{"id":62108,"date":"2012-10-18T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62108"},"modified":"2012-10-18T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:01:09","slug":"life-inclusive-sun-enters-scorpio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/life-inclusive-sun-enters-scorpio\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Inclusive — Sun Enters Scorpio"},"content":{"rendered":"

By and by, nor spare a sigh \/ Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie
\n— Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Sun enters Scorpio at 8:14 pm EDT Monday. Upon ingress to Scorpio, the Sun will join the asteroid Arachne in an historic water trine to Neptune at its Pisces home. Taken together, the aspects initiating solar Scorpio this year will be as if the sky is addressing a specific subject. The subject would appear to be the human condition. The message is that our condition is not a default inflicted. It is, in fact, an individual and collective creation through which connection may be made or lost.<\/p>\n

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Though connection is often disparaged as illusory, it can be genuinely achieved by accepting responsibility. Being responsible means seeing yourself as having the power to address your condition and that of others. That perception, or lack of it, creates reality.<\/p>\n

The Sun’s immersion in Scorpio’s fixed water always challenges a perception most of us have been conditioned to accept as real, setting life against death. That flies in the face of nature’s cycles, creating a reality of struggles we cannot win without destroying ourselves, and ultimately, the Earth. The energy field of Scorpio, illuminated by the Sun, posits an alternative to making death anathema to life.<\/p>\n

The energy field of Scorpio encourages us to affirm death as part of life. That goes beyond just being receptive, although acceptance is conducive to peace of mind. The conscious manifestation of solar Scorpio goes further, challenging us to see the entire cycle of earthly life from the most difficult of perspectives, when life itself is in transition. <\/p>\n

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For many, it is like trying to see the Moon from the bottom of the sea. Such is the depth of our conditioning. Whether religious or secular in origin, we can overcome such conditioning only by creating an alternative. That act of creation begins with perceiving attachment, and the connection between releasing that attachment and being part of what is.<\/p>\n

Releasing attachment to conditioning is among the most difficult things a human being can do. Unlike other earthlings, our conditioning does not need to be constantly reinforced from without to prevent a return to innocence. Instead, we do it to ourselves by perceiving our conditioning to be our identity. That’s a strong attachment which reinforces itself. History provides plentiful examples.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Think of all those who have not only believed but steadfastly identified with human dominion over the Earth, manifest destiny, unlimited resources, racial superiority, gender constraints, one way, one truth or, worst of all, inflicting death on those who do not submit to be conditioned alike. No wonder the living nodes of Scorpio energy are at once attractive and confronting. What attracts us to a solar Scorpio is what we are conditioned to find repelling. What causes a solar Scorpio to repel us is what we are attached to. It is also of little surprise that the Sun’s annual Scorpio tenure is so challenging because it brings to light what usually happens only in the dark.<\/p>\n

Limestone becomes marble in the depths of the Earth. Caterpillars become butterflies cloaked by a chrysalis. That’s how Scorpio energy usually works. During the solar tour through Mars’ ancient dominion and the modern realm of Pluto, the dark is illuminated for about four weeks every year. Most of the time we can, and do, wear a blindfold or mask for the duration, but Neptune and Arachne will encourage us to see and be seen as never before.<\/p>\n

On Monday, for the first time since the 19th Century, the Sun will enter Scorpio while Neptune occupies Pisces. Nobody alive knows what it feels like. In spite of that, it is likely we will feel something. That’s because the newly Scorpio Sun and Neptune on its own Pisces doorstep will be in trine aspect through the symbolic element of water.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trines mean flow, without inhibition, without resistance, almost like being there. Water in astrology corresponds to perception through feeling, whether intuitive or emotional. With the Scorpio Sun opening a flow to Neptune through the aegis of water, it is likely that we are about to encounter an unprecedented, and perhaps uncomfortable, feeling of old perceptions being washed away, revealing connections long hidden. Connections are where the solar merger with Arachne will come in.<\/p>\n

Named after the mythical progenitor of all spiders, Arachne implies web making. Web making symbolizes connection. Connection, in turn is the common thread through all that is. Next week, the thread will begin with the solar symbol of consciousness, flowing through feeling to Neptune, where attachment and conditioning stand the best chance in ages of being dissolved, but the outcome will not be determined by chance. The outcome will be your responsibility, depending on how you choose to perceive and participate.<\/p>\n

Your participation will be crucial when the Sun enters Scorpio to conjoin with Arachne and trine Neptune for the first time in living memory. Neptune’s archetype is potent, as likely to dissolve your connection to the Universe as it is to free you from generations of repression. No planetary archetype, however, is as powerful as an intent to control your perception.<\/p>\n

To control your perception is to control your reality. That’s heady stuff, because control confers responsibility, and also choice. The choice is nothing less than life and death. To perceive life and death as separate and pitted against each other is to pit yourself against what is, choose repression, and sever connection with the Cosmos. That’s not much of a reality, and it is not what the human condition has to be. The only thing that makes such a choice possible is that so many have been conditioned to identify with it as the only way. In fact, it is only the way to what is not. Beginning Monday, you, and each of us, will get a chance to see it another way, an inclusive way, the way to connect with what is.<\/p>\n

When the Sun enters Scorpio, on some level deeply felt, the flood gates will open. In the flood the blindfolds will be washed away, and all excuses with them. With the blindfolds gone, you will only need open your eyes to perceive an inclusive life. The rest, like the Scorpio Sun’s trine to Neptune, will be history.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service\u00a0<\/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":"

By and by, nor spare a sigh \/ Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie — Gerard Manley Hopkins The Sun enters Scorpio at 8:14 pm EDT Monday. Upon ingress to Scorpio, the Sun will join the asteroid Arachne in an historic water trine to Neptune at its Pisces home. Taken together, the aspects initiating solar … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62108"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}