{"id":56134,"date":"2012-04-19T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T04:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=56134"},"modified":"2012-04-19T04:48:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T08:48:28","slug":"on-the-edge-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/on-the-edge-of-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge of the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

And when the black rain’s down in this cold gray town
\nI’ll be waiting at the edge of the night<\/em>
\n— Iggy Pop<\/p>\n

As of this posting at midnight Eastern time, the Sun is 12 hours away from its ingress into Taurus. Overnight and into Thursday, the Sun is on the edge of a sign — which has a distinct and unusual feeling. I’ve often experienced this as a door opening, but its more like a door I didn’t even know was there. Sometimes I’ve been able to come through. Other times something has stepped through to my side of the threshold or the dream window.<\/p>\n

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Planetary positions for 12:01 am on April 19, 2012 with tne angles set for Kingston, NY. From left to right the points are: Neptune and Chiron (in Pisces), Mercury, Uranus, the Moon, Eris, Vesta and the Sun (in Aries), Ceres, Black Moon Lilith and Jupiter (in Taurus). You can tell the Sun is about to change signs because its number is so close to 30. Though Pluto is not shown, the Moon and Mercury are conjunct Uranus and therefore square Pluto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other factors are contributing to the feeling. The Moon has just made conjunctions to Mercury and Uranus (which are themselves forming a conjunction, exact Sunday) and in a little while the Moon will square Pluto.<\/p>\n

So, translated, the Moon and Mercury are passing through the hotly charged, slow-moving Uranus-Pluto square (exact 2012-2015). The Moon and Mercury are personalizing the experience, transmitting these far-out, sweeping energies of Uranus and Pluto into something that is vivid in its mental (Mercury) and emotional or sensory (the Moon) manifestation. <\/p>\n

In one phrase, this is about how we relate personally to the actual sensation of big change coming. It doesn’t matter what the ‘big change’ is — what matters is that we are noticing that it’s approaching or that we are approaching it.<\/p>\n

If you’re someone who panics at imminent change or even the possibility, you may be in a funk. If you thrive on control, you might not be too happy right now, because we’re getting a visceral glimpse of the future as Uranus-Pluto lights up like St. Elmo’s Fire. Working with Ur-Plu is not quite about giving up control; rather we need to work with subtler levels of influence, and dance with the energy. That starts with forming a relationship to whatever this big historical process represents, how it feels to you and what your involvement might be. <\/p>\n

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Many people are going from the experience of having no involvement whatsoever to a sudden confrontation with wanting or needing to be involved, yet devoid of all preconceptions of how that might look. I’ve heard from lots of people who know they have some role to play in whatever this new thing is that’s emerging, with varying degrees of vision about how that might look. Others have the palpable feeling that they have a role in shaping the process; that their time has come. <\/p>\n

But I want to speak for a moment to those who are just panicking, who may feel like the ground of reality is crumbling beneath you. You may be aware that a good few people, religious folk mostly, are waiting for the apocalypse<\/a>. I guess that’s one way to handle the approach of imminent change — like it’s gonna take everyone and everything with it.<\/p>\n

You might not be quite there, not quite so extreme. What you’re feeling might be a bit lower key. You might be worried that you won’t find a mission; that you’ll be ‘left behind’. In any event, it helps, at the least, to admit your fear consciously — and to approach it as<\/em> fear. This can take away all or much of its power over you.<\/p>\n

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Australian black swan, seen in Victoria, Australia in January 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emotions, though, are encrypted directly into our cells, and it’ll help if you notice the ways that your feelings are running in a kind of automatic mode. This may indicate work to do: the need to go through a psychological process<\/a> that will help you loosen up a little bit and feel your psychic armor soften. Remember that defense perpetuates the notion of something against which to defend. <\/p>\n

There’s another layer of fear, which is collective. I think we’re all feeling this, to some degree. Many supposed leaders of our society seem like they are (at best) sold out to some evil force and at worst like they are bent on bringing everything crashing down on us, on themselves, on anyone who might be in the way. Many of these people are ghouls, in the spiritual sense of the concept. They are one step shy of reanimated corpses. If they seem cold, that’s because they are. If you notice that they’re death-obsessed, which means denying of vitality, yep — that’s correct. In the face of this, the thing to do is be alive<\/em>. That, too, might come with the feeling of fear or guilt (they are clever little buggers, aren’t they?) though after a while you can get the hang of outsmarting them one thought at a time.<\/p>\n

If you’re sensitive you might be noticing the psychic or psychological force that’s driving this destructive pattern, and it ain’t pretty. The way that you get drawn into the pattern is specifically by fear, which is a way of saying that this force can only work its dark wonders if it taps into something already resident in you. It doesn’t work to suppress the fear, or to let it throw you around; what often does work is to establish a relationship with it, as a first step. Then to one degree or another, you can make contact with what I will call the Healing Force.<\/p>\n

Because the Moon and Mercury are passing through this world-changing aspect right now — an event that’s like a standing wave, gradually bending all of space, time and the course of events into its shape — we get a chance to get accustomed to the patterns of change, and all of the thoughts and feelings associated with it. It comes with the implicit message that we need to grow, to adapt and to let go of the patterns that got us here in the first place. And that’s where we now stand, here on the edge of the night.<\/p>\n

Lovingly,
\n\"Eric<\/p>\n

\u201cI look out across the slumbering sea of humanity, and I whisper these words in the night. And I know that I address a great being sleeping still in ignorance of itself. I know that if the wild winter winds of your communication systems send tatters or fragments of this message echoing in the darkness, it will still be to the unconscious that I speak. For the conscious have seen the sky start to brighten in the east and have felt the warming spring of eternal life begin to thaw the hardness of their preconceptions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 The Starseed Transmissions<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And when the black rain’s down in this cold gray town I’ll be waiting at the edge of the night — Iggy Pop As of this posting at midnight Eastern time, the Sun is 12 hours away from its ingress into Taurus. Overnight and into Thursday, the Sun is on the edge of a sign … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/56134"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}