{"id":61613,"date":"2012-09-20T12:20:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=61613"},"modified":"2012-09-20T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:20:16","slug":"give-it-a-chance-sun-enters-libra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/give-it-a-chance-sun-enters-libra\/","title":{"rendered":"Give It A Chance — Sun Enters Libra"},"content":{"rendered":"

The newspaper said ‘Say, what you doing in bed?’ I said ‘We’re only trying to get us some peace.’
\n— John Lennon<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Sun enters Libra at 10:49 am EDT on Saturday, implying the equivalence of peace and love. Equivalence would be the equinox always precipitated by a solar ingress to Libra. Love will be the Libra Sun’s first major aspect this year, an air trine to the asteroid Amor on the doorstep of Aquarius. The Sagittarius Moon’s concurrent conjunction to the center of our galaxy will invoke the elusive mystery of peace. <\/p>\n

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By going to so much trouble, the Cosmos appears to ask only that you do your part by giving love, and peace, a chance.<\/p>\n

Peace and love as a colloquialism found common use with the Virgo conjunction of Uranus and Pluto during the 1960’s. The slogan was manifested by John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their famous bed-ins. Now, the sky is challenging each of us to live it or dispense with it.<\/p>\n

The challenge is represented by Uranus and Pluto having separated from a mutable conjunction to a cardinal square aspect half a century after the slogan of peace and love became a popular cause. The first, or opening, square between any two objects emulates the lunar first quarter.<\/p>\n

The lunar first quarter is the opening square between Sun and Moon. It represents the first challenge to intents or ambitions originating at the New Moon conjunction of solar and lunar energies. The nature of the first quarter challenge is an internal one. It’s you asking yourself if you really meant it, whether you really want it. That’s among the things the Uranus-Pluto square finds us doing at this moment. It’s a gut check to either manifest seminal ideals of The Sixties or drop the lip service and move on. Appropriately, the Sun and Moon both symbolically weigh in with their positions this weekend.<\/p>\n

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With an air trine to Amor at the moment of equinox, the Sun’s position is pretty darned unequivocal. Of the four elements (fire, earth, air or water) employed by western tropical astrology, air is most clearly associated with ideals that have not found substantial expression. Of all the aspects that can be supportive, trines, connecting signs that share the same elemental identity, imply the fewest stipulations and the least impediment to flow. Then, as if to make a very fine point, there is not only the implicit name, but also the explicit astrology of the asteroid Amor.<\/p>\n

Amor is synonymous with Cupid and Eros, the names of a mythic deity devoted exclusively to the cause and propagation of love, which Robert Hand has described as “the emotion that brings people together without force or compulsion.” Amor is also the root of the word amorous, which describes the inclination or disposition to erotic love. The discovery chart of the asteroid Amor\u00a0reinforces the implications of the myth, and the meaning of the word, by resonating with the current positions of Uranus and Pluto.<\/p>\n

Amor, the asteroid, was discovered in 1932, the last time Uranus and Pluto were in a cardinal square aspect. That was a closing square, finally and publicly testing the aspirations of the Uranus-Pluto conjunction that started on the Cancer Solstice of 1850, when Western Civilization bought into the ideal of unlimited industrialization. When you consider the disastrous consequences of giving greed and war a chance for more than century, the ideals of peace and love look like a saving grace. This weekend, the Sun’s equinox air trine to Amor is asking us to consciously flow with with the grace of love even as the Moon gives us a feel for peace.<\/p>\n

No object in the sky signifies feelings more powerfully than the Moon. In the irrational lunar consciousness is a sense of certainty that reason can never attain, and a connection with mystery that solar consciousness can never reveal. That’s how the Moon’s Sagittarius conjunction with the Galactic Core, precisely concurrent with the Libra equinox, connects peace to love: as a truth felt subjectively.<\/p>\n

The greatest truth is that which validates your life and your connection with the Universe. Nothing enhances life and connection more than peace. That wisdom, expressed through the merger of the Moon (symbolizing the inner mysteries of self) and the Galactic Center (representing the local crucible of cosmic mystery) eludes objectivity and confounds empiricism as surely as it creates a place for love to manifest. You see it in your own life when the same peace that promotes the lunar consciousness of sleep also nourishes the expression of love, which in turn connects lovers to the Cosmos, bringing the mystery of new life down to Earth. The manifested ideal of peace and love is an act of creation that exposes war as shame. It is a miracle that no money can buy.<\/p>\n

So, it turns out that John and Yoko, as well as an entire generation, had a bright idea. It was a shining ideal because of, not in spite of, the cynical slander and critical skepticism they had to endure from those invested in or inured to the bankrupt, destructive, disastrous, dead-end ideals of a previous Uranus-Pluto cycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, it is up to us, we who have either survived or followed The Sixties. It is up to each of us to look within, where the Moon rules, and decide how we feel. We are the arbiters, we are the test, we are those challenged to determine whether the ideals of peace and love, and by implication our own existence, can long continue on this planet. To paraphrase a more earthy admonition, make love or get out of bed, perhaps never to return. Please give love, and peace, a chance. It may be the only chance we’ve got.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service<\/em><\/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":"

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