit writes of the GC, \u201cIt is a stunning source of energy, motivation and aspiration. \u2026 and probably the source of most of the energy in any chart.\u201d It has a profound, transpersonal effect upon us that astrologers are still trying to quantify. As Eric has written, \u201cThe feeling is like a cosmic storm from which there is no easy shelter. We just need to let the energy surge through us and around us, and be as open, expanded and conductive as possible.\u201d Neptune is just the planet to assist us in opening and expanding into these powerful energies, if we use it creatively.<\/p>\n

Vesta symbolizes the inner fires of creativity within us, and how we tend those fires. Her placement in the natal chart describes those things you instinctively honor. In other words, she represents your true passion in life and all that you will do to keep that passion alive. If we fail to tend these fires, we run the risk of living an inauthentic life. <\/p>\n

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In terms of Vesta\u2019s current placement in the sky \u2013 in the penultimate degree of Aquarius \u2013 we have a clue about where our collective devotion has been directed. You could say we\u2019ve been quite committed to the idea of individualism in groups, especially as represented digitally. Take, for example, the phenomena of everyone having their own mini vanity sites and feeds via Facebook and Twitter. We\u2019re all together in this social media (those who use it), carefully tending our oh-so-individual image\u2026 en masse. When Vesta leaves Aquarius for truly collective Pisces on Dec. 20, it will be interesting to see if we can detect a shift in tone as to which creative fires we tend and how we do so. <\/p>\n

We have an opportunity at this particular moment in time to see if we have tended our inner fires with integrity, if we have displayed the courage of our convictions and lived the life we truly wish to live. The passion and single-mindedness of Vesta can focus our imaginations now, allowing us to surrender to a new freedom lived with purpose. <\/p>\n

What do you truly honor in life? What would truly fulfill you in mind, body and spirit? There is a powerful energy force being focused on us now, from the heart of the galaxy through Sagittarius, empowering our sacred quest to live our passion. You may be feeling that power as a sense of pressure; even more likely, you may notice the overwhelming sense of time acceleration that comes with the Sun conjunct the GC this time of year. Even the solstice, urging us to draw inward, still ourselves and listen, can feel dense and extreme \u2013 especially in contrast to the expansiveness of Sagittarius. That kind of polarization may come with the feeling that \u2018something has to give\u2019. Perhaps you\u2019re ready to surrender \u2013 to your authentic self. And why not?<\/p>\n

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Today is Thursday, December 15, 2011. The Sun is approaching a conjunction with the Galactic Core in late Sagittarius. Meanwhile the Moon is working its way through the last third of Leo and enters Virgo at 10:58 pm EST. Just before it changes signs, however, it makes a quick series of oppositions to planets in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/50628"}],"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=50628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}