{"id":59486,"date":"2012-07-23T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=59486"},"modified":"2012-07-23T00:27:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T04:27:57","slug":"sun-in-leo-believe-whats-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-in-leo-believe-whats-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun in Leo: Hang Loose; Believe What’s True"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note, if you want to know how these aspects influence your birth sign or rising sign, that’s what my horoscope is for. I covered this chart in this past Friday’s subscriber edition (available here<\/a>), and give additional details in the monthly horoscope that’s coming out this week. –efc<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here comes Dionysus — but from where, we don’t know.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Sun entered Leo early Sunday morning, immediately forming a conjunction with an asteroid called Dionysus. I’ll come back to that in a moment. As the week begins, the Moon is in Virgo, and will be visible as a waxing crescent in the evening sky. We’re at the beginning of the lunar cycle; the New Moon was this past Wednesday or Thursday depending on your time zone.<\/p>\n

Mercury is still retrograde. We will reach the peak of that cycle with the Sun-Mercury conjunction on Saturday, July 28. That, by the way, happens somewhat ominously just hours after the official opening of the 2012 Olympics in London. There seems to be a message implied, as is always the case when Mercury is making a prominent aspect coinciding with a big event. I will be covering that chart in Friday’s subscriber edition.<\/p>\n

Dionysus was one of the most revered figures of the ancient Greek pantheon, though he barely seems to get the recognition he deserves today. Mainstream astrology has no equivalent for this point; his Roman counterpart Bacchus also has an asteroid though that too is rarely used.<\/p>\n

Dionysus was a god of resurrection; in other words, in his myth he dies and comes back to life. That’s a nice image after what Aurora, Colorado went through last week — and all the death that we were confronted with in the news. Events like this compel us to contemplate the transience of life, and the meaning of what we’re told are ‘senseless’ events. Note, there are some interesting discussions about this incident developing on my personal Facebook page<\/a>, on the topic of gun control and the perpetrator’s chart.<\/p>\n

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Dionysus has another interesting property — he shows up from somewhere else. “His origins are uncertain,” Wikipedia’s editors tell us, “and his cults took many forms … In some cults, he arrives from the east, as an Asiatic foreigner; in others, from Ethiopia in the South. He is a god of epiphany, ‘the god that comes’, and his ‘foreignness’ as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults.”<\/p>\n

I think of Dionysus as representing the means by which we transcend ordinary consciousness. The human mind seems inherently uptight, bound in fear, preoccupied with competition and obsessed with death. Whatever Dionysus represents frees us up for more liberated states of awareness. There seem to be limited options for how we do that — note the list of banned substances on the federal drug prosecution schedules, with cannabis ridiculously showing up on Schedule 1 (Nixon didn’t like hippies).<\/p>\n

Dionysus is known as the god of grapes and wine; we all have our methods. This astrology is a reminder that transcending ordinary consciousness is a time-honored tradition. It may go back to the beginning of what we think of as ‘human’. Incidentally, for those who would do this with what we think of as ‘illicit’ substances, I highly recommend spending time on a website called The Vaults of Erowid<\/a> to get your bearings. (I also recommend this if you’re concerned about a younger member of your family who may be experimenting.)<\/p>\n

One last thing — Dionysus cautions against falling for cult-like thinking. Said another way, account for where your beliefs come from and think for yourself. Note, if you’re actually thinking for yourself, you may feel extremely nervous for at least an hour. By Wednesday, the Sun will be square a point called Kassandra (an asteroid). This is a reminder of the tendency that so many people have to believe what is not true, and to deny what is true. You may decide you’ve had enough of that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note, if you want to know how these aspects influence your birth sign or rising sign, that’s what my horoscope is for. I covered this chart in this past Friday’s subscriber edition (available here), and give additional details in the monthly horoscope that’s coming out this week. –efc The Sun entered Leo early Sunday morning, … 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\/59486"}],"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=59486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}