{"id":61733,"date":"2012-09-25T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=61733"},"modified":"2012-10-03T03:28:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:28:21","slug":"ceres-on-the-aries-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/ceres-on-the-aries-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceres on the Aries Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week between the Libra equinox and the Aries Full Moon is absolutely vibrating with the potential for deeper engagement with your world (inner and especially outer) on all levels. You may feel it as excitement or intimidation. But Ceres moving onto the Aries Point — by way of ingressing the sign Cancer just before 3 am EDT Wednesday — is a reminder that the point of letting go of the old is to allow in the new, and that it doesn\u2019t happen in a social vacuum even when we’re talking about food attitudes.<\/p>\n

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Simplified chart section showing Ceres (purple question mark at the bottom) when it enters Cancer Wednesday. It is trine Neptune (blue trident) in Pisces and more loosely square Uranus (blue ‘H’) and Pallas Athene (other blue glyph) in Aries. Not shown are Pluto in Capricorn and the Sun in Libra forming the rest of the cardinal grand cross.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ceres is a minor planet named for the goddess of agriculture and the harvest. It’s not your ordinary minor planet — it was the first discovered, in 1801, and in the first group of dwarf planets, designated in 2006. In mythology, she’s associated with mourning when her daughter spent part of each year in the underworld with Pluto resulted in the seasons. As such, this planet most frequently turns up with themes about food and its production, the idea of nourishment in general, and mother-daughter dynamics. Often when Ceres interacts with any of the early cardinal degrees we see news about our food supply pop up in the media.<\/p>\n

In fact, as Ceres has been approaching Cancer, a story about Monsanto\u2019s Roundup-ready GMO corn<\/a> causing tumors in rats has been in the news (the story made it into Friday\u2019s subscriber issue). As Ceres actually enters Cancer and moves into even closer aspect with the Uranus-Pluto square, we may very well see some developments in this story as well as other issues surrounding our food supply and eating habits (the topic of arsenic in U.S. brands of rice<\/a> is also on the radar again).<\/p>\n

The Sabian symbol for the first degree of Cancer suggests that paradigm-shift around food is inevitable. The question is, with everything else trying to get our attention right now, will something as basic as food be able to cut through the static?<\/p>\n

The Sabian symbols are part of a channeled system famously interpreted by Dane Rudhyar in his book An Astrological Mandala. There is a symbol for each degree of the zodiac. The one for 01 Cancer is: \u201cOn a ship the sailors lower an old flag and raise a new one.\u201d Rudhyar adds the keynote, \u201cA radical change of allegiance exteriorized in a symbolical act: a point of no return.\u201d<\/p>\n

If that doesn\u2019t say \u2018paradigm shift\u2019, I don\u2019t know what does. Any idea what sort of \u201csymbolical act\u201d you may choose tomorrow? Perhaps you will know it only as you do it — or in hindsight, as you look back and realize what some seemingly small choice actually set in motion.<\/p>\n

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Incidentally, when Ceres enters Cancer it will trine Neptune, which is currently retrograde in the first degree of Pisces. A trine is a flowing aspect of signs with the same element. Neptune\u2019s conversation with Ceres tomorrow could be about the creative ways we can solve our personal and collective food challenges. It could lend a sense of spiritual support or importance to Ceres on the Aries Point. It may, on the other hand, help those of us not quite ready to face facts slide back into denial about just how capable we are of releasing old food habits and beliefs about what nourishes us.<\/p>\n

Then again, the Sabian symbol for Neptune\u2019s degree looks like it may lend real support to Ceres in this intersection of personal and political. Rudhyar writes for 01 Pisces, \u201cIn a crowded marketplace farmers and middlemen display a great variety of products.\u201d It is literally a farmer\u2019s market. And the keynote: \u201cThe process of comingling and interchange which at all levels demonstrates the health of a community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Translation: don\u2019t be afraid to get out there and mix it up when it comes to food and politics, but aim for the highest good. We won\u2019t get anywhere if we travel only in our social comfort zone bubbles. Just make sure that if you start a food fight in the cafeteria, you\u2019re not wasting any of the organic, locally-grown non-GMO stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week between the Libra equinox and the Aries Full Moon is absolutely vibrating with the potential for deeper engagement with your world (inner and especially outer) on all levels. You may feel it as excitement or intimidation. But Ceres moving onto the Aries Point — by way of ingressing the sign Cancer just before … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"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\/61733"}],"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\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}