{"id":52851,"date":"2012-02-08T00:36:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T05:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=52851"},"modified":"2012-02-08T00:36:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T05:36:15","slug":"venus-on-the-aries-point-mars-and-eris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/venus-on-the-aries-point-mars-and-eris\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus on the Aries Point; Mars and Eris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York City's Chinese New Year parade, Jan. 29, 2012. Photo by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012.<\/strong><\/a> The sky is presenting us options in how we handle ourselves in our encounters with others \u2013 we would do well to consider them carefully and choose consciously. On one side of the zodiac, Venus is entering Aries; from the other, Mars is making an uncomfortable aspect to its mythological sister, Eris.<\/p>\n

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Venus in Aries can be challenging. But today Venus is on the Aries Point \u2013 that special first degree of the zodiac in which the personal and the political have a particularly symbiotic relationship to each other. <\/p>\n

As if in preparation, recent events served up a helping of women\u2019s health issues in the news, via the Susan G. Komen\/Planned Parenthood brouhaha over breast cancer screening funding to clinics that also provide abortion services. The incident has had a bonus effect of getting the issue of women\u2019s health \u2013 and the war against it \u2013 into millions of households. It completes the loop from personal space out into ‘the world’ and then back into personal space again.<\/p>\n

Uranus (in Aries) and Pluto (making a square from Capricorn) have been keeping the Aries Point warm with revolutionary\/evolutionary energy. What does it look like when Venus joins in? Well, one image is that Venus joins the revolution one orgasm at a time. Self-loving could change the world (just ask Betty Dodson<\/a>, whose video about her famed bodysex workshops<\/a> was just released). Betty has been working since the 1970s to help women understand \u2013 and love \u2013 their bodies. Forty years later, with right-wing factions in the U.S. ramping up their efforts to de-fund health services for women and keep teens in the dark about the sexual power of their bodies, Betty\u2019s work is as critical as ever. Sex is still a widely misunderstood and feared topic for many; transmuting that fear is a delicate procedure best done with empathy \u2013 a form of love.<\/p>\n

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What about Mars? It is retrograde in Virgo, making a quincunx to Eris in Aries. A quincunx is almost an opposition, but is one sign off. It asks us to negotiate between the two (seemingly external) sides of the equation, continually readjusting our position, but generally the point of resolution resides outside the quicunx. <\/p>\n

Now and for the next few months, we have the god of war expressing his drive inwardly instead of outwardly in a potentially self-critical sign. It can be a useful placement for moving forward with therapy and other inwardly focused processes, with awareness. <\/p>\n

With Mars in an awkward aspect to Eris \u2013 goddess of discord and identity chaos — there might be a feeling of not even being able to locate a unified self to criticize, which could be frustrating. If you do find yourself stuck in self-criticism, it can begin to leak out toward others in dysfunctional, self-sabotaging ways. <\/p>\n

In either case, be aware of taking out that frustration in so-called \u2018passive\u2019 ways toward others. If you think you\u2019re on the receiving end, open up a dialogue instead of responding in kind. The best first step in that is, again, empathy \u2013 toward yourself, and then toward the other.<\/p>\n

We each have Venus and Mars in our charts, and we also have some choice in how we express them. More importantly, we possess creativity and empathy, two qualities embodied by an easygoing and useable sextile between Neptune conjunct Chiron in Pisces and Jupiter in Taurus. These aspects are tailor-made to assist us in finding solutions, workarounds and allies even when we least expect them; you\u2019re invited to bring them along with you to the revolution.<\/p>\n

Looking for insights on how this week’s astrology affects your<\/strong> personal Sun and rising signs? Eric Francis interprets the signs every week, every month and every year. Weekly and monthly horoscopes are in Planet Waves and Planet Waves Light<\/strong><\/a>. Annual readings are in a special edition called Revolution. Revelation. Reality Check.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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