{"id":62143,"date":"2012-10-23T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62143"},"modified":"2012-10-23T05:32:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T09:32:48","slug":"sun-arachne-in-scorpio-web-of-secrets-or-web-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-arachne-in-scorpio-web-of-secrets-or-web-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun-Arachne in Scorpio: Web of secrets or web of life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h27HRNm_r4U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"633\" height=\"475\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Synchronicity is a beautiful thing. Sunday night I drew three cards from James Wanless\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainyourselfcards.com\/\">Sustain Yourself<\/a> deck of oracle cards. The card I drew for my question about what I needed most right now to live sustainably was \u201cWeb &#8212; Interconnected,\u201d which is illustrated by a collage of spider web photos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62144\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62144\" title=\"275+Sun_Arachne\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/275+Sun_Arachne.jpg?resize=275%2C154&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"154\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart section of a 90-degree sort for the Sun&#8217;s ingress to Scorpio. Saturn is just two degrees away in Scorpio. Asteroid Kassandra, named for the Trojan woman whose prophesies were cursed by Apollo never to be believed (because she wanted to stay a virgin), is exactly opposite Sun-Arachne in Taurus. Do we believe our interconnectedness?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sure enough, I was asked to write today\u2019s Daily Astrology post about the Sun\u2019s current conjunction with the asteroid Arachne in the first degree of Scorpio. Five minutes later, Eric&#8217;s friend send him a picture of her spider tattoo. In mythology, Arachne was a boastful young woman who angered the goddess Athena with her claims of superior weaving ability &#8212; without even acknowledging the goddess\u2019 influence on her skill.<\/p>\n<p>When Athena challenged Arachne to a contest, and the young woman\u2019s tapestry depicting the loves and transgressions of the gods won, Athena destroyed the loom, struck the girl and turned her into a spider.<\/p>\n<p>Makes you wonder how much of Athena\u2019s rage was actually embarrassment fueled by having amorous relations &#8212; and the sexual interconnectedness of the Olympians &#8212; out in plain sight. Just how old <em>is<\/em> our determination to ignore the fact that we are only two degrees away (in the Kevin Bacon sense, not the astrological sense) from anyone our lover has had sex with? How many degrees separate <em>anyone<\/em> from someone you have sex with?<\/p>\n<p>Along with death and money, Scorpio is about sex, and it\u2019s also about secrets: what happens in the dark, behind closed doors or when we think no one is looking. The Sun showing up in Scorpio, shining its light with Arachne, is asking, \u2018why are we still pretending all of this stuff is so secret\u2019?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Or to quote the Leonard Cohen song, \u201ceverybody knows.\u201d Is everyone paying attention to the fact that they know? Is everyone admitting it? No. To do that, we have to acknowledge that our interconnectedness has consequences, and that each of us has power and responsibility in that equation. Just imagine what it might be like if everyone took awareness of their sexual health (such as with regular STD testing) and its ripple-effect impact on others seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t that be a different conversation? And it leads to the flip side of another of Arachne\u2019s themes. This asteroid (and spider medicine in general) has to do with the stories we tell &#8212; writing, creativity and weaving the story of life &#8212; but it also extends into <em>conspiracies<\/em>. For example, someone with Arachne conjunct Venus might hold a conspiratorial view of love.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Conspiracy\u2019 generally has a negative connotation; it is a narrative counter to the widely accepted view, presumed to involve a <em>network<\/em> of people with an agenda. Culturally we apply it derisively to theories officially considered \u2018out there\u2019 (or downright ridiculous). But must it always invoke paranoia?<\/p>\n<p>What about John Perry Barlow&#8217;s definition of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pronoia_%28psychology%29\" target=\"_blank\">pronoia<\/a>\u201d &#8212; that the universe is a conspiracy on your behalf?<\/p>\n<p>Since we\u2019re talking about Scorpio (a water sign whose modern ruler is Pluto, which is linked to hormones) consider another way we\u2019re all connected: via our water supply. We have more to consider than the evaporation-precipitation model we all learned in elementary school. The increasing presence of hormones (such as birth control pills, dioxins and a diversity of other chemicals) sometimes found in municipal drinking water is another reminder that we\u2019re all living together, feeling together and possibly being altered together. It&#8217;s just evidence that we share the same water of life, clean or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>What if we take this idea of interconnectedness not as a reason to worry about what we\u2019re in contact with, but rather as a reason to tend each strand of the web with loving-kindness? Ted Andrews wrote of the spider totem in his essential book <em>Animal Speak<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The spider awakens creative sensibilities. It weaves a web of intricate and subtle fabric, as if to remind us that the past always subtly influences the present and future. Often the webs will take a spiral shape, the traditional form of creativity and development. The spider found within the web reminds us that we are the center of our own world. The ancient mystery schools had one precept inscribed above their portals: &#8220;Know Thyself and Thou Shalt Know The Universe!&#8221; Spider reminds us that the world is woven around us. We are the keepers and the writers of our own destiny, weaving it like a web by our thoughts, feelings and actions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today the Sun shines its light on this interconnectedness from the transformative waters of Scorpio. What secrets and webs are revealing themselves? Is your life story one of paranoia or pronoia, and how are you tending your web?<\/p>\n<p><em>Video above chosen in &#8216;honor&#8217; of last night&#8217;s presidential debate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synchronicity is a beautiful thing. Sunday night I drew three cards from James Wanless\u2019 Sustain Yourself deck of oracle cards. The card I drew for my question about what I needed most right now to live sustainably was \u201cWeb &#8212; Interconnected,\u201d which is illustrated by a collage of spider web photos. Sure enough, I was &#8230; <a title=\"Sun-Arachne in Scorpio: Web of secrets or web of life?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-arachne-in-scorpio-web-of-secrets-or-web-of-life\/\" aria-label=\"More on Sun-Arachne in Scorpio: Web of secrets or web of life?\">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\/62143"}],"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=62143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}