{"id":67195,"date":"2013-05-21T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=67195"},"modified":"2013-05-21T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:27:30","slug":"missing-peace-chiron-becalmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/missing-peace-chiron-becalmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Peace — Chiron Becalmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well maybe it is just the time of year, or maybe it’s the time of man.
\n— Joni Mitchell, “Woodstock”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Psst… Chiron is all but standing still. Overshadowed by eclipses, outshone by planets in the twilight, the definitive centaur is becalmed on the waters of Pisces, holding the same degree since May 4. In that spot it will remain until the last few days of July, representing the peace you may be missing, and the time out required to find it.<\/p>\n

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If you are like most people, peace is hard to come by. Even if you are not among the millions ducking bullets, you cannot duck the ramifications of rapidity in recent astrology.<\/p>\n

The Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars are all moving through the zodiac about as fast as they ever do right now. Add to that three (rather than the usual two) eclipses in a row. Throw in the functional continuum of Uranus and Pluto in cardinal square, recently punctuated by yet another precise aspect, and it’s no wonder if your mind is racing, your pulse beating headlong in circles.<\/p>\n

Yet, in every cyclonic phenomenon, there is an eye of kinetic\u00a0contrast. Chiron has that that role at the moment, and there is reason, as well as timing, in how it comes to be that way. Yet, still waters run are known to run deep. Like peace itself, the path of centaur planets is neither shallow nor simple to pursue.<\/p>\n

The path Chiron follows through the solar system is the defining template for all centaurs. Its 51-year circuit is highly elliptical compared to Mercury or Venus; more inclined to the plane of Earth’s annual course around the Sun than the lunar orbit; and symbolically it connects the paths of history by crossing between the orbits of outer planets (in Chiron’s case, Saturn and Uranus).<\/p>\n

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Because of its highly elliptical orbit, the rate of Chiron’s apparent motion will vary a great deal more than most objects from one sign to the next. Pisces and Aries are places where it appears to move quite slowly. So in a way, for Chiron to be all but stationary nearly 3 months on-end this year does correlate with our period in history, but that is not the only contributing factor.<\/p>\n

Earth is on approach to pass between Chiron and the Sun. That means Chiron’s apparent motion is slowing to reverse on June 16, initiating a retrograde period that will last until November 19. That makes for an additional correspondence to the time of year, and indicates how our time now connects to a very different time not so long ago.<\/p>\n

During the 1969 Woodstock festival commemorated by Joni Mitchell, Chiron (as yet not discovered) was similarly stationary at the beginning of an Aries retrograde. Just as now, it was a time of rapid change and ambient conflict. Uranus and Pluto were part of the scene, still functionally in a potent Virgo conjunction, and it was just days before the advent of an eclipse cycle. Then, just as now, peace was hard to come by until nearly half a million people took time out from their struggles to find it.<\/p>\n

That does not necessarily mean you should go to a rock festival in the coming weeks. Astrology is not destiny, and history never repeats precisely as before.<\/p>\n

What it does mean is that a time-out may soon be in order for you. Whether it be a few days of solitary meditation or participation with communal intent, it’s the time of year — and the time of your life — to practice making a little peace while you still remember how.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service<\/em> (and dedicated to the late, great Richie Havens)<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/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":"

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