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<\/dt>\nOf all the lights in the sky, the Sun and Moon are brightest and most important to life on Earth. Hence, the start of a luminary cycle is considered preeminent, with an initiative that carries over to the whole zodiac. Since this week’s Cancer New Moon takes place in the cardinal sign distinguished by elemental water, its image of initiative is amplified to that of a headwaters, originating a long and voluminous flow.<\/p>\n
When the Sun enters cardinal signs, a new season begins. Other objects in cardinal territory emulate the Sun, initiating something of their own. It is thus worthwhile to observe what other events are functioning as tributaries to the headwaters of this week’s Cancer New Moon. Any such observation must necessarily begin with Uranus and Pluto.<\/p>\n
The cardinal square between Uranus (holding forth from fiery Aries), and Pluto (manifesting from earthy Capricorn), dominates our era. Within this era is an epoch of peak intensity, lasting nearly three years, marked by seven occasions when the Uranus-Pluto square is exact. We entered that epoch less than a month ago with the first such occasion. Concurrent with this week’s Cancer New Moon, Mars gets into the act, implying a further pinnacle of energy within the epoch.<\/p>\n
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Mars, in the words of preeminent astrologer Robert Hand, “is an energy planet.” In a few days, just as the luminaries exact their Cancer conjunction (New Moon), Mars will be contributing its energy from the elemental air of cardinal Libra. It will precisely oppose Uranus while less than a degree removed from its own brief cardinal square to Pluto. The net result will be a very temporary cardinal T-square which has been building since last week. The T-square brings all of astrology’s elements into cardinal play just as life-giving water is being distinguished by the luminaries as most conspicuous of all. In addition, the Cancer New Moon will form an inconspicuous, but nonetheless meaningful cardinal aspect of its own, with an object relegated to the lower levels of astrology’s hierarchy: a centaur named Bienor.<\/p>\n
Astrology has a hierarchy. The Sun and Moon come first. Not just because the luminaries are the most evident and important celestial bodies, but because so much of astrology can be derived from or integrated back to them. Next in importance are the classical planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) visible to the unaided eye for as long as there has been life on Earth, but significant only to the consciousness of those who could discern them from stars. Finally, there are objects discovered by science, often serendipitously named, with the dates and data of their discovery either correlating the ephemeral to the historical, or gradually accumulating meaning through repeated and successive correspondence. <\/p>\n
Uranus and Pluto are among the former, connecting periods of history through the mutual aspects of their long orbital periods. Smaller, swifter, often more recently discovered objects are in the latter category, serving to augment our understanding even as we develop our interpretation. Among those so-called minor objects is the centaur Bienor.<\/p>\n
Bienor’s orbit oscillates between Saturn, the most remote of classical planets, and Uranus, the first discovered by science, connecting to the headwaters of modern astrology. Since its own August 27, 2000 discovery in watery Pisces two days before a New Moon, Bienor has developed a history of repeated and successive correspondence to both the luminaries and cardinal initiatives.<\/p>\n
Bienor made its first post-discovery entry to Aries auspiciously, in precise opposition to the Sun for the September 23, 2007 Libra equinox. Shortly thereafter, Bienor took a\u00a0brief retrograde ride back to Pisces to set up an encore. On\u00a0February 8, 2008 Bienor entered Aries a second time on the day after an annular solar eclipse. After demonstrating an affinity for such momentous luminary and cardinal point occasions, it should not be surprising that Bienor would also correspond to significant headwaters in human history. Eric picked up on the trend over four years ago.<\/p>\n
In February 2008, Eric wrote of Bienor’s connection with “events that have been unique and happened for the first time in the history of mankind.” Supporting that assertion is the astrology of the first humans landing on the Moon in 1969, with undiscovered Bienor conjoining the Libra Moon in opposition to the Aries Point. Other such incidents were later noted by Eric’s long-time collaborator, Finnish astrologer Kirsti Melto, among them a watershed speech and a meeting from which an entire generation’s identity flowed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On a hot August day in 1963, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the greatest oratory of the 20th Century from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC as the blazing Sun overhead conjoined with Bienor, Venus and Uranus (with Pluto close at hand). The consciousness which made an entire generation receptive to Reverend King’s appeal to our better nature was, in part, seeded in the previous decade. <\/p>\n
John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met in July of 1957 when, as Kirsti recorded, the “Sun was conjunct Bienor in Cancer.” Based on such examples of Bienor’s association with the luminaries, with cardinal expression and correlated events in human history, you may be wondering about now. You may wonder who will now step up to fill the shoes of daring explorers, visionaries and the artists who have initiated the flow from divine inspiration to human potential in our recent past. For an answer, you may want to consult your local mirror.<\/p>\n
If the astrology of this week’s Cancer New Moon means anything, it means that it’s your turn. With Mars applying a very clear, present and, above all, immediate energy to the aspect that defines our era, the message is to act. With Bienor’s square to the New Moon plainly indicating that, this time, the flow originates from within all of us together, all at once, you need but ask yourself two questions and be guided by the answers to act as only you can. If not you, who? If not now, when? Act on what you know and merge with the flow. You are the headwaters of our time.<\/p>\n
Offered In Service <\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Moon enters its Cancer home about 8:30 pm EDT tonight. Shortly after Midnight EDT Thursday morning, Luna catches up with the Cancer Sun for the monthly conjunction of the luminaries we call the New Moon. All conjunctions represent a symbolic merger and the literal beginning of a new cycle for the participants. Of all … 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":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59297"}],"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=59297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}