{"id":61786,"date":"2012-09-27T01:42:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T05:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=61786"},"modified":"2012-10-02T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T12:14:40","slug":"sometimes-the-personal-is-well-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sometimes-the-personal-is-well-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the personal is, well, personal"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the lead-up to the \u2018Aries Point\u2019 Aries Full Moon, with its cardinal grand cross making everything political personal and vice versa, there is also a grand fixed<\/em> cross early today. With Venus and Mars the main players, you could say, sometimes the personal really is personal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This is a 90-degree sort for the Venus-Mars square. You can tell there is a grand cross in fixed signs because Venus, Mars, Nessus and Sedna all have the number 23 next to them. I just realized Hygiea is in there, too. I’ve never worked with that asteroid, but it’s named for the Greek goddess of health and daughter of Asclepius.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Squares are felt as internal tension and ask us to take action to resolve it; Mars and Venus are the male and female archetypes at play when sex and love are on the agenda. Right now the deep, steamy, instinctual, stubborn Mars in Scorpio is pushing up against the dramatic-yet-warm-hearted Venus in Leo, with her finger on the desire on\/off switch.<\/p>\n

In other words, this could go a couple of ways. If there is unexpressed sexuality and desire in a relationship, or the sense that giving is not being reciprocated, the energy could come out as argumentative. Where there\u2019s already healthy expression in a relationship, there\u2019s likely to be more harmony as desires and needs are stated, individuality asserted, and reciprocation offered. Are there significant hidden tensions in your intimate relationships? They want out now.<\/p>\n

A square between Venus and Mars also heightens interest in physical sex. It calls on us to be explicit; don\u2019t leave desire unsaid — yet be aware and judicious. The potential for sexual appetite to become indiscriminate is exacerbated by Nessus, which is in Aquarius exactly opposite Venus and square Mars. Nessus could darken any \u2018unconscious\u2019 or careless sex into the realm of inappropriate, karmic or related to undesired family patterns.<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, Nessus offers its quality of \u201cthe buck stops here,\u201d too. Your awareness is what makes the difference. Incidentally, Nessus in Aquarius in this configuration is illustrated by a current New York Times<\/em><\/a> article about a woman who has made it her mission to offer discussions about, and videos of, real sex by real people as an alternative to the ubiquitous and very un<\/em>real \u2018education\u2019 younger people are getting from porn. She\u2019s making the personal political, but with all the Aries Point activity lately, there\u2019s no escaping that. Thankfully.<\/p>\n

Finally, squaring up the grand cross, Sedna<\/a> in Taurus points to the need to ground sex in the body\u2019s senses (Taurus), yet also in what feels good to the psyche. In the push\/pull, assert\/receive, sex\/love interplay of Mars & Venus, Sedna says, \u201cremember to allow yourself access the parts of you — and others — that are vulnerable, that have been cut off, frozen or lost to the depths\u201d (to paraphrase Melanie Rinehart).<\/p>\n

In order to keep any Nessus-like blind spots or shadow material in view and allow the square\u2019s tension to be truly transformative, not just exacerbating, we have to remember to dive in with Sedna and allow the Venus-Mars conversation to deepen. Or perhaps what\u2019s in the depths can come to the surface and take its rightful place. Using the energies of a grand cross can be balancing if you act constructively, and in fixed signs it asks for emotional expression. Make it personal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the lead-up to the \u2018Aries Point\u2019 Aries Full Moon, with its cardinal grand cross making everything political personal and vice versa, there is also a grand fixed cross early today. With Venus and Mars the main players, you could say, sometimes the personal really is personal. Squares are felt as internal tension and ask … 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\/61786"}],"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=61786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}