{"id":53202,"date":"2012-02-16T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T17:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=53202"},"modified":"2012-02-16T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T19:39:54","slug":"take-it-all-in-sun-enters-pisces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/take-it-all-in-sun-enters-pisces\/","title":{"rendered":"Take It All In – Sun enters Pisces"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
\n— Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Sun enters Pisces at 1:18 am EST on Sunday. Paraphrasing Robert Hand, Sun represents your consciousness. The solar ingress to a new zodiac sign means a shift in your consciousness according to the nature of the sign.\u00a0This particular shift will include a challenge to which we are not accustomed, because of the presence of Neptune in Pisces. The challenge will be to at once take more in and see it all more clearly than ever before. In your life that will mean getting to know people you don’t like and learning more about ideas you don’t agree with.<\/p>\n

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For the first time since Abraham Lincoln was alive, Neptune will be waiting at the door of Pisces when Sun enters. The very first aspect Sun will make after moving into Pisces this weekend is a conjunction with Neptune.<\/p>\n

That conjunction will symbolize a host of things. It will be a consummation of sorts, making the solar ingress real. Additionally, like all conjunctions, it will represent a merger of energies, the beginning of a new cycle and a potential blind spot. Finally, when Sun hooks up with Neptune in Pisces for the first time over 150 years, it will hook you up with a past experienced by nobody now living. To the extent that you are alive and conscious of what is going on within and around you, this is likely to be a weekend you will not soon forget.<\/p>\n

The consciousness of Sun in Pisces is influenced by the associated element, quality, position and ruler of the sign. Water is the element, and the quality is mutable. The traditional ruling planet of Pisces is Jupiter, shared with Sagittarius. The modern ruler is Neptune, and, for most astrologers, Pisces is the end of the zodiac cycle with an implicit connection to the elusive 12th house.<\/p>\n

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The 12th house is the experience you can’t express, the concept you can’t grasp. It is, as the translators of the King James Bible poetically put it 400 years ago, “The wind that bloweth where it listeth,” so that no matter which way you turn, it is always in your face. It is the the terrible sound of gods making love behind the elements of manifestation.<\/p>\n

In astrology, it is not unusual for the elemental to manifest itself literally; this is especially true if the symbolism is reinforced. Therefore, when Sun consummates the transition to a water sign by merging with a planet named after a water deity, you can expect to have the wet stuff work its way into your awareness. It could be as mundane as rain, but don’t be surprised if it is something that really commands your attention, flooding over from the literal into the symbolism of the emotional and intuitive, forcing you to adjust.<\/p>\n

Adjustment is also part of the Pisces experience. The mutable quality means we are about to enter the final four weeks before a change of season, in this case the Vernal Equinox. Preparing for a new season means letting go of the old one and accepting that a new cycle is about to begin. Adaptation may entail different clothes, food, habits or opportunities. Sun commencing a new cycle with Neptune just hours after entering Pisces indicates that some of those accommodations may be closer than we think, perhaps too close to see.<\/p>\n

Conjunctions mean that objects are literally indistinguishable by their position on the zodiac. When Sun is one of those objects, consciousness becomes symbolically indistinguishable from the nature of object it is conjoining, creating a blind spot in awareness. Normally, that close identification is superficial, like a mask, and lasts but a few days. When Sun conjoins with Neptune almost immediately after entering Pisces, that will not be the case. That’s because the practical expression of Pisces and Neptune are very similar.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, Eric averred that Neptune, as the modern ruler of Pisces, “works rather well.” Truer words were never written. Beginning with what water actually does and figuratively evokes, carrying over to what mutable means and how it functions, and including all of the difficult and paradoxical associations of the 12th house, what is said for the planet works for the sign. Whether you speak of the emotional, intuitive, fishy, mysterious, majestic, oily, dissolving, flowing, confusing, inspirational, murky, beautiful, ideal, unpredictable, elusive, dualistic, invisible, omnipotent, visionary, foggy, deep, placid, terrifying, creative, delusional or spiritual; individually or in combination, Pisces and Neptune are nearly always interchangeable and often indistinguishable. Yet, if we are not to be so lost as to be unconscious, we will need to expand our awareness to both take it all in and discern all the details when Sun enters Pisces this time around.<\/p>\n

Jupiter, the original and alternative ruler of Pisces is, among other things, about expansion, and that’s where we need to turn. Whatever happens when Sun enters Pisces this weekend, it will not be superficial and it will not be short. Essentially, it will be a month-long conjunction with Neptune. Nobody living has seen anything like it, but history tells us that it has been encountered, and dealt with before.<\/p>\n

The consciousness Abraham Lincoln brought to the office of President of the United States was forged during the last tenure of Neptune in Pisces. It was an expansive consciousness that could see beyond precedent and prejudice. It was an awareness that the work begun four score and some odd years before he assumed the presidency had not been finished and that division would not not serve the cause of completion. It was the sure and certain knowledge that wisdom is worthless without kindness and that kindness could not prevail without wisdom.<\/p>\n

Abraham Lincoln was not born with wisdom and kindness, but he learned about them by expanding his awareness to include that of others. With that expanded and inclusive consciousness he saw a hugely complex, paradoxical and emotionally confounding transition through to a new beginning, then he too left work unfinished. Now, the Sun’s light is about to illuminate the fact that it is our turn. If that light is not to be swallowed by the depths of our predicament, we must follow Lincoln’s example. Instead of hunkering down to struggle, we must open our arms, as well as our minds, to take it all in.<\/p>\n

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I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. — Abraham Lincoln The Sun enters Pisces at 1:18 am EST on Sunday. Paraphrasing Robert Hand, Sun represents your consciousness. The solar ingress to a new zodiac sign means a shift in your consciousness according to the nature of the sign.\u00a0This particular shift … 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\/53202"}],"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=53202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}