{"id":65550,"date":"2013-03-28T01:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=65550"},"modified":"2013-03-28T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T16:41:08","slug":"the-electric-sun-and-your-key-to-planet-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/the-electric-sun-and-your-key-to-planet-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Electric Sun &#8212; and Your Key to Planet Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons to visit Planet Waves, and this week showed us one of the best: a really powerful Full Moon involving both \u2018personal\u2019 planets (Venus and Mars in addition to the Sun and Moon) and \u2018generational\u2019 planets (Uranus and, more loosely, Pluto). Now it\u2019s being followed today by a truly spectacular triple conjunction in Aries, which we\u2019ll come back to in a moment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65592\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/375+solar-scenic-portara-03.jpg?resize=375%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"375+solar-scenic-portara-03\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/375+solar-scenic-portara-03.jpg?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/375+solar-scenic-portara-03.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sun against the Portara, a remnant of the unfinished Temple of Apollo on the Isle of Naxos, Greece. Photo by Anthony Ayiomamitis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the kind of deep, charged astrology the Planet Waves writing team thrives on &#8212; evidenced by no fewer than three blog posts about yesterday\u2019s Libra Full Moon by three different writers, plus Eric\u2019s podcast. But that\u2019s only the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never tried a paid <a href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/sales?product=2253\">Planet Waves membership<\/a>, you might not realize just how much more there is for you to discover &#8212; and benefit from. Eric built Planet Waves on his unique flavor of horoscope.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not predictive, but rather designed to help you \u2018self-create\u2019 by offering new perspectives, angles and avenues from which to consider your experience, and live the story of your present moment in this wild world.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s kind of like being handed the key to a door you never knew existed, and then opening it to find a room that leads to other rooms, each one more like \u2018home\u2019 than the last. And each of those rooms is you.<\/p>\n<p>Even that experience of self-discovery from tuning in to Eric\u2019s horoscopes is not the whole iceberg. Each week a team of writers, editors and designers put together two issues of what might very well be the most professionally produced publication on astrology and culture available via the Internet. Eric crafts a book-worthy lead article for each Friday issue, and he\u2019s supported by me and another writer\/editor in putting together several other sections of each issue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you get access to a tremendous level of talent, insight and visual beauty here on the blog, but I\u2019m inviting you to experience first hand just how much more Planet Waves has to offer you in your quest to live this life as fully as possible. For this week only, you can sign up for a full year of our premium membership service (the twice-weekly publication I just described) for almost half the cost. <a href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/sales?product=2253\">You can access the special membership offer (12 months for $49) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now I\u2019ll let Eric tell you about today\u2019s Sun-Venus-Uranus conjunction in Aries: a truly electric Sun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yours and truly,<br \/>\nAmanda Painter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought the astro-voltage could not go any higher, today we have a triple conjunction of Venus, Uranus and the Sun. This is a remarkably close triple conjunction, with the Sun and Uranus exact and Venus just one-tenth of a degree away.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s Full Moon was truly a stunner &#8212; complete with fast movement, creative breakthroughs, irrational behavior and arguments on California&#8217;s Proposition 8 presented before the Supreme Court. The astrology &#8212; a Full Moon in Libra, the sign of both relationships and justice &#8212; was picture perfect. (Covered in some detail in <a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-fm\/libra-full-moon-and-supreme-court-hears-prop-8\/\">Tuesday\u2019s Planet Waves FM<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65555\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65555\" title=\"300+Sun_Uranus_Venus\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/300+Sun_Uranus_Venus.jpg?resize=300%2C532&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/300+Sun_Uranus_Venus.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/300+Sun_Uranus_Venus.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simplified chart section showing the Sun at its moment of exact conjunction with Uranus (blue &#8216;H&#8217;) in Aries, with Venus (blue &#8216;female&#8217; symbol) right in the same degree. Also shown are Mars square Pluto and Jupiter square Chiron, with Mercury and Neptune included for good luck. View glyph key here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now just two days later, we have a purely solar event &#8212; the Sun closely aligned with Venus, an emotional planet, and Uranus, a revolutionary one. In Aries, this says something like, &#8220;An uprising in my sense of who I am, which influences all my relationships and ideas about love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nearly impossible to relate to others in a stable way without some sense of self-presence, self-love and actual energy coming from inside of you. And we have plenty of that now.<\/p>\n<p>Mars is still closely square Pluto (a little more than a degree on Thursday) so there is some pent-up energy under the surface &#8212; most of us have been doing a lot of holding back in recent years, and we have a lot to express and let go of. I suggest you go for the slow burn, but that would include steady and it would include hot.<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter is also in a square to Chiron &#8212; this is a rare aspect (every six years) and it&#8217;s about a sense of justice, taking action, and being provoked to put your knowledge to use. Consider all the people who spent the last decades of the 20th century going to workshops and seminars, reading self-help books and otherwise reaching for perfection.<\/p>\n<p>Why did you do all of that? This is your moment. But it&#8217;s a sexy moment. This is not merely dull political activism I&#8217;m talking about. It&#8217;s a kind of whole-body, full-spectrum sense of involvement with existence. The sky is not describing purity, it&#8217;s describing a holistic state of involvement, plunging into your life.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t realize how cautious we are, how caught in our structures, our preconceptions and our ideas about supposed safety. It&#8217;s time to find out where our boundaries are, and ask whether they serve us.<\/p>\n<p>One beautiful attribute of the astrology of our era is that no matter how hot, fast and bold it gets, we have two factors in Pisces, maintaining a sense of emotional orientation and spiritual grounding. Those are Chiron and Neptune, which are longterm visitors. They represent essential factors: the need to use your imagination, to cultivate a direct connection to spirit instead of an abstract one, and to remember that your inner life is as meaningful as any other aspect of your life.<\/p>\n<p>You could say that this time in history is about maintaining contact between the inner and the outer: taking some responsibility for what we perceive and how we feel, even in the kaleidoscopic rush of existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend and Reader: There are many reasons to visit Planet Waves, and this week showed us one of the best: a really powerful Full Moon involving both \u2018personal\u2019 planets (Venus and Mars in addition to the Sun and Moon) and \u2018generational\u2019 planets (Uranus and, more loosely, Pluto). Now it\u2019s being followed today by a &#8230; <a title=\"The Electric Sun &#8212; and Your Key to Planet Waves\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/the-electric-sun-and-your-key-to-planet-waves\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Electric Sun &#8212; and Your Key to Planet Waves\">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\/65550"}],"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=65550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}