{"id":54342,"date":"2012-03-12T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=54342"},"modified":"2012-03-12T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:01:40","slug":"just-one-step-your-grand-earth-trine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/just-one-step-your-grand-earth-trine\/","title":{"rendered":"Just One Step — Your Grand Earth Trine"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing alone is beautiful: setting off.
\n— Ko Un<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tonight, Jupiter and Pluto begin a relay of sorts that will include Venus and Mars in a daisy chain of flow, connecting all three earth signs for 48 continuous hours. The configuration, called a grand trine, is matter in motion. The planets making up the trine indicate how its energy will express. The time frame gives both the opportunity for this expression and its context. To make this astrology real, break from your routine sometime today or tomorrow, breathe in, feel your immediate material desire, make a space inside for it, visualize its location, and take one step in that direction. Just one step should be enough to get things rolling, like Jupiter and Pluto are about to do. Jupiter is the part of you that opens up to take things in. <\/p>\n

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When you are aware of your breathing, conscious of what you are eating, offering a hug or opening your door, that’s Jupiter real and present for you. Jupiter is in Taurus right now. As one would expect from a fixed quality and an association with elemental earth, Taurus is where life gloms on to matter, making more of both. Jupiter in Taurus is thus an invitation to open up to life and make more of it. <\/p>\n

What life can make of you is where Pluto comes in. Pluto does not express as an invitation, but that does not mean that it is anathema to living. On this planet, at least, the process is cyclical, motivated and molded by the seasons, ending and renewing in succession. The inevitable changes wrought by the cycles of your life are Pluto up close and personal for you. Pluto has been in Capricorn since 2008 and will remain there until another decade has elapsed. As one would suspect from a long voyage through the realm of cardinal earth, Pluto’s mission is to re-initiate its authority as the common connection between you and every other being. What Jupiter and Pluto have in common right now is their position in signs that are distinguished by the same element. That’s a very special connection with a defining geometry.<\/p>\n

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Western astrology employs 12 signs; Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. One of the characteristics employed to organize and distinguish signs are the four elements of ancient natural science: fire, earth, air and water. The elements are alternatively and evenly distributed around the zodiac wheel. Each element is thus associated with three signs that form the points of an equilateral triangle, hence the word trine. Trines function as a conduit facilitating flow.<\/p>\n

When two planets are in the same place in different signs that share the same element they are in trine aspect and their expression flows from one to the other in effortless connection. If all three points of the triangle are occupied, the connection becomes a circuit taking the flow around and round in a grand trine. The third earth sign, after Capricorn and Taurus, is Virgo and Mars is there to complete the circuit.<\/p>\n

Mars is, in the words of Robert Hand, “connected with work and physical energy,” but it has not been itself lately. Earth has recently passed between this planet and the Sun, making Mars appear to be moving backward from one night to the next, just as is the case with Saturn and Mercury right now. That apparent backward motion is called retrograde and it probably corresponds to a change in your own relationship to energy. If you have found yourself flagging today, you could credibly blame it on the advent of daylight savings time. Then again, it would be difficult to dismiss the timing as retrograde Mars prepares to plug in to the earth trine circuit. Fortunately, there is a fourth object very well placed to help out, Venus.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to overstate how influential Venus is right now, in Taurus, where it rules, rapidly closing with Jupiter. Weather permitting, you can see the Venus and Jupiter conjoined in the western sky after sunset, unmistakable and powerful beyond words. Just one look and you will get it. If there is one aspect that connects objects more directly and efficiently than a trine, it’s a conjunction. This particular conjunction is timed perfectly to be part of the grand earth trine. Finally, no other object in the solar system can match what Venus does to awaken even a compromised Mars, drawing the energy you need to take your single, symbolic step and providing a direction in which to take it.<\/p>\n

Even now, when many feet get little use, an ancient wisdom prevails. The longest journey cannot begin without a first step. Having been taken, that step is like the sight of Venus and Jupiter in conjunction, a moment of understanding through the body, never to be forgotten. That’s why it means something to make that moment happen over the next two days. It will connect you to the circuit connecting the earth under your feet with the brightest beacons in the sky. Take back a few minutes of your own life, take a breath with purpose, being present to what attracts you and where that is, then lift your foot and place it down in the direction your energy is drawn to go. Of course, there is a great risk involved. The other foot may decide to follow, and then what would you do?<\/p>\n

Offered In Service<\/em><\/p>\n

Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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