{"id":62028,"date":"2012-10-09T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T04:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62028"},"modified":"2012-10-09T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:54:15","slug":"moving-forward-in-all-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/moving-forward-in-all-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving forward in all directions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Where might you end up if you don’t know where you’re going? Photo of Heathrow Airport by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked.
\n‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat.
\n‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered.
\n‘Then,’ said the Cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.’
\n— Lewis Carroll<\/em>, Alice in Wonderland<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right now, both Pisces planets (Jupiter and Neptune) are taking trines (an aspect about flow) from other planets. In many cases that could either translate to a lot of creative, \u2018spiritual\u2019 mojo coursing through us that we can put to truly beneficial use, or an Alice-in-Wonderland-like expansion of the planets\u2019 more shadowy sides into surreal, unwieldy proportions. Luckily, there is some grounding available.<\/p>\n

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Simplified chart showing the Sun-Jupiter, Saturn-Neptune and Mercury-Chiron trines, all in effect now. Click image for larger version and full caption.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First up, the Libra Sun is trine Jupiter in Gemini (exact today at 2:00 am EDT). Jupiter in Gemini already has the flavor of, \u2018move forward in all directions.\u2019 It may feel a bit like a command from the Queen of Hearts: simultaneously impossible to conceive of doing yet impossible not to obey.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re used to tackling things one at a time, or thinking and acting linearly, it could feel a little overwhelming. Add in Pholus opposing Jupiter (and sextile the Sun) from mid-Sagittarius — the other sign Jupiter rules — and things could feel out of control.<\/p>\n

Pholus has that genie-out-of-the-bottle feeling; happily, Sun trine Jupiter is generally regarded as a beneficial aspect, especially where physical and intuitive health are concerned. The difference between a genie granting more than you bargained for (out of control\/overwhelming) versus advancing your life on multiple levels at once (productive\/creative) comes down to clarity — that is, your own.<\/p>\n

In the same way the characters Alice encounters continually take advantage of her lack of specificity and make her words out to be stranger than she thought they were, it takes extra clarity to be able to move forward in all directions at once. It\u2019s up to you whether that means clarity in your direction toward several goals at once, or clarity about a single over-arching goal that serves as a guiding principle for everything else. Either way, the aspects from the Sun and Pholus are associated with Jupiter\u2019s retrograde cycle; this dynamic will be working inward and outward.<\/p>\n

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What about that trine to Neptune in Pisces? That\u2019s coming from Saturn, newly in Scorpio, and is exact tomorrow at 10:38 pm EDT. Saturn has a bad rap as being \u2018the heavy\u2019 and Neptune rarely seems to fulfill its potential as the higher octave of universal love. Despite those tropes, this aspect actually tends to bring in a dose of practical spiritual understanding and expression.<\/p>\n

Even though Saturn is in a water sign, its association with Capricorn brings in some grounding and a streak of realism. It offers some form to the creative potential of Neptune\u2019s waters and provides nice, strong walls to channel Scorpio\u2019s transformative currents. This trine, especially combined with the Sun-Jupiter-Pholus configuration, becomes a win-win situation rather than a washout (or the chaos of Wonderland, despite its wonders).<\/p>\n

Despite what the Queen of Hearts might have you think, life is not a zero-sum game and you need not lose your head — though you do need to use it. And speaking of heads — or rather, the mind — Mercury in Scorpio is making a trine of its own, to Chiron in Pisces (exact 2:28 am EDT today). Note your thoughts and how you feel about the link between your creative and sexual energy, where it has taken a hit in the past, and how much better able you may be to address its healing now than you were then. A great thread along these lines has been developing under yesterday\u2019s Daily Astrology<\/a> post by Eric. Clearly the conversation is right on time, and underscores how much Chiron rewards documentation.<\/p>\n

The Cheshire cat was right about the choice of road not mattering if you don\u2019t know where you\u2019re going. But Mercury and Chiron suggest that you do<\/em> know, and getting clear on that will serve you with the rest of the astrology that\u2019s afoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.’ — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Right now, both Pisces planets (Jupiter and Neptune) are taking trines (an … 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\/62028"}],"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=62028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}