{"id":54806,"date":"2012-03-23T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=54806"},"modified":"2012-03-23T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:43:28","slug":"listening-to-the-medicinal-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/listening-to-the-medicinal-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to the Medicinal Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note:<\/strong> This week we asked a few of our favorite Chiron specialists for their thoughts on the Aries New Moon with retrograde Mars opposite Chiron. We quoted Dale O’Brien in yesterday’s Daily Astrology; here is the reply from Adam Gainsburg, with a link to his website<\/a>. We are still in New Moon territory today. — amanda<\/em> <\/p>\n

By Adam Gainsburg<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Each New Moon is our monthly opportunity to go verbally and mentally silent, in step with the dark or ‘silent’ Moon. [Yesterday’s] New Moon at 2 Aries looks to its ruler Mars in Virgo for expression, which sits precisely opposite Chiron in Pisces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Balancing rocks during the Aries New Moon, Portland, Maine. Photo by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is like a see-saw with an agenda that wants to lean you in one direction only. Retrograde Mars in Virgo, if followed deep enough, will bring us to the inner turf of Chiron, the place where we are at our most vulnerable around performance, efficiency and being and doing enough for the job. Usually, astrological oppositions give us a choice and if Mars was direct today, we’d have two very clear ones. But today, we have but one: look inside (Chiron in Pisces) at the sustainability of our actions (Mars Rx in Virgo). How much heart do we have for not only the tasks at hand but ourselves at the end of the day as we review our progress?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amazingly, there is a third exact alignment today as well: a conjunction of asteroid Juno and the lunar North Node. This happens with Mars at the ‘bending’ of the lunar nodal axis, square the nodes at 6 Sagittarius. This creates a T-square with Juno\/North Node as the synthesis between\/for the Mars-Chiron opposition. I see this primarily as literally forcing us into relying on those our hearts are most aligned with, even if it means walking away from others who only look promising. Though this complex signature can be rendered in many ways, I tend to view it first in social terms: our relationships, our level of honesty in them, and what we’re willing to do and not willing to do for others. Who’s worth it and who isn’t. If we can listen to our Medicinal Heart — the result of transforming the sacred wound into sacred medicine — there can be little or no delay in manifesting better results and stronger ties with others.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: This week we asked a few of our favorite Chiron specialists for their thoughts on the Aries New Moon with retrograde Mars opposite Chiron. We quoted Dale O’Brien in yesterday’s Daily Astrology; here is the reply from Adam Gainsburg, with a link to his website. We are still in New Moon territory today. — … 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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54806"}],"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=54806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}