{"id":62515,"date":"2012-12-03T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62515"},"modified":"2012-12-03T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T17:30:18","slug":"sun-jupiter-an-expressive-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-jupiter-an-expressive-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun-Jupiter: An Expressive Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Swimming hole for dogs and humans at a place called The Slide on the Grandmother Land in High Falls, New York. I was trying to illustrate the deep green color of this pool, which is more luminous when you look at it. It’s the deepest spot on the Coxing Kill (it goes down about eight feet, deep enough for diving or losing your sunglasses; ‘Kill’ is allegedly a Native American word for stream, probably twisted beyond recognition). Photo by Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Much of the astrology of the past year has been introspective — including many inner planet retrogrades that recall interior reality, help us review the past and shift perspective away from the work-a-day world. With Mercury stationing direct one week ago, those are now over. We also have a pair of eclipses behind us, and are on our way into the next phase of astrology.<\/p>\n

As of this writing early Monday morning, the Moon is in early Leo, where it’s making many aspects — a trine to Uranus in Aries and a square to Saturn in Scorpio (which together comprise some mixed signals, or a bit of blockage and a lot of flow — the image of solving a problem, discovering another problem and solving that one too), and then a square to Venus in Scorpio (Love me! Fuck me! Pretty please! But I am NOT desperate! Just feeling very, very friendly!!). <\/p>\n

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Trees dressed up for Sagittarius on the Grandmother Land in High Falls, New York, facing easterly. Photo by Eric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mars is still in Capricorn, fresh off of a conjunction to Pluto. Desire on one level is a practical matter. It’s practical to set aside guilt and work your Little Black Book. Venus is in Scorpio. Feel the power — as in the heat of the night, including during the day.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, don’t let your pride get too caught up in anything (good luck under a Leo Moon). Rather, feel good about yourself and others are more likely to treat you like you matter to them, and if they don’t, you’re less likely to care. If you can do this, you’re enlightened by 21st-century western world standards, which are set way too low.<\/p>\n

As for solar aspects: we have an expressive moment currently, in the form of the Sun opposing Jupiter. This is an alignment across 11+ degrees of Gemini-Sagittarius. Imagine the Sun (a star) and Jupiter (the largest planet, a gas giant nearly 1,200 times the size of the Earth), in an alignment with the Earth in the middle, the approximate size of a pea compared to a beach ball (only hotter, the Sun) and a softball (but less dense, Jupiter). This is a powerful polarity that may have felt a little like a Full Moon over the weekend and into today. If you’re up at 3 am reading this, now you know why. <\/p>\n

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Today is a pretty good day to turn on your charm and charisma. It’s a good day to Use The Force, to have faith and to remember, as my friend Aart Nugteren (one of the many photographers who raised me up) would often say, “Fortune is a god!” Under the Sagittarius Sun, make the first move and suddenly you may find that retrograde Jupiter in Gemini feels extremely talkative. Guide the conversation toward something meaningful.<\/p>\n

There you have it.<\/p>\n

The Sun then makes a conjunction to the Great Attractor, a deep-space point, on Wednesday, Dec. 5 (in effect now). This is a kind of Sagittarian head rush, an event I think is partly responsible for the outrageous sense of time acceleration this time of year (forgetting the fact that it gets dark at 4:30 pm up here in the Northern Hemisphere). I don’t think I’ve mentioned directly in this post that the Sun is in Sagittarius (fire sign, adventurous, nervous, freewheeling and perfectionist).<\/p>\n

The Great Attractor is one of the biggest things known in the known universe, which is saying a lot. The Great Attractor is called that because it’s vacuuming a million or so galaxies — galaxies — toward it at 24 million miles per day or so. If you find that intriguing, you can read an old article series I did for my Sagittarius buddy Jonathan Cainer — Sagittarius Secrets Revealed act one<\/a> and act two<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’re also headed for a significant public event: the winter solstice of 2012. This is the end of the 13th baktun of the Mayan long count. Part of its public resonance involves its occurrence on one of the solstice points. I have written many times that I don’t know the significance of this event; it’s a kind of x-factor. In a recent issue, I give my interpretation of the chart, and in that issue’s monthly horoscope for December I describe how it will influence the 12 signs and rising signs. <\/p>\n

Apropos of much other astrology we’ve encountered through 2012, the planets seem to be describing what we need to change about ourselves and how we relate to others. One of the central questions, as I read the aspects, involves what we experience inwardly as contrasted with what we present to others. <\/p>\n

There is too much tension between these two poles of consciousness — who you really are, versus your public relations position. I suggest you notice when you’re saying one thing and feeling something else, acting one way but knowing that you really have another agenda.<\/p>\n

For the rest of the year, the astrology is sending the message: your primary relationship is with yourself. I know this is an invitation to authentic sincerity, which can be as repelling to some as it is charming to others. So if you choose to take up that inner relationship, and then make yourself available to others, get ready for some mixed reactions — and notice who is nodding in your direction and saying ‘yes’.<\/p>\n

Really notice — that’s the direction to go in. Choose from among those who look at you with that gleam in their eye. You will have fun — especially today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the rest of the year, the astrology is sending the message: your primary relationship is with yourself. I know this is an invitation to authentic sincerity, which can be as repelling to some as it is charming to others. So if you choose to take up that inner relationship, and then make yourself available to others, get ready for some mixed reactions — and notice who is nodding in your direction and saying ‘yes’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/62515"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}