{"id":6380,"date":"2008-11-18T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2008-11-18T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T14:30:34","slug":"18-tuesday-venus-semi-square-neptune-sextile-deucalion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/18-tuesday-venus-semi-square-neptune-sextile-deucalion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday: Venus semi-square Neptune, sextile Deucalion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader,<\/p>\n

Today Venus slides into a semi-square with Neptune and shares a sextile with Deucalion. A semi-square is a term that comes from the Uranian Astrological tradition. A semi-square is a square, plus half a square which translates mathematically to 135 degrees in a chart. It can be described as a not-so-tense version of a square.<\/p>\n

Because of this, planets that share this relationship bring a faint awareness of one another to the table. Put in normal terms, I would suggest that this aspect is about the power of love, or using love and attraction as a means of intoxication. Seduction comes to mind with this aspect, though it is not the right-out-in-the-open kind that a person can guess at from a mile away.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Danielle Voirin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Venus is also in a sextile with Deucalion today, which gives me the pleasure of discussing the myth of Deucalion in as brief a way as I can. Deucalion was a son of Prometheus and the Greek equivalent of the biblical Noah. When Zues got tired of mankind’s hubristic tendencies, he flooded the world in an attempt to drown everyone alive. Deucalion’s father Prometheus warned him and gave him instructions for an ark. After the deluge, Deucalion and his wife stood on top of a mountain, totally at a loss of what to do next. Then a riddle came to them: “Throw the bones of your mother over your shoulder.” This they did, and from those stones came the new race of humans into the world.<\/p>\n

Back in 2005, Eric wrote a piece<\/strong><\/a> delineating possible meanings for Deucalion. Feelings of being overwhelmed, or conscious of the burden of humanity are two ways of looking at Deucalion. I don’t really know what it means, personally. But I find it interesting that in the myth Deucalion is instructed to throw his mother’s bones over his shoulders. “Throwing the bones” is a term used to describe rituals involving the Norse runes. I am a student of the runes, and so this statement stuck out to me.<\/p>\n

Also, some interesting observations can be drawn about Deucalion by looking at the Hurricane Katrina chart of 2007. For example, on that day, Deucalion was conjoined with Hebe when Katrina made landfall. President Bush did not get to survey the damage left by the storm for three days because he was hangin’ at the ranch. Hebe is looked at as a significator of co-dependency.<\/p>\n

In other news, the Moon will be opposite to Pluto tomorrow. We’ll be discussing the energy of that on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Merry Met,<\/p>\n

Genevieve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader, Today Venus slides into a semi-square with Neptune and shares a sextile with Deucalion. A semi-square is a term that comes from the Uranian Astrological tradition. A semi-square is a square, plus half a square which translates mathematically to 135 degrees in a chart. It can be described as a not-so-tense … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,1792,581,52,181,117,580],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380"}],"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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}