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That’s how a Cancer Solstice is the first day of Summer above the equator and the first day of Winter in the Southern Hemisphere. However, the Sun’s relative position will be the same for everybody over the next few days, fundamentally connecting your existence to all other beings. Through that connection, it will be plain to see that you are not only one with all things but also in a position to set an important example for others who lack the same awareness.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cancer is a cardinal sign, as are Libra, Capricorn and Aries. When the Sun passes the point of cardinal entry, a new season begins. As each season begins, the Sun’s position holds a common experience for each and all of us at the same time. For a few days on ether side of the Cancer solstice, the Sun is as far to the North as it will get.<\/p>\n
The Sun’s northernmost elongation does not look the same everywhere. Above the northern latitude known as the Arctic Circle, it means the Sun climbs higher in the sky than at any other time during the annual period of round-the-clock daylight. In Antarctica, the Cancer Solstice is the mid-point of continuous night. For the rest of us, however, the solar ingress to Cancer is most plainly marked by where the Sun is at dawn and sunset, holding the same position for a few days before changing direction. <\/p>\n
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Regardless of how it looks, it all amounts to the same thing, a turning point for everybody together, all at once. From such solar turning points, initiating each season with common and concurrent experience, astrology derives the symbolism that applies to any phenomenon taking place in the early degrees of cardinal turf. In order to meaningfully connect with each other during this crucial time in our history, we must first connect with astrology’s cardinal symbolism. That’s the importance of this particular Cancer solstice, it gives us something plain to see that will prepare us for a planetary alignment nobody will see, but which will just as surely represent the beginning of a new historical season that will last for a long time.<\/p>\n
Most of us will never see any of the solar system out past Saturn, but we know all those objects take a long time to make a single orbit of the Sun. Those long orbital periods correspond to slow movement through the zodiac circle of signs. Hence, the outer solar system represents cycles of history that go on for many years. So it is that Pluto is still early in its Capricorn season in spite of having made its cardinal ingress in 2008. That means Pluto’s archetype is just beginning to work its compulsory metamorphosis through the material milieu upon which empires are founded only to fall. Meantime, another outer planet in another cardinal sign is symbolically pushing Pluto to get on with it.<\/p>\n
Uranus first crossed the Aries point in 2010, immediately triggering the contention inherent between cardinal expressions. That contention is symbolized by both the spatial and temporal relationship between cardinal signs. On the calendar, seasons initiate as far apart as time allows. On a chart, cardinal signs form a cross, a shape holding them as far apart as space allows. Now, finally, in 2012 the galvanizing archetype of Uranus is working through the primal assertiveness of fiery Aries while retrograde Pluto backs in as close as their separate cardinal proximity will allow: a square aspect, a separation as plainly felt as the Sun is seen.<\/p>\n
Astrology interprets objects in a square aspect as tension felt internally, requiring the conscious application of action in order to achieve resolution. When objects that evoke epochs form squares from the places where seasons initiate, the clear implication is that we are all having the same experience on the inside at the same time. While inner experience is no more easily seen than Uranus or Pluto, the results of all of us together feeling the need for resolution simultaneously cannot help but be plain to see. It connects all beings through a need to act with awareness that our current period of history has gone as far as it’s going to get, and that a change of direction is in order.<\/p>\n
It is with exquisite timing that Uranus and Pluto will exact the first of six square aspects just days after Wednesday’s Cancer Solstice. It is as though the Sun is preparing us to enter a season of our own making. The fact that Uranus and Pluto will repeat an exact square so many times means that their relative position will be continuous for everybody over the next several years. Even though the corresponding events will not look the same everywhere, it will amount to the same thing, a turning point in the history of the world. Unlike the turning of solar season, however, the result is not a foregone conclusion, but something to be determined by all of us together acting at once. <\/p>\n
This is where you come in. By being conscious of the big picture through astrology, you have the opportunity to set an example for those who will be looking for one to emulate. If you have ever asked how you came to be here at this time, that will be your answer. Your purpose is to emulate the Sun, setting a standard for others that will be plain to see. Clearly, there is work to do, and you are among those who must do it for the sake of all.<\/p>\n
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The Sun enters cardinal Cancer at 7:09 pm EDT on Wednesday, initiating a new season. Concurrently, the Sun will appear directly overhead at the northern latitude named the Tropic of Cancer. The Sun reaches zenith at the Tropic of Cancer when Earth returns to the part of its orbit where the Northern Hemisphere is tilted … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58294"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}