{"id":51258,"date":"2011-12-29T12:03:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=51258"},"modified":"2011-12-29T12:03:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:03:47","slug":"next-time-with-feeling-saturn-and-neptune-in-near-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/next-time-with-feeling-saturn-and-neptune-in-near-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Time With Feeling – Saturn and Neptune in Near Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we approach the first day of 2012, you can forgive yourself if your expectations are high. After all, with Mercury in new territory for the first time since November, the New Year’s tradition of a fresh start will be reinforced. In the interest of balance, however, you should also be prepared to accept it as a blessing if you don’t see the results you had hoped for. That would correspond to Saturn in Libra and Neptune in Aquarius closing in on an air trine they will not achieve. That is called a “near miss” aspect.<\/p>\n

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Tracy Delaney of serennu.com<\/a> defines near misses as aspects that “never become exact on this pass but are within one degree.” The applying trine between Saturn and Neptune has been within one degree since the Capricorn solstice and will remain so until Valentine’s Day, 2012. That’s a long time to be almost but not quite. It is a situation worthy of a closer look, beginning with the nature of the aspect.<\/p>\n

Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac is identified with either fire, earth, air or water, the elements of ancient natural science. Each of the four elements are associated with three evenly distributed signs which can be seen to form the points of an equilateral triangle, hence the word trine. Libra, current host of Saturn, and Aquarius, location of Neptune, are air signs (Gemini would be the third). The relationship of planets in trine is deemed to be supportive and flowing with no critical content. In air signs that relationship would be on the mental level, existing in thought. The closer to exact the trine aspect gets, the easier the flow. With Saturn and Neptune, it is as if the flow of a trine aspect is between two entirely different realms.<\/p>\n

Saturn is associated with the limits that define and build structure in our lives. Neptune, in the words of Robert Hand, “dissolves whatever Saturn builds.” One may reasonably wonder how two so contradictory archetypes can possibly support each other. The necessary answer is that they do so by connecting polarized states of existence, such as spirit and matter, or dreams and reality. With air signs involved, that implied bridge is on the intellectual level. A near miss would indicate that conceptual link somehow falls short of being realized, at least for the time being.<\/p>\n

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Near miss aspects usually come about because at least one of the planets is about to retrograde. Such is the case with Saturn, which will go into apparent reverse this coming February as Earth moves between it and the Sun. Just days before Saturn stations retrograde, Neptune enters Pisces for the long haul, taking any chance for an air trine with it. Somehow, in some way, you can expect that course of celestial events to mean that the conceived was never quite achieved. Should that happen to you, as it may already have, it is important to remember that all is not lost. Saturn and Neptune will achieve their trine with time, and on a different level.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the Cancer solstice of 2012, Saturn will resume direct motion. The Ringed One will enter the water sign Scorpio in October, and within days it will finally complete an exact trine with Neptune in the water sign Pisces. That should tell you something, and the message has a potential to heal and make you whole.<\/p>\n

We live in times when the products of mind are far more apparent and ubiquitous than the abundance to be found in our hearts. Everywhere we encounter images, representations and abstractions created through algorithms that may as well be magic, for as little we are aware of them, much less understand them. To be sure, those intellectual constructs have made many wondrous things possible, but they have also, in the minds of many, reduced your very existence to information and nothing more. That’s no way to live. As a matter of fact, that’s the means by which we all can easily forget what it means to be alive. That’s how Saturn narrowly missing an air trine with Neptune can be considered a blessing. It gives the water signs, and the heartfelt emotions they represent, a chance to pull us back from the brink of being rendered from our souls. \u00a0<\/p>\n

We have had more than enough of the intellect manifesting itself in the world. The time has come to for balance. If we are to bridge the spiritual and material worlds without destroying both in the process, it will be an act of feeling rather than thinking. If we are to connect the ideal with the real without losing track of what they both mean, it will be with our hands, directed by our hearts. After all that has come to pass, arriving at the overdue balance will necessarily take time and may be a painful inconvenience for most, but it will ultimately be for the benefit of all.<\/p>\n

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As we approach the first day of 2012, you can forgive yourself if your expectations are high. After all, with Mercury in new territory for the first time since November, the New Year’s tradition of a fresh start will be reinforced. In the interest of balance, however, you should also be prepared to accept it … 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":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51258"}],"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=51258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}