{"id":52328,"date":"2012-01-25T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=52328"},"modified":"2012-01-25T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:11:47","slug":"venus-square-the-great-attractor-chasing-your-missing-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/venus-square-the-great-attractor-chasing-your-missing-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus square the Great Attractor: Attract-repel-notice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012<\/strong><\/a>. Monday’s New Moon was accompanied by so much activity, it almost seems strange that the newly waxing Moon is already on its way out of Aquarius, ingressing Pisces at 4:11 am EST. The Moon in Pisces has a visionary, dreamy, romantic and poetic feel, which sounds rather pleasant. It certainly sounds emotionally gentle, which may be welcome for many of us. But the Moon is not operating in a vacuum \u2013 and it seems that the dreaminess you may feel today is at odds with other corners of the sky.<\/p>\n

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For one thing, Venus, also in Pisces, is making a square to the Great Attractor today into tomorrow. The Great Attractor is that deep-space point in mid-Sagittarius that is pulling our solar system toward it, while it in turn is rushing away from us. At essence, this setup brings tension to the issues of attraction and repulsion in your life — and that can manifest in many ways, with a variety of emotions involved.<\/p>\n

The Moon catches up with Venus tomorrow, which could amplify whatever you’re feeling about who and what you do or don’t attract and why, as well as who and what you are attracted to (or repelled by). That\u2019s where some of the rest of the sky, with more mental leanings, may provide some tools. The trick, as is often the case, is to be mindful of those thoughts (negative mental loops are hot helpful; using some logic to notice what you don\u2019t know, however, is) and to reach for the right tool. No sense grabbing a sledge hammer when a sculptor\u2019s chisel will do, or a paint roller to touch up the portrait you\u2019ve been working on.<\/p>\n

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The Sun is still only in the early degrees of Aquarius, lending a little detachment to our inner workings if we stay open to it. Stephanie Gailing at Planetary Apothecary<\/a> has written of the Sun in Aquarius that \u201cThe focus [is on] how to solve problems and help make things better, not just for ourselves from for the larger world around us.\u201d <\/p>\n

That actually describes a foil for Venus square the Great Attractor: if you can pull up out of any unrequited longing you may be experiencing, you may notice the ways you can actively make your world work a little better. Gailing continues, \u201cYou may notice over the coming month a sense of pulling back, a slight (or not so slight) distancing [of] yourself from situations. The impetus isn\u2019t because you don\u2019t care — it\u2019s that you do and you realize that standing back can give valuable pattern-recognition perspectives to help you better understand issues so as to spark solutions.\u201d <\/p>\n

If part of that pattern-recognition includes noticing the tendency to get so caught up in romantic wanting that you come a bit unmoored from your center and your own life path, keep that understanding front and center. The other mentally-oriented event at play \u2013 which is with us for eight months (almost 3 of which are retrograde) \u2013 is Mars in Virgo, which began Monday with the New Moon.<\/p>\n

Willow at Willow\u2019s Web Astrology<\/a> writes, \u201cThroughout this time, we’ll be directed down only the most pertinent and effective channels in our lives, honing and refining our courses and withdrawing personal energy from anything that is not necessary, valuable, or vital moving forward. This process is happening, specifically, in the house or houses where Virgo falls in your natal chart. That’s the area where things need to be tightened.\u201d<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re feeling at all drawn in these couple of days to emotional habits that do not move you forward, or unnecessary romantic gestures and drama, considering collecting that energy back up and aiming it toward actions that keep you centered, vital and clear. No one is saying not to dream, desire or love. Far from it. But as Willow continues in her article, those who grasp the sexual (Mars) element of health (Virgo) highlighted now will be called to move with greater and more precise awareness in their relationships. Specifically, there is \u201ca new awareness and focus on the health of the individual, the partner, the relationship, the immediate social groups and society, and the spirit, in general. There’s a re-wiring of attractions and sexual habits here, a clarification, and a removal of toxic sexual connections. Holistic sexual health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s to remembering that you are whole, as you are, where you are. Tempting as it may be to go rushing off after that \u2018missing piece\u2019 drawing you away, if it were really missing from you, there would be a way to get there. <\/p>\n

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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Monday’s New Moon was accompanied by so much activity, it almost seems strange that the newly waxing Moon is already on its way out of Aquarius, ingressing Pisces at 4:11 am EST. The Moon in Pisces has a visionary, dreamy, romantic and poetic feel, which sounds rather pleasant. 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":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52328"}],"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=52328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}