{"id":54397,"date":"2012-03-14T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=54397"},"modified":"2012-03-14T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:08:16","slug":"minor-mix-on-the-mutable-cross-and-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/minor-mix-on-the-mutable-cross-and-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor planet mix on the mutable cross — and Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Mars eases out of the grand earth trine from the first half of the week, it\u2019s also easing out of a packed grand cross made up of minor planets in the mutable signs. Minor planets mean small and with an unusual pitch — not less meaningful. Mars is on a mission with this material, providing us a lot of information right now. In this case, we get a detailed look at the web of stories, beliefs and memories influencing our sense of love, desire and self. <\/p>\n

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This is from a 90-degree sort on Serennu. It's a way to group all the planets together that are conjunct, opposite or square each other on a particular axis, and it can give a broader picture of the nuances at play in the astrology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In yesterday\u2019s Daily Astrology, we considered Eros and Psyche flanking Mars<\/a> in Virgo, and the insecurities and wounds regarding love that many of us carry. Mars retrograde in Virgo has been doing its work well these last few months, calling up all sorts of material for us to address. Virgo in general can be a nesting place of our insecurities and self-criticism. So you may be getting a workout \u2013 but exercising muscles makes them stronger, even if takes more effort than you\u2019re used to. And Mars, the planet of get-up-and-go, is reminding us that we\u2019ll only get out as much as we put into this work.<\/p>\n

Now, one planet we didn\u2019t mention yesterday in the Psyche-Eros conjunction in Virgo is Arachne. This is bringing the sense of interconnection right up to our noses, complete with ideas of \u2018conspiracy\u2019, \u2018love as a subversive act\u2019, and the \u2018stories\u2019 we tell ourselves about how love is or is not something we deserve. Sometimes these story lines run so deep, and are so interwoven, a visual aid is necessary to sort them out. In fact, try that: get out a piece of paper, and try mapping out the discoveries you\u2019ve been making lately. Make it as visual as you like (symbols, icons, scenery) and draw the pathways from one false belief to another, through as many relationships as they affected, and see how far back you can trace them. Amidst all of that, where do you locate yourself? Is there room on the page for you? Or is it time to step outside the web and see what you actually are?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s check in on the other side of the zodiac from the Virgo stellium. There we have Orpheus and Borasisi. Martha Lang-Wescott and Jason Schwartz note Orpheus as being about mourning or grief, longing for what is past, and grieving a missed opportunity or missed person. It is teamed up with Borasisi, Mr. \u2018If I believe it, it must be true\u2019 himself. All of us have grieved love lost at one time or another; most of us feel we\u2019ve missed opportunities in our relationships. But have we really? Or have we been exactly where we needed to be each step of the way? Consider that Chiron and Pallas are close at hand in Pisces, opposite those Virgo planets. Chiron is asking you to question and heal some of these assumptions; Pallas suggests there are practical steps to the process.<\/p>\n

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Perpendicular to the Virgo-Pisces axis is the Gemini-Sagittarius axis. In Gemini, we have the asteroids Memoria and Chaos in conjunction. Have your memories been feeling at all chaotic or disorienting as Mars has made its way backwards? Are you questioning beliefs based on the past, which is actually a fiction (because it does not exist now)? Even collective memory is in chaos \u2013 which could help us un-stick ourselves from the past, but may feel like being unmoored. There are important things to remember (like why access to birth control and voting are important) yet so any things we\u2019d rather forget \u2013 like the massacre of Afghani civilians this week by one or more U.S. troops. One of our jobs is to keep memory in perspective: we must remember as a culture in order to retain our humanity; yet we must keep our beliefs about ourselves in the present.<\/p>\n

Finally, in Sagittarius, we have the centaur planet Chariklo conjunct the Great Attractor. Chariklo was the devoted wife of Chiron; the GA is a deep-space point rushing away from us just as fast as it\u2019s pulling our entire galaxy toward it. We have a combination of a need for devotion with the need for space. Devotion is itself a powerful attractive force. When we devote ourselves to our own healing and self-love, as Mars retrograde is urging us to do, we feel less need to chase others for that validation.<\/p>\n

Mars, however, is \u2018leaving\u2019 this configuration for earlier degrees of Virgo \u2013 but it will be back soon. These asteroids and similar points move slowly, so Mars will make contact again along this axis. It did its work calling issues into focus and now is moving deeper toward an opposition to Chiron — an essential element of all of this. There are many ways to think about it, but in essence, the warrior spirit is awakening — through two of the most feminine signs. How is your feminine side responding to all this activity — and potential for healing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Mars eases out of the grand earth trine from the first half of the week, it\u2019s also easing out of a packed grand cross made up of minor planets in the mutable signs. Minor planets mean small and with an unusual pitch — not less meaningful. Mars is on a mission with this material, … 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\/54397"}],"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=54397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}