{"id":62361,"date":"2012-11-15T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62361"},"modified":"2012-11-15T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:20:09","slug":"go-figure-mars-enters-capricorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/go-figure-mars-enters-capricorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Figure — Mars Enters Capricorn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mars enters Capricorn at 9:37 pm EST tomorrow, possibly perplexing us in the bargain. One reason this particular Martian ingress to its exaltation may correspond with confusion is an immediate sextile to Neptune in Pisces, where Neptune rules. Another reason is the fact that retrograde Mercury re-entered Scorpio yesterday, where Mars is the original ruler. Finally, there is the question of how Mars came to Capricorn exaltation in the first place.<\/p>\n

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With the exception of Mercury’s relation to Virgo, exaltation and rulership are two different things. Every sign has a ruling planet which, like human rulers, are the boss and representative of the realm. Exalted planets are more like honored guests.<\/p>\n

The dignity of exaltation, like some human guests, has been around so long nobody can remember who extended the invitation. There is no unambiguous written record. Ancient astrologer Porphyry of Tyros tried to explain it as a sextile from Mars’ rulership in Scorpio. What Porphyry conveniently left out is how that sextile should not be from Aries (where Mars also rules) or why the sextile is in one direction from the sign Scorpio and not the other. The most exalted of modern astrologers, Robert Hand, examined the problem afresh in his book Horoscope Symbols<\/em> only to conclude that there is no systematic consistency to exaltations, especially regarding steamy, hot Mars in stony, cold Capricorn.<\/p>\n

Yet, there it is. After centuries of observation and correlation, we must conclude that the energy and desire emblematic of Mars expresses very strongly when the red planet travels through Capricorn. What has not happened for more than a century is tomorrow’s sextile from Mars to Neptune.<\/p>\n

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The last time Mars entered Capricorn to immediately sextile Neptune in Pisces was 1849. In other words, neither you, nor your parents, nor (in all probability) your grandparents have had any experience with the energetic signature of that that particular aspect. What we do know is that Neptune’s contribution to any aspect is something less than clarifying. Throw in Mercury retrograde through Porphyry’s arbitrary Scorpio baseline and we are off on a new adventure for which only legend could provide precedent.<\/p>\n

Mercury in apparent reversal has become all but legend among the many who know only a little bit about astrology. Unfortunately, it is an apocryphal story, heavily tilted in favor of the negative as if to scare children. In fact, retrograde Mercury could be the compass that gets us through where we have not gone before when Mars enters Capricorn tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Legendary astrologer Rockie (Rachelle) Gardiner always used to write of Mercury retrograde that “patience is the key to heaven.” By that she did not mean a literal key to the pearly gates. What she meant is that a backpedaling Mercury teaches us patience, counsels us to let things develop, and to avoid judgments or conclusions in the meantime. If Rockie were around to write about tomorrow’s Martian ingress, she would almost certainly reiterate her Mercury maxim, for which there is a corollary colloquialism: go figure.<\/p>\n

Go figure is what humble, common people say when they realize that there is more going on than they can know. It is the figure of speech employed by those with enough experience to know the dangers of speculation, and enough wisdom to know their own limits. It is the patience of those who know that they can and will endure to wait and see without becoming attached to story. That is the counsel of the cosmos tomorrow when Mars takes us to where memory no longer serves.<\/p>\n

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Mars enters Capricorn at 9:37 pm EST tomorrow, possibly perplexing us in the bargain. One reason this particular Martian ingress to its exaltation may correspond with confusion is an immediate sextile to Neptune in Pisces, where Neptune rules. Another reason is the fact that retrograde Mercury re-entered Scorpio yesterday, where Mars is the original ruler. … 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\/62361"}],"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=62361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}