{"id":54650,"date":"2012-03-20T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T04:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=54650"},"modified":"2012-03-20T22:59:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:59:51","slug":"a-tipping-point-into-emergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/a-tipping-point-into-emergence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tipping Point into Emergence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the Vernal Equinox: daylight shines equally on all parts of the Earth, it\u2019s the first day of the Sun in Aries, the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere (autumn south of the equator), and the beginning of a new astrological cycle. We collectively flow out from the fertile, womb-like waters of Pisces and step into the fiery, alert \u2018I am\u2019 consciousness of Aries. In terms of the Sabian symbols we\u2019ve been exploring, we are shifting from a state of envisioning our future-self to a state of emergence and presence \u2013 even if that presence is still tenuous.<\/p>\n

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Mars square the lunar nodes and Juno at the time of the Sun's ingress into Aries for the Vernal Equinox. The Sun is the yellow circle at 00 Aries -- the Aries Point. Mars is the red arrow pointing up at a diagonal. The orange horse shoes are the lunar nodes, and the purple asterisk is Juno; it's conjunct the North Node.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Sabian symbol for the first degree of Aries is, \u201cA woman just risen from the sea. A seal is embracing her.\u201d At first it sounds a bit like Venus herself, who emerged from waves of sea foam a fully formed goddess. <\/p>\n

Yet Venus bears only some resemblance right now. That planet is halfway through Taurus, one of the two signs it rules (the other is Libra) \u2013 a homecoming of sorts. <\/p>\n

The big Venus event of 2012 is in June: the Venus transit of the Sun. That is a rare and powerful event in a season of rare and powerful events \u2013 but we\u2019re not there yet. The Venus of that moment is still taking shape.<\/p>\n

So, too, is our consciousness as represented by the Sun today. Yes, it has arrived in the sign of \u2018I am\u2019, fully illuminating the personal\/political space of the Aries Point just as the Occupy movement (and whatever other political and social movements emerge this spring) is re-establishing itself. The Sun is about to make a conjunction to Uranus in Aries — the perfect image of self-awareness.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s look closer at the second half of that symbol: \u201cA seal is embracing her.\u201d The seal is waiting for her when she comes out of the water, like he or she was expecting her.<\/p>\n

In one sense, the woman \u2013 humanity \u2013 is being met by a representative of the rest of creation. We could see this as a recognition of the unity of life on Earth. Yet Dane Rudhyar, author of An Astrological Mandala<\/em> (one of the most dearly loved interpretations of the symbols), sees something else: a lot of potential at a possible tipping point. <\/p>\n

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He asserts that if the woman is emerging from the depths of unconsciousness, then the seal represents an extension of that unconsciousness. Though the seal has also emerged, it is only a biological emergence without the potential for awareness held by the woman. The woman is taking a first step and still holds more potential than actual, substantial presence \u2013 and is still susceptible to the pull of the past. <\/p>\n

The sky at any given moment tends to show us the same message in many forms. Recent Daily Astrology posts have considered the ways our shadow material \u2013 parts of ourselves we have perhaps ignored and not yet integrated \u2013 are getting our attention. Each time this happens, we are offered a choice: push the new insights away and keep doing what we\u2019re doing, or embrace them and find a way to use the new understanding to step in a healthier direction. The sky has been offering us repeated tipping points, and today includes another: Mars is square the lunar nodes, with Juno conjunct the North Node in Sagittarius.<\/p>\n

Mars, now in the last month of its retrograde in Virgo, has been taking us deep, deep into the territory of our desire and the psychology around what we can heal there. It\u2019s been a pretty amazing journey. Mars square the lunar nodes shows us that wherever we are along that path, we have a choice: to take what we are learning and commit to the (perhaps challenging) task of applying it toward an as-yet-unknown way of being; or to shrink from the challenge and stick with what is known. The comforts of the latter are familiar, but limiting; the unknown can be scary.<\/p>\n

But there is some curious help in the configuration. We tend to think of Juno as Queen Bitch of Jealousy, but she is in Sagittarius right now. That makes her Queen of Heaven. She still represents relationships, but the expansiveness of Sagittarius gives her some breathing room \u2013 and with that extra space, she can afford to be generous. Juno has a broader perspective in Sagittarius, and it\u2019s giving us the ability to see new ideas of what commitment and devotion can be about. <\/p>\n

Visually, the Mars-nodes-Juno setup looks like a see-saw or set of scales. Whatever Mars retrograde in Virgo has been representing in your life equals the tipping point. Your work with that material, your sense of moving forward or sticking with the familiar, is what hangs in the balance. Just as the Sun\u2019s arrival in Aries represents a presence still stronger in potential than in actuality (potential that, however, can be expressed if you want to), so too does retrograde Mars square the nodes represent potential. <\/p>\n

Once Mars stations direct, we can begin to put its drive to outward use. The deciding factor in any conflict you may be working through is whether your impulses toward the past or the future are stronger. Consider what you have been envisioning with the help of Pisces, and see if you can use Juno to tip the scales toward a new future \u2013 one in which your sense of devotion gives you space to emerge fully from the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the Vernal Equinox: daylight shines equally on all parts of the Earth, it\u2019s the first day of the Sun in Aries, the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere (autumn south of the equator), and the beginning of a new astrological cycle. We collectively flow out from the fertile, womb-like waters of … 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\/54650"}],"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=54650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}