{"id":55757,"date":"2012-04-10T00:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=55757"},"modified":"2012-04-10T12:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:46:38","slug":"sun-conjunct-eris-the-you-nobody-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-conjunct-eris-the-you-nobody-knows\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun conjunct Eris: On the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night the Sun in Aries made its conjunction to Vesta and tomorrow it conjoins Eris<\/a>. As much as we know about Eris \u2013 the myth behind the planet; its seemingly permanent placement in Aries (though Mike Wallace\u2019s Eris<\/a> was in late Pisces); the sense that it represents some sort of identity chaos or a \u2018lost\u2019 or cast-aside part of ourselves \u2013 astrology is still pretty new at understanding all of its nuances. Conjunctions of the Sun with a planet are one of the clearest \u2018proofs\u2019 we can get in forming delineations. It will be fun to see what the next few days produce in terms of \u2018Eris news events\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Section of chart showing planets in Aries when the Sun conjoins Eris. Uranus is in blue at the top. The Sun is just past Vesta (purple chevron); Eris is the red circle with an arrow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In some ways every day of this era is an \u2018Eris day\u2019 for each of us, since this planet has been in Aries for almost all of the last century as well as what we\u2019ve experienced of this one. In some way, the themes of Eris have defined our collective experience of \u2018self\u2019; and it seems that with each decade\u2019s new technologies, our conception of self and expression of self have had facets added and dispersed, rather than simplified or unified.<\/p>\n

From our many individual online personas to \u2018the powers that be\u2019 deciding corporations count as another variety of \u2018self\u2019, things are getting curiouser and curiouser. It\u2019s reasonable to expect — in this current phase of diffracted, identity-less uprisings (the Occupy Movement), attacks on the personhood of women, the talking heads in commercials proclaiming, \u201cI am a PC\u201d and the citizens of Facebook Nation declaring, \u201cI am Trayvon\u201d \u2013 that the Sun\u2019s annual conjunction to Eris may come with a few surprises this year.<\/p>\n

Considering that Mars stations direct this week too, it will be worth watching for revelations both within your self and in the news.<\/p>\n

Judith Gayle wrote in her article Saturday<\/a>, \u201cthings feel a bit differently these days, and in this time of internal chaos — with the unaware blindly defending their tribalism but the newly awake searching for options \u2014 some stray fact might be the pry-bar that lifts the lid and lets in the light.\u201d Well now \u2013 that pretty much sums it up, doesn\u2019t it? We\u2019ve been writing all week about ongoing aspect structures spurring us to acknowledge our internal chaos and search for options. And with first Mercury and now Mars stationing direct, as well as Vesta holding open the door for the Sun, it seems the scene is set for some \u201cstray fact\u201d to pry the lid off of something we\u2019ve been needing to get a good look at.<\/p>\n

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Culturally, there are many who seem staunchly unprepared to see and know whatever Sun-Eris has to show us. Personally, you may feel the same. After all, as Judith also wrote this weekend, \u201conce you know a thing, you can\u2019t un-know it.\u201d That inability to un-know a thing speaks to a need to take responsibility, take action, make a decision, shift perspective. It can be intimidating. But the alternative \u2013 pretending ignorance or refusing to see \u2013 only leads to more fragmentation, not less. And that sounds even more daunting.<\/p>\n

As mentioned at the beginning, Eris — ‘the cast-away woman’ — often represents some cast-off part of ourselves. We may struggle to recognize and acknowledge those parts, let alone accept and integrate them. Fear of how it may affect our relationships with others, guilt over cutting off a part of ourselves in the first place (no matter how justified, or necessary it seemed for survival), and the big question mark of ‘Then who will I be?’ get in the way. But try asking yourself over the next few days, ‘Who is the outlier in me?’ That is, who is the you nobody knows? Once you know her, you will not be able to un-know her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night the Sun in Aries made its conjunction to Vesta and tomorrow it conjoins Eris. As much as we know about Eris \u2013 the myth behind the planet; its seemingly permanent placement in Aries (though Mike Wallace\u2019s Eris was in late Pisces); the sense that it represents some sort of identity chaos or a … 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\/55757"}],"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=55757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}