{"id":65222,"date":"2013-03-19T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=65222"},"modified":"2013-03-19T12:01:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T16:01:22","slug":"solar-return-the-vernal-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/solar-return-the-vernal-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Return — The Vernal Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sun enters Aries at 7:02 am EDT tomorrow, returning to the beginning of the zodiac. It will be a vernal equinox — it’s like the personal solar return on your birthday, only for the entire Earth and everyone on it. The astrology of the Aries equinox anticipates the year to come, and you can keep tabs on that year to come as it develops by following the prescient horoscopes of Eric Francis and Genevieve Hathaway (also known as Brother Sun and Sister Moon) available through a Planet Waves membership<\/a> every week.<\/p>\n

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Just as with every year, the vernal equinox will take place at the same time for every being on Earth. Furthermore, during the days on either side of that moment, the Sun’s day and light will be equally allotted to all.<\/p>\n

Each return of the Sun to the Aries Point (as the first degree of cardinal Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn are known) also precipitates a new season. While the nature of each season is consistent from one year to the next, the astrology that accompanies each solar re-visitation is unique. On the Aries equinox this year, the emphasis on what you have in common with every other being on the planet will go beyond a concurrent and equal experience of daylight to include water, as symbolized by the position of the Moon.<\/p>\n

The Moon’s watery Cancer position when the Sun returns to Aries will amplify a major theme of this year’s astrology — elemental water. For ancient natural science, water included both its literal and archetypal manifestations. Literal water is what you drink, as well as the clouds in the sky, the ice on the poles, and what defines the rivers, lakes and oceans of our planet. Without it, your life would be impossible.<\/p>\n

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Without archetypal water, it would be impossible to describe your life. Fluidity, ebb and flow correspond to your emotions. Consistently finding the lowest spot represents equilibrium. Assuming the shape of a container is emblematic of how human beings abide with, and within, each other. That which never wears out and which is indomitable in all of its forms connects with your ability to adapt and prevail with patient perseverance. Among all the objects in the sky that most freely associate with archetypal water, the Moon — in its varying phases and its impressionable milieu — is most prominent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of all, it is in complement to archetypal fire that water works in astrology. As the Sun enters its fiery Aries exaltation this year, its luminary complement, the Moon, will emphatically occupy the cardinal water sign it rules, Cancer. That does not happen every year, and this year there is a lot more to it than just mutually powerful placements.<\/p>\n

The Moon’s placement at the Vernal Equinox will be emphatic not only because of its position in Cancer, but also because of the aspects it will make and the proxy it will perform. During the days of equal day and light, the Moon will move through brief but meaningful water trine\u00a0aspects to the current occupants of fixed Scorpio and mutable Pisces. In doing so, Luna will anticipate longer aspects of the same sort from Jupiter’s tour of Cancer, beginning in the latter half of 2013, that will (as Jupiter does) expand upon this year’s water theme.<\/p>\n

Fittingly, during the last hours of solar Pisces, the first lunar water trine by any object will be made to the modern ruler of Pisces and the mythical lord of all the waters: Neptune. The symbolism of that trine is impossible to overlook. That even on the very day of a solar exaltation and seasonal celebration, the Sun should first be caught up in the current of a water trine, sets an elemental pattern for the entire year. Later in the day that pattern will be confirmed repeatedly.<\/p>\n

Just before the solar ingress to Aries, and following its trine to Neptune, the Cancer Moon will form the same aspect with Mercury (now in direct motion, but still in the throes of its recent Pisces retrograde). Because Mercury represents the mind, the flow of a watery lunar connection concurrent with equal day for all serves as a reminder for all. It will be a reiteration that all three retrogrades for Mercury this year will traverse the same element, educating the intellect in the wonders and ways of water by rote, to definitively reform how you think (if nothing else).<\/p>\n

Even later tomorrow, when the Sun finally has an Aries Point toehold, the fluid lunar pattern will take on a more definite form because of Saturn. The Moon will complete its grand water trine of the vernal equinox by aspecting retrograde Saturn (methodical backstroking through fixed Scorpio). Just as with the opening trine to Neptune, the brief but wide open flow through to the ringed one will be difficult to dismiss. It will be as if to say that this is the shape of things to come. What is to come, the Moon will not miss either.<\/p>\n

At the same moment of the lunar trine to Saturn, the Moon will also complete the circuit of water signs with a trine to Chiron in Pisces, and a consequential, hand-holding, semi-sextile to Jupiter’s current placement next door in Gemini — all to the degree, all at once.<\/p>\n

The concurrent grand trine from the Moon to Saturn to Chiron while the equinox is still young will be as if to say that water is at once the detailed focus and the big picture this year. How it will play out, nobody can say, except that it will somehow be the same for everybody without exception. The simultaneous and suspenseful square from Chiron to Jupiter won’t inform us as to the ‘how’ either, but it will give us an idea that we may expect some sort of climax when Jupiter eventually takes the Moon’s place.<\/p>\n

On the occasion of this year’s vernal equinox, the Moon will be in proxy. It will hold place for Jupiter’s year-long Cancer tenure that will begin on June 25, only days after the Sun enters the same cardinal waters for a solstice, initiating the season to follow the one now impending, and just hours before Mercury’s second retrograde station of 2013 in the same sign. <\/p>\n

It is therefore reasonable to say that what we glimpse this week by the equal light will indeed anticipate what Jupiter will expand upon when it, the Sun and Mercury all return together to the sign of the Moon.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sun enters Aries at 7:02 am EDT tomorrow, returning to the beginning of the zodiac. It will be a vernal equinox — it’s like the personal solar return on your birthday, only for the entire Earth and everyone on it. The astrology of the Aries equinox anticipates the year to come, and you can … 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\/65222"}],"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=65222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}