{"id":62635,"date":"2012-12-17T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62635"},"modified":"2012-12-17T12:50:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:50:20","slug":"the-sun-conjunct-the-galactic-center-the-solstice-and-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/the-sun-conjunct-the-galactic-center-the-solstice-and-options\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun conjunct the Galactic Center, the solstice, and options"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well now. The universe seems to be serving up quite the brew of tragedy and comedy this week. You\u2019re not alone if you\u2019re finding it difficult to navigate, whether in your contact with others or simply within yourself. <\/p>\n

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Simplified chart section showing Mercury (green glyph with horns) in Sagittarius opposite Jupiter (orange ‘4’) retrograde in Gemini. The Sun in Sagittarius is within a degree of its exact conjunction to the GC, which is in effect and being amplified by its trine to the Moon in Aquarius.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the one hand, tomorrow the Sun aligns with the Galactic Center, the core of our Milky Way galaxy — just as it does every year, and as it will again around this time in 2013. Honest. So don\u2019t go telling the Milky Way this is the last week of the Mayan calendar; it already made vacation plans with the Andromeda Galaxy to go skiing in Tahoe in February, and those reservations are non-refundable this time of year. <\/p>\n

Yes, all the talk of the apocalypse really is that ridiculous.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, we\u2019ve just witnessed one of the most heartbreaking, least understandable mass shootings in recent memory — and it\u2019s only one of several this year alone in the U.S. Here we are in the final lead-up to the fabled Age of Aquarius, that era of enlightenment we\u2019ve been singing about ever since Hair<\/em> opened Off-Broadway in 1967. And what are we doing about it? Shooting and grieving, joking about the apocalypse and secretly worrying we might be right.<\/p>\n

I think, perhaps, the idea of the world ending (or instant mass enlightenment) on the Capricorn solstice is ludicrous for one main reason: as horrific as things can be now, they are always met by astonishing love and humanity. At the same time, no matter how many of us \u2018get it\u2019, we still get tripped up in our day-to-day lives. Neither the dark nor the light has this world wrapped up and labeled as solely its own. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as we continue onward, today begins with the Moon in Aquarius making a sextile to the Sun and the Galactic Core in Sagittarius (air to fire). Sextiles offer energy that flows easily, though you have to make the effort to tap into it. It could be that the air of detachment the Aquarius Moon has offered our emotional body yesterday and today has opened the door ajar just enough to ignite our spirits with whatever cosmic truth the Sun and GC are cooking up for us — though it\u2019s subtle. With all the heaviness around, if you don\u2019t go looking for it, you might not notice it.<\/p>\n

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The Moon enters Pisces at 7:48 pm EST today, where it will be until Wednesday. The Moon conjoining Neptune and then Chiron tonight could spell heightened sensitivity and an urge to escape if that starts to feel like too much. If you can stay with the sensitivity, channeling it into something creative, it\u2019s likely to be more rewarding than escapism. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow a trine between the Pisces Moon and Saturn in Scorpio brings some common sense and contented introversion to the workweek after a weekend busy with holiday preparations layered on top of the shock and grief — though with Scorpio involved, you can expect to feel things deeply still. A grounded, earthy trine from the Moon to Pluto and Mars in Capricorn brings an ability to work with changes and upheaval with a surge of constructive energy as we head into the middle of the week. <\/p>\n

That could be just what we all need to propel us from this past weekend of grief and chaos through to the solstice, as we invite the light back into the darkness and it responds in kind, inviting us to join it in brightening the world, beginning with our own hearts. <\/p>\n

Mercury in Sagittarius and Jupiter retrograde in Gemini have been occupying each others\u2019 signs, and today oppose each other exactly. Mercury-Jupiter is reminding us that we have options. And we do: in how we respond to horrible cruelty, in what we invite into ourselves and in what we offer to others. We have options in the words we choose and how we speak them; in the questions we\u2019re willing to ask and the answers we\u2019re willing to entertain. <\/p>\n

Philip Sedgwick once wrote that, \u201cAccording to the non-ending energy of the Galactic Center, progress is at hand. Progress is always at hand.” Options, too, are always at hand — even on the eve of the solstice, at the end of 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well now. The universe seems to be serving up quite the brew of tragedy and comedy this week. You\u2019re not alone if you\u2019re finding it difficult to navigate, whether in your contact with others or simply within yourself. On the one hand, tomorrow the Sun aligns with the Galactic Center, the core of our Milky … 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\/62635"}],"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=62635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}